Rescue seemed assured in a deal with Kemper Securities Group, now part of Charlotte, North Carolina-based Wachovia Corp.
Among them: CNA Financial, Kemper and the Brandywine subsidiary of Ace, the insurer run by Hank Greenberg's son Evan.
"Unfortunately, Kemper couldn't sell the bonds, so we sued them, " he says.
Kemper Corp. shares are currently trading off about 0.2% on the day.
Kemper Corp. shares are currently trading off about 4.1% on the day.
"The only way you could really get that many cases out was to grant them all, because it was so much easier, " Mr. Kemper said.
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IT'S OWL, a new initiative by machine builders, car-part suppliers and electronics companies, enlists universities to add intelligence to regional products, like Kemper's smart kneader.
Mr. Kemper, who was known in the area as "Denying Dan" for his relatively strict approach, retired in 2007 because he felt the system was unfair.
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Doctors and even health coaches often have limited time, but Shelley "has all the time in the world, " says Donald Kemper, Healthwise founder and chief executive.
In Mississippi, one person died in Kemper County, on the Alabama border Thursday, after strong winds destroyed a steel building along a highway, the National Weather Service reported.
Two-thirds of those 65 or older will need some assistance before they die, according to a landmark 2005 study by Peter Kemper, Harriet Komisar, and Lisa Alecxih.
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David Hale, chief economist at Zurich Kemper, an investment company, points out that the proportion of Americans who own shares is probably twice as high as in any other wealthy economy.
Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokesman Greg Flynn said Thursday one person died and several people were injured after a reported tornado struck Kemper County in the far eastern part of the state.
Other top museums include the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, prominently featuring a Louise Bourgeois spider sculpture out front, the American Jazz Museum, and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.
The program helps provide patients with "empathy, clarity on the changes they want, acceptance of the limits they set and support for doing what they think they can accomplish successfully, " Mr. Kemper says.
Dan Kemper, who began working as a judge in the Huntington office with Mr. Daugherty in 1990, said the Social Security agency's management refused to intervene because of the numbers Mr. Daugherty delivered for the office.
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He has also directed a number of big manufacturing concerns to Mississippi, including the Kemper County coal plant, which is expected to create 260 permanent jobs and 1, 000 during peak construction, and a Toyota factory in the state's rural north that will employ 2, 000 people.
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