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Time for a GM-AIG exit

The U.S. government still owns 92 percent of AIG, the troubled insurance giant whose dangerous derivatives business blew up in 2008, necessitating a federal bailout. The government also retains about one-quarter...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/other-opinion/2011-04-25/time-gm-aig-exit
Other Opinion
$20 million anti-tobacco ad campaign to hit airwaves

...the state Department of Health, the private nonprofit Minnesota Partnership for Action Against Tobacco and health-insurance giant Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota -- are coordinating the efforts. The Health Department is aiming for a 30...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/121399/new_1213990008.shtml
News
Big-time mergers play out as delicate balancing acts

...There isn't a rational and logical plan of operations that's going to yield some benefits," Hayes said. Insurance giant Conseco Inc., for example, went public in 1985 and promptly began 13 years of expansion by purchasing dozens of...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/100700/bus_1007000011.shtml
Business
OTHER OPINIONS The right message

...for treatment and pay the state $8.2 million for other costs the state had to cover. The deal also requires the insurance giant to boost access to psychiatrists and other therapists, as well as raise coverage for treatment of chemical dependency...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/062801/opi_0628010028.shtml
Opinion
Open Forum

...fourth largest health insurance company, resigned because he'd seen too much dirt pulled on the unfortunate by the insurance giants. For 15 years he flew in a corporate jet and associated with the upper class millionaires until he and his company...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/092309/opi_20090923072.shtml
Opinion
Bridge-builders could be on the way

...candidates questioning that system most fundamentally. McGavick, the former chairman and chief executive for the insurance giant Safeco Corp., has had a rough few weeks. Recently, he pre-emptively released information on a number of embarrassing...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/091206/opi_20060912044.shtml
Opinion
Open Forum

...and had no one to help raise the down payment, and the hospital would not operate without it. Many other health insurance giants used the same dirty tricks, over the past five years; Assurant, Golden Rule and Wellpoint have canceled 20,000...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/091209/opi_20090912060.shtml
Opinion
Open forum: Documentary on an 'Inside Job'

...jobs and homes. For decades the American financial market was stable and safe, then financial institutions, insurance giants and Wall Street turned their back on society, corrupted our political systems and plunged the world economies into...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2011-03-31/open-forum-documentary
Open Forum
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