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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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