| 1. | Employer Health Insurance Mandate Delayed Until 2015
Jul 3, 2013 -- The Obama administration will delay a crucial provision of its signature health care law, giving businesses an extra year to comply with a requirement that they provide their workers with insurance. The government will ...
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| 2. | Zurich’s Broker Relationship Leader Moves to Berkshire Hathaway Specialty
Jul 3, 2013 -- Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance -- the new commercial P/C insurance unit of Berkshire Hathaway -- appointed Lori Spoon Rafkin as senior vice president, customer and broker engagement. Spoon Rafkin was previously ...
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| 3. | Tropical Storm Chantal May Form in Atlantic This Week: U.S. Hurricane Center
Jul 7, 2013 -- A tropical storm may develop in the mid-Atlantic early this week, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. A collection of severe thunderstorms and low pressure about 1,050 miles east-southeast of the ...
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| 4. | Southern California Painter Awarded $58M For Bar Beating
Jul 3, 2013 -- A 43-year-old house painter so badly brain damaged that he cannot speak has been awarded $58 million for a beating in a bar that left him with half his skull permanently bashed in. Antonio Lopez Chaj (CHAI) appeared at ...
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| 5. | Vermont Quadriplegic Awarded $43.1M After Crash
Jul 3, 2013 -- A 51-year-old Vermont woman has been awarded a $43.1 million jury verdict against the manufacturer of a car seat that allegedly collapsed during a 2007 car accident, leaving her a paraplegic. The award is believed to be ...
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| 6. | U.S. Property Cat Re Prices Down, Casualty Softening: Willis Re
Jul 2, 2013 -- Reinsurers are taking "robust defensive measures to maintain market positions recently eroded by new capital markets entrants," with prices down 25 percent on some Florida property accounts, according to a new report ...
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| 7. | Lawyers Feast on ‘Crazy’ BP Gulf Oil Spill Claims
Jul 2, 2013 -- Until this year, Tampa attorney Kevin McLean specialized in suing nursing homes for neglecting patients. In January he switched the focus of his practice to a fund BP Plc established to compensate business losses from ...
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| 8. | Newtown Struggling to Divvy Up Donations for Sandy Hook Shooting Victims
Jul 2, 2013 -- More than six months after losing their loved ones in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, families say dealing with questions over how to distribute the millions of dollars sent to help Newtown ...
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| 9. | San Francisco Bay Area Car Rental Startup Faces Lawsuit
Jul 1, 2013 -- Out of a tiny, green shack on a parking lot in an industrial area south of San Francisco International Airport, three teenagers are trying to change the airport car rental business. To do it, all they need are your ...
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| 10. | Drugmakers Work on Safer Painkillers as Opioid Abuse Epidemic Rages
Jul 2, 2013 -- Backed by a U.S. campaign to slow abuse of prescription painkillers, drugmakers are devising new forms of the medicines that don't lead to misuse and new products that treat dependency in a bid to change the face of a ...
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