Fortis Reports $37 Billion Loss but Now Is Optimistic – NYTimes.com
How do you lose $37 billion and be optimistic???
Archive for March, 2009
Fortis – Update
Posted in Insurance News, tagged business, LinkedIn on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mexico’s Drug War – Coming to Your City Sooner Than You Think
Posted in International Risk, Travel Risk on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mexico’s Drug War: Witnesses urge U.S. not to send troops to the border in response to Mexico’s drug war – Los Angeles Times
Dear Mr. President:
Thank you so kindly for reading my blog post dated March 3, 2009.
AIG – Bonuses Are Not the Problem
Posted in Insurance News, tagged business, LinkedIn on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
AIG crisis could be the tip of an insurance iceberg – Los Angeles Times
Here is another view into AIG from the LA Times. The quotes below are from the online article.
AIG’s loss of $18 billion in its life insurance and retirement businesses in the fourth quarter was about the same amount that the company lost [...]
Lincoln Update
Posted in Insurance News, tagged business, LinkedIn on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stocks To Watch Today : Lincoln National May Lose Out On Government Relief
Phoenix Update – Change at the Top
Posted in Business Trends, Insurance News, tagged business, LinkedIn on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Phoenix’s CEO Stepping Down As Insurer Battles For Survival — Courant.com
One Double Cheeseburger and a Side of Increased Mortality Risk
Posted in Lifelong Learning, Lifestyle Underwriting, Medical News, Nutrition, underwriting, tagged underwriting, Lifelong Learning, Diet, all-cause mortality on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Medical News: Red Meat Associated With Increased Mortality Risk – in Primary Care, Diet & Nutrition from MedPage Today
No, I don’t want fries. I would like some chili-cheese fries please.
Size Matters – J-Shaped Mortality Curve With BMI
Posted in Lifelong Learning, Medical News, underwriting, tagged underwriting, Lifelong Learning, LinkedIn, all-cause mortality, BMI on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
While browsing the online Lancet website I came accross the following article. A J-shaped mortality curve should come as no surprise.
The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 18 March 2009
doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60318-4Cite or Link Using DOI
Editors’ note: Around the world, increasing body-mass index (BMI) is a major public concern. Rightly so, according to this international collaborative analysis of almost [...]
Maggot Therapy Update
Posted in Medical News, underwriting, tagged Maggots on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Larval therapy for leg ulcers (VenUS II): randomised controlled trial — Dumville et al. 338: b773 — BMJ
What was old is new again.
Principal Financial Update
Posted in Insurance News, tagged business, LinkedIn on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Principal cuts salaries as revenue declines | DesMoinesRegister.com | The Des Moines Register
Vitamin D Linked to Chronic Pain Relief
Posted in Lifelong Learning, Medical News, Nutrition, Watch Listen and Learn, tagged Lifelong Learning, underwriting, Vitamin D on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mayo Clinic Researchers Link Vitamin D and Chronic Pain Relief « Mayo Clinic News
