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Layoff fears part of 'new normal'
Good skills and a good attitude no longer ensure steady employment, even when the economy is humming. This is the first in an occasional series about job loss and the changing nature of employment. The center of greater Barrington, population 40,000,...Tags: Unemployment, University of Michigan, Public Employees, Layoffs and Downsizing, Employment
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Insurers roll even before smoke clears
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterInsurance adjusters and company executives began hitting Southern California in full force Tuesday, beginning the complex job of assessing fire damage and helping homeowners and renters deal with claims. By early afternoon, the state's biggest home...Tags: Insurance, Wildfires, Santa Monica, American International Group, Companies and Corporations
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Regulator says insurers can bring in out-of-state adjusters to help
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer- Insurance companies, already scrambling to bring in personnel from across the country to handle a surge in fire claims, got help today from California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner. The commissioner said he had eased regulations to let insurance...Tags: Insurance, Companies and Corporations, Steve Poizner, California, Los Angeles Times
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Insuring the investment of a lifetime
Your Money staff reporterThe ring was bought and guarded carefully until just the right moment. And she said yes. With one in five engagements taking place in December, a number of couples will begin to flash a significant investment. Celebrations aside, now is also the time...Tags: Rentals, Crimes, Blue Nile Incorporated, Chubb Corporation, Theft
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Insurance can protect against dorm disasters
Sun ReporterStudents descend on college campuses carting billions of dollars worth of clothes, electronics and furnishings to dorms and apartments. Do they need to insure these belongings? Maybe. Natural catastrophes and thefts occur on campus, just like back home....Tags: State Farm Insurance, Electronics, Insurance, Science and Technology, Colleges and Universities
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The Hartford Wins $3.4 Billion In Federal Bailout Money
Courant Business EditorThe Hartford received preliminary approval Thursday for a $3.4 billion federal loan under the emergency bailout program, a deal that would give the insurer breathing room and could ease the company's need to raise money by selling businesses. Other major...Tags: Lincoln National Corporation, Andrew Williams, Insurance, CEO Pay, Finance
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Insurers offering policies for ID theft
Los Angeles TimesAfter someone used Robert Nighan's credit card to charge $2,000 worth of golf clubs in California, the insurance executive got an idea. Nighan - who doesn't play golf and lives in Hartford, Conn. - figured out a way to make crime pay legally: Sell an...Tags: Justice System, Corporate Crime, Insurance, Santa Monica, Transportation Industry
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Cashing in coming and going
Tribune staff reporterLast year, Timothy Callahan got it coming and going. In April, he resigned as chief executive of Chicago-based Equity Office Properties Trust, receiving "separation pay" of $1.65 million, roughly equal to a year's salary and bonus, plus accelerated...Tags: CEO Pay, Indiana, HSBC Holdings plc, United Air Lines, Prices
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Enhanced duties, responsibilities add up to more pay
Tribune staff reporterWhen it comes to executive compensation, chief executive officers aren't the only ones in the million-dollar club. A Tribune study of chief financial officers at the largest 25 publicly traded companies in Illinois showed that nearly half made more...Tags: Illinois, CEO Pay, Microsoft Corporation, Stock Options, Corporate Officers
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Company had established a plan for CEO succession
Tribune staff reporterMonday's events at McDonald's Corp. are a wake-up call for companies without second-in-command executives. Most corporate boards have contingency plans for the sudden death or disability of a chief executive, such as tapping a senior board member as...Tags: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Tellabs Incorporated, Brunswick Corp., Death, Companies and Corporations
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Companies buy back shares
Associated PressA flurry of companies announced plans today to buy back their shares, using recently loosened Securities and Exchange Commission rules aimed at steadying the markets after last week’s terrorist attacks. The SEC used its emergency powers for the first...Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Buyback, Finance, Quaker Oats Company, General Electric Company
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