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- "Cancer Of Fraud" Permeates U.S. Healthcare System
- It's a crime so profitable that even dead people are in on the act. A U.S. Senate committee revealed last year that public health insurer Medicare had paid as much as $92 million from 2000 to 2007 for medical services or equipment ordered…
- Post Chronicle
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- Analysis: Despite Economy, Louisiana-Based Companies Growing
- Despite the complexities of the nation's worst economic downturn in decades, some Louisiana-based companies are showing surprising growth. The state recently has seen its count of homegrown Fortune 500 companies sprout to three: power…
- Insurance Journal
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- 43 minutes ago
- Miami Condo Association Sues QBE Insurance Over Hurricane…
- A Miami condominium association is suing its insurer, QBE Insurance Corp., and its Florida general managing agent, for more than $500 million in damages, claiming bad faith and deception in handling hurricane claims. Daniel S. Rosenbaum,…
- Insurance Journal
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- 1 hour ago
- Japan Fines 'Fat' People, Companies Must Measure Waist Lines…
- The U.S. usually steals the headlines when it comes to stories about being overweight. Obesity in the U.S. is no joke for sure. As I wrote a few months ago, 60 percent of adults and 16 percent of children are obese. But today, the news is…
- AlterNet
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AlterNet- House of cards: Home prices may be headed back down
- Everyone heaved a sigh of relief as the latest S&P/Case Shiller U.S. National Home Price survey showed a price increase for the fifth straight month. Home prices may finally have hit bottom, but Dean Baker of the Center for Economic Policy…
- Daily Finance
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- 25 minutes ago
Daily Finance- Latest Articles
- Posted by Jeremy on 11/25/2009 at 9:52am Yes Mary – and in rereading my post, maybe I didn’t make it clear... Posted by b99 on 11/25/2009 at 9:28am Like so many problems, we frequently fail to define exactly what we’re trying to “correct…
- Dissident Voice
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- Florida a hotbed for 'underwater' borrowers
- Roughly 10.7 million, or 23 percent, of all residential properties with mortgages nationwide are “under water,” according to third-quarter data from FirstAmerican CoreLogic. If you’re under water, you owe more than the property is worth.…
- Weblogs.sun-sentinel.com
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- A writer conquers TV land with his Sarasota ‘Cougar’
- CULVER CITY, CALIF. - Kevin Biegel works in Hollywood alongside celebrities like Courteney Cox, but the former Sarasotan and co-creator and co-producer of the hit ABC series "Cougar Town" still gets starstruck. Leaving the set of his new…
- Herald Tribune
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- 17 minutes ago
- State budgets lean on property sales, leases
- The Arizona House of Representatives’ office, one of the buildings the state is considering selling as part of a sale-leaseback program to raise cash, would cost a private owner more than $18 million. Lawmakers would continue to occupy the…
- Stateline
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Stateline- 'Underwater' mortgage rate inches down in Cincinnati MSA
- ... homes ... Michigan at 37 percent; and California at 35 percent. Nationwide, almost 10.7 million homeowners, or 23 percent, are underwater with their mortgages as of September, according to the release. First American CoreLogic, a real…
- Business Courier
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- 55 minutes ago