Sandlers lose bid to have lawsuit dismissed The Virginian-Pilot Travelers Casualty and Surety Co. of America sued the financially troubled Sandlers and their company for payment on bonds issued to ensure the completion ...

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President Barack Obama signed a bill Thursday that imposes a $10 fee on foreign travelers to the U.S. The funds will be combined with a $100 million private-sector fundraising campaign to market and a...

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Travelers Schedules First Quarter 2010 Earnings Release and Conference Call MarketWatch (press release) The Travelers Companies, Inc. (NYSE:TRV) is a leading provider of property casualty insurance for auto, home and business . A component of the Dow Jones ... and more »

GMAC Chief Gets $1.2 Million in Pay for 45 Days' Work New York Times Mr. Carpenter, 62, a former Citigroup executive who also ran Travelers Life & Annuity and Kidder Peabody, succeeded Alvaro de Molina as chief executive in ... GMAC chief's pay rivals Wall StFinancial Times

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KEMBERLING v. METLIFE LIFE AND ANNUITY COMPANY OF CONNECTICUT Leagle.com The policy was issued by Travelers Life and Annuity Company (Travelers) to Kemberling on April 13, 2005. MetLife acquired Travelers on July 1, 2005, ...

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SEAGULL ENTERPRISES, LLC v. TRAVELERS PROPERTY CASUALTY COMPANY OF AMERICA Leagle.com Seagull Enterprises, LLC appeals from the district court's final order, entering final judgment in favor of Travelers Property Casualty Company of America, ...

Earnings Diagnosis: AIG Is Back from the Brink BNET No one knows how AIG has fared. The other is its property-casualty portfolio. Competing PC insurers, such as Chubb and Travelers, say that AIG is buying ... AIG: Doctor, There's a PulseBusinessWeek

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Travelers donated nearly $19M in 2009 Hartford Business Travelers Cos. says its philanthropic arm dispersed nearly $19 million in 2009, much of it to public schoolkids in the property-casualty insurer's dual ...

IMRE Adds Susquehanna Bancshares, PHH Arval, and Injured Workers Insurance ... PR Newswire (press release) IMRE specializes in driving demand and purchase for insurance, asset management and banking clients that include Travelers, MetLife, The Insured Retirement ... and more »

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Liberty Mutual 15. Kingsway Insurance Group, Lincoln General Ins. 16. Response Insurance Group 17. Nationwide Insurance 18. Modern American Ins. With American Family Home Ins. 19. St. Paul Travelers 20. Unitrin Group, Kemper ...

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TEWS v. NHI, LLC Leagle.com ... Geneve Holdings, Inc., Industrie Bodco, Inc., Travelers Property Casualty Company of America and Westchester Surplus Lines Insurance Company, ...

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 83.66 points, or 0.81 per cent, to 10392.90, marking its third-straight day of gains and its highest close since January 20.Insurance company Travelers was the Do...

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I have not posted recently because I have been preoccupied by business travel problems - I have never had so many cancellations, reroutes, and travel delays. Sleep deprivation, bad food and missed meals, hours away from my computer, hotel rooms...

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Travelers Cos. said Tuesday that Bill Cunningham, a longtime executive at the property and casualty insurer, will lead its business insurance segment.

CHAFFIN v. WATFORD Leagle.com Pending before the Court is Defendant Travelers Property Casualty Company of America's (hereinafter Travelers) Motion for Summary Judgment. [Doc. No. 48]. ...

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AIG Earnings: Will Hedge Funds Keep It Afloat? BNET So can we expect AIG will score big in the fourth quarter? It had better, because none of the property and casualty carriers are getting any traction on ... Chubb, Travelers Investments Advance on Private-Equity ReboundBusinessWeek

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Chubb, Travelers Profit as Private-Equity Assets Gain BusinessWeek 29 (Bloomberg) -- Chubb Corp. and Travelers Cos., US property and casualty insurers that stayed profitable during the credit crisis, are benefiting from ... and more »

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Judge OKs Alaska diocese plan for abuse victims Washington Post ... he still expects lengthy court action with two insurance companies - Catholic Mutual Relief Society of America and Travelers Casualty and Surety Co. ... Diocese will pay $9.8 million to Alaska abuse victimsAnchorage Daily News

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Travelers reports a 60% increase in quarterly profit as the property and casualty insurer's results come in ahead of analyst estimates.

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Travelers Q4 Profit Surges 60% RTT News (RTTNews) - Property and casualty insurance provider Travelers Companies Inc. (TRV: News ) on Tuesday reported a 60% surge in profit for the fourth quarter ...

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Travelers Profit Rises 60% Wall Street Journal Property/casualty insurers have generally come through the financial crisis better than other financial institutions, and results at Travelers, ...

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Travelers reports quarterly profit rise of 60% MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Travelers Cos. reported a 60% increase in quarterly profit Tuesday as the property and casualty ...

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Travelers Cos profit jumps on underwriting Reuters N), the largest publicly traded US property-casualty insurer, said quarterly profit jumped, beating analysts' forecasts, as some money that had been ...

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We will start with a series on workers' compensation and cover Safety, Insurance, risk identification and control. Workers’ compensation fraud shows up in many places. According to Travelers...

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On January 21, 2010, the insurance information firm Advisen released the latest in a series of various observers’ year end analyses of 2009 securities litigation. Advisen’s year report can be accessed here. The Advisen report takes a somewhat different approach than the other reports, and reaches some strikingly different conclusions. Among other things, the Advisen report, perhaps by contrast to prior studies, concludes that "securities litigation" (as that term is used in the report) is actually increasing.

 

Warning! Terminology Matters!

In order to appreciate the Advisen report, it is absolutely indispensible to understand that the Advisen report uses its own unique terminology.

 

The most important thing to understand is that the Advisen report uses the term "securities litigation" to include a very broad range of kinds of lawsuits, including not just securities class action lawsuits, but also derivative actions, regulatory and enforcement actions, individual lawsuits, and collective actions in courts outside the United States.

 

The Advisen report also apparently includes within the category "securities lawsuits" claims alleging

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