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		<title>Home insurance you need</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Getting the enough insurance coverage for your home is the only way to protect your most valuable asset. In today's tips we're going to tell you what you need to know BEFORE a storm strikes.]]></description>
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		<title>Impact of Insurance and Annuity Payments on Social Security and Taxes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am retired, 63 yrs. old. My father passed away recently and left some
life insurance and a non-qualified annuity to split with my two sibs. I
am drawing early SSA payments.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theinsurancenation.com/general/impact-of-insurance-and-annuity-payments-on-social-security-and-taxes/</link>
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		<title>Insurance company backs down over payment for Bradford patient stranded in Prague</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AN insurance company has agreed to pay to get a critically-ill Yorkshireman back from a Prague hospital after nearly a month of being stranded away from home]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theinsurancenation.com/general/insurance-company-backs-down-over-payment-for-bradford-patient-stranded-in-prague/</link>
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		<title>Employers Sharply Raise Workers&#8217; Share of Health Costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Employers passed health-insurance costs onto employees at a sharply higher rate this year, and businesses' premiums grew more slowly than they have in a decade, according to an annual survey of companies.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theinsurancenation.com/general/employers-sharply-raise-workers-share-of-health-costs/</link>
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		<title>Insurance agent arrested on fraud charge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A West Monroe insurance agent has been booked on eight counts of insurance fraud.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theinsurancenation.com/general/insurance-agent-arrested-on-fraud-charge/</link>
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		<title>Bank profits surge but the outlook is uncertain</title>
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The industry earned $21.6 billion in the second quarter, compared with a loss of $4.4 billion a year earlier. Still, one analyst predicts 'a couple more years of consolidation and cleanup.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theinsurancenation.com/general/bank-profits-surge-but-the-outlook-is-uncertain/</link>
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		<title>Insurance company: Flowers started Ark. house fire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A fire that did $20,000 in damages to a northeast Arkansas home wasn't caused by an electrical problem or burning food or arson, an insurance investigator concluded.
]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theinsurancenation.com/general/insurance-company-flowers-started-ark-house-fire/</link>
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		<title>About 2,000 employers qualify for federal subsidies for retiree healthcare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Businesses, labor unions and state and local governments are seeking aid under a $5-billion program in the new healthcare law that encourages employers to keep insurance plans for retirees ages 55 to 64.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theinsurancenation.com/general/about-2000-employers-qualify-for-federal-subsidies-for-retiree-healthcare/</link>
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		<title>Auto insurance reforms cuts benefits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The province’s new auto insurance reforms take effect Wednesday will be detrimental for consumers, says a Toronto personal injury lawyer.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theinsurancenation.com/general/auto-insurance-reforms-cuts-benefits/</link>
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		<title>Life Insurance Ownership Falls: LIMRA</title>
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The number of individuals owning life insurance has hit a 50-year low, according to a new study.

Only 44% percent of U.S. households have individual life insurance, according to the Trends in Life Insurance Ownership study, which is conducted every six years by LIMRA, Windsor, Conn.]]></description>
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