A crisis of coverage.
Byline: The Register-Guard A great deal of attention has been paid to the impact of Sept. 11 on the airline industry, but relatively little has been said about how the insurance industry has been affected by the terrorist attacks. It's time for Americans to pay...

Business briefs.
COLUMN: BUSINESS BRIEFS Telegram & Gazette Bloomberg Index Central Massachusetts -0.57 170.61 Volume: 87,005,943 Up: 8 Down: 13 Unchanged: 8 Gainer: L.S. Starrett Co. $22.00 +$1.10 (volume of 6,648 shares) ...

AIG adopts first policy on global climate change.
NEW YORK, May 17 (Reuters) -- American International Group Inc. this week became the first major US insurer to adopt a policy on climate change, saying it would develop projects to keep greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. The policy doesn't use the controversial term "global warming,"...

Florida Methodists spread insurance risk, explore national plan.
Wesley United Methodist Church is an active congregation of a few hundred members in Marco Island, Florida. A prime-location church only two miles from the Gulf Coast, it has ministries to homeless people, students and elderly people, and each year sends missionaries to Guatemala. The congregation will...

Weight-loss costs: a critical look at gastric surgery.
Obese people who opt for weight-loss surgery incur increased odds of subsequent hospitalization and, in some groups, a substantial risk of death, say researchers who have investigated this burgeoning treatment. Even so, some of the scientists say, those risks may be justified. Gastric-bypass surgery--which detours food around...

Medicaid benefit: car seats for kids a wise move; vehicle restraint system distribution was found to be more cost effective than most administered vaccines.
WASHINGTON -- Implementation of a Medicaid-funded program that would disburse child restraint systems to low-income children and educate families about their use would be more cost effective to Medicaid than are most currently administered vaccines, Jesse A. Goldstein reported at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics....

EWEB workers consider strike.
Byline: Jeff Wright The Register-Guard Eugene Water & Electric Board officials said they ended a four-hour bargaining session Wednesday with the expectation that union workers will go on strike next Tuesday. Members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers will vote tonight on whether to...

Standard Insurance ups net operating profit to P144 M.
Standard Insurance, an affiliate of Security Bank and the leading motor car insurance in the country, has shown a remarkable improvement in its operations when its operating profit after tax increased to P144 million in year 2001 against P5.7 million the previous year. The high operating profit was the...

DBP earns P486 M in Q1, tops target.
The Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) weathered the slowdown in business activities by posting P486 million in net income for the first quarter of the year, exceeding by more than 100 percent its quarter target of P413 million. Outgoing DBP President Remedios L. Macalincag reported that...

Insurance companies warn global warming will cost $70 billion annually. (Environmental Intelligence).
Natural disasters in 2002 may cost more than $70 billion, according to Germany-based Munich Re, one of the world's largest insurance companies. Company experts attending UN talks on climate change in New Delhi, India, in October 2002, attributed the vast majority of the damages to climate change. As of...