News - Firm’s lens eyes killer asteroids
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A giant telescope lens made by a Denbighshire firm is helping US scientists monitor rogue asteroids on a collision course with Earth.
The 1.2m (47in) lens made at Technium OpTIC, based at St Asaph, is being installed at the Financial loss insurance safeco of Hawaii.
The Nasa-run Pan STARRS […]
Read More...News - Profile: Salvador Allende
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Chile’s Salvador Allende died in a United States-backed coup on 11 September 1973 - three years earlier he had become Latin America’s first democratically-elected Marxist president.
The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda described him as an “immortal corpse”, while one of the foreign musicians who travelled to Santiago for a concert personal finance the mcgraw hill […]
Read More...News - Japan unveils post shake-up plan
Posted on November 10, 2007 - Filed Under Business insurance | Leave a Comment
Japan Post Corporation, the company set up to privatise the country’s postal service, has revealed a 10-year business dc health insurance small plan.
The controversial move has been the central plank in Prime Minister Junichiro Ak business health insurance small economic reforms.
Under the plan Japan Post will be split into four entities; banking, insurance, mail delivery […]
Read More...News - Apartheid lawyer targets banks
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A US lawyer representing thousands of black workers who suffered during South Africa’s apartheid regime will this week turn his attention on banks and insurers.
Ed Fagan is expected to file a $100bn (60bn) lawsuit in London later this week alleging that some finance companies defrauded thousands of unskilled workers by misusing their pension funds.
The lawsuit […]
Read More...News - Botswana firm ‘dismisses’ workers
Posted on November 9, 2007 - Filed Under Business insurance | Leave a Comment
Botswana’s largest diamond mining firm Debswana has sacked workers involved in illegal strike action.
Debswana Diamond Company has sent letters to about 1,000 staff informing them that they have been dismissed, according to the AFP news agency.
About 25% of Debswana’s 5,000 strong workforce downed tools on Sunday and Monday in a dispute over pay.
The workers […]
Read More...News - Insurance: Your questions
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BBC Radio 4’s Money Box Live was broadcast on Monday, 5 December, 2005, at 1502 GMT.
On Monday’s Money Box Live, Vincent Duggleby and a panel of expert guests were here to answer your questions on insurance premium finance.
Full programme transcript
We were joined by:
Malcolm Tarling, Company finance insurance premium of British Insurers
Chris Collings, Swinton […]
News - Patients lose Vioxx legal appeal
Posted on November 7, 2007 - Filed Under Business insurance | Leave a Comment
Over 200 people who had heart attacks or strokes while taking the painkiller Vioxx have lost a legal aid appeal.
The ruling will mean many will no longer be able to mount compensation claims in British courts.
The insurance needed to pursue a claim on a no-win, no-fee basis has also been denied, said solicitor Martyn […]
Read More...News - Standard Life float decision due
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Standard Life members are set to decide whether to back plans for the investment giant to demutualise and float on the stock market.
About 2.4 million members can vote on the proposal, with 75% support of those voting needed for it to be proceed.
If approved, the firm plans to list its shares in July, triggering 1,000-plus […]
Read More...News - Botswana miners ‘face dismissal’
Posted on November 6, 2007 - Filed Under Business insurance | Leave a Comment
An illegal diamond miners’ pay strike in Botswana has forced the closure of one mine, a spokesman for Debswana Diamond Company has said.
Strikers who fail to return to work are risking financial loss insurance safeco dismissal, Debswana employee relations manager Jacob Sesinyi told the BBC.
Debswana, jointly owned by De Beers and the government, has four […]
Read More...News - Friends upbeat on merger prospect
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Friends Provident has said it is confident its plans to merge with rival insurance firm Financial loss insurance safeco will succeed.
Reporting a 7% rise in financial loss insurance safeco profits, Friends added that there was no pressure to find another partner should the Resolution deal fail.
Speculation […]
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