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Homeowners can expect their home insurance rates to jump in 2012, says a number of insurance experts. The damage caused by the high multitude of storms seen last year has had a significant impact on property and casualty insurers.

Record Natural Disaster Losses in 2011

There’s no doubt that 2011 was known as the year of the natural disaster. For a while, it seemed that every few days there were reports of new storms that destroyed property and claimed lives. It wasn’t everyone’s imagination, however, because by mid-year, there were already reports that 2011 had set a record for disaster losses.

Insured losses in the U.S. for the

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Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance (China) Company (MSI China) has chosen NetDimensions Enterprise Knowledge Platform (EKP) to centralize the management of all its training programs across the mainland.

With the help of platform, MSI China will improve employee retention, morale and motivation by engaging employees with easy access to information to affect their own learning and development ambitions.

MSI China deputy manager of HR and administration Shen Shaoqing said that their HR Department wanted to introduce an LMS to build a learning and communication platform and enhance the learning effectiveness and standard of digitalization of their content.

“We chose EKP because it is a multi-functional and high-quality LMS solution, as well as for its easy-to-personalize interface,” added Shaoqing.

NetDimensions general manager for China Charles Cheng said that they are happy to be working with MSI China and supporting their organization in its efforts to achieve complete digital management of its online and offline curriculum at MSI China Elite College within the next 3 years, and establish a professional training system within 5 years.

He’s an auto insurance company’s dream customer. He’s driven millions of miles and had no preventable accidents. Most drivers could probably learn a thing or two from Rickey Oliver, a Brookhaven, Mississippi-based professional truck driver for Wal-Mart Transportation. Since Rickey has spent 27 years behind the wheel, traveling 3.5 million miles he was just named the American Trucking Associations’ 2011 National Truck Driver of the Year.

It’s considered the highest honor of professional truck drivers. “Rickey Oliver embodies the professional truck driver who delivers America’s goods safely and efficiently everyday,” said ATA President and CEO Bill Graves in a news release.  ”His passion f

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When you have car insurance, you have some amount of comprehensive coverage. If you’re involved in an accident, negotiating car insurance claim tips can prove very useful when trying to get the insurance company to pay for the damage. Your company’s definition of comprehensive coverage as well as exactly what happened will effect whether they actually pay or not.

Negotiating car insurance claim information begins with knowing exactly how your car insurance company defines comprehensive coverage.

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In the fierce national debate over a new federal law that requires all Americans to have health insurance, it’s widely assumed that private health insurance can do a better job than the public insurance funded by the U.S. government.

But a first-of-its-kind analysis of newly available government data found just the opposite when it comes to infants covered by insurance.

Among the insured, infants in low-income families are better off under the nation’s government-funded public health insurance than infants covered by private insurance, says economist and study author Manan Roy, Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Read all post…

A Willis, Texas, man’s allegedly defrauding of an insurance company, to whom he claimed that his classic Harley-Davidson motorcycle had been stolen, appears to have been discovered by his former girlfriend.

David Brittain, 41, allegedly told Geico Direct Insurance in June 2008 that his 1976 Harley had been stolen so the insurance company paid him $7,552 to settle the claim, according to a Houston Chronicle report.

In 2009, his former girlfriend, whom he had been dating for about a year, told investigators that Brittain showed her the motorcycle, stored in a covered trailer, according to the newspaper, citing court records. H

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There are a large number of websites available to help adopting families, so were relying on the U.S. Department of States Intercountry Adoption website for this information: in 2010 American families adopted 11,059 children from foreign countries. The State Department has outlined an informative list for adopting parents, including describing the role of the State Department in adoptions, country information, adoption notices and alerts, and more.

Failed Adoption Risk

Unfortunately, failed adoptions are occasionally a reality along the path to adopting a child. According to the U.S.

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