Breaking News 14.04

Patient Money: Health Law Offers a Chance for Preventive Care
The health law requires insurance companies to cover annual checkups, immunizations and screenings without charge in all new policies.

I.H.T. Special Report: Net Worth: How to Choose a Financial Planner
A key to financial success is making decisions with your money that produce solid, long-term returns. Those decisions include whether to hire a financial planner and, if the answer is yes, how to go about it.

UnitedHealth and Y.M.C.A. Join in Diabetes Fight
A clinically tested program, in which losing 5 percent of body weight cut the risk of Type 2 diabetes by more than half, will be expanded to Y.M.C.A.’s in seven cities.

McConnell Criticizes Democrats’ Financial Regulation Plan
Senator Mitch McConnell and Republicans criticized a bill as arrogant, but Democrats accused Republicans of trying to prevent tougher policing of Wall Street.

Cash is being 'replaced by cards'
Cash payments will account for less than half of all transactions in five years' time, according to research.

Debenhams reports rise in profits
Debenhams reports a rise in half-year profits and says it is well positioned to expand its market share.

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Generation B: Three Merchants Beat the Recession by Selling to Kids
A clothier, art framer and computer-services provider learn that people always spend on their children.


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For Inspection Help, Restaurateurs Turn to Consultants
A largely unregulated cottage industry of consultants has evolved to help restaurant owners deal with the byzantine inspection process of the city’s health department.


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Auto News 13.04

According to the Wall Street Journal, General Motors will increase its annual sales in China to three million vehicles by 2015. This is just the latest evidence that China’s automotive market is growing faster than that of the U.S.

Compulsory auto insurance coverage is a state issue. Each state establishes minimum bodily injury and property damage liability coverage requirements as it deems appropriate. However, liability insurance provides no benefits to the policyholder beyond the transfer of risk. The auto insurance requirement serves to protect the public from catastrophic losses the insured may cause.

Poizner's report on the company - which includes Mercury Insurance Co., Mercury Casualty Co. and California Automobile Insurance Co. - comes two months after state insurance officials made similar allegations against the firm.

Cabot China & Emerging Markets Report is the top source of stock ideas that will benefit from China’s growing auto sector. It was recently named the #1 newsletter for the last five years by Hulbert Financial Digest, with annualized gains of 19.5%.

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The company and its chairman, George Joseph, have donated more than $7.2 million to state political campaigns in the past decade. In 2009, Mercury donated $13,000 to the gubernatorial campaign of Attorney General Jerry Brown but has not donated to Poizner's campaign for governor.

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