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Watch out for America’s 100 most dangerous roads during your summer travels

What season is most dangerous to drive, winter or summer? If you said winter, you join about 83% of surveyed Americans. But the reality is that the three months of summer have the highest auto accident rates, accounting for about one in three fatalities. And as we’ve discussed before, Saturdays in August are some of the most dangerous days to drive.

When it comes to summer driving safety, there are definitely some spots that are hotter than others. The Daily Beast crunched the numbers on data 5 years of data from the National Highway Safety Administration to come up with a list of 100 U.S. interstates most likely to generate a fatal crash.

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Tags: Summer, Summer Travels

9 of the world’s most expensive oil spills

In the end, it’s possible that the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will likely to be the most expensive oil spill to date. Indeed, there are estimates that the spill will cost anywhere between $15 billion and $40 billion – with some estimates reaching more than $100 billion.

While the BP spill, which started on April 20, 2010 and still has not been fully contained, will probably be the most expensive oil spill of all time, there are plenty of other oil spills that have cost a pretty penny. H

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Operational and Tactical Equipment Collection

This day, you can easily have the online shopping and it is have a lot of advantages compare with the traditional shopping. You can find a lot of online store that offer the complete clothing or equipments. If you want to find the complete collection of military equipment, you will difficult to find the online store that offer the complete collection of the military product. It is better for you to visit Adsinc.com because it is the best online store on the internet that offers the high quality clothing.

The website offers the complete operational and tactical equipment for you. You do not need to worry about the product quality because it is made from the best quality material.

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Insurers expose 2,300 fraudulent claims a week

Insurers are currently exposing over 2,300 fraudulent claims every week, according to new data from the Association of British Insurers (ABI).

The figure has risen from a weekly total of 2,000 dishonest claims in 2009, worth over £16 million.

Last year, 122,000 fraudulent insurance claims were uncovered, up 14% on a year earlier.

By value, 4% of all claims were fraudulent in 2009, with motor insurance claims highest in value (£410 million), although the most common frauds involved home insurance (62,000 bogus or exaggerated claims detected).

With liability claims, many of the 8,500 cases exposed involved bogus personal injuries, such as those of a young woman who claimed to have tripped over a loose pavement but had actually injured herself by jumping down a flight of stairs when fleeing from security guards.

ABI director general, Nick Starling, says: “Our honest customers rightly object to having to pay higher premiums to subsidise the fraudulent minority, which is why insurers continue to up their game in the war on the cheats.”

He adds: “Whether claiming against a third party for bogus personal injury or on their own insurance, fraudsters are more likely than ever to get caught, leading to more expensive and harder to obtain insurance and credit, and the possibility of a criminal record.”

 

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Useful Information On Reducing Auto Insurance Rates

If you’re like many people, auto insurance is one of your greatest regular costs. Though there’s little which can be done about other expenses associated with car ownership, for example car payments & gas costs, it’s possible to reduce the monthly cost of auto insurance. If you take just a few basic steps, anyone is able to see an extreme decrease in their monthly insurance plan bill, without sacrificing insurance plan.

For individuals who are searching for a new car, keep in mind that the type of car that you drive may have a big effect on the total amount that you’ll pay for insurance plan. While owning a sports car might seem fun, it’ll bring by using it higher rates. Even skil

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New federal rules may help lower your auto and home insurance rates

You may not realize it, but those two times you paid your credit card bill late may mean you’re paying more in auto or home insurance premiums today.

Insurance companies set premiums based on their perceived risk for covering you. To do this, they look at many factors — and your credit history can be one set of factors in insurance risk scoring. Insurance companies believe that people who pay their bills on time may be less likely to file a claim.

Therefore, the same behaviors that hurt your credit score (late payments, payments in collection, too many accounts, being close to your credit limits, etc.) can also lead to higher insurance premiums.

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Tags: Home Insurance, Insurance

AIG to name ex-Prudential exec as AIA head

NEW YORK (AP) — Insurer American International Group Inc. declined to comment Sunday on a published report indicating it is hiring former Prudential PLC executive Mark Tucker to lead its Asian life insurance business, AIA Group Ltd.

Citing unnamed people familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal reported online Sunday that AIG plans to name Tucker as chairman and CEO of AIA, replacing Mark Wilson, who has led the company since May 2009. AIG may make the announcement as early as Monday, the paper said.

AIG has been selling assets to repay a $182.5 billion federal bailout. Britain’s Prudential PLC in March agreed to buy AIA for $35.5 billion, but later wanted to negotiate a lower price after its shareholders balked. Read more…

Tags: Exec, Exprudential Exec

Insurance mostly dodges financial reform

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The insurance industry breathed a collective sigh of relief at largely being spared the rod of financial reform for its tangential role in the financial crisis. Had it not been for the near-collapse of insurance giant AIG in 2008, the industry might not have come under intense scrutiny at all.

“AIG was the 800-pound gorilla in the room, but its insurance subsidiaries weren’t at the heart of the problems. It was the credit default swaps and other derivatives that were run through the financial products division,” says J.

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Tags: Financial Reform, Reform
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