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• Insurance is extra on this ‘hot’ Mexican car
Q: I have a question about car rental insurance. I recently booked a car in Manzanillo, Mexico through Hotwire. I ended up paying $197 in advance for a two-week rental through Thrifty. My practice in renting cars has been to decline the optional ...
• After bailout, AIG sent executives to the spa
... the financial products division that nearly drove AIG under, but lawmakers were still enraged over thousands of dollars spent on catered banquets, golf outings and visits to the resort's spa and salon for executives of AIG's main U.S. life insurance ...
• When you are denied health insurance
Jacqueline Ruess was lying on a bed inside a hospital in Boca Raton, Florida, still woozy from anesthesia but hoping that, maybe just this once, she'd caught a break. She'd had laparoscopic surgery in order to examine a growth her gynecologist ...
• A new, more powerful Fed emerges in crisis
Since then, it has launched programs to extend loans to nonbank financial companies, to provide backstop insurance for money-market mutual funds and a $85 billion taxpayer-backed loan to bail out American International Group, one of the world's ...
• AIG execs hid risks from auditors, panel finds
Problems at AIG did not come from its traditional insurance subsidiaries, but instead from its financial services operations, primarily its insurance of mortgage-backed securities and other risky debt against default. Government officials feared a ...