Insurance

• Insurance tests raise questions about some pickups
  AP ( 24, 2008)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - The latest crash tests by the insurance industry raise safety questions about small pickups, which are drawing more interest because they get better mileage than larger trucks.
   
  
• Tokio Marine to buy Philly Consolidated for $4.4B
  AP ( 23, 2008)
  NEW YORK (AP) - Tokio Marine Holdings Inc., Japan's largest insurer, said Wednesday it plans to acquire U.S.-based property and casualty insurance firm Philadelphia Consolidated Holding Corp. for $4.39 billion in cash.
   
  
• Travelers 2Q profit down on premiums, catastrophes
  AP ( 23, 2008)
  SAINT PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Property casualty insurer The Travelers Cos. says its second-quarter profit declined as it wrote fewer premiums, took higher catastrophe losses and recorded fewer investment gains.
   
  
• UnitedHealth 2Q profit falls on charges, tops view
  AP ( 22, 2008)
  (AP) - Shares of managed-care provider UnitedHealth Group Inc. jumped 9 percent Tuesday after the company reported sharply lower second-quarter earnings because of lawsuit settlements and a tough economy, but still beat Wall Street expectations.
   
  
• Medically unfit truck drivers still on roads
  AP ( 21, 2008)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of tractor-trailer and bus drivers in the United States carry commercial driver's licenses desp
   
  
• NTSB's 8 proposals to bar medically unfit drivers
  AP ( 21, 2008)
  (AP) - Since 2003, the National Transportation Safety Board has put medical oversight of commercial truck and bus drivers on its "most wanted" list, calling the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's overall response "unacceptable."
   
  
• Small plane crash near Tampa kills 3
  AP ( 18, 2008)
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Authorities say a woman who died in a small plane crash east of Tampa was a cancer patient being flown home from treatment at an area hospital.
   
  
• Several teenagers injured in Utah bus crash
  AP ( 18, 2008)
  PANGUITCH, Utah (AP) - A tour bus went off a state highway near Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah, landing upside down in a creek bed and catching fire Thursday.
   
  
• UnitedHealth cuts 4,000 jobs and 2008 outlook
  AP ( 002, 2008)
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - UnitedHealth Group Inc. will cut at least 4,000 jobs, or 5 percent of its workforce, in a restructuring and warned Wednesday that a weaker environment and higher costs will cut into profits this year.