Many set aside large chunks of their income to self-insure against health care costs.
Mr Ciampi wanted Mr Berlusconi's commitment in writing to insure against any further misunderstandings.
Scandinavian countries are safe when measured by the cost to insure against default through credit default swaps.
Four new schemes would be created to help firms get access to credit and insure against risk, he said.
Beyond those protective steps, you can insure against loss in two additional ways.
In addition to their unconvincing experiment with short-selling, regulators have turned on credit-default swaps (CDS), contracts which insure against default.
Banks and credit card companies insure against these inevitabilities, and individuals are learning to deal with card cancellations and even identity theft.
There are just as many ways to insure against the risk of needing long-term care, either at home or in a facility.
The European Commission officially unveiled a scheme to insure against bank crises in member states, funded by a levy on financial institutions .
The development of futures market, which did not exist in 1973, allows consumers and firms to insure against the financial consequences of oil shocks through contracting.
The development of credit-default swaps now gives investors the chance to speculate on, or insure against, a country's failure to repay its debt.
Few Germans, especially in the west, want to insure against floods and those who do probably live in flood-prone areas where insurers charge high premiums.
What Dr Walther has shown is that many of the standard statistical techniques that are supposed to insure against spurious correlations are inadequate in this case.
Banks are still skittish in terms of lending for fear of further defaults and also are required to keep higher capital levels to insure against further defaults.
They have been willing to pay a higher price (as measured by implied volatility) for extreme out-of-the-money options than for contracts that insure against smaller market declines.
Recent research suggests that generous retirement benefits may result in fewer babies being born, since people no longer need children to insure against an impoverished old age.
The nature of reserves is that they insure against emergencies.
Under such laws, manufacturers must actively anticipate and prevent defects in the products they produce and sell, warn consumers of dangers, and insure against the risk of injury to the public.
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In April and May, we felt the portfolio faced some real risks but the options market was charging high premiums for downside insurance so we had to be very selective about which risks to insure against.
And yet--if only to insure against catastrophic global climate change that could irreversibly damage the world's human, natural and physical capital--an effective global agreement on mitigation must be achieved and put into force by the time the Kyoto Protocol's implementation period ends in 2012.
While contractual agreements between individuals and third party payers may be advisable to insure against catastrophic health events, it is important to realize that the ubiquity of the third party payer paradigm for ordinary healthcare arose not from the free market, but in response to government-imposed wage freezes enacted during World War II.
Should the Bush Administration now enter into a START agreement without taking steps to insure against Soviet cheating on its terms, to correct the adverse effects of the ABM Treaty on the strategic balance and to protect against the prospect of growing third-country ballistic missile threats, the cumulative effect could be to seriously undermine U.S. security.
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Now whether banks really need to insure themselves against possible defaults in that way is moot.
You may say hooray for banks that are happy to insure you against credit and liquidity risk.
In addition to purchasing insurance, another way to insure yourself against liability is to build protection into your contracts.
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Capital markets are imperfect, they observe, and households are unable to insure themselves against all of life's ups and downs.
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