Word: payments
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...hundreds of thousands of UAW retirees are probably going to get a lot less health coverage. The outlines of a plan are likely to be drawn up by Bloom, a pioneer in the voluntary employee beneficiary association (VEBA) approach. In a VEBA, the union agrees to accept a cash payment to fund a new health-care system that trustees administer, thus taking future liabilities off the company's books. That's what happened at Ford, where the company negotiated a deal in which half the VEBA will be funded in the form of stock rather than cash. GM may need...
...largest sellers of such contracts. Much of the credit insurance AIG sold was on mortgage bonds, which are backed by home loans. As more and more homeowners defaulted, many of those bonds plummeted in value, causing the holders of AIG's CDS contracts to request payment. AIG used money it had received from the government to pay off those contracts...
...From 2000 to 2008, he served on the board of the state-controlled firm Gazprom, Russia's largest company and the world's largest extractor of natural gas. The company has frequently become embroiled in payment disputes with Ukraine, which relies on Gazprom for its gas supply...
...patient who has a big hip or knee operation will run a fever for a while afterward. No one really knows why. But if a computer picks up the temperature elevation, it could prompt doctors to record a "fever of unknown origin" - a diagnosis that often triggers a bigger payment. EMR can inject more higher-paying codes into our patient contact, squeezing that much more money out of it, and quite innocently too. It is, after all, a computer forcing these choices. (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...Without other credit enhancement techniques, tranches are rated differently because each one is paid sequentially, with interest and principal payments on the underlying loans first going to the senior most tranche and the last payments going to the most junior. Effectively, the tranches are, at least in part, rated differently based upon the order in which they receive payment from the underlying loans. In the event of default, the junior most tranche may receive less than their regular return because they are the last tranche to be paid. In order to compensate for the increased risk, the more junior...