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9 Ways to Rid Your Home of Bad Odors

By Angelica | Jul 27, 2020 | Comments Off on 9 Ways to Rid Your Home of Bad Odors

Krakenimages.com / Shutterstock.com In a perfect world, your home would smell like delicious food waiting to be eaten, or maybe like your favorite flower. Life generally isn’t perfect, though, especially when it’s sweltering outside. Stale cooking odors, diaper pails, cigarette smoke, infrequently scooped litter boxes and overflowing trash cans — all are a lot more…

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Is It Worth Paying More for Better Sunglasses?

By Angelica | Jul 27, 2020 | Comments Off on Is It Worth Paying More for Better Sunglasses?

It’s summer, the perfect time to head to the beach or pool and gaze at the world through the coolest sunglasses of the season. For some, the designer brand on a pair of shades is just as important as the label on their bathing suit, and the eyewear might even cost more. No matter how…

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Swiss Re hires Pasricha to lead P&C Solutions, as Eric Schuh departs

By Angelica | Jul 27, 2020 | Comments Off on Swiss Re hires Pasricha to lead P&C Solutions, as Eric Schuh departs

Global reinsurance company Swiss Re has appointed a new hire to the role of Global Head P&C Solutions within its Reinsurance Business Unit, as incumbent Eric Schuh is set to leave the company later this year. The P&C Solutions division within the reinsurance unit at Swiss Re is a specialist segment focused on the use…

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The Top 10 Cities for Working Parents

By Angelica | Jul 27, 2020 | Comments Off on The Top 10 Cities for Working Parents

fizkes / Shutterstock.com This story originally appeared on SmartAsset.com. Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that there are about 33.6 million families in the U.S. with children under the age of 18. In 2018, at least one parent was employed in almost 91% of those family households. Among the smaller subset of married-couple families with…

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Eclipse Re issues two private cat bonds totalling $56.6m

By Angelica | Jul 27, 2020 | Comments Off on Eclipse Re issues two private cat bonds totalling $56.6m

Eclipse Re Ltd., the Horseshoe managed private syndicated collateralised reinsurance note and private cat bond platform, has completed two new transactions, amounting to just under $56.6 million of risk capital issued around the mid-year renewal season. Eclipse Re Ltd. is a Bermuda domiciled special purpose insurer (SPI) and segregated account company designed to facilitate issuance…

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Best of Artemis, week ending 26th July 2020

By Angelica | Jul 27, 2020 | Comments Off on Best of Artemis, week ending 26th July 2020

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 26th July 2020, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publish. Watch all of our ILS Asia…

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Physicians and the psychological trauma of COVID-19 [PODCAST]

By Angelica | Jul 26, 2020 | Comments Off on Physicians and the psychological trauma of COVID-19 [PODCAST]

“As COVID-19 devastates America and the world, I hope that fundamental change to our health care system results from its horrific exposé. Without COVID-19, the pressures placed on physicians are already immense. In the age of COVID-19, these pressures are proving to be insurmountable. Being a physician is difficult, but it does not have to…

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What it’s like to be pregnant in a pandemic

By Angelica | Jul 26, 2020 | Comments Off on What it’s like to be pregnant in a pandemic

I held back my tears as I headed home that day from work. A sense of impending doom and fear of the future was clutching my heart, something like I have never experienced before. For the first time in my medical career, my mind was preoccupied with thoughts about my own safety and how it…

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The virus takes and it takes. Physicians give and they give.

By Angelica | Jul 26, 2020 | Comments Off on The virus takes and it takes. Physicians give and they give.

A lifetime ago, when we first heard of a novel virus making the rounds in China, I was added to several physician groups on Facebook. The discussion surrounding the virus was academic; the distance made it easy to be objective, speculation on how severe it was, and how widely it would spread was casual and…

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Imagining a pandemic as a physician novelist

By Angelica | Jul 26, 2020 | Comments Off on Imagining a pandemic as a physician novelist

Writing a pandemic novel is sort of like running a mock code. You may feel a tinge of fear as you work through the actively changing scenario, but mostly you feel the excitement of the challenge. Yet when an actual patient is deteriorating before you, all you feel is terror. In 2007, as I was traveling daily…

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