Sentence examples for effectively insurance from inspiring English sources

The book, published earlier this year, describes how Paulson, 54, made $20bn by piling into credit default swaps against mortgages, effectively insurance policies that would pay out if homeowners defaulted.

Nearly three weeks after the Wall Street bank sank into bankruptcy, financial companies and investment funds that wrote what are effectively insurance policies on Lehman Brothers' debts are being called on to pay hundreds of billions of dollars in claims.

The trading price for what is effectively insurance against a Gap bankruptcy rose nearly eightfold in the past six months, leaving the credit-rating agencies and equity markets lagging.

The ATOL scheme is effectively an insurance policy for the risk that the holiday company goes bust.

Crick:  Yes, so effectively an insurance policy.

The penalty effectively makes insurance cheaper because people can avoid it by getting insurance.

Beyond emergency treatment, the Pitts bill would effectively ban insurance coverage for abortion in the new state health insurance exchanges set up as part of health care reform, even though the reform law already places unnecessary restrictions on insurers and the insured to make sure no federal money is used to pay for abortions.

The tax we propose would allow the government to effectively collect insurance premiums now that should have been charged ahead of time.

The Secure Income Bond promised an annual 7.5% return, based on an obscure US investment known as life settlement bonds – effectively life insurance plans given up by their holders.

The Association of British Insurers ABII) wants the government to raise its investment by 10% a year to £750m by 2011.By providing what is effectively subsidised insurance, the agreement has encouraged building in silly places.

"It reached the point with all of the controversy that he could no longer serve effectively as insurance commissioner, and so in the interests of the people of California, he stepped down," said Mr. Quackenbush's lawyer, Donald H. Heller.