William Ernest Carter of Philadelphia, for example, had insured his children's King Charles Spaniel and Airedale for $100 and $200, respectively, and later received settlements back on land.
MBIA, whose name once stood for Municipal Bond Insurance Association, has insured about $30.6 billion of complex securities known as collateralized debt obligations, which are holdings of bonds that are often backed by home mortgages.
"We have been Barclays banking customers for 25 years and have insured our car for with them for 10, and always had excellent service.
Some scholars have argued that Tarentum's ties to Sparta and the supposed predilection of the Pythagoreans for aristocracy will have insured that Tarentum did not remain a democracy long and that it was not a democracy under Archytas (Minar 1942, 88 90; Ciaceri 1927 32, II 446 7).
Filled with antiquities, relics, or natural curiosities, like double-headed snakes and malformed fetuses preserved in jars of alcohol, the 19th century fashion for these collections has insured that every local museum in Europe has one.
For now, the orchestra has insured the instruments for $48.9 million, which is what Mr. Axelrod had them insured for with Lloyd's of London.
Partisan debate over the war had grown even more intense since his appointment; the Bush Administration, for its part, had entered its late Karl Rove period, characterized by rococo flourishes the White House had insured, for example, that Petraeus's first critical testimony about the surge would coincide with the anniversary of the terror attacks of September 11 , 2001
farmer James T. Wright had insured for $200,000.
The most valuable display is a sample of pitchblende which he has insured for $500.
If you believe current financial market values for the assets MBIA has insured are accurate, then the company will face severe problems in years to come.
