As one of the "Big Three" bond insurers, along with FGIC and MBIA, Ambac had fairly rigorous standards when it came to underwriting since its livelihood depended on correctly gauging claims down the road, according to Dalton.
Rather, we will have even more problems in gauging claims based on ideas about sensory information after such ideas are that much more removed from a direct and perspicuous relationship to the world as experienced, in our organizing and relating them to other ideas.
This is not to say that we will have no problems gauging the warrant for claims based on sensory information as we collect it.
Insurers have complained that the long time periods make it harder to investigate the claims and gauge their validity.
That was enough to pull down a four-week moving average of new claims, a gauge of the trend in layoffs, by 2,250 to 350,500, its lowest since March 2008.
Then the reporter attempted to gauge his reaction to claims by the National Union of Journalists about pay at Alpha's papers.
As a result, flooding in Miami Beach and other low-lying areas has doubled over the last decade, Wdowinski found, using tide gauges, rain records, insurance claims and other data to construct the flood record.
Because Aflac is not a property insurer like Chartis, Tokio Marine or others still trying to gauge the size of claims from the quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that the Japanese government will ultimately help cover, Aflac's business has been only minimally affected by the calamity.
What would be far more useful, he argues, would be to give people a better feel for scientific method and for the mathematical estimation of risk, so that they can gauge the trustworthiness of particular claims for themselves.
The four-week average of new jobless claims, a better gauge of underlying labor trends because it irons out week-to-week volatility, rose to 482,500 from 474,250 the week before.
The four-week average of new jobless claims, a better gauge of underlying labor trends because it irons out week-to-week volatility, increased to 558,000 from 544,250 the week before.
