The waiver of premium rider keeps the insurance
policy in force by waiving the periodic premiums if the insured becomes disabled and is unable to pay the premium.
This is a grim reminder to all those who do not keep
their policy in force by paying regular premiums and as a result their dependents are deprived of the full sum assured in the event of such unfortunate occurrence.
Obviously it assumes you keep
your policy in force by paying premiums.
If you are applying for traditional term life insurance, you can reduce the amount of time it will take to get
your policy in force by returning all of the delivery requirements on time.
Permanent life insurance (also called whole life) offers lifetime protection and a guaranteed death benefit as long as you keep
the policy in force by paying the premiums.
In Personal Insurance, net written premiums grew 8 %, benefiting from renewal premium change of 10 % in agency auto and continued momentum in our leading homeowners business where we grew
policies in force by 5 %.
Not exact matches
Specifically, there are concerns about what might happen should the tide turn
in the bond markets when 30 years of falling interest rates reverses at a time when the Federal Reserve is preparing to tighten monetary
policy by forcing rates higher.
Five members of the armed
forces earlier this month sued Trump and his top military brass seeking to halt the reversal of the transgender
policy put
in place
by the Obama administration.
Within the coalition are two factions: those pushing to play hardball on Capitol Hill
by threatening to
force uncooperative lawmakers from office
in November, and those who'd rather see the debate settled at the congressional negotiating table sooner rather than later, even if it means making
policy concessions to companies such as Verizon and Comcast.
Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated
in the forward - looking statements include, among others, the following: our ability to successfully and profitably market our products and services; the acceptance of our products and services
by patients and healthcare providers; our ability to meet demand for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance companies and other payers to cover Cologuard and adequately reimburse us for our performance of the Cologuard test; the amount and nature of competition from other cancer screening and diagnostic products and services; the effects of the adoption, modification or repeal of any healthcare reform law, rule, order, interpretation or
policy; the effects of changes
in pricing, coverage and reimbursement for our products and services, including without limitation as a result of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; recommendations, guidelines and quality metrics issued
by various organizations such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task
Force, the American Cancer Society, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance regarding cancer screening or our products and services; our ability to successfully develop new products and services; our success establishing and maintaining collaborative, licensing and supplier arrangements; our ability to maintain regulatory approvals and comply with applicable regulations; and the other risks and uncertainties described
in the Risk Factors and
in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10 - Q.
Michael Pettis, a professor of finance and economics at Peking University, is an expert
in the Chinese economy, and he has argued for years that China's trade surplus with the United States and the rest of the world is driven
by much stronger
forces that the value of the Chinese currency or differences
in tariff
policy.
Chipotle Mexican Grill (cmg) is retraining kitchen crews on food safety and enforcing a zero - tolerance
policy for employees refusing to abide
by new rules, after identifying a sick employee as the cause of a Norovirus outbreak that
forced it to briefly close a restaurant
in Virginia last week.
Indeed,
in a classic paper written
in the early 1960s, Mundell (Mundell, 1963) showed how,
in a world of complete asset substitutability and perfect capital mobility, real interest rates would be largely determined
by international market
forces with the exchange rate moving
in response to changes
in domestic monetary
policy to provide most of the desired accommodation or tightening.
That some of the
forces governing capital flows and asset values are driven not
by market - determined expected return but
by policy measures directed at, for example, an exchange rate objective means that at least some of what we observe
in global capital markets may be attributed to these distortions.
While the assumptions about the future unemployment rate may be affected
by policy, the fact is that slower U.S. population growth, coupled with an aging population, place substantial limits on labor
force growth, which will leave U.S. GDP growth almost entirely dependent on changes
in productivity.
While some countries still enact mercantilist
policies that directly affect the relative prices of traded goods
in ways that David Ricardo would have understood two hundred years ago,
in today's global trading environment, persistent trade surpluses are usually caused
by distortions
in income distribution that
force up savings rates.
Spain could therefore either use the imported German capital to (a) increase domestic investment (which it did
in the form of a real estate bubble)(b) binge on consumption and sharply reduce its savings as a function of GDP (which it also did)(c) accept higher unemployment (which it is now
forced to do) which
forces GDP to fall faster than consumption falls or (d) try to emulate Germany
by passing off a trade imbalance at the expense of the rest of the world (which Europe as a whole is trying to do and which will go nowhere
in the long run because only one country is even remotely capable of accepting such massive inflows, and it is increasingly unwilling to import the unemployment caused
by German and Asian
policies).
It's true that demographic
forces are leading to slower growth
in the labour
force, which reduces the neutral interest rate
in the economy and increases the chances that monetary
policy will be constrained
by the lower bound on interest rates.
In the recent advancing half - cycle, the speculation intentionally provoked
by zero - interest rate
policy forced us to elevate the priority of market internals to a far greater degree than was required during the tech and mortgage bubbles.
The Trump administration, for example, wants not just to
force a contraction
in the trade deficit but has also proposed
policies aimed at increasing U.S. investment, partly
by making investment more profitable (cutting corporate taxes and rebuilding American infrastructure) and partly
by increasing savings (cutting taxes on the very wealthy).
In the U.S. more recent policy driven examples include Paul Volcker's decision in 1980 to force the U.S. into a painful recession by elevating U.S. interest rates above 20
In the U.S. more recent
policy driven examples include Paul Volcker's decision
in 1980 to force the U.S. into a painful recession by elevating U.S. interest rates above 20
in 1980 to
force the U.S. into a painful recession
by elevating U.S. interest rates above 20 %.
Implementing a negative interest rate
policy can also be problematic,
in that it can punish people who save
by forcing them to pay for their deposits.
The outstanding example, of course, is the Chinese government's long - running «one - child
policy,» replete with
forced abortions, public trackings of menstrual cycles, family flight, increased female infanticide, sterilization, and other assaults too numerous even to begin cataloguing here —
in fact, so numerous that they are now widely, if often grudgingly, acknowledged as wrongs even
by international human - rights bureaucracies.
At the beginning when we started building the Federation,
in the framework of the current
policy, the State's hand was
forced by the financial backers who said: «there needs to be civilian representation and approval of the programmes if you want us to fund them.»
But such would have to be Arkes» outlook: if indeed there are fundamental principles of natural law and natural right, discernible to the human mind generally (as Arkes thinks), then
policies or practices that effectively deny these can only be supported for the short term, or
in the long term only
by continuing fraud and
force.
In May 1985 a Canadian Task
Force report on Broadcasting
Policy was established
by the minister of communications, and it studied most of these same issues within the Canadian context.13 Where applicable, the Canadian Task
Force report will be used to supplement the U.S. recommendations.
By forcing public positions into the center, and by forcing compromise in the formulation of policy, the institutions of American politics have diffused and defused the passion necessary for wa
By forcing public positions into the center, and
by forcing compromise in the formulation of policy, the institutions of American politics have diffused and defused the passion necessary for wa
by forcing compromise
in the formulation of
policy, the institutions of American politics have diffused and defused the passion necessary for war.
Each user and group of users has been
forced by circumstances to accept a
policy of «give and take», realizing that he must give
in some instances
in order to receive
in others.
The ancestors of the September document are the Defense
Policy Guidance paper of 1992, prepared
in the Department of Defense under then Secretary Richard Cheney, and «Rebuilding America's Defenses; Strategy,
Forces and Resources for a New Century,» issued
in September 2000
by the Project for the New American Century.
A proposal similar to «common carrier» status for cable operators was made
in 1986
by the Canadian Task
Force on Broadcasting
Policy, but it has not been implemented.
Joe and Claryce Holcombe have alleged
in their claim that the Air
Force's actions «directly caused this horrific tragedy,» as they failed to follow their own
policies by not reporting the shooter's criminal history to the FBI.
While conceding that there is «some basis» for concerns about «the negative social effects of globalization», it contends that it is «not true that globalization is an overwhelming supra - national
force that has largely usurped national
policy autonomy...» It asserts that «national
policies can, and should, give priority to mitigating negative effects on globalization» of financial markets), and the desperate and helpless attempts
by the national regimes to come to grips with the soaring unemployment situation
in the face of the continuing onslaught of the «supra - national» financial markets, the above bland assertion about «national
policies» has an air of unreality about it.
«The possibility that
forces being trained by the US now will eventually turn on the IDF [Israel Defense Forces], using enhanced skills and equipment, is exceedingly high,» wrote David Bedein and Arlene Kushner in a 2009 study for the pro-Israeli Center for Near East Policy Res
forces being trained
by the US now will eventually turn on the IDF [Israel Defense
Forces], using enhanced skills and equipment, is exceedingly high,» wrote David Bedein and Arlene Kushner in a 2009 study for the pro-Israeli Center for Near East Policy Res
Forces], using enhanced skills and equipment, is exceedingly high,» wrote David Bedein and Arlene Kushner
in a 2009 study for the pro-Israeli Center for Near East
Policy Research.
(2) somewhat linked to the previous comment
in that we never seem to be prepared to hit the ground running with our best potential lineup come opening day... it's become so common,
in recent years, that many fans actually hope we stumble a little
in the first couple games just so it
forces Wenger to bring
in reinforcements... unfortunately this can be problematic, thus one of the most common phrases associated with Wenger, «panic buy»... this situation is also negatively impacted
by the ridiculous
policy regarding players who played
in the summer months... right now I'm watching the Super Cup and not a single player is unavailable to either manager, including Ronaldo, yet somehow we have a list of players half a mile long that haven't seen game - time so far this preseason... I can only assume this is a reactionary
policy created due to the multitude of injuries this club has faced over the years... just another sign of the fragility that permeates this club
We are reaping the rewards of their protests
by forcing Wenger to abandon his tight fist
policy by bringing
in credible additions to the team this summer.
Yet
in the wake of the collapse of your drug - testing
policy, you appointed still another committee, only this time — you must be getting really serious now — the committee was supplemented
by a «special task
force» charged with reviewing the activities of the entire athletic department.
I'm a doctoral candidate
in educational
policy — but consider myself an educational sociologist — and spend my days thinking about how personal lives, opportunities, and choices are often constrained
by inequalities and cultural
forces.
This committee meets monthly,
by conference call, to share ideas and collaborate around
policies and programs that will promote IMH and work
force development
in the infant family field.
TXBC board member covered
by this conflict of interest
policy are the coalition's members, paid or contracted staff, and those serving
in volunteer leadership positions (such as committee and task
force chairs and members).
After the Vietnam War, Ronald Reagan adopted a
policy of high levels of military spending to
force the USSR to match this spending on the premise that the U.S. had an economy more capable of engaging
in this defense spending without collapsing than the Soviets, a concept many considered historically vindicated when the Soviet Union collapsed
in 1989, following
in close succession
by the splintering of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, and the unification of Germany.
«For eight years, the Republican Bush / Cheney agenda allowed Wall Street to run amok, stretched our armed
forces to the limit, undermined a secure retirement
by allowing employers to weaken pension protections, and promoted some of the most anti-woman health
policies in recent memory,» Lancman said
If the DACA deal - making
in D.C. drags on too long, it could be disrupted
by a different
force: a federal judge
in Brooklyn who has sternly warned that should
policy makers prove unable to repair the program, he might have to do it.
The proposal that English votes determine English laws (EVEL) was part of the Conservative manifesto
in 2005 (pp. 21 - 22), 2010 (p. 84) and again
in 2015 (p. 70), although this
policy's time may now have been
forced upon them
by increased Scottish and Welsh devolution.
More importantly, however, French
policy - makers now see themselves as confronting the spectre of further progress
by Islamist
forces not just
in Mali, but also
in Africa more generally, and even possibly
in Europe.
It copies a similar
policy introduced
by Barack Obama
in 2009 which
forced cigarette firms to contribute more to the cost of tobacco - related illnesses.
«The introduction of this
policy has also complicated the roll - out of universal credit
by diverting most claimants who are responsible for three or more children back to tax credits; and at the same time the
policy has been introduced into universal credit under interim rules, with full rules expected to be
in force from November 2018.2 «This has created unnecessary complexity and is likely to lead to a great deal of confusion for claimants not only
in respect of support for their children but also around which benefit that support will come from.»
The project was the first proposed
by a private developer under mandatory inclusionary housing, a de Blasio administration
policy that
forces developers to include affordable housing
in any project that needs zoning approval.
Despite massive pressure
by the government to
force MPs into line, 120 MPs signed a «private» letter to Gordon Brown calling for delay
in the proposals at least until an assessment of the government's «Welfare to Work»
policies was possible.
Of course, even if you can economize a specific
policy on scale (e.g. negotiating medical costs visavi Obamacare,
in theory), that still runs smack into the other downsides of having a federal
policy, both # 1 (you impose Obamacare on ~ 50 % of the country that hates it
by force); and # 3 (if Obamacare is a bad
policy, there's no way to easily tell because it's not like we have a duplicate USA that doesn't run Obamacare and serves as a control group for an experiment).
«The federal government must take action, but for too long
forces in Washington backed
by the gun industry lobby have offered empty words instead of life - saving laws and
policy changes.