31.   Doubts about its ability to pay claims caused its ratings to fall late last year.

32.   Even if Patient Choice cuts out the HMO, it still must hire a company to pay medical claims and perform other administrative functions.

33.   Even when the claim is paid and the military decides the standard of care is not met, a doctor may not be reported.

34.   For life insurers, balancing investment portfolios can help win higher ratings on their ability to pay claims.

35.   For all the uncertainty, most policyholders are resigned to the plan, even though they suspect Equitas will not have enough money to pay all claims.

36.   For five years, Medicaid officials received copies of the completed forms and paid the claims, never questioning the need of those seeking boots, Harburger said.

37.   GE says the reinsurers are simply trying to escape paying the claims.

38.   Generali said it has no obligation to pay claims against it because communist governments which nationalized its Eastern European offices assumed responsibility to pay claims.

39.   Generali said last month that since the Communists seized its Polish operations after the war, the Warsaw government is responsible for paying claims.

40.   Foreign and non-Jewish claims were paid, but Goering confiscated the money due Jewish policyholders.