Insurers Jump on TARP Despite Concerns

The latest moves by several insurers to try to qualify for relief under the Troubled Assets Relief Program, or TARP, are attracting a lot of attention this week. But purchasing troubled savings and loan companies as a way to reinvent themselves into banks or thrift holding companies may prompt these insurers to lose their chance at a piece of the TARP.

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