More regulation and more insurance obligations were a matter of debate.

In the legislation passed, the insurance obligation applied to the very largest employers, those with 10,000 or more workers.

Admittedly, the resolution also calls for testing and labelling guarantees, but Amendment No 6, which lays down liability and insurance obligations, was rejected.

Results for 1988 also reflected a previously announced $45 million special charge related to Aetna's insurance obligations to A.H. Robins Co.

Because Metropolitan Life would receive sufficient assets to settle the annuity and life insurance obligations, the transaction should insure that the 100,000 policyholders are paid in full.

In 1948, International Life Insurance Co. ("International"), a Texas corporation, agreed to assume Empire's insurance obligations.

The charge is in addition to reserves previously established by Aetna for insurance obligations for claims by users of Robins's Dalkon Shield birth-control device.

Here, however, they can see, that this package consists of regulations on monitoring, regulations on classification societies, accident investigations, insurance obligations, liability regulations, on port State control and flag State control.

Investors received a hint of the problem last month, when the Securities and Exchange Commission disclosed that it was reviewing the way companies calculate their pension and health insurance obligations for quarterly and yearly results.

VAT registration, employees, PAYE (Pay As You Earn), tax and National Insurance obligations, premises and finance agreements can all make this process more complicated for anything other than the most simple business.

The players' agents say they are getting a variety of explanations from I.H.L. teams, ranging from insurance obligations to worry over roster chemistry to the temporary nature of the situation to fear of offending the N.H.L.