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Carriers cutting back on Sears vendors

Insurance companies that provide protection to Sears Holdings Corp. suppliers have scaled back policies in recent months.

By Lauren Coleman-Lochner | Updated on May 14, 2014
(AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

May 14 (Bloomberg) — Insurance companies that provide protection to Sears Holdings Corp. suppliers have scaled back policies in recent months, people with knowledge of the matter said, following seven years of declining sales at the department-store chain.

Insurers such as Coface SA and American International Group Inc. have reduced the size of so-called trade credit policies for existing Sears vendors or declined to provide protection for new suppliers, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the matter isn’t public. AIG has cut the size of some new policies by as much as 50 percent, one person said.

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