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State Farm Receives Permission to Abandon Florida Home Market...State Farm, based in Bloomington, Illinois, must make arrangements to transfer policyholders to other carriers, Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty ...

Video: Did You Vote For the Rhetoric?  You Gotta See This!.. Jon Steward does a comedic analysis of our new president on Creative Minority

State Farm Lowers Georgia Rates...On March 9, the insurance company is lowering your auto insurance rates. Effective March 9, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company is lowering its ...

You just gotta love that multi-culturalsim - Muslim Television Channel Founder Charged With Beheading His Wife...Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37, was found dead on Thursday at the offices of Bridges TV in Orchard Park, N.Y., near Buffalo. Her husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, has been charged with second-degree murder.

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FRIENDLY SKIES: TSA to require body scan or pat-down... For the first time, some airline passengers will skip metal detectors and instead be screened by body scanning machines that look through clothing for hidden weapons, the Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday.

Uninsured motorists will increase...Alabama's 26 percent rate was almost twice the national average of 13.8 percent in 2007. The Insurance Research Council estimates the percentage of ...

Obama who had refused to wear flag pin now has new flag frenzy..."The biggest factor is that Barack Obama is now the president," said Jack Glaser, a social psychologist with the University of California at Berkeley.

Jury convicts Alabama insurance executive Goff...Alabama Insurance Commissioner Jim L. Ridling said he was pleased the jury concluded Goff's actions "were both reprehensible and illegal. ...

THE LADY AND THE CHIMP: BLOODBATH...The owner of a 200-pound chimpanzee that viciously mauled a Stamford woman calls the incident "a freak thing," but says her pet was not a "horrible" animal.

Stimulus signed: $12.2B coming to Florida...761000 Floridians who lost their jobs will be offered an additional $100 per month in unemployment insurance. Unemployment benefits will be extended to an ...

Scientist and Ex-Astronaut: Al Gore's Global Warming Is Bunk..."I don't think the human effect is significant compared to the natural effect," said Schmitt, who is among 70 skeptics scheduled to speak next month at the International Conference on Climate Change in New York.

Japanese Finance Minister quits over drunken ramble at G7... On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average came within sight of its lowest levels in more than a decade. Financial shares were battered.

Hearing to focus on how insurers use credit scores...The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation sent subpoenas to Allstate, Geico, Nationwide, Progressive and State Farm Florida, asking each company to send ...

Dow nears 10-year low... On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average came within sight of its lowest levels in more than a decade.

  1. 3 more Miami-Dade doctors arrested in Medicare fraud case...The three also were charged with laundering about $5 million in payments made by the federal health insurance program over four years, the indictment said. ...

Wisconsin girl, 14, arrested for classroom texting... A 14-year-old Wisconsin girl who refused to stop texting during a high school math class was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, according to police. The teenager was busted last Wednesday at Wauwatosa East High School after she ignored a teacher's demand that she cease texting.

• Mississippi House Votes to Ban Ticket Cameras; Missouri and ...The panel rewrote Blackmon's measure to ban not just the reporting of photo tickets to insurance companies, but also the issuance a photo ticket for any ...

Muslim TV exec accused of beheading wife in NY... The crime drips with brutal irony: a woman decapitated, allegedly by her estranged husband, in the offices of the television network the couple founded with the hope of countering Muslim stereotypes.

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Tennesse insurance salesman carjacked ...And even though the 53-year-old insurance salesman, who had been in Anderson County on business and was on his way home, normally knows better, ...

California's Big Race to Succeed Schwarzenegger...When Brown does enter the race he'll be facing another long-time Golden State political pro, Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi, a two-time former insurance ...

Victims of uninsured drivers on rise...Local insurance agencies are seeing the trend, too. Executives at AAA's local auto insurance arm say more drivers are scaling back to minimum protection, ...

Allies alarmed by Pakistan deal with Taliban...Pakistan's startling accord with Taliban fighters that would impose Islamic religious law on the strategic Swat valley looms as a setback for the Obama administration's hopes to mount a united front against militants there and in Afghanistan.

More uninsured drivers likely..."And car insurance probably isn't going to be one of those priorities, but it is a law that every car on the highway have at least liability insurance. ...

  1. For Obama, it’s more about showmanship than sunlight...Back during the presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised something he called “Sunlight Before Signing.” Obama complained that “too often bills are rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them.”

Q & A with Georgia Insurance and Fire Commissioner John Oxendine...Many times, the state insurance department will be able to track name changes and/or mergers that impacted the insurance company. In Georgia you can contact ...

  Concerns fly over Georgia Power fee bill ... And state Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine said the whole deal “stinks.” Spokesman Matt Carrothers said, “Secretary Handel is a strong proponent of ...

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Florida Insurance Commissioner Approves State Farm Withdrawal Plan, With Conditions...Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty today announced that he has conditionally approved the withdrawal plan submitted Jan. 27 to the Office of Insurance Regulation (Office) by State Farm Florida Insurance Co. (State Farm Florida) and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (State Farm Mutual).

State Farm Sets Off a Scramblee in Florida...Kevin Delaney runs Great Florida Insurance on US 27 in the South Lake County section of Four Corners. People were angry. And Delaney was more than happy to ...

CFO SINK JOINS DFS DETECTIVES FOR INSURANCE FRAUD ARREST IN TAMPA...Today, Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink joined detectives from the Department of Financial Services’ Division of Insurance Fraud for the arrest of a woman accused of forging insurance documents in order to collect more than $38,000 in school- readiness state funding.

Florida lobbies for federal funds to shore up CAT fund...State Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty met with Florida US House members' staffs and a representative of Gov. Charlie Crist's Washington office seeking ...

Pilot Action May Have Led to Crash ...Investigators examining last week's Continental Connection plane crash have gathered evidence that pilot commands -- not a buildup of ice on the wings and tail -- likely initiated the fatal dive of the twin-engine Bombardier Q400 into a neighborhood six miles short of the Buffalo, N.Y., airport, according to people familiar with the situation.

Scooter riders may soon face same laws as other North Carolina drivers...Unlike most other states, North Carolina requires no driver's license for puttering around on a scooter or mo-ped. Nor does Trombley need insurance or a ...

Air Force Says Fewer F-22s Needed... The U.S. Air Force is scaling back its request for its most advanced and costly fighter jets, as the service seeks to shift its emphasis from waging large-scale wars to combating insurgencies in places like Afghanistan and Iraq

• Auto insurers play hardball in minor-crash claims...If you are injured in a minor car crash, chances are good that you will be in the fight of your life to get the insurance company to ...

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