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SHOULD FLORIDA MANDATE EDUCATION FOR INS REGULATORS?... Florida regulators are blatantly injecting politics into rate making — as if they just don’t understand the process... More

Court Upholds Florida's Denial of State Farm 47% Homewners Rate ...A court has upheld Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty's denial of a 47.1 percent home insurance rate hike requested last July by State Farm ...

Ten Questions on the Health-Care Overhaul...One study, by the left-leaning Center for American Progress Action Fund, found that as many as 14000 people are losing their health insurance every day ...

Fed Limits Dividends, Debt Issuance At Two Georgia Banks...The agreements come as the financial crisis has taken a toll on the Georgia banking sector. So far this year, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has closed ...

Alioto-Pier looks to be N. Carolina insurance commissioner...Michela Alioto-Pier plans to announce today that she's running for state insurance commissioner, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. ...

Collector-car insurance remains strong amid industry slump...Although most insurance lines have been hit by the downturn, the collector-car niche remains steady, industry analysts said. Establishing tie-ups with ...

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Health care Never-Never Land...So now there is no way I can pay the 800 a month for insurance, mortgage, utilities, credit cards (WHICH I HAD TO USE TO LIVE, etc etc. ...

Former LA Citizens CEO Lisotta, state attorneys due in court ...The charges are based on audits of Citizens; the Louisiana Automobile Insurance Plan, the state's high-risk auto insurance pool; and the Property Insurance ...

DON'T MISS THIS!  Advocate who has read Obama's Health Care proposal points out outrages ... Fred Thompson interview with Betsy McCaughey

All N. Carolina Homeowners To Foot Coastal Ins. Losses Under Proposed Plan...Supporters of the "Beach Plan" said neither the insurance industry nor North Carolina homeowners can afford the present system. ...

CA Insurance Officals Target 'Use It And Lose It'...California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner proposed the new regulations. The regulations must now undergo public comment. This new law would make it ...

Alabama Insurance Agency Fined for Employees' Sales of Bogus Policies...A Gulf Shores insurance agency must pay a $36000 fine and adopt multiple accounting controls within 18 months after selling bogus homeowners policies to at ...

West Virginia Insurers Fight City Over Forced Debris Removal ...The insurer trade group, the West Virginia Insurance Federation (WVIF), has gone into Cabell County Circuit Court to challenge the ordinance that its member ...

Alabama Lawyer disbarred over insurance funds transfer...The Alabama Supreme Court has disbarred an Albertville lawyer after he admitted to transferring more than $26000 in insurance ...

SunTrust Reports Third Straight Loss on Weak Housing Market...SunTrust declined 5.4 percent yesterday after rival Regions Financial Inc. cited worsening economic conditions in Florida and Georgia as it reported a $188 ...

Survey: Small business interests overlooked in health care debate...Of the 21 business surveyed in Maryland, nine provided health care to employees and nearly all said their insurance costs rose over the past year. ...

Montgomery Insurance™ Wins IIANC Young Agents 2009 Company of the ...Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, Montgomery Insurance operates in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. ...

Insurance broker Willis faces new Stanford suit...MIAMI, July 20 (Reuters) - A Venezuelan investor has sued global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings Ltd (WSH.N) over the collapse of the Stanford ...

What if I don't want health insurance?... I'm one of the nearly 50 million Americans who don't have health insurance. I don't want it, either. ...

State Farm To Raise Home Insurance Rates...According to a press release, State Farm Lloyds submitted a rate filing to the Texas Department of Insurance on Wednesday to increase its homeowner's ...

Insurer offers to tweak rates of Texas drivers who let car monitor ...On Tuesday, Texas will become the 15th state where Progressive Insurance offers a program that adjusts individual rates every six months based on driving ...

South Carolina: Audit suggests improvements for comp data ...South Carolina's Department of Insurance must make several changes to ensure the workers' compensation market is properly regulated, according to a report. ...

Alex Sink's fundraising cutting into GOP territory.... Alex Sink, the state's Democratic Chief Financial Officer, ... Industry, Sink. Legal, $287916.10. Development and Real Estate, $106850.00. Insurance, $104300.00. Business leaders, $ 96725.10. Health, $ 85929.00 ...

Perspectives: State Farm, Florida Regulators Continue to Mull Best ...Therefore the light in the Sunshine State now shines on a tug of war between the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation and State Farm Florida -- the ...

The U.S. Steers Left on Honduras : Why would Hugo Chavez expect Obama to help him? - When Hugo Chávez makes a personal appeal to Washington for help, as he did 11 days ago, it raises serious questions about the signals that President Barack Obama is sending to the hemisphere's most dangerous dictator.

Bailouts could cost U.S. $23 trillion... series of bailouts, bank rescues and other economic lifelines could end up costing the federal government as much as $23 trillion, the U.S. government’s watchdog over the effort says – a staggering amount that is nearly double the nation’s entire economic output for a year.

Poll Danger Signs; Obama Tracking Lower Than Carter... Barack Obama, who completed six months in office Monday, has a 55% approval rating in the USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, putting him 10th among the dozen presidents who have served since World War II at this point in their tenures.

Massachusetts Health Care Woes Could Cast Cloud Over Romney Bid...Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, panned for his weak rebuttal to President Obama's first address to the nation as president in February, on Monday slammed the ...

While $ Billions head to ACORN for more voter fraud, Obama strips funding for F-22 Fighter...The Senate voted Tuesday to halt production of the Air Force's missile-eluding F-22 Raptor fighter jets in a high-stakes, veto-laden showdown over President Barack Obama's efforts to shift defense spending to a next generation of smaller, single-engine F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.

GOP on Obama's 'heavy handed' tactics...We need the public option to make the insurance companies honest. Just heard the sad news that Quitter Palin will be coming to California first to stink up ...

Brown Brown first-half net income slips...Brown & Brown Inc. said its net income for the first half of 2009 slipped about 3.8% to $88.7 million compared with the same period last year despite an increase in revenues.Total revenue for the six months ended June 30 was $509.9 million, an increase of 2.3% over the first six months of 2008, the brokerage reported Monday.

VIDEO:  Send in the Clowns:  Hilarious UTube video satirizing the love-affair between the media and the Obama Administration...

Progressive's behavior-based car insurance program rolled out in Texas...MyRate, Progressive Insurance's optional behavior-based car insurance program is now available in Texas. Drivers who choose to sign up for MyRate receive a ...

Rhodes Scholar Bobby Jindal Schools CNN's John Roberts...John Roberts, on the July 21 edition of American Morning, appeared to expect Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal to turn in a ...

A Man Out of Time...Apollo 11 Aniversary: While at Purdue, Armstrong watched with the world as Navy test pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier flying an experimental aircraft. ...

Democrats 'baffled' by president's health care stance...As the prospects for passing health reform by the time Congress leaves for its August recess look bleaker, Democratic grumbling about President Obama is growing louder. One Democratic senator tells CNN congressional Democrats are “baffled,”

Key West may vote on nude beach... A second nude beach is one step closer to coming to South Florida. Tuesday night commissioners in Key West voted 4 to 2 to allow the nude beach initiative to go to a public vote. It was the first step in having people vote on the issue in the fall.

Real estate values stabilizing in some markets...then declining markets policies will be applied to the loan for mortgage insurance purposes. Arizona, California, Florida, and Nevada will most likely ...

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