• Low tide, rising rates sink all ships « slabbed...The state's Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the largest insurer in Florida, is moving forward with plans to start raising rates in January in areas including Volusia and Flagler counties. Meanwhile, private insurers have been quietly ...

• N .J. auto insurance costs ease, but still top list of states... followed by Louisiana, New York, Florida, Rhode Island and Delaware. Residents of Washington, DC, paid the highest auto insurance rates in the nation, ...

• AIG reduces debt by $25 billion...American International Group Inc. has closed two transactions with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and reduced its debt to the government by $25 billion, the insurer said Tuesday.

• State Farm Mississippi rates climb 19.5%...Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney announced the rate increase Monday, the final day of the 2009 hurricane season. In making the announcement, ...

• Feel the difference between Florida and North Carolina Car Insurance...finding car insurance state-by-state – has been reworked for easier navigation. No matter where you insure your auto, in Florida or North Carolina, ...

• Blue Cross in hot water over North Carolina letter campaign...20 North Carolina lawmakers -- 19 Democrats and one Republican -- asked the state attorney general and insurance commissioner to examine the mailers and ...

• Taking Aim at Auto Insurers...With health insurance dominating the political debate, few Americans give much thought to automobile insurance. A developing situation in economically ...

• Dispute pits accident victims against insurers...For many years, California trial judges have agreed with insurance companies that the amount of the settlement is all the responsible party's insurer must ...

Regulators tighten squeeze on four Georgia banks...The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. rarely takes such harsh action. The regulatory agency issued similar orders this year against three Georgia lenders that ...

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"Greatest Scandal in Modern Science"

• CLIMATEGATE: Scientist at center of e-mail controversy to step down...Climate skeptics have seized on several e-mails from Phil Jones, director of the university's Climatic Research Unit, to other researchers as evidence that prominent scientists have sought to silence their voice in the debate over global warming. The e-mails were pirated and posted online last month.

• Penn State Professor also under investigation...Climate change opponents say the E-mails indicate that climate change researchers—including Penn State Prof. Michael Mann—exaggerated or fabricated global warming data. And, according to the report, some E-mails indicate that the director of the research unit in question may have contacted researchers and asked them to "delete certain E-mails."

• Inhofe Asks Boxer to Probe Potential Scientific 'Conspiracy'... Inhofe said the recent disclosure of emails between several prominent climatologists reveal “possible deceitful manipulation of important data and research used by the US Global Change Research Program” and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.”

• Climategate: 'Scientific establishment hopelessly compromised'...The reason why even the Guardian's George Monbiot has expressed total shock and dismay at the picture revealed by the documents is that their authors are not just any old bunch of academics. Their importance cannot be overestimated...

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