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Mobile phone use doesn't cause more car crashes: US study...The Highway Loss Data Institute, a non-profit organisation funded by the auto insurance industry, compared monthly collision claims in four states that have ...

Study Shows Texting Ban While Driving won't Stop Crashes...Lori Conarton, Insurance Institute of MI: "We know there have been numerous studies that show that texting while driving and cell phone use while driving ...

Burns and Wilcox launches wholesale brokerage...Managing general agency Burns & Wilcox Ltd. has formed a new insurance wholesaler focused exclusively on serving retail brokers with complex risk management accounts.

Insurance execs admit taking bribes from Houston lawyer...Two Hartford insurance executives pleaded guilty to conspiracy in Houston federal court Tuesday, admitting they took BMW cars and millions

Tower Group to acquire OneBeacon personal lines...Insurer Tower Group Inc. said Tuesday it will buy the personal lines division of OneBeacon Insurance Group for about $180 million. ...

Insurers' Q4 profits trump analysts' estimates... which sells insurance to clients in 140 countries around the world, also reported quarterly earnings above analysts' expectations, helped by increased ...

Agents' Group: On a Cost per Home Value Basis, Texas Rates Are Down...Texas insurance agents — want to show your customers that the common perception that homeowners rates in Texas always go up but never ...

Texas Man ordered to pay fine for insurance fraud...William Genetti, now listed in court filings as a resident of Montgomery, Texas, pleaded no contest in November to one count of insurance fraud and was ...

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MetLife Profit Falls 70% On Investment Losses...MetLife said it is in discussions with AIG about acquiring its international life insurance subsidiary, American Life Insurance Co. ...

Marsh & McLennan Agency buys Haake in Kansas...Haake, which has $11 million in annualized revenue and 70 employees, is the third in a series of acquisitions the New York-based Marsh Inc. subsidiary has made as part of efforts to build out its national middle-market agency platform.

Farm, Insurance Loss Estimates from Florida Freeze Still Weeks Away...It will still be weeks, into March and April, before the full extent of crop damage and insurance payments from Florida's recent ...

Commercial General Liability Policy Covers 'Blast' Faxes, Rules Florida Court...Commercial general liability (CGL) insurance policies generally cover liability for unsolicited “blast faxes” that violate federal law, a Florida court has ...

Florida's United Insurance to Expand Into 7 Northeast, Southeast States...... Insurance Co. in Florida said it is seeking approval to write homeowners insurance in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, North Carolina ...

Brown & Brown Adds to Property/Casualty Business in New Mexico...Insurance broker Brown & Brown Inc. has acquired the commercial and personal property and casualty books of business from a New Mexico agency and will fold ...

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McDermott, Benner Head Florida Insurance Commissioner Media Staff...Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty announced staff changes on the communications staff for the Office of Insurance Regulation. ...

State Farm Florida to Tell Some Policyholders They Won't be Renewed...Roger Desjadon, president and chief executive officer of Florida Peninsula Insurance Co., said in a statement that the company is "receiving a steady flow ...

The GPB story on Oxendine, Westmoreland and SEUS...Lynn Westmoreland, who accused state Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine – in charge of the SEUS investigation – of attempting a “shakedown. ...

Oxendine says US Senate bill will drive up health insurance costs [Savannah ...-Making insurers cover people who already are ill will make other people pay more for coverage, state Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine said Friday. ...

States Push Bills Banning Health Reform...Only total tools keep on saying it's all the Repubs fault that health-care reform is failing. Have you bothered to look & see how many Dems are against the ...

AXA Launches Car Insurance For Older Drivers...AXA group, which is one the world's largest car insurance policy providers, announced that it will start a new auto insurance program for elderly drivers. ..

Obama's struggle with health-care reform echoes Clintons' failure in 1994...... between health insurance and food for her family." At Healthreform.gov you can read about Stephen in Florida and Holly in Georgia and Lisa in Colorado. ...

Climate Researchers Manipulated and Hid Data...: A new investigation reveals crucial flaws in data about climate change, as well as attempts by leading researchers to cover up their own mistakes. 

Regulators Close Another 6 Banks to Bring Total to 15 Already Closed in 2010...The Deposit Insurance Fund will be hit for about $4.1 million in the deal. * The Florida Community Bank, Immokalee, Florida, was also closed on Friday, ...

Palin Wants Rahm Fired... In a Facebook post, Sarah Palin calls on President Obama to fire Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for reportedly describing the strategy of Senate liberals as "f--g retarded."

Largest-ever federal payroll to hit 2.15 million employees...The era of big government has returned with a vengeance, in the form of the largest federal work force in modern history.

PAPER: PILL MAY HELP YOU LIVE TO 100... A PILL to help people live to 100 free from debilitating health problems is set to “revolutionise” ageing, experts said yesterday.

Climate-Gate: How scientists kept the sceptics out! ...Scientists sometimes like to portray what they do as divorced from the everyday jealousies, rivalries and tribalism of human relationships. What makes science special is that data and results that can be replicated are what matters and the scientific truth will out in the end.

HOW HE LEARNED TO LOVE THE BOMB: OBAMA SEEKS MONEY FOR NUKE WEAPONS WORK... President Barack Obama is seeking increased funding for nuclear weapons research and security programs next year, even as his administration promotes nonproliferation and has pledged to reduce the world's stockpile of nuclear arms.

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