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

• State Farm looks to cut all home insurance discounts in Florida...The Times reports that State Farm has filed papers with the State of Florida to eliminate or trim nearly all discounts for homeowners insurance in Florida. ...

• The New Underwriter's Insider EZine!...Did the Florida DFS breach ethics - - - to teach ethics?  See the Insider Advisor inside - you won't believe this!

• St. Johns Forays Into South Carolina Homeowners Insurance Market... Florida-based St. Johns Insurance, a property and casualty insurance provider, has expanded its operations in the South Carolina homeowner ...

• FL-GA Disaster Cooperation Plan...Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty and Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine  announced that they have renewed a ...

• Consumer advocate questions State Farm's rate jump...The Office of Public Insurance Counsel, which represents consumers before the state insurance department, called the insurer's statewide average 8.5 percent ...

• Government not the answer - Texas Gov. on Obamacare...Governor Perry [TEXAS] is considering invoking the 10th Amendment to the US Constitution to prevent Obamacare to become the law of Texas. ...

• NC becomes battlefield in health debate...Drug and insurance companies and other businesses in the health care industry are seeking to take part in the debate here. The drug industry has been ...

• Checks in the mail? Jobless aid for millions delayed as states ..."The unemployment insurance system before the recession was as vulnerable as New Orleans was before Katrina," said Representative Jim McDermott, ...

• Health-Insurer Tax Gets 'Intense Look' in Senate...James Carlson, chief executive officer of Virginia Beach, Virginia-based Amerigroup Inc., the largest private insurer specializing in low-income Medicaid ...

• City urged to repeal insurance ordinance,,,The withholding provisions in Huntington's ordinance conflict with value policy law in West Virginia that requires insurance companies to pay the face value ...

• Car dealers hope Cash for Clunkers drives up sales...The program started Friday and is not only meant to help the environment, but also car dealers, buyers and North Carolina's economy. ...

The Worst Health Care Reforms...But is an "an under-regulated private insurance market" at fault here, as the article states? Actually, the US insurance market is very heavily regulated at ...

• Insurer of collector cars celebrates 25 years in business...The Traverse City-based collector car insurance company insures about 700000 collector cars in the United States, Canada and Britain. This year, the car ...

• Doctor numbers don't add up for universal plan...In fact, access to healthcare providers could worsen, particularly in states like Florida, where a growing shortage of doctors and other providers is ...

• Revaluations Shock Some North Carolina Property Owners...His mother's property, right next door on NC 66, rose from about $127000 to $950000. "We took it personally,'' Crews said. "We thought they were targeting ...

• More docs tackle malpractice...The way he sees it, there are two situations that call for a “sorry”: When a known complication occurs through no fault of the doctor, and when a doctor ...

Gallagher gets OK to accept contingent commissions...Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. said Tuesday that it has received approval from the Illinois Attorney General and the Illinois Department of Insurance to once again begin accepting contingent commissions on retail brokerage business beginning Oct. 1.

• Dillon, South Carolina women plead guilty to insurance fraud... Two women in Dillon County have pleaded guilty to insurance fraud Tuesday, according to the South Carolina Insurance News Service ...

Marriage insurance site seeks license...The Florida creator of a Web site designed to sell marriage insurance said he has applied for a license with the ...

• Charlie Crist no fan of president's public option for health insurance..."It's exactly the reason why we introduced the Cover Florida health plan. I think that's a better way to go, candidly. I think that involving the private ...

AIG Unit Keeps $2.4 Billion From Asset Sales as Taxpayers Wait...The taxpayer should not have been exposed to these risks,” said Representative Brad Sherman, a California Democrat on the House Financial Services ...

• Congressional Report Accuses ACORN of Political Corruption, Widespread Fraud...A new report from Republicans on a House oversight committee accuses ACORN of fraudulent activities and widespread corruption and calls for a criminal investigation into the advocacy group.

• Car dealers hope Cash for Clunkers drives up sales...The program started Friday and is not only meant to help the environment, but also car dealers, buyers and North Carolina's economy. ...

• Jury in favor of hospital that deported immigrant...A South Florida hospital that quietly chartered a plane and sent a seriously brain injured illegal immigrant back to Guatemala over the objections of his ...

• South Florida employers sound off on healthcare reform...Many can't afford to pay for insurance now, and they fear the consequences of some proposals, such as the one that would add an 8 percent payroll tax to ...

• PELOSI: I DON'T CARE IF I'M DESPISED... month after month of polling shows that the speaker is neither trusted nor liked by the general public — even as she emerges from one of the most productive legislative periods any speaker has ever enjoyed.

• CBO DEALS OBAMACARE ANOTHER BLOW: 'HIGH PROBABILITY NO SAVINGS WILL BE REALIZED'...For the second time this month, congressional budget analysts have dealt a blow to the Democrat's health reform efforts, this time by saying a plan touted by the White House as crucial to paying for the bill would actually save almost no money over 10 years.

• PAPER: Tough love for fat people: Tax their food to pay for healthcare... f you happen to be the 1-in-3 Americans who is neither obese nor overweight (and, thus, considered at risk of becoming obese), you might well conclude that the habits of the remaining two-thirds of Americans are costing you, big time.

• DETAILS: Prison abuse in Iran's post-election crackdown; 100+ protesters killed... Some prisoners say they watched fellow detainees being beaten to death by guards in overcrowded, stinking holding pens. Others say they had their fingernails ripped off or were forced to lick filthy toilet bowls.

 • Robot attacked Swedish factory worker...The incident took place in June 2007 at a factory in Bålsta, north of Stockholm, when the industrial worker was trying to carry out maintenance on a defective machine generally used to lift heavy rocks. Thinking he had cut off the power supply, the man approached the robot with no sense of trepidation.