• 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!

• Hurricane Season Heats Up, Belatedly...Indeed, three of the four most damaging storms in the US, according to industry group the Insurance Information Institute, have occurred in the past four ...

• Florida ranks No. 3 in percentage of uninsured people...The states with the highest percentage of uninsured people, the study says: Texas with 27.6 percent, followed by New Mexico, Florida, Louisiana and Arizona. ...

• Class Action Suit Claims Insurers Cancel Just as Hurricane Season Begins... A class action claims Texas insurance companies collect premiums for storm coverage from November through May - when ...

• Soft pricing, loss ratios force Virginia insurer’s outlook downward...Standard & Poor’s Ratings Service, one of several that rates insurance companies, lowered its outlook on the property-casualty insurer from “stable” to “negative.”

• Health Reform Protests: Obama Say, Media Do!...Barack Obama is more than just denouncing those who disagree with him on health insurance reform. ...

• Hickman County, TN Businessman Indicted On Arson Charges...Roger Farley's facing felony arson charges for, according to investigators, burning his own house right outside Nunnelly, Tennessee to the ground 4 years ...

• Many NCAA athletes underinsured... about his broken left ankle, an injury sustained during the Virginia Tech game, that will sideline him for at least six weeks. ...

• Insurers in crosshairs of health reformers...John Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, told Reuters. People are "being taken advantage of. That's not all insurance companies, but insurance companies ...

• Trend Shows Homeowners Renting Unsold Properties...Allstate Insurance reports a 27 percent increase in its customers transferring their insurance policies to landlord policies to turn the bills into cash. ...

Virginia at top of the class in nationwide PC report card...“The Bureau's sole criteria is to apply Virginia insurance laws and regulations to ensure that citizens of the commonwealth are provided with access to ...

• A closer look at health care reform...You will have to then choose another employer-based plan if it is even offered, choose a private plan through an insurance company, or choose the public ...

• More bonuses given to top AIG executives...As a result, AIG sold stake in two of its foreign life insurance subsidiaries in exchange for government forgiveness of $25 billion of a $44.8 billion loan. ...

• Malpractice insurance freeze in NY extended...David Paterson has signed legislation to freeze medical malpractice insurance rates in New York for another year. But the doctor who heads the largest ...

• Top insurance lobbyist: August key in health drive...Karen Ignagni, president of America's Health Insurance Plans, told editors and reporters from The Associated Press that recent broadsides against the ...

Agents, Meteorologists Gear Up for Annual Texas Hurricane Tour...... from the National Weather Service and independent insurance agents to warn Texas coastal residents of the potential dangers of hurricanes. ...

• Workers comp fund members hit by fraud get distributions...Checks totaling $6.5 million have been mailed to hundreds of former members of Phoenix Fund Inc., a self-insured group workers compensation fund, that were victims of reinsurance fraud, the North Carolina Department of Insurance said.

 Florida struggles through property insurance crisis...Some insurers in Florida said it is unfair to criticize the Office of Insurance Regulation for rejecting a petition from State Farm Florida to increase its ...

• Unbelievable Arrogance: Opposition Increases to Multimillion-Dollar Plan to Buy Planes for Government Officials...he resistance to buying eight Gulfstream and Boeing planes comes as members of both chambers of Congress embark on the busiest month of the year for official overseas travel.

• Our Unconstitutional Census...According to projections of the 2010 Census by Election Data Services, states certain to lose one seat in the 2010 reapportionment are Iowa, Louisiana, ...

• Anti-Obama Merchandise Making a Splash...Rasmussen Reports said 71 percent think Mr. Obama's policies are causing the federal deficit to rise, while 54 percent said they think middle-class tax cuts are more important than additional spending on healthcare. Just one-third of likely voters (33 percent) said America is heading in the right direction.

• Dirty Secret No. 1 in Obamacare ..Dirty secret No. 1 in Obamacare is about the government's coming into homes and usurping parental rights over child care and development.

• Tampa Granny, 87, Kills Venomous Rattler With Bare Hands ...An 87-year-old Tampa woman had had it with the motherloving snakes on her motherloving porch.so when a seven-inch pygmy rattlesnake slithered up to Esther Orring's door and bit her on the hand, she got even, strangling the venomous little serpent with her bare hands.

• Heart transplant record holder dies of cancer...A heart transplant recipient who lived a record 31 years with a single donated organ has died at age 51 of cancer, his heart still going strong, his widow said.

• GOOGLE unveils 'Caffeine': new, 'faster' search engine... Web developers have been invited by Google engineers to test the new search engine and give their feedback. The front end of the engine looks no different. It is the back end technology which Google developers hope will noticeably index new content faster