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• Congressional Democrats Insurance Witch-hunt: want CEO pay data, other info...Democrats in Congress are investigating the private health insurance industry, requesting data on CEO salaries and bonuses, profit margins, ...

• State Farm's exit leaves Florida insurers and state scrambling...Florida Insurance "Commissioner [Kevin] McCarty has said there is an appetite in the private market for this business," said Tom Zutell, deputy director of ...

• Insuror: India to Avoid Stock Drop as Growth Leapfrogs China...Indian stocks will avoid a sell-off that drove China into a bear market yesterday as the South Asian nation is poised to topple its neighbor as the world’s fastest growing economy, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Co. said.

• New AIG CEO says expects to repay taxpayers: Report...Robert Benmosche, the newly appointed chief executive officer of American International Group Inc., says he expects the bailed-out insurer to be able to repay its federal debts and boost value for shareholders, according to a report by Bloomberg News.

• The witch hunt intensifies - Beware insurance companies...Insurance companies must be at fault for paying exorbitant salaries and bonuses to their employees. No matter what, Congress needs an enemy in order to ...

• Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance may raise rates next year...... renters, and businesses insured by Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. may see their rates increase by 9.2 percent to 9.5 percent May 1, ...

•Sorry Al - But Drop in world temperatures fuels global warming debate...Has Earth's fever broken? Official government measurements show that the world's temperature has cooled a bit since reaching its most recent peak in 1998

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• Benmosche Tells AIG Workers He'll Rebuild Units Before Sales...“It's not your fault, it's their fault, it's the regulators' fault.” The Office of Thrift Supervision “fell short” in its oversight of AIG's derivatives, ...

• Insurance Golfers: Birthplace of US Golf in West Virginia For Sale...Lewis Keller, the owner of West Virginia's Oakhurst Links, says that after 50 years, it's time for someone else to oversee the nine-hole course that held ...

• Former Insurance Executive Sells Out Insurance Companies in Healthcare ...Wendell Potter, the former head of communications for health insurance giant Cigna, understands why many people across the country are showing up to town ...

• Cambell, GA  Insurance Agency Celebrates 20 Years in Business Campbell Insurance Services, a full service independent insurance agency with 2 offices; North Georgia and Middle ...

• CNN Truth Squad?  Will reform plan mandate prices for doctors ...Cindy of Covington, Georgia, asked CNN: "Why doesn't the government make mandatory prices for doctors and their services? That is the problem! ...

• Bait and switch healthcare – the Trojan Horse strategy....Governor Perdue is requiring furloughs for teachers in Georgia. How would you like for your insurance company to be forced to provide abortions to those ...

• Analysis: Liberals tired of health care compromise... that could leave them with nothing more than watered-down insurance cooperatives. But the Senate's second-ranking Republican, Jon Kyl of Arizona, ...

Brooke Corp: Judge dismisses environmental suit over Army's plan to incinerate ...Judge dismisses suit against bankrupt Brooke Corp.KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit accusing bankrupt Brooke Corp. Chemical leak at Massachusetts disposal company knocks out 6, ...

• Insurance giant adds hundreds of jobs... Insurance giant GEICO is expanding in western New York and adding hundreds of jobs. GEICO is looking for three hundred more highly ...

• Texans Are Most Likely to Be Uninsured, Gallup Says, But Don't ...In fact, numerous studies, including ones by the Texas Department of Insurance, indicate that roughly 80% of those the Gallup organization or the Census ...

• We need a serious debate about health care...By John Oxendine | Guest Columnist Our politicians in Washington, DC, are making momentous decisions about your health care that will impact your daily ...

• Novus ordered to stop selling surplus lines insurance in Michigan...LANSING, Mich.—The Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation has ordered surplus lines insurer Novus Centuriae Inc. and its managing general agency Core States Management Inc. to cease and desist selling insurance in the state.

Health insurance costs up by 97 percent since 2000, says study...Health insurance premiums for working families in North Carolina increased by nearly 97 percent from 2000 to 2009 while median earnings increased by only ...

• It's Time to Give Up On the Public Option...You simply could not offer a competitive insurance product in Northern Virginia, for example, if Inova's Fairfax Hospital weren't in your network. ...

 Michigan Insurers Balk As House Democrats Advance 'Bad Faith ....Kuhnmuench said that West Virginia repealed its third-party bad faith law after it found it was driving up the cost of insurance for its residents. ...

• Romney: Obama bowing to liberals on health care...Case in point, when Senator Kennedy needed special care, he went to North Carolina. Of course, he delegated the biggest piece of legislation in our lives to

• Palin vs. Obama: What new polling suggests if they were to face ...other possible GOP contenders mentioned in the polling were former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich who received 10%, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal with ...

• Without public option, Obama-care will flat line...To quote former Virginia Gov. Howard Dean, "You don't have reform without a public option." Apparently, Obama feels this is the only way he will gain ...

• Key Risk Insurance Named 4th in Best Employers in North Carolina Survey...Key Risk, a leading provider of workers' compensation insurance products and services for employers throughout the Eastern ...

• Indiana investment advisor  gets 4 years for crashing plane, trying to fake death...While over Alabama, he contacted air traffic controllers, saying that the windshield had imploded and that he was injured and bleeding profusely. ...

• Still too much risk in the North Carolina  Beach Plan...Insurance is expensive in coastal areas of North Carolina because the risk wind damage from storms is high. But the premiums insurance companies charge

• British Steam Car Closes In On A World Record...... come out in the noonday sun, especially at Edward's Air Force Base, the home of so many speed records that even Chuck Yeager can't remember them all. ...

• Far-left loon Michael Moore: Congressional Dems 'a bunch of losers -- weak, scared, stupid'...Since bursting onto the documentary scene 20 years ago with "Roger & Me," a blistering critique of General Motors, Michael Moore has directed the highest-grossing documentary of all time (2004's "Fahrenheit 9/11") and become a professional populist provocateur.

• PAPER: Canadians visit U.S. to get care; Many go to Michigan hospitals...Hospitals in border cities, including Detroit, are forging lucrative arrangements with Canadian health agencies to provide care not widely available across the border.

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