Islam's European Conquest —  Is America Next?... Britain’s Muslim demographic is now so dominant that the British government recently began to allow Islamic civil and religious law, known as Sharia, to be enforced along side British law. ... More

• Doctors: Malpractice Costs the Biggest Money-Saver in Tort Reform...Lamar Smith, R-Texas. "Texas passed tort reform in 2003 and ... insurance premiums went down 30 percent. California passed tort reform and premiums went ...

• Get Ready for More Bank Failures...The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has closed 92 banks so far in 2009, after seizing 25 ailing banks last year. By contrast, during the last banking crisis ...

GA Court to Consider Malpractice Limits...Doctors and hospitals said the measure would help curb malpractice insurance rates. But trial lawyers said they put an arbitrary price on a victim's life.

• SPECIAL REPORT: Secrets of Advertising - Part 1...What do national advertisers know that you don't?  And how can you learn and use?

• Buffett's Geico Finding Limits of Internet Sales, Allstate Says...Buffett, whose Berkshire took full ownership of Geico in 1996, has touted the company's so-called direct sales as a less expensive way to sell car insurance ...

• Admiral Drives in Buffett's Wake as Car Insurer Heads for US...The division, based in Richmond, Virginia, has 28 employees and will sell insurance only in that state before expanding into one or two other states within ...

• Homeowners Insurance Rates Going Up in Alabama...The company that sells the most homeowners insurance in Alabama, State Farm, said the rate increase is needed to ensure it can pay future claims. ...

• Brown & Brown CEO Brown speaks at the '09 Barclays Capital Global Financial Services Conference  J. Powell Brown, President and CEO of Brown & Brown, Inc. (NYSE: BRO), will speak at the 2009 Barclays Capital Global Financial Services Conference at the Hilton New York in New York, New York on Wednesday, September 16, 2009. Mr. Brown is scheduled to present at 3:00 pm ET

• SC man gets $10M after health insurance rejection...By JEFFREY COLLINS AP Writer COLUMBIA, SC The South Carolina Supreme Court has upheld a multimillion judgment for a man whose health insurer rejected his ...

• S&P outlook negative on most N. American insurance sectors...Standard & Poor's Corp. on Monday said it is maintaining its negative outlook on all North American insurance sectors except reinsurance, which it said weathered the financial crisis by minimizing its investment exposures.

• Socialism Threat Has Long History for Health-Care Overhaul Foes...1 candlelight vigil in favor of the so- called public option in Sarasota, Florida, protesters showed up carrying signs depicting Obama as The Joker, ...

Greenberg praises AIG's new CEO, urges bailout restructure...“As long as the government owns 80% of the stock, it’s a nationalized company, and nobody’s going to invest, really in a nationalized company,” Mr. Greenberg said in a CNBC interview. “You have to really look at the plan they have to liquidate the company,” which the former chairman and chief executive officer said “went no place.”

• Whither The Public Option?...Take Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu, a Democrat, who said of the public option, "Many of us believe that it will undermine the private insurance system. ...

•Fact-Checking the President on Health Insurance...He asserted that 90% of the Alabama health-insurance market is controlled by one insurer, and that high market concentration "makes it easier for insurance ...

• Kanye West ruins Taylor Swift's big VMA moment...When Taylor was on stage making her acceptance speech for winning Best Female Video award, Kanye ran out onto the stage and took the microphone from her to give a shout-out to Beyonce, one of the other nominees.

• Senator Calls for 'Immediate and Thorough' Investigation of ACORN...Pressure is building for a top-to-bottom review of ACORN in the wake of undercover videos showing the organization giving questionable advice, with a top Senate Republican calling Tuesday for an "immediate and thorough" investigation of the group. 

• Patrick Swayze Dies of Pancreatic Cancer at 57...Patrick Swayze personified a particular kind of masculine grace both on and off screen, from his roles in films like "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost" to the way he carried himself in his long fight with pancreatic cancer.

•Three Strikes And You're Out, ACORN!...Videos show ACORN employees offering to help two undercover reporters/filmmakers posing as a prostitute and pimp in falsifying tax returns and getting a federal loan to buy a house that they could use as a brothel for underage prostitutes smuggled in from El Salvador.

• Microsoft Launches Visual Search for Bing... Microsoft rolled out Visual Search for Bing, its search engine, on Sept. 14. The beta feature allows users to search for information visually by clicking through image options, as opposed to typing in a search query.

• Google Leads in Search Engine Quality Test, but Bing Impresses...Google received the highest score in search engine quality in a test by uTest, while challenger Microsoft Bing received great accolades in usability and design and surprised people enough to make them switch to the new search engine, uTest said

• The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which helps poor people fight foreclosures and fix tax problems, has received more than $53 million in U.S. funds since 1994, but conservatives' charges of widespread fraud have begun to impact its reputation in the capital.

• POLITICO: So far, Obama's failing miserably...Then, Step 2. Obama is trying to fundamentally alter the American economy by backing sweeping environmental, labor and health care legislation. He wants to change the way Americans consume energy, unionize and see their doctors.

• Election trouble brewing for Dems? ...Despite sweeping Democratic successes in the past two national elections, continuing job losses and President Barack Obama's slipping support could lead to double-digit losses for the party in next year's congressional races and may even threaten their House control.

• NYPD looking through Queens neighborhoods for powders, gels, TNT and fuses...Federal agents walked out of homes with bags and boxes of evidence after raiding several locations on Monday.

Heartbreak 'increases heart attack risk'... People mourning the loss of a loved one are six times more likely to suffer cardiac arrest, potential proof that you can indeed die of a broken heart, Australian researchers said Tuesday.

• Facebook fights Virginia's demand for user data, photos...In principle, this isn't a novel concept: employers and insurance companies have long used private investigators to ferret out fraud and show that someone ...