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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

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• Florida Public adjuster charged in insurance scam...However, he is alleged to have pocketed the entire amount, according to a news release from the office of Florida CFO Alex Sink. Benaim faces three counts ...

• VIDEO:  MI Congressman Mike Rogers - The Best Analysis of Health Care Reform Yet...Listen to this informed and passionate legislator discuss the merits of the Obama Health Care Insurance Reform Plan...

• Obama Demonizes Insurance Companies, Banks in New York Appearance...The president is devoting more time to political work as the Democratic Party gears up for gubernatorial elections this year in New Jersey and Virginia and ...

• Florida's Citizens Proposes Property Insurance Rate Hikes, 5% to 10%...(One wonders what the increase would be if we had actually had a hurricane in the last five years...) Florida regulatory officials will hold a public hearing Nov. 10 on proposed hikes of between 5 and 10 percent in the premiums charged by Citizens Property ...

• Florida Homeowners Insurance Industry Faces Big Problem...As part of a bold risk management strategy, Nationwide Insurance Co. of Florida announced that it would not renew about 60000 Florida homeowners insurance ...

• Broker pay disclosure should be mandatory:..The Public Risk Management Assn. has made clear its position on broker compensation, calling for full and mandatory disclosure of all forms and sources of broker remuneration.

• American Integrity Insurance Provides Ready Market to Absorb X'ld  Nationwide Policies..."We understand that the climate of the insurance industry is volatile, especially in Florida. However, we are here to build lasting relationships with our ...

Supreme Court of Georgia rules no to insurance stacking in Floyd County suit...In a 5-to-2 decision, the Georgia Supreme Court has reversed a Georgia Court of Appeals ruling in an automobile insurance case from Floyd County. ...

• Recession's effects to suppress insurance rates in 2010: Report...Insurance buyers likely will enjoy another year of competitive insurance pricing throughout 2010 as the lingering impact from the economic recession will keep rates from rising until at least 2011, according to New York-based Advisen Ltd.

• Cooper Gay buys majority stake in reinsurance broker...London-based Cooper Gay (Holdings) Ltd. has acquired a majority stake in Reinsurance.com.ar L.L.C., a specialist reinsurance broker based in Miami.

• Will Obamacare Look More Like Auto Insurance?...litttle noticed in the furor over a proposed health-care overhaul is the critical question of whether legislation should move health insurance toward an incentive-based system similar to car insurance.

• Insurance mandate bad for businesses...The “pay or play” mandate — which would compel employers to either provide health insurance or pay a stiff penalty — would cripple businesses and cause many ...

• Competition and Health Insurance...Contrary to Democratic rhetoric, repealing the insurance industry's antitrust exemption won't reduce prices or profits.

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• The Seltzer Group`s Robert Seltzer Re-elected to Keystone Insurers Board...Keystone Insurers Group is located in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, and Virginia and will be moving into Tennessee in the near ...

• California Shop Owner Preparing Fight Against State Farm...Bizaca said Crozat has already filed a related lawsuit against California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner. Crozat says in his letter to the Senator ...

• Business group tells Florida insurance regulators to increase Citizens rates ...Barclays analyst likes Travelers over ChubbCHARLOTTE, NC — A Barclays Capital analyst recommended investors sell insurer Chubb Corp. ...

• Texas says no to windstorm rate increase...The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, which insures thousands of policyholders who can't find coverage in the private market, had sought a rate ...

• Officials: Don't be lulled by calm hurricane season...But price is based on the long-term risk," said Allison Dean Love, executive director of the South Carolina Insurance News Service. ...

Brown & Brown nine-month profits down...Brown & Brown Inc. reported that its net income for the first nine months ended September 2009 was $129.6 million, down about 2.2% compared with results from the first nine months of 2008.

• Reid Leads Democrats In Carving Out Favors for States on Health...“It's going to hurt the bill and raise the level of cynicism about Washington politics,” said Senator Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican. ...

• October 'sees spike in car insurance claims'...According to Virgin Money Car Insurance, claims are 25 per cent higher than average during this month. The most dangerous day for drivers, ...

• President accuses health insurers of 'monkey business' no mention of tort  reform...... in California Oct. 15 that the passage of health care reform legislation before Congress will “end some of the monkey business that these insurance ...

• No big SC storms, but risk remains...In SC, insurance premiums of $1 billion cover about $700 billion in property, including $200 billion along the coast, Love said. ...

• RASMUSSEN: Obama Ratings Sinking Again; Approval Index Nears All-Time Low... Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -13. That’s just a point above the lowest level ever recorded for this President.

• SEN. LAMAR ALEXANDER ACCUSES WHITE HOUSE OF 'ENEMIES LIST'... A top Senate Republican took to the Senate floor Wednesday morning to suggest that the Obama White House is plotting a political strategy similar to that of ex-President Richard Nixon and may be on the verge of preparing its own “enemies list.”

• Modern man a wimp says anthropologist ...Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt in modern conditions.

• Controversial Imam to Join Jesse Jackson at Muslim Group's Banquet..."Brothers and sisters, if we unite, nobody can stop us," Wahhaj said, according to material provided by Emerson. "You wouldn't have to vote for Bush or Clinton ... If we were united and strong, we'd elect our own emir and give allegiance to him. ...

• President Obama, Don't Create an Enemies List...After I had come home to Tennessee, they escalated into something more. They eventually emerged into the Nixon enemies list. In 1971 Chuck Colson, ...

• Who's afraid of the free market?...In more than 30 states, five or fewer health insurance companies control three-quarters of the market (in Alabama, one company controls 90 percent). ...

• Georgia Politics:  Is the ox in the ditch?...In the early polling among Georgia Republicans, Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine has consistently been leading in the race for governor. ...

• Washington, DC: Chicago on the Potomac and the Land of Make Believe...The president's comments are the sort of deliberate distortion and outright misstatement of fact that prompted South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson to ...

Bernard Madoff's life behind bars revealed... victims of the scam to interview Madoff about his crimes, when he visited Madoff at the Federal Butner Correctional Complex in Raleigh, North Carolina. ...

• Congress waters down credit agency bill...A U.S. House of Representatives draft bill to rein in credit rating agencies has been watered down and will no longer include a measure to remove references to the ratings in federal laws, according to documents obtained by Reuters on Tuesday.

• Deserted shopping mall bleak symbol of Fed bailout...A $29 billion trail from the Federal Reserve's bailout of Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns ends in a partially deserted shopping center on a bleak spot on the south side of Oklahoma City.

• WAL-MART fires employee for chasing after thief... Josh Rutner said he was just doing his job as a Wal-Mart "asset protection officer" earlier this month when he chased a knife-wielding theft suspect across the store parking lot.

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