• Bernier, Bergeron insurance companies become one... the smaller but older Bergeron Insurance, located at 124 South Main St. Harvey Bernier, speaking from Florida, where he and his family are wintering, ...

• North Carolina: Loss costs to decrease nearly 10 percent in coming year ...Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin recently announced the settlement of the workers' comp rate filings from the North Carolina Rate Bureau, ...

• Teens Ignoring Driving-and-Texting Ban...But a much-cited study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that usage of cell phones for calls and texting in North Carolina actually ticked ...

• Alabama's Dunn Insurance uses sign to turn heads...Dunn said his brother-in-law who lives in Alabama saw a CNN report about damage from the 1999 tornado that showed the Dunn Insurance sign that said: "WE ...

• Pirate attacks trigger armed guard coverage... president and chief executive officer of the Ackerman Group LLC, a Miami-based security firm that works with Warren, NJ-based Chubb Group of Insurance ...

• Miami hotel moves 300 guests due to water-borne bacteria... The Miami-Dade County health department said the problem at the EPIC hotel was the bacteria Legionella pneumophila, which causes Legionnaires' disease. The hotel opened just a year ago.

Greensboro, NC Public Adjuster Arrested on Charges of Embezzlement and Larceny...Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Ashley Carrol Waddell, 39, 4610 Wending Lane, Greensboro, on felony embezzlement and larceny charges. DOI investigators allege, in 2008, Waddell, as a licensed public adjuster, took $54,835 in insurance money that was intended for her clients after the destruction of their Snow Hill home during a tornado.

• Florida Insurance Commissioner McCarty Elected to Vice President of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners...The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation today announced that Commissioner Kevin McCarty was elected to the position of vice president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The vote today at the NAIC Winter National Meeting elevates McCarty to this position with the NAIC for a one-year term.

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• Reporters catch Gore in 'embarrassing error' about Arctic ice -- Gore admits... However, the climatologist whose work Mr Gore was relying upon dropped the former Vice-President in the water with an icy blast.  “It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at,” Dr Maslowski said. “I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.”

• Sunshine, not man-made CO2, speeded 1940s Swiss glacier melt: scientists...Their study into the impact of solar radiation on Alpine glaciers made the "surprising discovery" that in the 1940s, and especially summer 1947, the ice floes lost the most ice since measurements begin 95 years ago, according to Zurich's Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ).

• Canada freezes as 'one of the worst snow storms on record' strands thousands... The main highway through the region re-opened for the first time in days, but nearly all side roads remain closed, blocked by a thick blanket of snow, in some areas chest high.More than 100,000 people have been affected by the storm, either cut off in smaller communities, or in their cottages, or stranded by the road closures.

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