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Quiet Hurricane Seasons Run Counter to
Computer Predictions...Florida
set the pace. It's by far the nation's biggest target for
hurricanes, and many other Gulf states have followed its lead in
barring near-term models. ...
Florida
State-Run Insurer Revises Plan to Verify Wind Mitigation Discounts...Florida
Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty recently said that 102 of 210
insurers in the residential market reported underwriting losses in
their ...
Bill Proctor: A serious threat to
Florida's economic
recovery... Florida
insurance regulators recently reported that 102 out of 210 private
insurers have reported losses during the second quarter of 2009, ...
The Latest AIG Story...In
Washington's original telling, the company's insurance subsidiaries,
heavily regulated by states, were safely segregated from the mess.
...
Kingsway Financial to shed Jevco
Insurance Co...TO) said it would sell its
stake in Jevco Insurance Co to Westaim Corp (WED.TO) and use
the proceeds to repay debt. Shares of both Kingsway and Westaim
...
LA's Citizens
Insurance may have violated state law in 2008, audit finds...The
Times-Picayune Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance
Corp., the state-run insurer of last resort for about 130000
policyholders, ...
Bill stating that no one can be forced to buy health
insurance advanced... care
overhaul Monday, getting a key committee's support for
legislation declaring that Virginia residents cannot be
forced to buy health insurance. ...
DNR urges Oxendine to take hunting course...Oxendine,
the state's insurance commissioner since 1995, and his
sons were hunting at the Northwest Georgia Quail
Preserve, which is co-owned by Delos Dee
Former Willis exec to lead IOA's Northeast division...Leslie
Nylund, former national partner and chief placement officer of
Willis North America, has joined rival brokerage Insurance
Office of America Inc. as president of its newly established
Northeast division in New York.
Unemployment rises across 39 US states...Joblessness
in South Carolina, Delaware, Florida, North Carolina
and the District of Columbia in December reached the highest level
in monthly records going ...
Scientist: Search for aliens should start on Earth...
Professor Paul Davies, a physicist at Arizona University will tell a
meeting at the
Royal
Society that the best way of proving that
extra-terrestrial life exists elsewhere in the universe is to use
evidence from earth.
PEW: Global warming ranks dead last as concern for Americans...As
Barack Obama begins his second year in office, the publics
priorities for the president and Congress remain much as they were
one year ago. Strengthening the nations economy and improving the
job situation continue to top the list.
CONGRESSIONAL TRIPS TO COPENHAGEN COST OVER $1,000,000...
CBS News Investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson
reports official filings and our own investigation show at least 106
people from the House and Senate attended - spouses, a doctor, a
protocol expert and even a photographer.
Democrats back off on health bill, say
there's 'no rush'...Representative
Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, the number three Democrat, told
reporters he believes the House could pass the Senate bill if
lawmakers get ...
JUSTICE ALITO MOUTHS 'NOT TRUE' TO
OBAMA...POLITICO's
Kasie Hunt, who's in the House chamber, reports that Justice
Samuel Alito mouthed the words "not true" when President Barack
Obama criticized the Supreme Court's campaign finance decision.
PAPER: SCIENTISTS IN STOLEN EMAIL
SCANDAL HID CLIMATE DATA...
The University of East
Anglia breached the Freedom of Information Act by refusing to
comply with requests for data concerning claims by its
scientists that man-made emissions were causing global warming.
THE UNKENNEDY: Obama aims to ax moon
mission...NASA's
plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead. So are the
rockets being designed to take them there that is, if
President Barack Obama gets his way.
HILLARY
SKIPS STATE OF UNION...Secretary
of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is
missing President
Barack Obama's
State of the Union address in order to attend a
conference in
London, but she is not the only absentee Cabinet member.
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