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Statement by
GA Ins Commissioner John Oxendine
on Passage of Healthcare Bill...I
am very disappointed that the House decided to pass a bill that was
overwhelmingly rejected by the American people. ...
Obama signs health care reform
measure...President
Barack Obama on Tuesday signed the sweeping health care reform
legislation that was passed by the House of Representatives on
Sunday night.
Aon wins court fight over former exec's deferred pay...Aon
Corp. rightfully denied compensation benefits to a former executive
who left the Chicago-based brokerage for a competitor and violated
the noncompete provision in Aons deferred compensation plan for
highly paid executives, a federal court judge has ruled.
Noneconomic damages cap
unconstitutional: Court...The
Georgia Supreme Court has declared that caps on noneconomic damages
in medical malpractice cases are unconstitutional.
Legal Challenges Await Health Care Bill...South
Carolina attorney general Henry McMaster also plans to sue the
federal government. He joins us on the phone.
Pay czar cuts compensation at AIG,
others...The Obama
administration's pay czar Tuesday slashed pay again at five U.S.
firms that still depend on a government lifeline, but boasted that
the clampdowns are not sending talented workers fleeing for the
exits.
Fourteen US states file lawsuit against
health reform......
the new legislation requiring most people to buy health insurance or
else pay a fine. The lawsuit filed in a Florida federal court also
calls the reform ...
Supreme Court refuses Assurant's appeal
of $10 million award in HIV case..In
2004, a jury in South Carolina ordered Assurant Health to pay
Mitchell $15 million for wrongly canceling his policy. Last year,
the South Carolina ...
Montgomery
Insurance expands
commercial lines in Florida...Montgomery
Insurance is headquartered in Charlotte, NC, and also operates
in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina
and Tennessee. ...
Supreme Court refuses Assurant's appeal
of $10 million award in HIV case...In
2004, a jury in South Carolina ordered Assurant Health to pay
Mitchell $15 million for wrongly canceling his policy. Last year,
the South Carolina ...
Hartford wraps debt, equity offerings to
repay TARP...Hartford
Financial Services Group said Tuesday that it has completed equity
and debt offerings in its plan to repurchase $3.4 billion of its
preferred shares that were issued to the U.S. Treasury Department
under the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
States Sue Over Overhaul That Will Bust
State Budgets...Florida,
Texas and Pennsylvania are among 13 states that filed suit after the
president signed the bill over the constitutionality of the burden
imposed by ...
Report:
N.C. auto
insurance eighth-lowest in price...North
Carolina drivers pay an average of $591.11 each year for auto
insurance, the eighth-lowest rate in the country and the lowest in
the South. ...
Tennessee
officials may sue over health reform......
last month instructing Cooper to file a legal challenge if the
government penalized any Tennessee resident for failing to buy
health insurance. ...
Car-glass chain owner guilty of
insurance scam...The
FBI began an investigation in 2005 when an employee of a Glass
Masters shop in Tennessee came forward with paperwork showing 10
examples of billing ...
Financial services reform advances
in Senate...The Risk &
Insurance Management Society Inc. on Tuesday praised the
financial services regulatory reform bill approved by the Senate
Banking Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.
Former
Louisiana Citizens executive pleads
guilty to theft charge...Lisotta
admitted to using money from Citizens, a property insurer; the
Louisiana Automobile Insurance Program, a state program for
high-risk drivers; ...
Health care bill will alter small
business landscape...But
employers in Inland Southern California seem already worried about
the law that sets up new insurance "marketplaces," where people who
work at small ...
Explosive New Book Charges Obama Invites
Attack on U.S....Just
before dawn on March 1, 2003, two dozen heavily armed Pakistani
tactical assault forces move in and surround a safe house in
Rawalpindi. A few hours earlier they had received a text message
from an informant inside the house. It read: I am with KSM.
Save Earth, Eat Less Meat? ... or Not...Scientist
says U.N. report on link between global warming and cattle farming
was based on inaccurate figures
Biden F-Bomb on Par With Party
Atmosphere? |
VIDEO - Classless
Gaff Machine Joe Biden does it again - dropping level of decorum to
record low. This is our Vice-President...
The 34 Dems Who Voted No on Health Care...They
are: Jason Altmire of Pennsylvania, John Barrow of Georgia, Rick
Boucher of Virginia, Ben Chandler of Kentucky, Larry Kissell of
North Carolina, ...
SNOOP: Airport device follows fliers'
phones...
Today's smartphones and PDAs could have
a new use in the nation's airports: helping passengers avoid long
lines at security checkpoints
Paris scraps carbon tax plan...The
French government on Wednesday said it would abandon its plan to
introduce a carbon tax on domestic energy and road fuels unless
there was agreement for a European Union-wide levy.
UPDATE: ACORN disbanding because of
money woes, scandal...
The once mighty community
activist group ACORN announced Monday it is folding amid falling
revenues - six months after video footage emerged showing some of
its workers giving tax tips to conservative activists posing as a
pimp and prostitute.
Zoo investigates dismembered
giraffe...
A beloved Rio Grande Zoo giraffe was
dismembered and placed in a trash bin following its death, and
an outraged mayor of Albuquerque has ordered an investigation
into it.
Venezuela arrests Chavez critic for
'conspiracy'...The
detention of Oswaldo Alvarez Paz, a veteran with the opposition
COPEI party but not one of Chavez's most prominent foes, will fuel
criticism that the Venezuelan leader is taking his nation down an
increasingly dictatorial route.
Obama Health Overhaul: Tanning Tax
Starts Today...Indoor tanning
salons will charge customers a 10% tax beginning today in just one
of the changes Americans will see as a result of the massively
unpopular Obama U.S. Health-Car overhaul...
Taxpayers are Santa Claus: Uninsured on
ObamaCare: Its Gonna Be Like Christmas
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