It Figures

February 24, 2008

27,000

The number of Florida homeowners’ policies The Hartford Group will non-renew beginning in August. Tom Johnston, senior vice president and chief actuary, said it is a capacity management issue and profitability in Florida is not foreseeable over an extended period of time.

$40 Million

The amount of monetary damage caused by tornadoes that tore through Jackson Tennessee’s Union University on Feb. 5, according to University President David Dockery. He said 40 percent of the dorms were devastated, and three academic buildings received major damage.

$328,500

The fine proposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration or Tuscaloosa, Ala.-based Gilco Contracting Inc. The company exposed workers to serious and repeated safety hazards at two job sites in Lakeview and another in Northport, federal labor officials alleged.

4,000

The degrees Fahrenheit that thick masses of smoldering molten sugar reached after a five-day-old sugar-refinery fire erupted at the Imperial sugar plant in Port Wentworth, Ga., on Feb. 7.

$6.8 Million

The limit on the chest hair policy that singer Tom Jones denies ever buying from Lloyd’s of London, as reported by the Daily Mirror.

$1 Million

The amount Republican Mike Chaney said he spent to win the Mississippi insurance commissioner’s race in 2007.

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