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Sen. Smith unveils ‘comprehensive plan’ to fix Florida’s insurance woes

Unless the state adopts a comprehensive and workable plan, accumulating financial stress could destroy the viability of the Florida insurance market and leave millions of Floridians without affordable and reliable insurance coverage, according to Sen. Rod Smith, of Alachua, Fla, …

Sen. Smith Unveils ‘Comprehensive Plan’ to Fix Florida’s Insurance Woes

Without a real, comprehensive and workable plan, accumulating financial stress could destroy the viability of the Florida’s insurance market and leave millions of Floridians without affordable and reliable insurance coverage, according to Sen. Rod Smith, of Alachua, Fla. The candidate …

Supreme Court to Hear States’ Case Against EPA Over Climate Change

Running for president, George W. Bush said he was ready to regulate carbon dioxide. But in early 2001, shortly after taking office, he changed his mind. It would be too expensive to force reductions of the leading heat-trapping “greenhouse gas” …

Closer Look: Insurance Associations

Editor’s note: This is the second article in a series on Western insurance associations. Part I of this article appeared in the April 3, 2006, western region publication beginning on page 47. As people migrate to the West, insurers’ must …

Western Insurance Associations: How the West is run

Editor’s note: This is the second article in a series on Western insurance associations. Part I of this article appeared in the April 3, 2006, western region publication beginning on page 47. As people migrate to the West, insurers’ must …

Tax Help Available for California Storm and Flood Victims

President George W. Bush has declared several areas in Northern California a Federal Disaster Area, following the devastating storms, flooding, and mudslides that occurred in several counties last December and in January 2006. Stricken residents and business owners in Contra …

Insurance customers would benefit from updated insurance

Inarguably, the current state-based insurance regulatory system is a dysfunctional relic that has stifled property/casualty product creativity for years. This patchwork regulatory system is filled with wasteful inefficiency that is costly to individual states, insurance companies and consumers. It is …

Insurance Customers Would Benefit From Updated Insurance

Inarguably, the current state-based insurance regulatory system is a dysfunctional relic that has stifled property/casualty product creativity for years. This patchwork regulatory system is filled with wasteful inefficiency that is costly to individual states, insurance companies and consumers. It is …

Ohio Owed $13.5 M in Scandal Connected to Injured Workers’ Fund

The state is owed $13.5 million that allegedly was spent illegally as part of Ohio’s ill-fated investment in rare coins that shook up the state’s Republican leadership, the state auditor said in a report released Wednesday. The audit alleges that …

Congress Backs Further Flood Insurance Borrowing; Sends Bill to Bush

As the fallout of the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina continues in Washington, D.C. this week during Senate Committee hearings, the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved and sent to President George W. Bush a bill to increase the …