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Banking & Financial Services:Insurance headlines from the week of November 13, 2006
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- Walter Industries estimates up to $15 million loss from Katrina
- Lowry dorm opened to survivors
- First Acceptance says Katrina losses will be small
- Electricity restored at Littlefield's Mobile bingo hall
- Govt. waives employee verification for hurricane victims
- Guilty plea in 'Ponzi-type' scheme
- California offers help to Louisiana jobless
- Katrina misses museum, artifacts safe
- City officials: Evacuees receive no immediate cash from FEMA
- More businesses join hurricane relief efforts
- 49ers seek to protect QB -- and the team
- Surprise at L&I rate increase
- Legg, insurer settle dispute over fraud losses
- Business interruption insures operations
- Watchdogs track health of insurers
- Storms, lost bags, the flu all reasons to insure travel
- Workers' comp: rates to stay low but insurers may stay away
- Insurance shopping on the Web
- St. Louis man indicted for home-repair scams
- Triad Guaranty names new CEO
- Gateway launches financing program
- Katrina to cost 21st Century $1.9M in Florida
- BB&T consolidates Greensboro insurance agencies
- Judge rules in favor of Falls library
- Capital Title's Shaw pleads guilty to fraud charges
- Relief centers say 'no more' to toys and clothes
- Harris County receives federal grant for forensic services
- Equity firm to buy majority of local insurer
- SEC fines Raymond James $6.9 million
- Mississippi sues Nationwide, others, over hurricane claims
- Jury: Wittig must forfeit mansion, benefits
- Local flood abatement efforts lacking
- Insurers weather Katrina
- Insurers lower property/casualty prices in bid to grow business
- Choices grow for planning estate needs
- Title insurance -- Think of it as a horse of a different color
- Katrina, Allison highlight Houstonians' need for flood insurance
- CompuDyne in deal to buy software maker Xanalys
- Weiss Ratings: Insurers' profits up, but rates may follow
- Civitas looks to sell Ky. stake
- Austin is hurricane central for Progressive
- Bogus auto bonds sold in Kentucky
- St. Paul Travelers lost $800M in Katrina
- Hicks Muse Tate & Furst to buy insurance brokerage firm
- New jobless claims: 987
- AAA plans service-call center
- Not a Standard story
- New owners begin turnaround at Standard Life Insurance
- Sharing genetic information has effect on private insurers
- N.C. ranks fifth-lowest in auto-insurance rates
- CNA readies for Rita insurance claims
- Katrina costs Phila.-area insurer $5.1M
- N.C. auto insurance rate hearing starts Monday
- Richardson: Make State Treasurer an appointed post
- Donegal signs deal to offer policies to Shelby Insurance holders
- Texas AG warns businesses against exploiting Hurricane Rita victims
- Cornerstone partners with MedLink to create Indiana firm
- Car buyers warned of flood-damaged vehicles
- Tiara association votes to borrow more money
- Insurance settlement to cover losses at machine repair firm
- Missouri AG sues St. Louis-area clock repairman
- Settlement reached in AIK Comp case
- Wausau Insurance names president
- IRS warns consumers of hurricane scams
- Former owners of Buddy's Carpet face tax charges
- Insurer completes purchase of Rocklin firm
- Gallagher's warning: cars could have been flooded
- Jefferson-Pilot anticipates more jobs in Greensboro
- State Auto warns of storm losses
- Decker College campuses searched by federal agents
- Earnings increase 15.6 percent for Brown & Brown
- Insurance veteran joins FIC's board
- Insurance superintendent promotes anti-fraud legislation
- Inc. 500 list includes 3 from WNY
- Rita costs Philadelphia Consolidated $3.3M
- Torchmark reports Q3 results, says its chairman to retire
- Insurer Allmerica reckons its Katrina losses to reach $485M
- Humana expands distribution of its Medicare products
- Ashland reports $93M in 4Q income
- SeaBright doubles profit in Q3
- Marsh cleans its house
- Argonaut Group raises additional $5.6 million in stock sale
- Northwestern Mutual dividend hits $4.27 billion
- Allmerica to change name to Hanover Insurance Group
- Wilma reaction: State opens bridge loan program
- CSC gets deal from FEMA
- Hurricanes do major damage to James River Group earnings
- New board member joins HearUSA
- Sentence, guilty pleas in fraudulent business case
- Harleysville Group bounces back
- Garamendi, insurance brokers bury hatchet
- Jockeys face more insurance problems
- Buying business coverage changes -- for better
- Johnson Financial plans acquisitions in state
- Small Smithfield insurer among worst in nation
- HCC reorganizes international operations
- Henderson Bros. buys another insurance broker
- 'Big I' leader to step down
- Bancinsurance late on third-quarter statement
- New jobless claims: 849
