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Sun, 11 May 2008 20:17:49 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/img/insurance-journal-property-casualty-magazine-logo_88x31.gif http://www.insurancejournal.com 88 31 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2008/05/12/89902.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2008/05/12/89902.htm An Alabama official estimates the state needs between $100 million to $110 million - double its allocated federal aid - to address persistent housing needs in 22 counties declared disaster areas from Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2008/05/12/89903.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2008/05/12/89903.htm Three businesses sued on Friday, May 9th to halt a state fee increase for obtaining driver's license and vehicle records, claiming the higher fee violates Missouri's open-records law as well the state Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2008/05/12/89897.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2008/05/12/89897.htm A shareholder of FedEx Corp filed a lawsuit against the package delivery company's board last Thursday alleging the directors exposed the company to damages by misclassifying employees as contractors. Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2008/05/12/89906.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2008/05/12/89906.htm The Montana State Fund is cutting workers' compensation insurance rates by an average of 3 percent next year, the agency's board said. This is the second year in a row the State Fund, a semiprivate Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2008/05/12/89901.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2008/05/12/89901.htm With the Mississippi River receding at quick pace, officials opened the Steele Bayou flood control gates in Vicksburg May 8. That means water should also start receding from the 344,000 acres of f Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2008/05/12/89900.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2008/05/12/89900.htm A man who was seriously burned when an Anderson County, Tenn. oil well exploded as he was driving past is suing the company and its owner for $4.5 million, claiming negligence. The well near Olive Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2008/05/12/89899.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2008/05/12/89899.htm A federal draft report on the mistakes made in the fire at a Charleston, S.C. furniture store that led to the deaths of nine firefighters has renewed calls for the city's fire chief to step down. But Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2008/05/12/89898.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2008/05/12/89898.htm Workers' compensation costs per claim in Florida appear to have decreased in 2004 in the wake of reforms enacted in 2003, but the decrease did not continue in 2005, according to a new study by the Wor Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2008/05/12/89904.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2008/05/12/89904.htm A group of Ohio employers who say their businesses are being crushed by injured-worker insurance rates that the state modified last year has asked the state's watchdog to take another look at the prog Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2008/05/12/89867.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2008/05/12/89867.htm Reed Smith has named Christina Shea of counsel for its international insurance recovery practice in San Francisco. Shea's practice focuses on insurance covera Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2008/05/09/89896.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2008/05/09/89896.htm The Starr Foundation, controlled by former American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, has sued the insurer, claiming it misrepresented its exposure to credit default s Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2008/05/09/89887.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2008/05/09/89887.htm A trade group for New York insurance agents wants to rewrite the laws governing the New York State Insurance Fund - a nonprofit state agency which is New York's largest workers' compensation insurer - Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2008/05/09/89875.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2008/05/09/89875.htm Myanmar's (Burma's) isolationist military regime gave the go-ahead for the first major airlift of international aid into the country Thursday, while dragging its feet on urgently requested visas by fo Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2008/05/09/89889.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2008/05/09/89889.htm Severe weather and tornadoes moved through several North Mississippi counties on May 8 causing damage to property and infrastructure. The state emergency operations center in Pearl, Miss. posted i Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2008/05/09/89861.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2008/05/09/89861.htm The Mississippi Supreme Court is rescheduling cases after the new Gartin Justice Building was flooded on all four floors. The building houses the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, among others. Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500