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		<title>Insuring Golden Gate’s Legacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 21:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 75th anniversary of the construction of the iconic Golden Gate Bridge’s will be celebrated on Sunday, and InsuranceJournal.com has a photographer on scene to capture images of the celebration and the majestic span. IJ.com will be publishing those images &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf Fishermen Reel From Seafood Troubles</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 16:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gloom infects the hard-working shrimp and crab docks of this gritty fishing town as the second full year of fishing since BP&#8217;s catastrophic oil spill kicks into high gear. Usually folks are upbeat and busy in May, when shrimpers get &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>$18.5M Settlement for &#8216;Transformers 3&#8242; Injury in Indiana</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 16:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The family of a woman left with brain damage after an accident during the filming of “Transformers 3” in Indiana has reached an $18.5 million settlement with Paramount Pictures. Gabriela Cedillo was working as an extra in 2010 when she &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Panel to Hear Illinois Trooper&#8217;s Workers&#8217; Comp Appeal</title>
		<link>http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2012/05/25/249010.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 16:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A former Illinois State Police trooper whose high-speed crash killed two sisters is asking again for workers&#8217; compensation benefits for injuries he received in the wreck. The Belleville News-Democrat reported the Illinois Workers&#8217; Compensation Commissioners would hear an appeal from &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The Next New Thing: Coverage Issues from Fracking Claims</title>
		<link>http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2012/05/25/249006.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 16:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every few years it seems that there are predictions a new type of claim that threatens to engulf carriers. In the 1980s and 1990s it was environmental clean up claims and SuperFund, followed shortly by asbestos, the fear of Y2K &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Wyoming Pushes Workplace Safety With New Hire</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 16:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead announced Wednesday the state is hiring a veteran public health official from New Mexico to continue the push to reduce Wyoming&#8217;s workplace fatality rate. Dr. C. Mack Sewell, who has served as New Mexico&#8217;s state epidemiologist &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>$650K Settlement Reached Over 2009 Minnesota Train Crash</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 16:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Union Pacific Railroad and the family of a man killed in a Blue Earth County train crash have reached a legal settlement. Attorneys say Union Pacific has agreed to pay $650,000 to the family of Todd Ziegler. He and another &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Former UCLA Player Nelson Sues SI For $10 Million</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 16:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former UCLA player Reeves Nelson is suing Sports Illustrated for $10 million, citing defamation, false light and intentional infliction of emotional distress over its recent article about problems in the school&#8217;s basketball program. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Superior Court &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Ohio Legislators Consider New Drilling Rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 16:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rules regulating oil and gas well construction, water handling, and the disclosure of chemicals used in drilling were ready to clear their final legislative hurdles on May 24 and head to Gov. John Kasich. The Ohio House was scheduled to &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona Towns At Risk As Wildfires Hit Southwest</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 16:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Arizona wildfire threatened two more towns on Friday, with high winds on the way, as firefighters made progress against the largest of several fires spreading across the U.S. Southwest. More than 1,000 firefighters in Arizona and Colorado were battling &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Willis Publishes D&amp;O Dictionary to Help Navigate Executive Risk Liabiltiy Landscape</title>
		<link>http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2012/05/25/248979.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 16:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Willis North America, a unit of Willis Group Holdings, has published its Directors and Officers Liability (D&#38;O) Insurance Dictionary, offering firms an overview of terms that are likely to be used in describing their D&#38;O insurance and liability exposures. This &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>ACE USA Enhances International Casualty Coverage</title>
		<link>http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2012/05/25/248966.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 16:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operations of the ACE Group, has enhanced its international casualty coverage, ACE ATLAS CMP. The coverage is specifically designed to provide coverage for U.S.-based multinational organizations with complex exposures in targeted industries, including construction, energy, &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Bexar County, Texas, Gets Special Insurance Fraud Prosecutor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 16:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has expanded its fight against insurance fraud into San Antonio. TDI Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman has announced the placement of a special insurance fraud prosecutor and investigator who have joined the Bexar County District Attorney’s &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Mom of Massachusetts Man Shot in Harvard Dorm Sues University</title>
		<link>http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2012/05/25/248958.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 15:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mother of a Massachusetts man fatally shot inside a Harvard University dormitory during a drug-related robbery has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Ivy League school. Denise Cosby says in her suit filed in Middlesex Superior Court that &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>New Fund Created to Help Displaced Vermont Mobile-Home Owners</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 15:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Glenn French and his wife lost their mobile home and much of its contents when floodwaters from Tropical Storm Irene ripped through Weston&#8217;s Mobile Home park in Berlin. They were lucky enough to find another trailer, a doublewide, not too &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia&#8217;s Sales-Tax Holiday on Hurricane-Prep Items Begins Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 15:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virginia residents can prepare for the upcoming hurricane season and save money at the same time. The Virginia Department of Taxation says the state&#8217;s sales-tax holiday on emergency items such as batteries, flashlights, tarps and first-aid kits runs from today, &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>FEMA OKs Additional $5.5M for Buying Flood-Prone Properties in Penn.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 15:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Thursday approved more than $5.5 million in additional federal funding for property acquisitions in Pennsylvania that will permanently remove flood-prone properties from harm&#8217;s way. Additional projects continue to be approved as the application process &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Dann Joins Miller Insurance Services</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 15:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miller Insurance Services LLP, a specialist insurance and reinsurance broker, operating internationally and at Lloyd&#8217;s,  has hired Warren Dann to develop Miller&#8217;s sector targeting strategy. He will work to grow the company&#8217;s portfolio of FTSE100/250 and top 500 UK private &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>11 States Adopt Plan to Distribute Surplus Lines Premium Taxes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 15:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[States participating in the Non-admitted Insurance Multi-state Agreement, or NIMA, have adopted a premium allocation method for distributing surplus lines premium taxes on casualty insurance. The adopted method aims to streamlines the allocation and distribution process of surplus lines premium &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Mediation Fails, West Virginia Slurry Pollution Case Going to Trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 13:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mediation has failed to settle a lawsuit by hundreds of Boone County residents who blame coal companies for contaminating their water supplies. Attorney Roger Decanio said this week that the case against Massey Energy and four subsidiaries is headed for &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Court Upholds Mississippi Man&#8217;s 37-Month Sentence for Insurance Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 13:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A federal appeals court has upheld the 37-month sentence handed to a Mississippi man convicted of defrauding a Memphis insurance company. The Commercial Appeals reported that a three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Memphis upheld &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>South Carolina Weighs Sprinkler Mandate for New Homes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 13:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The debate over whether all new homes should have fire sprinklers is heating up in South Carolina. The South Carolina Building Code Council is considering whether to adopt the International Residential Code requiring sprinklers in all new homes. The National &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>180 Countries Agree on New Climate Treaty Agenda</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 13:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 180 countries agreed on an agenda for work on a new climate treaty by 2015 at United Nations climate talks on Friday, breaking a week-long deadlock over procedure. &#8220;(The work plan) was not an easy issue to agree &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Bud Moving to Mexico&#8217;s Coast</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 13:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A tropical storm warning has been issued for the west coast of Mexico as Hurricane Bud gains strength in the Pacific. The warning was in effect early Thursday for Mexico&#8217;s Pacific coast from Punto Telmo to Cabo Corrientes. A hurricane &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Insurers Have Capacity to Provide 2012 Hurricane Coverage: Fitch</title>
		<link>http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2012/05/25/248917.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 12:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sufficient capacity remains available in the insurance and reinsurance markets to meet the demand for coverage prior to the approaching U.S. hurricane season, according to Fitch Ratings. Early forecasts for the 2012 U.S. hurricane season are that the North Atlantic &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Approves 60-Day Flood Program Extension; Will House Agree?</title>
		<link>http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2012/05/25/248906.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 12:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate agreed yesterday in a unanimous consent to extend the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) for 60-days past its current expiration date of May 31. Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 402 to 18 on a separate &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Why &#8216;Project Bonds&#8217; Are a Good Idea: Wynn</title>
		<link>http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2012/05/25/248903.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 12:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[European Union backing for extra infrastructure finance may sound like a deliberate distraction from deadlock over much bigger euro bonds, but in fact it is a great idea &#8211; the trouble is the tiny sums involved and lack of detail. &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>CPCU Society Forms India Chapter</title>
		<link>http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2012/05/25/248900.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 10:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CPCU Society has  approved the formation of an India CPCU Society Chapter. The India CPCU Society Chapter is the fifth international CPCU Society Chapter in addition to Bermuda, Europe, Japan and South Korea. The CPCU Society now has two &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Market Makers&#8217; Claims Against Nasdaq Likely to Top $100 Million</title>
		<link>http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2012/05/25/248896.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 10:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Claims by four of Wall Street&#8217;s main market makers against Nasdaq over Facebook&#8217;s botched IPO are likely to exceed $100 million, as they and other traders continue to deal with thousands of problems with customer orders. A technical glitch delayed &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>NOAA Forecasts &#8216;Near Normal&#8217; 4 to 8 Atlantic Hurricanes in 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2012/05/25/248893.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 10:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2012 Atlantic hurricane season will be &#8220;near normal&#8221; with nine to 15 tropical storms and four to eight of those will strengthen into hurricanes, the U.S. government weather agency predicted on Thursday. One to three of those will grow &#8230;]]></description>
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