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		<title>Hanover Posts $49M Q4 Profit; Pricing Improved in Commercial Lines</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hanover Insurance Group, based in Worcester, Mass., reported $49.3 million for its 2011 fourth-quarter net income, down 15.6 percent from one year ago when the insurer posted $58.4 million profit. For the 2011 full year, Hanover posted net income &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Conn. Governor Proposes Boosting Storm Preparedness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy&#8217;s revised $20 billion budget funds several recommendations from a panel that examined the response to the remnants of Hurricane Irene and the freak October snow storm. The plan unveiled Wednesday adds $2 million to the &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>City of Erie, Penn., to Pay $207K in Firefighter&#8217;s Firing Lawsuit</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The city of Erie will pay nearly $207,000 to a firefighter who was wrongly dismissed following a 2006 suicide attempt in which she set clothes on fire in a bathtub. U.S. District Judge Sean McLaughlin tallied the award a day &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia Bill to Ban Unauthorized GPS Tracking Advances</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem encountered by Del. Joe May&#8217;s constituent seemed simple enough to solve. The citizen had taken his car in for service and was shocked when the mechanic found a GPS device attached to the undercarriage. The car owner learned &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>N.Y. Financial Services Deputy Superintendent Wrynn to Join Law Firm</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York State Financial Services Department&#8217;s deputy superintendent James Wrynn will leave his post to join a law firm early next month. Wrynn will become a senior partner at Goldberg Segalla L.L.P. for its global insurance services practice group, beginning &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>MF Global Judge to Examine Insurance Payments for Former Executives</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Stempel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. judge overseeing MF Global&#8217;s bankruptcy plans a closer review before deciding whether any of an estimated $190 million of insurance coverage for former company executives should instead go to customers. Opponents of the plan to cover former executives, &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Vermont Would Allow &#8216;Bronze Plan&#8217; to Encourage Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin and legislative leaders said this week they wanted to make it possible for more of the state&#8217;s small businesses to offer lower premium health insurance plans sometimes known as &#8220;bronze plans&#8221; until the state can implement &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>90 D.C. Workers Face Firing for Unemployment Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 90 District of Columbia workers have been suspended and may be fired after officials determined they received unemployment checks while holding city jobs. The Washington Post reported this week that another 60 former D.C. workers have cashed unemployment checks &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Pennsylvania Woman Gets Probation for Fake Cancer Claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Pennsylvania woman who submitted nearly $100,000 worth of fake cancer treatment insurance claims for herself and her husband must repay the money while she serves nearly nine years on probation. The Observer-Reporter of Washington, Penn., says 52-year-old Deborah Brown, &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>New York Presses Citi Unit on Force-Placed Insurance Probe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York regulators urged Citigroup Inc.&#8217;s mortgage unit on Wednesday to stop resisting and comply with a subpoena related to an investigation of the force-placed insurance industry. In January, the New York Department of Financial Services issued subpoenas to roughly &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>First &#8216;Epic&#8217; Vermont Flood Brought Change; Will Irene?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twice in less than a century, Waterbury&#8217;s 1827 Congregational Church, at the crest of a small rise on Main Street, has played a critical role in helping the community escape the ravages of the rising Winooski River and recover after &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>NYC Judge Throws Out Beer Pong Lawsuit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A judge has thrown out a New Jersey man&#8217;s lawsuit against a Greenwich Village pub over injuries he suffered following a beer pong game. The judge found Alan Berger voluntarily signed up for the beer-drinking game and couldn&#8217;t sue Wicked &#8230;]]></description>
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