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Coloradoans Waited in Dark to Vote, With Democrats Prevailing
Nov 9 2006 // Hundreds if not thousands of people in the Denver area waited to vote Tuesday night after polls were officially closed, a miserable end to a day fraught with balky computers and unfamiliar new voting machines handling the...
Democratic Congress Not Necessarily Bad for Industry, Says PIA
Nov 9 2006 // The new Congress will alter the insurance agenda on Capitol Hill, but losses for the industry are not a foregone conclusion. That’s the after-the-election take by the National Association of Professional Insurance...
Beebe wins as Democrats Sweep Statewide Offices in Arkansas
Nov 9 2006 // After Democrats claimed all seven constitutional offices in Arkansas with decisive victories, Gov.-elect Mike Beebe invited Arkansans to put differences behind them and consider what they can do together to move the state...
Democrats Seize Control in State Legislatures
Nov 8 2006 // The two major parties are no longer locked in parity in state legislatures. Wresting control from the GOP in all the chambers that changed hands outright, the Democrats now control the legislatures in more states than they...
Gov. Riley, Republicans Expected to Win Big in Alabama
Nov 7 2006 // A new statewide poll indicates Alabama Gov. Bob Riley is headed to an easy re-election victory over Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley and puts Republican candidates ahead in the races for lieutenant governor, attorney general and...
FORMER INSURANCE COMMISSIONER CANDIDATE NOW RUNNING FOR LA.’S SENATE DISTRICT 16
Nov 6 2006 // Libertarian S.B.A. Zaitoon has jumped into the special election for a Baton Rouge, La., state Senate seat. Zaitoon, fresh off an unsuccessful bid for state insurance commissioner, qualified Oct. 27 and joined physician...
Insurance political contributors favor Republicans
Nov 6 2006 // Insurance-related contributors to this year’s midterm Congres-sional races are favoring Repub-licans 2-to-1 over Democrats while the overall total given by insurance interests appears down from two years...
Former insurance commissioner candidate now running for La.’s Senate District 16
Nov 5 2006 // Libertarian S.B.A. Zaitoon has jumped into the special election for a Baton Rouge, La., state Senate seat. Zaitoon, fresh off an unsuccessful bid for state insurance commissioner, qualified Oct. 27 and joined physician...
Sharing Power Seen as Option for Evenly Split Oklahoma Senate
Oct 30 2006 // Democratic and Republican state Senate leaders in Oklahoma may follow the lead of their counterparts in other states and share power if the chamber has a tie in membership after the Nov. 7 general election, officials...
Democrats Closing Gaps, Florida CFO, AG Races Neck-and-Neck
Oct 25 2006 // Florida Republicans who last month held slight leads over Democratic challengers are now in close races for two open Cabinet seats, a new poll shows. In the attorney general race, Republican Bill McCollum was favored by 42...
Insurance Contributors Favor Republicans; Santorum, Clinton, McGavick Top Recipients
Oct 25 2006 // Insurance-related contributors to this year’s midterm Congressional races are favoring Republicans 2-to-1 over Democrats while the overall total given by insurance interests appears down from two years ago. According...
Democrats Recommend All-Perils Disaster Plan, Antitrust Repeal
Oct 22 2006 // A Democratic-controlled House would look into insurance industry practices criticized for shifting the financial burden of Hurricane Katrina claims onto the taxpayer, a lawmaker who headed a Katrina task force said...
GOP Attempt to Call Special Session in La. Faces Hurdles
Oct 18 2006 // Republican state lawmakers face steep hurdles in their attempts to call the Louisiana Legislature into special session early next month an attempt to sidestep Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco, who they say is moving too...
State regulators, insurer trades spar at Congressional hearing on insurer investments
Oct 9 2006 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners President and Maine Insurance Superintendent Alessandro A. Iuppa told a House Financial Services Subcommittee panel last month that strong financial regulation of...
8 Pa. court rebuffs Republicans on
Oct 9 2006 // liability award law Law will not be reinstated as they hoped 8 Bad buying habits in N.H. Audit blasts state insurance purchasing and risk management 10 Oh, deer it’s that season One insurer is bucking trend of deer...
State regulators, insurer trades spar at Congressional hearing on insurer investments
Oct 9 2006 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners President and Maine Insurance Superintendent Alessandro A. Iuppa told a House Financial Services Subcommittee panel last month that strong financial regulation of...
Hurricane Research Bill Introduced in U.S. Senate
Oct 2 2006 // U.S. Senator Mel Martinez, R-Fla., has introduced bipartisan legislation to implement a national hurricane research initiative designed to better research, predict and prepare for hurricanes. Martinez crafted the proposal...
Texas Republican to Challenge Shapleigh in Senate Race
Sep 28 2006 // Donald “Dee” Margo was an underdog from the moment he announced plans to run against 10-year incumbent State Sen. Eliot Shapleigh. The 54-year-old insurance company executive is well-funded and well-connected....
Farmers ask U.S. Senate panel for disaster relief program in next farm bill
Sep 25 2006 // Agriculture groups told a U.S. Senate panel in Texas this month that they want the next farm bill to include disaster relief for farmers and ranchers reeling from billions of dollars lost to the drought. They shared their...
Farmers ask U.S. Senate panel for disaster relief program in next farm bill
Sep 25 2006 // Agriculture groups told a U.S. Senate panel in Texas this month that they want the next farm bill to include disaster relief for farmers and ranchers reeling from billions of dollars lost to the drought. They shared their...
