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Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Monday, May 30, 2011
Emma Watson Terrified by Harry Potter War Scenes
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Shirtless Shia LaBeouf Hangs With Girlfriend Karolyn Pho
Going for a romantic stroll, Shia LaBeouf was spotted flaunting his ripped torso while out on a walk in Los Angeles, California with girlfriend Karolyn Pho Friday morning, May 20th, 2011.
Bradley Cooper says 'Hangover Helped My Career'
Bradley Cooper has 'more doors opened' to him since he appeared in 'The Hangover'.
The 36-year-old actor - who began his career with a small part on 'Sex and the City' opposite Sarah Jessica Parker - is thankful for the 2009 comedy movie, but still has to audition to get parts.
The 36-year-old actor - who began his career with a small part on 'Sex and the City' opposite Sarah Jessica Parker - is thankful for the 2009 comedy movie, but still has to audition to get parts.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Blackbeard's Ankh raised from Davey Jones Locker shock
The dreaded Ankh of Blackbeard - formerly of course the Ankh of Cheops - has been raised from the bottom of the sea off the North Carolina coast where the ship sank, from the extremities of the wreckage of the Queen Anne's Revenge, where it has malevolently festered for the past 300 years impatiently waiting.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
January Jones shows off her baby bump at LA Lakers game
Recently revealing her pregnancy, Mad Men star January Jones showed off her neat bump as she hit a basketball game in LA...Looking super chic as she arrived at the LA Lakers game, pregnant January Jones showed off her very neat burgeoning bump.
In a purple vest top with loose white linen trousers and a black cardi, January wore a pair of geek-chic specs and accessorised with a gorgeous black leather studded Marni shoulder bag.
She hung out with Dexter actress Jennifer Carpenter as the pair enjoyed the game.
With the baby due later this year, January's spokesperson recently announced: "She's really looking forward to this new chapter in her life as a single mom."
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Insurance nightmare
Worst property insurance idea of the year: Gov. Rick Scott’s reported plan to eliminate or shrink Citizens Property Insurance by leaving its 1.3 million policyholders at the mercy of a problematic private market and the unregulated “surplus lines” market where the sky’s the limit on premiums.
Over the weekend, a report in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune that was compiled from multiple documents and sources said the current Citizens bill in the Legislature originated with a notion by the Governor’s Office to completely phase out Citizens. This week, Brian Burgess, Scott’s spokesman, said the governor never supported that plan.
If this is what the governor ever had in mind, he’s smart to back away. The bill under consideration in the Legislature is bad enough, but drastically shrinking or eliminating Citizens at this time would be a disaster for Florida residents and businesses.
The report said even insurance industry lobbyists at a secret meeting with the governor’s staff in February were appalled because the private insurance market can’t absorb policies from those million-plus Citizens policyholders. The only option for many beleaguered consumers would be the surplus lines market, where rates are unregulated and not backed by a state guarantee fund.
A frustrated Sen. Mike Fasano, Republican of New Port Richey, called the governor “clueless” regarding the plight of policyholders who every year must face steeply rising windstorm insurance costs far out of line with inflation, not to mention salaries and incomes.
In the Senate, SB 1714, sponsored by Sen. Alan Hays, R-Umatilla, would increase rates for customers of Citizens up to 25 percent a year and force some policyholders out of the program. A House version caps the increases at 15 percent. The current limit is “only” 10 percent, and there’s talk of a compromise at 20 percent. That may be Tallahassee’s idea of a compromise; from the standpoint of policyholders, it’s price gouging.
Supporters of rate increases say Citizens has gotten far too big and, in case of a hurricane disaster, would leave every insurance consumer in Florida holding the bag for billions of dollars in claims that the state insurer must repay by adding new surcharges to future policies for years to come. That’s on top of existing surcharges for previous years of disastrous storms.
Shrinking Citizens is a worthy goal, but simply putting the monkey on the backs of policyholders is the wrong approach. Meanwhile, the private market has significant problems that the Legislature is ignoring. Citizens was created because the private market won’t touch vast areas of the state. Making Citizens less competitive with private insurance by raising rates serves only to punish policyholders who can’t get coverage elsewhere. Insurance companies don’t want their business to begin with.
The state has relaxed regulation to lure private companies into the market, but many of them cover billions of dollars of property but have only a few million dollars in the bank. In 2009, Florida led the nation with six property insurance companies going bust, even though the state has not suffered a serious hurricane hit in several years.
Unlike big companies like, say, Allstate and State Farm, companies with inadequate reserves are making hay while the sun shines — raking in premiums while there’s no disaster — but will be unable to withstand the flood of claims that accompany a big hurricane.
That’s where the focus of state lawmakers should be, along with other shortcomings in the market. Gov. Scott said during his campaign that he wanted to return Citizens to its original mission of being the insurer of last resort, instead of being the No. 1 insurer in the state. Good, but any proposal that allows price gouging is not a plan. It’s an insult.
Over the weekend, a report in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune that was compiled from multiple documents and sources said the current Citizens bill in the Legislature originated with a notion by the Governor’s Office to completely phase out Citizens. This week, Brian Burgess, Scott’s spokesman, said the governor never supported that plan.
If this is what the governor ever had in mind, he’s smart to back away. The bill under consideration in the Legislature is bad enough, but drastically shrinking or eliminating Citizens at this time would be a disaster for Florida residents and businesses.
The report said even insurance industry lobbyists at a secret meeting with the governor’s staff in February were appalled because the private insurance market can’t absorb policies from those million-plus Citizens policyholders. The only option for many beleaguered consumers would be the surplus lines market, where rates are unregulated and not backed by a state guarantee fund.
A frustrated Sen. Mike Fasano, Republican of New Port Richey, called the governor “clueless” regarding the plight of policyholders who every year must face steeply rising windstorm insurance costs far out of line with inflation, not to mention salaries and incomes.
In the Senate, SB 1714, sponsored by Sen. Alan Hays, R-Umatilla, would increase rates for customers of Citizens up to 25 percent a year and force some policyholders out of the program. A House version caps the increases at 15 percent. The current limit is “only” 10 percent, and there’s talk of a compromise at 20 percent. That may be Tallahassee’s idea of a compromise; from the standpoint of policyholders, it’s price gouging.
Supporters of rate increases say Citizens has gotten far too big and, in case of a hurricane disaster, would leave every insurance consumer in Florida holding the bag for billions of dollars in claims that the state insurer must repay by adding new surcharges to future policies for years to come. That’s on top of existing surcharges for previous years of disastrous storms.
Shrinking Citizens is a worthy goal, but simply putting the monkey on the backs of policyholders is the wrong approach. Meanwhile, the private market has significant problems that the Legislature is ignoring. Citizens was created because the private market won’t touch vast areas of the state. Making Citizens less competitive with private insurance by raising rates serves only to punish policyholders who can’t get coverage elsewhere. Insurance companies don’t want their business to begin with.
The state has relaxed regulation to lure private companies into the market, but many of them cover billions of dollars of property but have only a few million dollars in the bank. In 2009, Florida led the nation with six property insurance companies going bust, even though the state has not suffered a serious hurricane hit in several years.
Unlike big companies like, say, Allstate and State Farm, companies with inadequate reserves are making hay while the sun shines — raking in premiums while there’s no disaster — but will be unable to withstand the flood of claims that accompany a big hurricane.
That’s where the focus of state lawmakers should be, along with other shortcomings in the market. Gov. Scott said during his campaign that he wanted to return Citizens to its original mission of being the insurer of last resort, instead of being the No. 1 insurer in the state. Good, but any proposal that allows price gouging is not a plan. It’s an insult.
New York Injury Attorney News: Man struck, killed by city bus in Bronx
The city bus involved in the auto accident that caused the death of Eddie Cortes did not stop, according to police, possibly because the driver did not know he struck a pedestrian. Police officers stopped six city buses on the BX22 line in attempts to find the offending driver, but to no avail, according to reports received by New York Injury Attorney J.C. Reiter.
Witnesses and grieving relatives, including four of Cortes’ daughters, spent hours at the site of the accident on Thursday evening, grieving and consoling one another. His wife, 76-year-old Aida, lamented, “He was a good husband, a good father and a good friend for everyone.”
Becky Cortes, a 37-year-old daughter of the deceased, described her father as “a good person, a happy person and a very good father, who was just trying to cross the street” when the auto accident occurred, as stated by New York Injury Attorney Jonathan Reiter.
New York Injury Attorney J.C. Reiter stated that police reported there is no suspicion of criminality, but a man who lives in the neighborhood described the buses that travel through the intersection as “reckless.”
MTA officials declined to comment on the auto accident, according to New York Injury Attorney Jonathan Reiter.
New York Injury Attorney Jonathan Reiter reports that, in 2009, 256 traffic-related fatalities occurred, an all time low, according to the Department of Transportation. According to DOT reports released Monday, February 7, 2011, auto accident deaths rose 5 percent to 269.
*Leading Manhattan auto accident attorney Jonathan C. Reiter states if you or a loved one has been injured or killed in a car crash, you may be entitled to compensation for your injuries and damages. Located in the Empire State Building, with more than thirty years of experience litigating the multifaceted claims of vehicular accident victims and their families, contacting New York Injury Attorney Jonathan Reiter with regard to your particular personal injury or wrongful death case may help you obtain the compensation you deserve.
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