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		<title><![CDATA[High alert: insurers are covering high-end vacation homes by stepping up their risk management techniques.(Property/Casualty: Homeowners)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]    Insurance companies are wooing vacation-home owners as part of an  attempt to corner this high-end niche market.    Vacation homes can be a challenge to underwrite, because they often  are located in high-risk areas and prone to perils such as hurricanes...]]></description>
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		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3615/is_200710/ai_n21100317]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[INSURANCE-RELATED COURT CASES Digested from case reports published in Westlaw, West Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN   Failure to transfer title triggers coverage dispute Theresa Dassinger owned a 1993 Mazda automobile that she insured with State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company. In March 2003, Dassinger gave the car to...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Insuring a passion: insurers and agents, like McKeel Hagerty, say '60s and '70s muscle cars are fueling sales.(Property/Casualty: Auto Insurance Package)(Cover story)(Statistical table)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]    McKeel Hagerty once spent all his money on a car that he could not  drive. Perhaps that was the day Hagerty was first bitten by the  car-collecting bug. Sure, he was only 15, and his life's savings at  the time was just...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Curbing distractions: auto insurers are helping teens become safer drivers.(Property/Casualty: Auto Insurance Package)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]    With teen auto fatalities at a crisis point in the United States,  the teen-driver safety market is opening up as the newest battlefield in  the highly-competitive auto insurance segment.    Several carriers already have launched new products and initiatives  aimed...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Kansas City Courthouse Roundup: August 14, 2007]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attorneys in a bad-faith case against Allstate Insurance Co. are again requesting documents that the insurer has failed to hand over.   The filing made last week by Springfield attorney Steve Garner was the ninth request for Allstate to produce documents containing alleged business secrets.   "I fully...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Building on record results.(Property/Casualty: Leading Writers)(Financial report)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Building on record profits in 2006, the U.S. property/casualty  industry continued favorable trends in the first quarter of 2007,  posting net income after taxes of $16.7 billion. Despite an increasingly  competitive marketplace and across-the-board softening, A.M. Best Co.  remains optimistic about the industry's underwriting results over...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Battening down the hatches: coastal-state homeowners are facing a crisis in finding homeowners insurance. And in cases where they can find it, they may not be able to afford it]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Atlantic hurricane season officially kicked off on June 1 of this year, it made a lot of people nervous--and for good reason. After a much-needed lull in 2006, communities along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastlines braced themselves for the kind of beating they endured in 2004...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The next big hurricane will hit coastal state governments hard.(FINANCIAL SERVICES)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next big hurricane will hit coastal state governments hard.    That's because they've taken on far more risk, selling  insurance to thousands of property owners who can't get it from  private firms. Several big companies, including Allstate and State Farm,  now refuse to insure...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Putting profits over policyholders: insurance companies regularly plead poverty, saying civil justice is costing them untold grief - and money. Behind those crocodile tears, they're doing everything they can to avoid paying legitimate claims, while their ]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each February, the Insurance Information Institute III gathers  Wall Street analysts and insurance executives to produce its forecast of  the property-casualty industry. But unlike February's more famous  prognosticator, Punxsutawney Phil, the gathered experts are almost  certain to see their shadows, because for the last 20 years...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Companies offering wind policies, but paying for it can be expensive]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, a Coast newspaper ran a news article regarding an issue of great concern: the lack of availability of wind coverage from private insurance companies. The day after the newspaper article said that no insurance companies were writing new wind policies. Beacon Insurance Services Inc. ran an advertisement: "Now writing...]]></description>
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