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		<title><![CDATA[State Farm Warms Up to Florida and Decides to Stay]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The battling between Florida and its insurers has been notorious and nasty, but perhaps the Yuletide season has made them a little nicer. At any rate, the year-long feud between Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who is seeking a U.S. Senate seat, and State Farm, the nation's largest home insurer, finally...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:53:42 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[State Farm Is Warming Up to Florida]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a two-year battle in which the nation's largest home insurer packed its bags and almost left the Sunshine State, State Farm seems to be warming up to staying put in Florida.    Part of the new feel-good era may have to do with the crumbling colossus of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:26:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[State Farm to Pay More than $300 Million to Texas Homeowners]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think Floridians are a tough crowd to please insurance-wise, they don't hold a candle to Texans, who shoot from the hip when an insurance agent nears.    So the decision by Lone Star Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin to unhand State Farm of $310 million should come...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:00:29 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[State Farm Backed by Federal Court in Wind Versus Water Case]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As ex-Tropical Storm Ida chugs up the East Coast with flood water surging in on the Atlantic states, insurers like State Farm, Allstate and Travelers bask in the warm glow of a federal court decision this week backing their version of what happens when a major storm hits the U.S....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:25:42 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[7063: There Goes The Neighborhood.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[At  The Big Tent,  Bill Imada interviewed Sonya Gong Jent, VP-operations, multicultural-business-development group at State Farm. The discussion ended with the following question and answer:    "Corporate marketers should hire qualified executives, directors, managers and agents who reflect the diversity of the markets they are entering....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:36:53 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[State Farm CEO Rust: Effective But Not Greedy]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the realm of insurers, midwesterner Edward Rust Jr. could be Warren Buffett's alter ego. No, his company is not as big as Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, which is ranked 13th on the Fortune 500, but State Farm, where Rust is longtime CEO, does occupy the 31st spot, up one from...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:53:19 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Can State Farm Stop Riling Up Insurance Commissioners?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blame it on hurricanes if you want, but State Farm can't seem to stop riling up southern insurance commissioners.    In the latest duel, Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney turned down a State Farm filing that would have raised rates for this gulf state's three coastal counties by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:10:30 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Obama vs. the Insurers: A Cautionary Tale from the Sunshine State]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's the problem: a likeable and determined elected official takes on an unpopular industry where people are crying out for help because they can't get insurance, even at skyrocketing rates.    Here's the solution: create a government-run insurer that will provide "last resort" policies for people who can't...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Brown & Brown, Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator  Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Mark Hughes - SunTrust Robinson Humphrey Mark Hughes - SunTrust Robinson Humphrey What do you think the effect in Florida will be from a State Farm pulling out and then what are the prospects for...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Financial Roundup: CEOs To Get Grilled, Geithner To Plug Holes, Regionals Not Consolidating]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grilling the chiefs -- Eight of the biggest CEO names in banking, including Goldman Sach's Lloyd C. Blankfein, Citigroup's Vikram S. Pandit and Bank of America's Kenneth D. Lewis, will testify before the House Financial Services Committee today. Likely questions include how they spent $160 billion in bailout money, a...]]></description>
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