Category: Archive – News
Aug 20, 2009
BY CURTIS MORGAN cmorgan@MiamiHerald.com Hurricane Bill weakened slightly to a Category 3 early Thursday — packing 125 winds — but forecasters warned the powerful storm could grow stronger by day’s end. The season’s first major hurricane posed the most serious …
Aug 20, 2009
By DAVID G. SAVAGE Tribune Washington Bureau Aug. 20, 2009 — President Teddy Roosevelt campaigned as a trust-busting reformer, but was embarrassed by revelations that his 1904 campaign had received secret contributions from New York insurance companies. Shamed into action, …
Aug 19, 2009
By JOHN KENNEDY THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, Aug. 18, 2009….A state Senate Republican primary battle has pulled former Gov. Jeb Bush off the couch and before the cameras to help longtime ally John Thrasher. Bush has …
Aug 19, 2009
BY BETH REINHARD breinhard@MiamiHerald.com Aug. 19, 2009 — Gov. Charlie Crist flew to Miami Tuesday afternoon to vet former U.S. Attorney Roberto Martinez for a U.S. Senate appointment, less than 24 hours after U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart took himself off …
Aug 19, 2009
BY MARC CAPUTO Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau FILE PHOTOS A new poll revealed Alex Sink, right, has lost ground to Republican rival Bill McCollum, left. Gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink has lost ground to Republican rival Bill McCollum and now trails him …
Aug 19, 2009
By DAVID ESPO AP Special Correspondent Aug. 19, 2009 — A spokesman for the health insurance industry accused Democrats of mounting a “fishing expedition” on Wednesday, as individual insurers decided whether to honor a request for financial records sought in …
Aug 19, 2009
August 17, 2009 By EVAN LEHMANN of ClimateWire Several states prone to natural disasters are measuring the odds on a mega-bet. Concerned observers say those calculations are based on “Lady Luck” and “rolling the dice.” Public insurance programs in …
Aug 18, 2009
Posted on Tue, Aug. 18, 2009 BY MARY ELLEN KLAS Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau A phone company accused of overcharging Miami-Dade jail inmates and their families for collect calls has agreed to pay $1.25 million in settlement fees to state regulators. …
Aug 17, 2009
By Alex Leary St. Petersburg Times Aug. 17, 2009 — On a recent Wednesday morning, 1,000 insurance brokers spread out across Capitol Hill with a singular mission: Kill a proposed government-run healthcare plan. Among them was J. Hyatt Brown, former Florida …
Aug 17, 2009
Aug. 16, 2009 — Some lucky ”patients” get flat-screen televisions as gifts from home care providers. It’s the cost of doing business in South Florida — Medicare fraud that’s robbing taxpayers hundreds of millions, even billions, of dollars. This particular …