State rule to double amount of insurance premium discounts TALLAHASSEE - Many Florida homeowners will get larger property insurance discounts - about double what they now receive - for improvements aimed at avoiding hurricane damage under a rule approved Tuesday by ... [full story]

Drivers Involved in Crashes Report Spending Four Days’ Time Managing Claims/Repair Process; New Service from Progressive Cuts That to 15 Minutes BALTIMORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nearly 54,000 car accidents happen in the Baltimore metropolitan area each year – that’s more than 1,000 a ... [full story]

Some health care analysts and consumer advocates are urging Medicare beneficiaries who enrolled in the Medicare prescription drug benefit this year to evaluate changes in their plans for 2007 to determine whether they should select a different option, USA Today ... [full story]

WASHINGTON, DC -- (MARKET WIRE) -- October 03, 2006 -- Five prominent life insurance companies have qualified to renew their membership in the Insurance Marketplace Standards Association (IMSA), the premier standards-setting organization for the life insurance marketplace. IMSA President & ... [full story]

Oct. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Service industries in the U.S. expanded at the slowest pace in more than three years in September as the housing slump deepened. The Institute for Supply Management's index of non- manufacturing businesses fell to 52.9, the lowest ... [full story]

SAN DIEGO, California, October 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cardiff, a division of Autonomy Corporation plc and leading provider of intelligent document solutions, today announced a partnership with Healthcare Synergy, Inc., a leading provider of software solutions to free-standing home healthcare agencies. ... [full story]

Legislation offers choice of federal, state charter National insurance groups are split on whether rules should be updated to allow life and property carriers to choose federal rather than state charters in a system similar to how banks are regulated. Legislation was ... [full story]

Cincinnati-based financial services company will use new application to speed and improve employee evaluation processes, enhance manager development initiatives ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lawson Software (Nasdaq:LWSN) today announced that Great American Financial Resources, Inc. (GAFRI) has signed a contract for Lawson Performance ... [full story]