Florida's controversial no-fault auto insurance law may indeed be on the road to extinction now that the special legislative session planned for later this month has been canceled. Two senators and a group in the state House of Representatives have ... [full story]

MUMBAI (Thomson Financial) - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said that its outlook for the US life insurance sector remained stable and that it expects positive and negative rating movements to be about equal over the next 12 months. In ... [full story]

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued the most sweeping rule changes for hospital reimbursement since 1983. The new regulations, which affect acute care hospitals nationwide, go into effect October 1, ... [full story]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As Congress returns this week to debate and conduct hearings on H.R. 2834, a bill to raise the tax rate on an interest in partnership profits known as a "carried interest," The Real Estate Roundtable ... [full story]

WASHINGTON — -- A U.S. Treasury official warned Wednesday that fallout from the country's mortgage problems would continue and the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee unveiled a plan to overhaul fair-lending rules. "The ultimate impact of these events ... [full story]

TOKYO (Reuters) - HSBC (HSBA.L: Quote, Profile, Research) (0005.HK: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday it plans to start retail banking operations in Japan from January 2008, making Europe's largest bank the latest foreign player to target Japan's legion of ... [full story]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida would be the only state without a requirement for drivers to have bodily injury liability coverage if the present no-fault insurance system expires, the state's chief financial officer said Wednesday. It would leave that 20 percent of ... [full story]

COLUMBIA, S.C., Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Trumbull Services, LLC, a leading provider of insurance solutions to the property and casualty insurance industry announced the introduction of their latest product innovation, sourc- it vm(sm). sourc-it vm(sm) is a revolutionary new automation ... [full story]