category: Insurance Headlines
 - Geico cutting auto insurance rates for some California customers
 - Insurance Prices to Fall in '08
 - Sector Snap: Insurance stocks rally
 - 6 months after Texas hurricanes, many small businesses still wait to get paid
 - Obama berates AIG and vows to try to block bonuses

category: Life Insurance
 - Earnings Preview: Hartford Financial
 - Companies Court Boomer Retirement Money
 - Is your income insured?
 - Ga.: Regs Protect Military From Scams
 - Millions in U.S. have no life insurance
 - Fidelity Streamlines Operations
 - Regulators OK Conseco Annuity Deal
 - Insurer Balks on Clinton Neighbor Payout
 - S.C. Approves Humana/KMG Deal
 - MetLife Securitizing Life Insurance
 - Moody's Reviews Prudential's Ratings
 - Goldman Sachs to Publish Mortality Index
 - MetLife Approves $1B Stock Buyback
 - Sector Snap: Life Insurers Fall
 - MetLife Completes Acquisition of SafeGuard Health Enterprises, Terms Not Disclosed
 - Reaching 100 is easier than suspected
 - MetLife Paid Quinn Gillespie & Associates $240,000 in 2007 to Lobby on Insurance Issues
 - MetLife Chairman, CEO Exercises Options
 - Metlife CEO exercises option
 - Court refuses to hear life insurance case
 - Citizens buys Osark National Life for $8 million
 - MetLife says 3Q trimmed by market downturn

category: Health Insurance
 - ALL BUSINESS: Options-dating controversy is only about options, until it isn't
 - Proton therapy Used More to Treat Cancer
 - Wages, benefits up at fastest pace in years
 - Stocks Are Mixed in Quiet Trading
 - Bernanke warns that economic isolationism would harm U.S. economy
 - Legislature debates sweeping reforms to health care system
 - Wellstone son presses mental health bill
 - Humana Buying CompBenefits for $360M
 - Ahead of the Bell: Health Insurers
 - Agency says 27,000 signed up for health insurance leading up to July 1
 - Child Health Insurance Bill Faces Veto
 - Senate OKs wider kids' health program
 - A look at the candidates on health care
 - Bush urges Democrats on health insurance
 - Health groups work for kid's insurance
 - House Votes to Expand Insurance for Kids
 - Congress OKs Expanded Kids' Health Care
 - States to test Bush on health insurance
 - Court Weighs If Partners Of Gay Workers Can Get Health Insurance
 - Step Toward Universal Health Care in NY
 - Bush vetoes kids health insurance bill
 - Conseco Shares Drop on Claim Worries
 - UBS Analyst Downgrades Aflac
 - Court to hear case that could help workers claim benefits
 -  McCain seeks tax credit to help buy health insurance
 - Aetna 1Q lobbying on health insurance issues topped $575,000
 - Georgia gov signs bills to ease health insurance access
 - Southwest lags in health insurance coverage, CDC says
 - New Jersey expands health insurance reach
 - Slow-moving tropical storm nears Bermuda
 - Ohio court: Law on asbestos may be retroactive
 -  Confusion over health plans stymies consumers Recognition of ‘health literacy’ issue finally starts to spread to insurance

category: Auto Insurance
 - ND Regulator Fines Farmers Insurance
 - Mass.: Auto Insurance Competition Closer
 - Mass.: Auto Insurance Competition Closer
 - Company Adds Collision Benefit for Pets
 - Ga. May Require Seat Belt Use in Pickups
 - Alabama Senate votes to raise auto insurance requirements
 - 7 accused in Essex County auto insurance scam
 -  Cell phones rules changing for Calif. drivers
 - Michigan consumer advocate wants fairer premiums
 - Pay-as-you-drive auto insurance coming in New Jersey
 - Sizable number of Texas drivers without insurance
 - Auto safety group: States should raise driving age
 - Satisfaction gap with home, car insurance widens
 - Antilocks trim fatal motorcycle crashes
 - Teens protest Ontario's proposed driving rules
 - Three Fla. cities have most teen-related holiday traffic fatalities
 -  Safety group: Ban cell phones while driving
 - Expect more uninsured motorists by 2010
 - Nearly 100 Children Killed in U.S. 'Backovers'
 - Cash-strapped states mull seat belt law changes
 - Road hazard: uninsured driver rates climb
 - Top Ten Deadliest Stretches of Road in America
 - Indiana State Senate OKs red light cameras
 - Wisconsin car insurance industry opposes Doyle plan
 - US highway deaths at lowest levels since 1961

category: Homeowners
 - 669 Sue State Farm Over Katrina Claims
 - Three companies get homeowner rate hikes
 - Judge rules insurance laws constitutional
 - AP Newsbreak: Blanco wants overhaul for Louisiana's 'last resort' insurer
 - Blanco Administration Admits Error in La. Insurance Rebate Letters
 - 8 insurers get OK to sell in Florida
 - 2007 Record Year For Disasters
 - Fla. Site Compares Home Insurance Rates
 - Many homeowners confused about insurance
 - Few Residents Covered by Flood Insurance
 - Fla. Gov Raises Doubts About Insurers
 - Katrina Victims Lose Insurance Fight
 - Court to Hear Katrina Insurance Case
 - Allstate Raises Homeowners Insurance Rates
 - Efforts to change flood insurance stall
 - Nationwide Dropping Homeowners Policies
 - Hawaii Slow to Recover From Earthquakes
 - Assurant's 3rd-Quarter Profit Jumps As More Mortgage Lenders Buy Homeowners Insurance
 - Hurricanes Driving Insurers Away
 - SC homeowners receive grants to make homes hurricane resistant
 - State Farm Appeals $1M Katrina Punative Damage Award
 - Wooley Pleads 5th in Citizens Probe
 - Claims Filed After Northwest Storms
 - Insurers Paying to Rebuild Greener Homes
 - Fla.: Panel reviews property insurance
 - Finally! Here's some happy housing news
 - McCain says he would have responded differently to hurricane
 - La. parish president still facing lawsuits over Katrina
 - Alabama students help restore hurricane-damaged coastline
 -  Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics
 - Hurricane season outlooks of little use
 - NOAA: New Orleans at risk from Cat. 2 hurricane
 - Hurricane Center director talks forecasting in interview
 - Hurricane Center says improving forecasts costly
 - Tropical Storm Douglas forms off Mexico
 - Bertha becomes 1st hurricane of Atlantic season
 - Hurricane Bertha weakens to Cat. 1 storm
 - Hurricane Bertha strengthens to Cat. 2
 -  Firefighters strain to spare more homes in California
 - La. fines contractor of hurricane victim program
 - Texas, Mexico prepare for Tropical Storm Dolly
 - Dolly lashes Texas coast as Category 2 hurricane
 - Hurricane Dolly damage seen less than $750M
 - Ex-Hurricane Dolly floods parts of NM, Texas
 - Tropical storm warning issued for Louisiana coast
 - Tropical storm lashes Cuba with winds, rain
 - Insurance companies "on-call," prepare for Gustav
 - Evacuations begin in Texas ahead of Hurricane Ike
 - Hurricane Ike remnants dump $500M damages on Ohio
 - Laura, 11th named storm, forms far out in Atlantic
 - Tropical Storm Marco hits Mexico's Gulf coast
 - California wildfires nearly fully surrounded
 - New SC lab will test full-size homes in wind, hail
 - Tropical Storm Paloma strengthening, turns north
 - Texas House panel studies response to hurricane
 - Storm Planners Reflect on Strategies for Busy Hurricane Season
 - La. wish list on storm recovery: Don't forget us
 - FEMA not immune from toxic trailer suits
 - Indiana to get $18 million more in disaster aid
 - Buried box yields Texas treasures after hurricane
 - Thaw Comes Slowly to Storm-Ravaged Kentucky
 - Ice storm tested Obama's FEMA
 - Worse than La., Fla.'s insurance market dries up
 - Ike vendors waiting for state to pay
 - Sea level rise may be worse than expected
 - FEMA defends 650K denials for post-Ike housing aid
 - FEMA defends 650K denials for post-Ike aid
 - Rescuers search for Okla. tornado victims
 - Fla. Senate delays vote on wind insurance measure
 - Tainted Chinese drywall shows up in Katrina homes
 - Researchers say New Orleans still isn't safe from floods
 - Senate approves windstorm insurance bill
 - Storms damage 100 properties in South
 - Condos at risk during storm season
 - Coastal coverage fix sought amid wider storm fears
 - Huge tornado experiment yields only 1 twister

category: Financial Services
 - Verso sees 1Q revenue rising 3 percent
 - Navigant 1Q Profit, Sales Up
 - Summit Financial Issues 2Q Warning
 - H&R Block forecasts 10 percent to 20 percent growth in 3 years
 - Surging Wall Street to Eye Housing Data
 - Lawmakers Grill SEC Members on Leanings
 - Discover Shares Slip in Debut
 - Sector Snap: Credit Cards
 - Reverse Mortgages Help Cure Bad Loans
 - Nationwide Sells Asset Management Biz
 - Nationwide Financial 3Q Profit Slips
 - Principal to buy Retirement Consulting
 - GAO: Millions wasted on gov't cards
 - Prudential Financial spent $1.4M lobbying in 1Q
 - Nationwide Financial agrees to $2.4 billion buyout
 - MetLife spent nearly $1.3M lobbying in 2Q
 - FBI investigating companies at heart of meltdown
 - Meltdown 101: What are credit default swaps?
 - Banks say they're using bailout money for loans
 - What if the government bailed out of the bailouts?
 - F.D.I.C. Chief Urges Changes in Financial Oversight

category: International Insurance News
 - AOL to Offer AIG's ID Theft, Computer Coverage to Subscribers for Free
 - Zoellick: Venezuela Economy in Trouble
 - AIG reassures investors about subprime holdings
 - AIG Paid Lobbyist $120,000 in 2007
 - Swiss Re Chief Says World Credit Crisis Has 'Modest' Effect on Insurers
 - Aflac to Report Third-Quarter Results on Tuesday, All Eyes on Turnaround in Japan
 - AIG posts 27% decline in third-quarter profit
 - MetLife Buys Mexican Retirement Company
 - AIG's Glaser to Lead Marsh's Brokerage
 - Prudential to Sell Funds in India
 - Prudential Unit Acquires Japanese Firm
 - Buffett Pulled Into Former Execs' Trial
 - Just Ducky: Aflac's CEO on Japan Sales
 - Citi may cut 650 UK jobs in loan business revamp
 - Aflac maintains full year profit outlook
 - Aflac pays Goldman Sachs $825M to buy back shares
 - AIG execs' retreat after bailout angers lawmakers
 - AIG Gets Revised Bailout Of $150 Billion From US
 - Piracy threat off Somalia hikes insurance premiums
 - Aflac CEO reacts to S&P downgrade
 - Aflac shares drop sharply following downgrades
 - Livid Democrats demand AIG return bailout bonuses
 - AIG CEO says employees starting to return bonuses
 - Assurant CEO sees 2008 compensation rise 53 pct

category: National Insurance News
 - Principal Gets 2nd Subpoena From Spitzer
 - Lay, Skilling Convicted in Enron Trial
 - U.S. Probe of China Life Insurance Ends
 - GlaxoSmithKline Settles Claim of Inflating Prices on Cancer Drugs
 - BATON ROUGE, La. (AP
 - Supreme Court hears wind-water hurricane insurance argument
 - 10-Year-Old Boy, 35 Pounds, Pleads For Food; Mom Charged
 - Stocks Continue Rise on Inflation Data
 - Gas Prices Expected to Rise at Pump
 - Supermarkets Offering Personal Scanners
 - Forest Announces Executive Compensation
 - Consumer bankruptcy rate up in 3 states
 - State: More mobile home insurers are skipping insurance
 - Florida May Be Only State Without PIP Requirement
 - Feds Reject NY's Bid to Insure More Kids
 - Bush to veto health insurance bill
 - US Consumer Group Contends Insurance Cos Overcharge For Coverage
 - Appeals Court Blocks Allstate Order
 - Aflac CEO Gets Nearly $12M in 2007
 - ACE Completes Combined Insurance Buy
 - Assurant CEO Got $3.5M in 2007 Pay
 - Allstate Seeks Florida Rehearing; Continues To Write Business
 - Debate continues over Michigan health insurance bills
 -  Jenna Bush to say `I do' at Texas ranch on Saturday
 -  Woman indicted in Missouri MySpace suicide case
 - FEMA closing trailer parks on eve of hurricane season
 -  Lone accountant takes on IRS and wins
 - Hurricane Ike strengthens to Category 4 storm
 - Tropical Storm Hanna takes aim at Bahamas
 - Federal regulators clear GE, Assurant transaction
 - Hurricane Ike destroys 49 oil platforms in Gulf
 - Aon to sell auto insurance unit to Mercury General
 - Aflac CEO Amos foregoes golden parachute
 - New Jobless Claims Reach a 16-Year High, U.S. Says
 - The INFLUENCE GAME: Insurers Eye New Regulator

category: Mergers and Acquisitions
 - Latin American Merger Activity Soars
 - nworth Buying AssetMark for $230 Million
 - HCC to Acquire Novia Underwriters

category: Banking Services
 - Bank of America, Wachovia report strong 4Q earnings
 - Bank of America to announce fee education campaign
 - Lehman Brothers 2Q Profit Up 27 Percent
 - Credit Cards Cut Off Gas Purchases
 - Greenhill Rises on Wachovia Upgrade
 - Capital One Shuffles Banking Unit Heads
 - Banking Regulators to Increase Scrutiny of Subprime Lenders
 - Banking Regulators to Increase Scrutiny of Subprime Lenders
 - French winemaking icon, member of banking dynasty dies
 - Stocks move higher as banks add liquidity
 - Stocks Tumble After Fed Adds Liquidity
 - Capital One Spent $590,000 Lobbying
 - Stocks Slide on Fresh Credit Concerns
 - Mortgage Rate Freeze Reached
 - Citi Taps Investment Banking Head As CEO
 - Bank Robberies Decline in Washington
 - UnionBanCal Expects More Credit Losses
 - Credit Suisse to Expand Private Banking
 - Customers are increasingly happy with online banking
 - Deals that created Citi, others questioned as universal bank model shows cracks
 - Citigroup to buy Wachovia banking operations
 - AP study finds $1.6B went to bailed-out bank execs
 - Dow jumps as White House moves on bad bank assets

category: Press Releases
 - The David Tyree Catch!
 - New York Giant Upset over New England Patriots