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Marsh Settles Insurance Bid-Rigging Charges with 9 States for $7 Million Nine states have reached a $7 million settlement with New York-based insurance broker Marsh, Inc., Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., resolving a four-year investigation into Marsh's role in a ... January 06, 2009 9:30 PM North Carolina Commissioner Goodwin's in Select Community It's a select community. Only 11 state insurance commissioners across the country are elected rather than appointed. Wayne Goodwin is now one of the 11. He won the Nov. 4 election to succeed Jim ... January 06, 2009 1:32 PM Florida Task Force Set to Vote on Citizens Insurance Reforms Today An 11-member task force charged with making recommendations on how to depopulate Florida's high risk property insurer and return it to its original purpose as a market of last resort is voting ... January 06, 2009 11:49 AM Allstate To Raise California Homeowners' Insurance Rates 6.9% The California Department of Insurance has approved Allstate Insurance's request to raise its homeowners multi-peril insurance rates 6.9 percent. For information, visit ... January 06, 2009 11:28 AM Illinois Prison Inmate's Family Wins $13 Million Settlement An Illinois prison inmate who killed his cellmate after apparently warning guards three times that's what he planned to do must pay the dead inmate's mother $13 million. A federal judge in ... January 06, 2009 11:05 AM Robertson Taylor Adds Music/ Entertainment Insurance Specialist U.K.-based Robertson Taylor, the specialist global music and entertainment subsidiary of Lloyd's insurance broker Oxygen, has expanded its Fine Arts Division with the appointment of Victoria ... January 06, 2009 11:02 AM Study: California Earthquake Would Accelerate US Mortgage Meltdown In light of current economic conditions, a major catastrophe such as an earthquake in California would bring new misery to both U.S. and international financiers, according to an analysis released ... January 06, 2009 10:34 AM Fire Fatalities Confirmed at North Texas Homeless Shelter Fire ripped through a small-town homeless shelter in the Northeast Texas town of Paris early in the morning of Jan. 5, killing multiple people and forcing dozens to be relocated, the town's fire ... January 06, 2009 10:30 AM New York City Cabs Could Get Cameras in Accident-Curbing Plan New York City plans to install digital cameras on the outside of cabs in an effort to detect reckless driving and deter auto accidents. But a taxi drivers' advocacy group says the technology would ... January 06, 2009 10:28 AM Connecticut Levies $5.9M Fine for Hole-in-One Prizes Connecticut officials have levied a $5.9 million fine against a man who runs businesses paying for hole-in-one prizes on behalf of clients. The state Insurance Department says Kevin Kolenda's ... January 06, 2009 10:22 AM

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Chinese net companies apologize for lewd content (Reuters) Reuters - Three Chinese Internet operators have apologized for failing to purge "vulgar" content following a government pledge this week to expose and shut down offending websites. January 06, 2009 11:21 PM Apple to sell copy protection-free songs (Reuters) Reuters - Apple Inc has reached a deal with major record labels to sell digital songs without the copy protection software that had prevented fans from sharing music bought from its iTunes store, the maker of the iPod and iPhone said on Tuesday. January 06, 2009 9:08 PM CheckFree Warns 5 Million Customers After Hack (PC World) PC World - CheckFree and some of the banks that use its electronic bill payment service are notifying more than 5 million customers after criminals took control of several of the company's Internet domains and redirected customer traffic to a malicious Web site hosted in the Ukraine. January 06, 2009 7:40 PM Yelp user faces lawsuit over negative review (CNET) CNET - San Franciscan Christopher Norberg went to a chiropractor after being injured in a car accident in 2006. After a disagreement with the chiropractor over billing, he posted a negative review of the business on Yelp suggesting that the doctor was dishonest. Now he is facing a defamation lawsuit that could chill self-expression on the popular gripe Web site. January 06, 2009 5:52 PM Apple cuts copy protection and prices on iTunes (AP) AP - Apple Inc. is cutting the price of some songs in its market-leading iTunes online store to as little as 69 cents and plans to make every track available without copy protection. January 06, 2009 5:25 PM Apple to sell all iTunes music without anti-piracy software (AFP) AFP - Apple on Tuesday said every song in its iTunes library will be available without anti-piracy software by April. January 06, 2009 4:07 PM Comcast Confirms New Network Management Practices (PC World) PC World - Comcast, the second largest broadband provider in the U.S., has stopped network-management practices that focus on slowing the BitTorrent peer-to-peer application, the company said. January 06, 2009 3:50 PM Apple disappoints: No Jobs or big news at Macworld (Reuters) Reuters - Apple Inc said on Tuesday it was dropping copy protection from songs sold on the Internet and debuted its slimmest 17-inch laptop yet, but with no dramatic products or master pitchman Steve Jobs, the company's final Macworld performance disappointed Wall Street. January 06, 2009 3:26 PM Social Security unveils new online application (AP) AP - The Social Security Administration, envisaging the near-future prospect of 10,000 baby boomers applying for benefits every day, has put together a new online service that will allow people to get their benefits without ever traveling to a Social Security field office. January 06, 2009 3:16 PM Apple Unveils New MacBook Pro, Drops DRM for iTunes (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - Despite this Macworld being Apple's last, despite Apple CEO Steve Jobs not delivering the keynote address, and despite efforts at a silent protest during the keynote, the show went on with great success. Apple had a lot to announce and Philip Schiller, vice president of worldwide product marketing, took his time on stage to announce new products and services. January 06, 2009 2:57 PM