TAMPA - About 20 teens from area schools sat in a lifeguard stand today at Dale Mabry Highway and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard looking for distracted drivers. ...more

June 13, 2008

Bloomingdale High School is $20,000 richer thanks to a high-spirited student campaign to get teens to buckle up. ...more

May 20, 2008

A new study ranks the Bay area the worst of 50 metro areas in the country for teen drivers. ...more

May 10, 2008

TAMPA - A new study ranks the Bay area worst out of 50 metro areas in the country for teen drivers. ...more

May 9, 2008

As the big national insurance companies such as State Farm, Allstate and Nationwide continue to pull up stakes in Florida, smaller unheard-of companies have stepped up to fill some of the void. ...more

February 21, 2008

State insurance commissioner Kevin McCarty on Tuesday filed a complaint seeking once again to bar Allstate insurance companies from doing future business in the state. ...more

February 20, 2008

State Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty filed a complaint today seeking once again to bar Allstate insurance companies from doing future business in the state. ...more

February 19, 2008

State senators, who grilled Allstate executives under oath at a Capitol hearing last week, on Thursday requested a slew of documents relating to how the insurer sets its homeowners' rates. ...more

February 14, 2008

Regarding "Allstate Defends Rising Rates" (Business, Feb. 5): The recent hearings in Tallahassee to find out why we were lied to by "big insurance" remind me of the thousands of wasted hearings - at much cost to the taxpayers - in Washington, D.C. over the past 40 years: much ado about nothing because nothing is ever accomplished. These hearings are designed to provide cover for feckless legislators and regulators who never seem to ask the "right" questions. ...more

February 6, 2008

The head of Allstate Floridian pleaded poverty as the reason behind rising homeowners insurance rates on Monday, insisting the back-to-back four-storm seasons of 2004-05 nearly crippled the company and continue to squeeze its ability to cover claims. ...more

February 4, 2008