Hillsborough County's insurance company will pick up only $66,000 of legal charges related to County Commissioner Kevin White's sexual harassment case, potentially leaving taxpayers liable for nearly $425,000. ...more

January 7, 2010

Democratic leaders secure the support of Sen. Ben Nelson to provide the 60th and deciding vote for sweeping health care legislation in the Senate, capping a year of struggle and a final burst of deadline bargaining on President Barack Obama's top domestic priority. ...more

December 19, 2009

The debate over health care reform has entered an unreal world where facts can always be shouted down. Several letter writers have said they don't want the government choosing their doctor, but do we have a right to choose our own doctors? When I went to work for the City of Fort Lauderdale years ago, I was given a list of doctors I was allowed to go to if injured on the job. More recently, I worked for an international conglomerate. My health benefits could indirectly be set by a board of directors that met in another hemisphere, whose minutes are circulated in an ideographic language. Actually, that company gave me a free annual checkup, one of the best benefits I've ever had. My employer chose the doctor, of course. On a temporary job, I once collapsed while wearing a maladjusted gas mask. I was taken to a doctor chosen by the employer. A nurse put a thermometer in my mouth and said that I had a temperature of 120 degrees. A few minutes later they figured out that their newfangled electric thermometer wasn't working. ...more

November 2, 2009

Florida's public insurance company reversed course this week and said it will cover a couple's Gulf Coast retirement home, after previously telling the homeowners their policy wouldn't be renewed because of the home's tainted drywall from China. ...more

October 24, 2009

The city attorney recommended that the city council authorize him to file a lawsuit by Nov. 3, in order to protect the city's interest in a $500,000 Subdivision Performance Bond. ...more

October 24, 2009

President Obama's plan will simply make insurance work better by holding the insurance industry accountable. Under the president's plan, it will be against the law for insurance companies to: ...more

October 6, 2009

An insurance agent has been sentenced to 10 years of probation for bilking an 81-year-old woman out of an $88,000 insurance premium. ...more

September 25, 2009

An insurance agent has been sentenced to 10 years of probation for bilking an 81-year-old woman out of an $88,000 insurance premium. ...more

September 24, 2009

Have you ever withheld medical information or symptoms from your doctor? If your answer is yes, you're not alone. ...more

August 11, 2009

Is your home built with Chinese drywall? What is being done about it? ...more

June 9, 2009