Companies offering hurricane and other property insurance coverage may need to raise rates because they're losing money, even though Florida hasn't had any serious storms in the past couple years, the state insurance commissioner said Tuesday. ...more

September 16, 2009

A health care system overhaul, weak finances in Medicare, lapses in food safety. Those challenges and more await Kathleen Sebelius as President Barack Obama's health secretary. ...more

March 2, 2009

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius on Saturday accepted President Barack Obama's request to become his Health and Human Services secretary, stepping into a central role in the administration's ambitious effort to overhaul the nation's health care system. ...more

March 1, 2009

The state insurance commissioner has again denied State Farm Florida's proposed 47 percent rate increase for property coverage against hurricanes and other perils. ...more

January 13, 2009

The state insurance commissioner has again denied State Farm Florida's proposed 47 percent rate increase for property coverage against hurricanes and other perils. ...more

January 12, 2009

State Farm Florida will give $120 million back to current and former hurricane policyholders who didn't receive or weren't told they could get a discount for making their homes more resistant to wind damage. ...more

September 10, 2008

TALLAHASSEE — State Farm Florida will give $120 million back to current and former hurricane policyholders who didn't receive or weren't told they could get a discount for making their homes more resistant to wind damage. ...more

September 9, 2008

TAMPA After lowering rates 9 percent this year, State Farm, the state's second largest home insurer, did an about-face Wednesday when it asked state regulators for permission to raise homeowners' rates 47.1 percent on average. ...more

July 16, 2008

There is absolutely nothing creative about the Tribune's editorial, "Creative Windstorm Coverage," (Our Opinion, May 31.) It has been discussed for years. ...more

June 9, 2008

Six private insurance companies have been authorized to take 100,000 homeowners policies from state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation announced Wednesday. ...more

May 21, 2008