Saturday, December 31, 2005

Neighbor in need: Summer Hill helping woman devastated by house


Neighbor in need: Summer Hill helping woman devastated by house fire (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Since the night her 12-year-old son Brian woke her, yelling "Mommy, Mommy, the third floor's on fire," Elizabeth Montgomery has stayed in hotels, at friends' houses and in her car, all the while fearing the city will fine her as early as next week for the charred remains, for which she had no insurance.

Fire damages Wayland home: Nobody is injured as car ignites garage, starting a three-alarm blaze (The MetroWest Daily News)
WAYLAND -- A car fire that began in the garage of a Wayland home last night quickly grew into a three-alarm fire that attracted at least a half dozen fire trucks from Lincoln and Wayland.

Car accident takes toll on the Layton family (Park Record)
David Layton, was in a car crash last Thanksgiving that changed his life. Shortly after moving from Park City to Murrieta, Calif. he was in a car accident which left him with broken ribs, a cracked pelvis and six injured vertebrae.

SHANGHAI INSURERS SIGN CONVENTION ON MOTOR INSURANCE (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Australia & NZ Finance)
Automotive A total of 25 property insurance companies operating in Shanghai signed a Self-Discipline Convention on Motor Insurance recently, agreeing to pay commissions of no more than 8 per cent for third-party insurance premiums and no more than 15 per cent for motor damage insurance and accessory insurance premiums.

Hatch targets credit-based insurance rates (Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal)
Minnesota Attorney General Mike Hatch and two state legislators announced a bill Thursday to ban insurance companies from using a consumer's credit score in setting prices for home or auto coverage.

Best, worst car insurers are ranked (Poughkeepsie Journal)
ALBANY American Modern Insurance Co. ranked No. 1 for fewest customer complaints among automobile insurance companies doing business in New York this year, while Empire Insurance received the most, a state Insurance Department report issued this week said.

Six bills will lead reform of tort insurance system (Greeley Tribune Online)
Six bills aiming to change auto insurance laws will drive a new debate over Colorado's 21/2-year-old system of tort automobile insurance.

U.S. braces for Katrina car scams (Sun-Sentinel)
ST. BERNARD PARISH, La. -- As the vast vehicular wreckage wrought by Hurricane Katrina is carted away, law-enforcement and insurance officials are anticipating the arrival of tens of thousands of those vehicles on used-car lots across the U.S.

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