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State Farm insurance policy rate increase (KVII 7 Amarillo) Insurance may be going up for many Texans; the state's largest home insurer, State Farm is looking to increase rates starting this summer. March 12, 2010 6:37 PM Homeowner Forced to Vacate Home Wants Insurance Money (WXIA-TV Atlanta) A Car Crashing Into a Duplex Forces Innocent Homeowner Next Door to Move February 9--Still Waiting for Insurance Money. March 12, 2010 5:34 PM Insurance co to raise Texas rates...again (KENS 5 San Antonio) State Farm insurance officials announced it will raise Texas homeowner rates by 4.5 percent. It would be the second rate increase in eight months. The insurance department may negotiate the increase - or it can start a process which, if successful, can lead to refunds. State Farm insures 30 percent of the homes in Texas. March 12, 2010 4:46 PM Md. House Votes To Limit Insurance Premium Hikes (CBS 13 Baltimore) Maryland's House of Delegates has endorsed limiting insurance carriers from raising premiums on individual health plans more than once a year in most cases. March 12, 2010 5:02 PM Investigators: Gilboa man set fire to own home, lied to collect insurance (WRGB Albany) COBLESKILL -- A Schoharie County man has been arrested on insurance fraud and arson charges for setting fire to his own mobile home and claiming insurance on it last October, the State Insurance Department said Friday. March 12, 2010 3:56 PM Dr. Philip Neches: Health Insurance Really Tried (The Huffington Post) The private health insurance industry is in a death spiral, despite being profitable, despite trying to do the right things. March 12, 2010 2:48 PM Chilean Aftershocks to Global Catastrophe Insurance Programs (Risk & Insurance) As many as nine aftershocks struck Chile on March 11, some as strong as magnitude 6.9, perhaps stretching property insurance programs and claims resources to their limits. March 12, 2010 3:13 PM Cash clinic: Insurance cover for working at home is not straightforward (The Scotsman: Business) Q WHERE can I get "normal" household insurance, such as buildings and contents with accidental damage cover, which allows for my husband's business activities at h March 12, 2010 6:06 PM Mobile Phones Bring Insurance to Kenyan Farmers (Insurance and Technology) Kenyan farmers can now insure some of the costs of growing crops against bad weather by using mobile phone technology that links solar-powered weather stations to an insurance company. March 12, 2010 8:48 AM New Brockton employees get health insurance scare (WTVY Dothan) The employees of New Brockton got a health insurance scare this week. March 12, 2010 6:39 PM

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Internet body delays decision on .XXX domain name (AFP) AFP - The adult entertainment industry is going to have to wait a while longer to see whether it gets its .XXX domain name. March 12, 2010 6:20 PM Reported cyberfraud losses double in 2009: FBI (Reuters) Reuters - Reported losses from Internet fraud more than doubled in 2009, with scams that falsely used the FBI's name generating the most complaints, the law enforcement agency said on Friday. March 12, 2010 4:41 PM Troyak Takedown, Security Blues, ICANN Meets (PC World) PC World - The Troyak ISP, which has been linked to the Zeus botnet, was briefly taken down this week. The takedown occurred on the heels of the RSA Conference last week, where there was much talk about the "cat-and-mouse" game of trying to squelch cybercrime. Otherwise, things got a little testy at the ICANN meeting in Nairobi, and iPad pre-orders got rolling. Oh, and the Internet was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Seriously. March 12, 2010 4:30 PM FCC's National Broadband Plan: What's in It? (PC World) PC World - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission plans to release a national broadband plan next week that will lay out an ambitious set of goals for broadband deployment and adoption. March 12, 2010 4:20 PM HickoryTech to pay dividend of 13 cents (AP) AP - HickoryTech Corp., which provides Internet access and other digital services, said Friday its board declared a quarterly dividend of 13 cents a share. March 12, 2010 3:45 PM Google Local Product Search: Great Idea, Needs Tweaks (PC World) PC World - As with many new Google services, the ability to search for products at local stores is a little slow out of the gate, but the potential is there. March 12, 2010 3:21 PM FCC Broadband Speed Tests Should Also Support Enforcement (PC World) PC World - While it's great the Federal Communications Commission is offering free broadband speed tests, it would be greater if the commission would use the data to force carriers to more accurately describe the speeds they offer and then keep their promises. March 12, 2010 3:15 PM Cybercrime surge pushes 2009 losses to 559 million dollars (AFP) AFP - Losses from cybercrime and online scams more than doubled in 2009 to 559 million dollars as Internet criminals used more sophisticated techniques, an FBI-led task force said Friday. March 12, 2010 2:43 PM Internet fraud losses doubled last year (AP) AP - The cost of Internet fraud doubled in 2009 to about $560 million, the FBI said Friday. The most common type of frauds reported were scams from people falsely claiming to be from the FBI. March 12, 2010 2:23 PM Summary Box: China insists Google obey the law (AP) AP - NO SIGNS OF COMPROMISE: China, in a dispute with Google over censoring its China-based search engine, said the company must obey its laws or "pay the consequences." March 12, 2010 2:21 PM