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SACRAMENTO, Calif. All workers compensation insurers in California will be required to submit certification to the state insurance department that their claims adjusters and medical bill reviewers meet new minimum standards of training and experience by July 1.
A Page Turner, Real-Life Echoes Included (New York Times)
Tom Perkins is, a lion of the venture capital world, has sold just a handful of copies of his first romance novel, "Sex and the Single Zillionaire."
Harry Shearer: Carnival Diary, part six (HuffingtonPost)
Rain splattered Friday afternoon in New Orleans, but wisely left town just before parade time. Two companions who'd just arrived were joining me in the unlikely project of watching the parades on Canal Street, usually so full of tourists that it's way off-limits for anyone self-described as a resident. But this year, the only problem was timing: when were the rain-delayed parades arriving? A
Pair push insurance coverage change (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
Two Mandeville residents who say their homes were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina's winds, not the flooding that followed, have launched a grass-roots effort to pressure state lawmakers to strike down a clause in most homeowners policies that allows insurance companies to avoid paying many damage claims.
Ready, willing, and not too picky (The Biloxi Sun Herald)
Ladies, meet our latest single guy, Jarrod Britt, who is an auto insurance adjuster and eligible bachelor from Ocean Springs. For years now, friends of this never-been-married 38-year-old have been claiming they are going to fix him up with a nice girl, but they seem to be all talk. "They are great friends, but they just haven't come through for me yet," he said, adding that it's all the more
Oakland Women Battling Insurance Company (KDKA Pittsburgh)
Strong winds caused a chimney to collapse at a house in Oakland on Feb. 17. The chimney collapsed onto the roof of Donnarae Kushner's Coltart Avenue home last Friday morning.
Six months after Katrina, progress in Mississippi can be fleeting (The Daily Comet)
Six months after Hurricane Katrina, progress on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is measured in cubic yards. In this small coastal city alone, the storm dumped up to 2 million cubic yards of debris - enough to fill two football fields to a height of about 200 yards.
