Quote/unquote: excerpted from Best Week."Capacity has suffered, true. But all the companies that were doing business in our state when Katrina and Rita came ashore, they are still doing business in our state. Unfortunately, they are not writing new business in our coastal parishes on the homeowners side. And on the commercial side, what they are writing is typically being priced at five times what it was a year ago." Jim Donelon James J. "Jim" Donelon (born December 14, 1944) has been the Republican insurance commissioner of Louisiana since February 15, 2006. Though he has been actively involved in Louisiana politics since the early 1970s, it is said that he is unrecognized by many of his state's 2. Louisiana state Insurance Commissioner "The doughnut hole is so big that millions will fall in and many will never come out. People are going to be angry when they show up to get their medications [talking about Medicare Part D] and are told they don't have coverage, even though they still pay their monthly premiums." Charles B. Rangel Charles Bernard "Charlie" Rangel (born June 11, 1930) is an American politician. He has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1971, representing the Fifteenth Congressional District of New York (map) Rangel's district, the smallest in the , D-N.Y., Ranking Member In United States politics, the ranking member or ranking minority member is a member of a congressional committee from the minority party, frequently the member with the highest seniority. , House Ways and Means WAYS AND MEANS. In legislative assemblies there is usually appointed a committee whose duties are to inquire into, and propose to the house, the ways and means to be adopted to raise funds for the use of the government. This body is called the committee of ways and means. Committee "My immediate focus is on fixing the fundamentals at Lloyd's. Lloyd's has been riding the challenge of risk for over 300 years. And, as I'm sure many of you are aware, at times it has been a white-knuckle ride." Richard Ward Chief Executive Officer of Lloyd's "Globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation needs to expand every day our capability to be in business with you." Jean Paul Rignault, Chief Executive Officer Axa Corporate Solutions |
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