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Anti-abortion has gained new strength from the encouragement Tuesday when voters in Michigan, Arkansas and Colorado adopt or maintain measures lock for public funding of abortions.

Anti-abortion has gained new strength from the encouragement Tuesday when voters in Michigan, Arkansas and Colorado adopt or maintain measures lock for public funding of abortions.

Voters who also deals with the national economy insurance dive strike in California, confirms the prohibition of small arms cheap in Maryland, said English is the official language in three countries and has a good Action in California to force doctors to report to humans, positive for the AIDS virus.

These were the main results of voting on measures and ballots 230 bond issues in 41 countries: abortion

The vote on abortion measures in Michigan, Colorado and Arkansas invited to speculate on a quickening shift in public perception vis-à-vis abortion. ”We can see the advent of a new era of the abortion issue,’’said Patrick B. McGuigan, editor of the report of the initiative and referendum, commented referendums in years.

Currently, 37 states are not programs care pay for abortion or ban the use of public funds for that purpose. Federal law prohibits Medicaid for abortions unless the woman’s life is in danger.

In Michigan, after 17 years of failed attempts and legislative veto, anti-abortion forces won a referendum on the prohibition of public funding of abortions except to save the mother’s life, but by 58 to 42 percent.

In Colorado, the concern of a 1984 ban on funding of abortion has failed, 60 to 40 per cent.

Arkansas does not pay the abortions, but after an emotional campaign with a deep religious harmonics Child””Änderungsantrag come to the State Constitution was adopted by 52 to 48 per cent. It defines life as beginning at the design and prohibits the use of public funds for abortion. Insurance

In California, a long mounting anger over auto insurance prices have a crushing return to an economy of the insurance für”no-fault”Versicherung. Although the national insurance companies spent $ 75 million to promote the plan, voters rejected a beating from three to one report closely and took a much more radical. It represents the sector under state control and reduced immediately close all Auto, Home and Business-premium income by 20 percent below the level a year ago.

Some companies said they would stop providing insurance within the State and enterprises subject to a court challenge yesterday. Voters also rejected an industry-sponsored measure to limit lawyers’ fees of the contingency. [Business Day, page D1. ] AIDS

With an almost two to one report, aldo Californians rejected a proposal requires that doctors would have to report every positive test for the AIDS virus in the state, which would have informed the traceability and sexual partner of the person tested. He also ended a ban on tests against AIDS for employment and insurance.

The measure was in contrast with most medical organizations, who said that AIDS and gay activists said it was a violation of citizens’ rights.

But voters have approved another, much narrower and measuring tests of AIDS in some of the suspects and sex crimes to the police and attacks against workers in case of emergency. Language

After the emotional campaigns, voters in three states, Florida, Colorado and Arizona, has declared English their official language of state, which means that 17 countries now have such laws. The measures adopted by a large majority in Florida, 84 percent, and in Colorado, 61 per cent, but only 51 to 49 in Arizona. Guns

Voters in Maryland wounded from the National Rifle Association of Guardians of the State by six months the law on the prohibition of small arms good commonly known as Saturday night Specials. The weapon was receiving $ 4 million spent in a campaign for lifting heated law.

Atlanta - an echo of Southern Chorus policies, Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine Tuesday says the state is increasingly being pulled from the road money distribution system, and he figures prove it.

A says Oxendine of an investigation by his office in Georgia has been shown several times to only 75 percent of the federal budget for petrol, that consumers pay taxes of State, the second lowest percentage in the country.

Only South Carolina - who launched the consultation with a yield of 70 per cent of the federal gas tax - is worse, Federal Highway Administration figures.

In the meantime, many countries are in the Northeast, like New York and Connecticut, and others-like the West, Montana, Washington and Dakota are more and more of their return as a consumer to pay .

“ These statements, as bandits. You will have a lot more than they pay into the system,’’said Oxendine. “ Many of these countries are making a profit on this money, and does so at the expense of the citizens of Georgia.”

Georgia would get a minimum of $ 50 million more per year if the state has received its share of money by USA Intermodal Surface Transportation Act of 1991, said Oxendine.

The money, he said, could be used for public education sponsored driver crackdowns use of seat belt or reduction of state money now spent on the road.

“ There is a direct link between what we have on our roads and insurance. Basically, what we want is the roads safer, we can maintain insurance premiums,”he said.

“ We all buy insurance, and we should value for insurance dollars. We do not always value, if we are paying the insurance because of higher prices of accidents, because of injuries, because the roads can not be sure of doing.”

Under the 1991 transportation law, each state must be at least 90 percent of the federal budget gas consumers to pay taxes at the pump.

However, the Georgia Board of Transportation and officials throughout the south of the country have been complaining that donor countries.

Critics say a clause in the law takes from countries with a relatively low, as in the past. You say that the formula for Dispergier value is archaic and does not consider the traffic growth in countries such as Georgia, Florida and Texas.

Tests on a spokesman for Federal Highway Administration in Washington, were unsuccessful.

Congress last week to delay a decision on a fundamental revision of the highway spending program for the group leaders of the Senate. A proposal requires each state to obtain a minimum of 95 percent of the federal budget gas customers and pay taxes.

According to the Federal Highway Administration figures, no state of South now receives 95 per cent. Arkansas, a state of origin, President Clinton, is the closest, getting 94 per cent.

Georgians pay more taxes state for the money they receive are not the federal government, “said Oxendine.

“ Is it fair for Georgians to pay for safer roads, and it is a safer roads in another state?”He asked.

Mr. Oxendine said he is writing to members of Congress for better treatment for Georgia, the federal distribution formulas and asks the state legislature, next year to adopt a similar resolution.

When it comes to keeping abreast self-rate Assekuranz officials say, this is not rocket science.

“Improved roads system,” says the LA Acting Commissioner of Insurance Robert Wooley.

He said it was the largest in LA can do, stop its escalation of prices. “We must consider the projects we have been unable to do so, because this is not enough income.”

According to a 2000 study by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, LA series No. 9 of 50 states and the District of Columbia for auto insurance rates. LA auto insurance owner to pay an average of $ 806 in annual premiums of a type policy, while policyholders in Germany nearly 15% less than $ 687

Baghdad, Iraq-There is a huge potential for prosperity of the insurance market in the “new Iraq,”after the Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens, recently returned, plus two months in the country, where he helped draft the new law insurance -.

Mr. Pickens traveled to Iraq as an independent supplier on behalf of McLean, Va.-based consultants Bearing Point Inc. last July, guaranteed one year, $ 79.5 million contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development to rebuild the bursting of the Iraq war Economy. He carried out the assignment during the leave of its legal obligations.

When he first arrived in Iraq on 12 M. April Pickens said he was surprised by the range of products available in Iraq, relatively small, clearing the insurance sector.

“The Iraqis, insurance,’’said Pickens, he said, is now believed that if this is to isolate the UN sanctions on Iraq that the world economy, the country could already compete in an insurance market.

The tab for Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne in 2004: $ 26 billion. The bill for Katrina in 2005: $ 40 billion. Wilma and Rita? $ 15 billion. The assurance of the economy has made most of the bills, but now American consumers to pay higher premiums and limited access to the protection of insurance. Back-to-back years recordbreaking storms have changed the way insurers of their companies in Germany. They are “reassessing their risks everywhere, even in Ohio,” said Daniel J. Kelso, president of the Ohio Insurance Institute. “They are now much more attention, and what they choose to ensure . “It was Ohioans whether they must pay for disasters golf along the coast.

The short answer is “yes”. In the long term, disasters like Hurricane Katrina “The impact on insurance policies and prices furthest from countries such as the Middle West. “Ohio owner insurance rates will probably increase because reinsurance has become more expensive” in the wake of several storms, “said Rick Holbein the State Auto Insurance Co. Reinsurance is a policy of purchasing insurance to cover claims if disaster strikes. Réassureur pay the majority of disaster claims in the past two years, the payment of $ 1.30 for every $ 1 of premiums collected them.

Trade in shares Assurance America is so easily that day without any activity.

But this should not bother to Guy Millner, small auto insurers president and controller of nearly 80 percent of the stock.

“It is an additional year to six quarters, for this company to more recognized,” he said.

Until then, America could still Assurance along a five-year expansion plan could more than triple the countries in which it operates.

At the same time, the company may Atlanta on its evaluation No. 2 among the best players in Georgia in 2003. Insurance America, he received an increase of 27 percent of revenue compared to 2002 and cut its annual loss by 70 per cent.

ST. Bernard Parish, La - Given that the vast wreckage Motorsport worked by Hurricane Katrina is carted away, judicial and insurance officials are anticipating the arrival of tens of thousands of such vehicles for lots of used car to the USA, there is already evidence for, Flooding damaged vehicles running on used car lots in Florida, Arizona, New York and Oklahoma, authorities said. Two months ago, at least seven of Nissan in 2005 of the National Insurance Crime Bureau database as a victim of Hurricane were sold at an auction in Los Angeles.

A task force on insurance investigators and criminal prosecution authorities LA built a database of flooded cars to try to prevent as much as possible to other vehicles and high-trimmed foisted uses naive buyers. The database lists www.nicb.org already more than 205000 vehicles. In the afternoon the subject of earlier this month, Tim Boucher was the median of a road four to St. Bernard Parish, La, the verification formalities driver pulls away from Hurricane Katrina damaged vehicles. Boucher, a special agent of the National Insurance Crime Bureau working with the database, said: “It is really responsible for reviewing the consumer”.

A person on economic development would be difficult to Benton to see a slowdown hit many parts of the nation.

Saline County has been one of the fastest growing counties in the state, its population growing by 30.1 percent over the past ten years, now that the eighth largest largest country circle with 83529 people according to the census 2000.

Benton, the National Statistical Office headquarters, saw its share of this growth. The city now has 21906 inhabitants, an increase of 20.5 percent compared to 18177 in 1990 census.

“The home [growth of real estate] Spawns communications [market],” said Dan Moudy, co-owner, Phillips-Moudy-Duke Real Estate of Benton.

Nearly 1700 building permits were issued for the construction of new single family home of one over the last ten years.

And there are many more on the way. Since the beginning of the year until July, 119 retailers have family permit issued by the city, with an estimated $ 14.8 million and 26 permits an evaluation of more than $ 9 million.

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., the largest insurer of cars in Arkansas and Germany, is a reduction in their overall rate of one level in Arkansas average of 4.4 percent effective November 27 This decline represents an annual saving of $ 13.4 million customers in Arkansas State Farm.

After this course will change, the farm state of Arkansas total price of nearly 13 per cent less than three years ago.

“We are pleased that along this good news for our customers, Arkansas,” said yields black, Vice President of Arkansas. “We are working hard to improve the quality of farm products of State and service at affordable prices.”

Premiums for coverage of most collisions decreases. The price of liability and medical coverage payments is also lower. However, the cost of coverage for most customers. Cmprehensive pay to cover damages resulting from theft, storm, fire, broken windows and vandalism.

The total receipts of contributions for changes in motorists, because they wear blankets, discounts for qualifying, where they live, the nature of automobile insurance, he continues, and how it is.

President Bill Clinton is expected to spearhead the reform of the health, but the key to escape damage and accidents questions before the preliminary Brenner in the first days of his administration, industry sources predict .

Since the Democratic governor of Arkansas to avoid positions on most issues of insurance during his campaign, Congress and industry observers are uncertain, as it is to respond as soon as it lasts.

Robert A. Rusbuldt, Vice President of Federal Affairs with independent insurance intermediaries of America, said: “I think the jury is still out. With the exception of the health sector, where Clinton has seen enough defined, it is too early to say what it portends new terminal for insurance of the economy in general and independent agents in particular.