Monday, February 18, 2013

Weekly Reader Picks: Monday, February 18, 2013

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February 18, 2013

Top 10 for the Past Week

1.Top 10 Alcohol Brands of Underage Drinkers
Feb 12, 2013 -- A relatively small number of alcohol brands dominate underage youth alcohol consumption, according to a new report from researchers at the Boston University School of Public Health and the Center on Alcohol Marketing ...
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2.Insurers Begin Employing IBM’s Supercomputer Watson
Feb 11, 2013 -- Dr. Watson is accepting new patients. The Watson supercomputer is graduating from its medical residency and is being offered commercially to doctors and health insurance companies, IBM said Friday. IBM Corp., the health ...
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3.Courts Upholds $28 Million Award in Grand Canyon Skywalk Case
Feb 13, 2013 -- A federal court dealt a blow to the business arm of a northern Arizona tribe that owns the Grand Canyon Skywalk by upholding a $28.5 million judgment in favor of a Las Vegas developer who invested the money to build the ...
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4.No Insurance Implication for Weather Channel’s Decision to Name Winter Storms
Feb 14, 2013 -- The Weather Channel's decision this winter season to start naming severe winter storms in the U.S. -- such as bestowing the name "Nemo" for the massive Feb. 8-9 winter storm -- most likely will not have any implication ...
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5.How Identity Theft Ruined Alabama Victim’s Finances, Career
Feb 12, 2013 -- Air National Guard Maj. Zane Purdy was making more than $100,000 a year working for a defense contracting company when his identity was stolen and sold to a tax fraud ring. Now, Purdy makes $7.25 an hour at a Krystal ...
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6.Top 3 Ways to Gain More Referrals Online & Offline
Feb 7, 2013 -- This post is part of a series on insurance marketing and training sponsored by Astonish. I've been working with this industry long enough to know that each and every local insurance agency out there is sitting on a ...
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7.Banks Sitting on $208M in Insurance Checks for N.Y. Sandy Victims
Feb 13, 2013 -- Nearly $208 million in insurance payments in 6,600 checks haven't been released from banks to victims of Superstorm Sandy, according to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.He says his administration is working with banks to pay ...
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8.Former Wisconsin Insurance Executive Sentenced to 5 Years for Fraud
Feb 15, 2013 -- A former Wausau, Wis., insurance agency executive has been sentenced to five years in prison for a fraud scheme. Former J.N. Manson Agency Inc. (Manson) CEO Timothy Mathwich had been indicted by a grand jury in June ...
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9.Insurer to Take 31,000 Commercial Wind Policies from Florida’s Citizens
Feb 14, 2013 -- Florida's state-backed property insurer has approved a plan to shift 31,000 commercial wind-only policies to a new private insurer. The board of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. approved the plan earlier this week. ...
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10.National Hurricane Center Report: Sandy Was 2nd-Costliest Hurricane in U.S.
Feb 14, 2013 -- Superstorm Sandy was the deadliest hurricane in the northeastern U.S. in 40 years and the second-costliest in the nation's history, according to a report released Tuesday, Feb. 12.The storm's effects reached far and ...
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