I recommend a fee only financial planner Lotus.

Re: Insurance in Florida all hell is breaking loose down there today. It is being widely reported that Allstate will be banned from your fair State. It seems that just like Dickie Scruggs, insurance companies feel theyt can ignore lawful subpoenas. Check this out from today’s St Petersburg Times.

“TALLAHASSEE – Unless there’s a last-minute deal, Florida will try something today it has never done before: pull back the curtain on the property insurance industry at a public hearing. Regulators will start with the state’s third-largest insurer, Allstate Floridian.

In what is shaping up as the insurance equivalent of a heavyweight title fight, Allstate officials will face a panel of state regulators, including Office of Insurance Regulation general counsel Steve Parton, to explain how they set rates, and their relationship with rating agencies, hurricane-modeling companies, reinsurers and trade associations.

For months, Gov. Charlie Crist has accused the industry of price-gouging, profiteering and collusion after 31 companies, including Allstate, Travelers and USAA, did not lower their rates as much as regulators expected.

The reductions were supposed to be substantial. Following special legislation last January, Florida expanded its state reinsurance fund to allow private companies to reduce rates an average of about 24 percent.

Instead, 31 companies are seeking to raise rates an average of 13 percent. Near the higher end is Allstate, which wants to raise rates an average of 42 percent. The initial request was denied in November, just one day after Allstate made its pitch, and the company is appealing.”

Y’ont pithy t-shirts and hats, hey? I heard a rumor last week that somebody’s selling “FREE DICKIE SCRUGGS” t-shirts somewhere online. Meant to see if I could run that down but forgot it again until just now. HAW!

i will be happy to pitch something into the tip jar.

i was looking at patterson’s plea and wondering what a “section 381.2 of the u.s. sentencing commission guidelines manual” is. it was penciled in down at the bottom as an asterisk.

Sometimes, you have to make a deal with the devil to get to heaven. I’m betting that whatever, or whoever, Langston has the goods on, it is big, and we haven’t seen any of it, yet.

One can’t help but wonder what other crimes Langson may have committed that made him want/need that exemption, and what else he’s being given a pass on in exchange for his testimony. Let’s just hope it’s not a murder. He’s also exempted from forfeiture so even if he receives the full 250k fine he’ll turn a 750k profit from his confessed crime with the government’s blessing.

It’s been illuminating to watch Whitfield, Teel, & Minor get a pass on prosecution by the state, not to mention the Harrison County jailors. Without federal prosecution we’d have no prosecution in this state, and – as witnessed by Langston’s deal – even federal prosecution hardly qualifies as a deterrent. State prosecution should be a piece of cake where, as here, the Defendant has already admitted the substance of the crime.

See what you think before moving on in this direction.

LD, no, I don’t have a PayPal account, and want not to commingle folo LLC funds with personal ones. Ignorant as I am of tax stuff, I skeered of putting a foot(-petal) wrong.