Category: Archive – Seminars

Global warming spurs new flood worries

Jun 12, 2008

Water management officials studying ways to protect water supplies, structures from rising threat By VALLI FINNEYNaples Daily News–June 11, 2008 Will global warming cause the sea level around Florida to rise quicker than expected? If so, officials from the South …

Florida to sell bonds to pay storm claims

Jun 10, 2008

Miami Herald–June 10, 2008 By DAVID ROYSE Gov. Charlie Crist and a top state financial official on Tuesday approved the sale of up to $625 million in bonds to pay claims from Hurricane Wilma back in 2005. The decision means …

COLUMN: New fees make wrecks even more painful

Jun 10, 2008

Florida Today–June 10, 2008 Cause a wreck, even a fender-bender, in West Melbourne or Cocoa and it will cost you hundreds of dollars in new fees charged by police and fire departments there. Or, more likely, it will cost your …

Nebraska Supreme Court rules against Florida

Jun 9, 2008

Florida Today–June 6, 2008 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OMAHA, Neb. — A multimillion-dollar insurance dispute that’s a decade old received new life on its third trip to the Nebraska Supreme Court because the court ordered a new trial today. Consequently, the …