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Americans for Insurance Reform (AIR), a coalition of nearly 100 consumer and public interest groups representing more than 50 million people, has produced a major new study called "Repeat Offenders: How The Insurance Industry Manufactures Crises And Harms America." The study exposes how the property/casualty insurance industry creates periodic crises where insurance becomes unaffordable or unavailable for everyone from doctors to small businesses to local governments. These crises are known as "hard markets."

Last week an insightful report from the American Association for Justice detailed the hypocrisy of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its board, advocating closing the courthouse doors on the average consumer while retaliating through personal revenge lawsuits themselves. See Do As I Say Not As I Sue

Having just returned from a delicious spinach salad for lunch, I was not happy to learn that salads sold in Colorado by a major producer of blended salads are being recalled because of potential contamination with salmonella. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent out an alert early today that Taylor Farms Retail, Inc. a Salinas, Calif. business which has produced fresh salads for more than 80 years, was initiating a precautionary recall following a random test conducted on a finished package of spinach by the State of Washington Department of Agriculture.

The number of payday lenders in Colorado during the calendar year 2010 fell 19 percent from 2009, to only 410 locations, according to a report from Colorado Attorney General John Suthers. And during the same time period, the number of payday loans issued fell 29 percent.

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