Steve Pociask (link here) discusses how Floridians are paying $1 billion annually in insurance fraud.  Published in the Tallhassee Democrat, April 26, 2011.

This morning I checked general news, email, Facebook news and interesting websites.  A lot was happening below the surface…   My homepage delivers news.  When I click on articles, they show without fanfare.  My pop-up blocker is set to “on” so adverts can’t grab space where I prefer the news to be.  I could set [...]

An American Consumer Institute survey found that most North Carolina drivers did not know that they pay a surcharge on their auto insurance bill so that risky drivers can pay less.  How could they know?  After all, state law prohibits insurance companies from disclosing these surcharges on consumer bills.  Also troubling, according to the same [...]

If Florida legislators needed any further evidence this spring that they must stop out-of-control fraud and litigation in the state’s Personal Injury Protection (PIP) auto insurance system, they now have all the proof they need.   Two recent missives – one from Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater and another from Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin [...]

Remote data storage, more sexily known as “cloud computing,” has become the “new normal.”  A poll commissioned by Microsoft found that eighty-four percent of Americans now use an online email client, which stores all of your email data off your own personal computer and allows it to be accessible from any computer or Internet-capable device, [...]

  Published April 21, 2011 – online link Time to Stop Criminal Parasites: Act Now   Florida has a fleeting chance to arrest auto-crash medical fraud and the high ticket lawsuits that fuel this criminal enterprise.  Staged auto-crashes put innocent Floridians in harm’s way.  Questionable medical treatments for crash scammers and the double and a [...]

The federal “Race to the Top” and Florida’s “Student Success Act” are attempts to improve K-12 results.  Race to the Top claims to “spur systemic reform and embrace innovative approaches to teaching and learning.”  It’s unclear how to decode that.  Student Success Act seeks to gear teacher pay to growth in student achievement.   More [...]

A nicely written article from Red State quotes ACI’s recent ConsumerGram on wireless competition.  To read their blog click here.

A tally of telecommuting: Tons of pollutants avoided By Sandy Bauers Just stay home. That might be a good mantra for those who want to see a major drop in greenhouse gas emissions. In a new study about working from home, a Widener University professor and a colleague have determined that greenhouse gas emissions could [...]

The FCC will soon be releasing its annual report on wireless competition.  One key question, of course, is whether the market is competitive.  Proponents of regulation seem to believe that consumers are automatically endangered when there are only a few competitors.  But accepted economic literature and empirical research finds no evidence that market concentration, by [...]