Florida’s consumers face a robbery in progress with $910 million stolen so far.   That’s the premium hit for “staged accidents” made profitable by the state’s “no-fault” automobile personal injury law.   We visited this abomination before, asked the legislature to fix it, and watched as the brazen cabal of intentional crash victims, fraudulent treatment clinics and [...]

Last week, Steve Pociask testified at a North Carolina Legislative Committee hearing on Auto Insurance and was quoted by a North Carolina News Network – LINK HERE.

Before the North Carolina Joint Legislative Study Committee on Automobile Insurance Statement of Steve Pociask President of the American Consumer Institute, Center for Citizen Research January 25, 2012 Raleigh, North Carolina Today I will talk about a number of problems with the current regulatory system in North Carolina, including the existence of hidden fees and [...]

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This week, Google made major changes to its search algorithm in an effort to make search results both more relevant to users and more up to date.  Google is calling this “Search Plus Your World.”  To do so, they’re deeply integrating their new social network, Google+, into the search results that a user will receive [...]

The TC Palm op-ed, written by ACI President Steve Pociask, ran on Thursday, January 12, 2012 and can be viewed here.

You can read Dr. Fuhr’s entire study — “The Hidden Problems with Government-Owned Networks by Clicking Here.

For those who value apolitical conversation starters for seasonal parties, we offer a few notes on the Euro Zone “mess” which may go pyrotechnic within a few months.   The Substance:   Twenty-six European Union (EU) members voted to balance their nations’ fiscal budget within 0.5%, enforced by EU-imposed penalties.  Today, all but 3 countries [...]

Here is an op-ed written by Steve Pociask on how Florida can attract investment, increase the tax base, and create jobs by developing resort casinos in southern Florida.

Do you “spend” savings on projects that will create future prosperity for you and your family?   If you do, you are actually “investing.”   Most consumers and businesses invest; we upgrade houses or equipment and we buy financial assets.  We invest in mundane projects such as replacing a leaky roof, or in speculative projects such as [...]