Why does insurance cost you so much? (Sun-Sentinel)
He doesn't have a home on the beach and never made an insurance claim on his property. But Leonard Vicario will pay roughly $3,800 this year to insure his 2,600-square-foot house west of Lake Worth.

Crop Insurers Piling Up Record Profits (Washington Post)
In 2002, a small upstart insurance company approached the federal government with an idea. The company, Crop 1, was one of 16 firms that sold federally subsidized crop insurance policies to farmers under rates set by the government. In 1980, Congress turned to private insurance companies and......