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U.S. workers' compensation payments for medical care and cash benefits for workers injured on the job increased 2 percent to $55.4 billion in 2007, according to a nonprofit study group.

Two Florida commercial and personal lines insurers with 18,000 policyholders have been ordered into liquidation, it was announced.

Weather forecasters pondering the possible track of Tropical Storm Danny said it could make a run at North Carolina and the Northeast over the weekend, possibly becoming a weak hurricane.

NU Associate Editor Mark Ruquet talks about the lack of informed, respectful debate outside a healthcare reform town hall meeting this week and invites reader feedback at www.NUSamSoapBox.com.

The death of Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. could put Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., an advocate for giving insurers a federal charter option, in line to become the new chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, sources said.