Although the weather has been blissfully non-eventful this hurricane season, the same cannot be said for the quagmire that is Florida's current property insurance market.

The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents said it named Jon D. Spalding president of the association during a recent meeting of its board of directors earlier this month.

A federal jury found the oil company had caused contamination with the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether or MTBE in six drinking water wells in the borough of Queens and awarded costs for removing MTBE from those locations.

As promised, this is part III of a series about dogs and their owners, one of the owners being me. As I mentioned in Part I, ...