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(AP)- Tropical Storm Isidore continued
Wednesday to move north in the Gult ot
Mexico, bringing heavy rain and high wind
to parts of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi,
Georgia and Florida.
Isidore moved north at 13 mph and was
expected to make landfall along the
Louisiana coast by early Thursday.
The storm’s outer bands drenched south
eastern Louisiana, almost all of Mississippi,
Alabama, northern Georgia and northwest
ern Florida. More than two inches of rain
fell by Wednesday afternoon in Gulfport and
Meridian, Miss. New Orleans and Slidell in
Louisiana, and Pascagoula, Miss., received
more than an inch Wednesday.
The storm closed roads in Gulf Shores,
Ala., and rain spread north to Georgia,
Tennessee and into the western Carolinas
and southwestern Virginia. Showers and
storms were reported along the Carolina
through north Florida coastlines.
Clouds from Isidore spread into the Ohio
Valley and mid-Atlantic region. High pres
sure brought partly cloudy skies and dry
conditions to much of New England.
In the West, clouds spread over the
Dakotas, Minnesota and Iowa into the north
western Great Lakes. Rain and storms moved
east into South Dakota and Nebraska and
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The afternoon high in the lower 48
was 91 degrees in Deer Valley, Ariz.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Farmers
Insurance Co., the state’s second largest
homeowner insurer and the target of a state
lawsuit, is leaving the Texas homeowners'
market and will stop renewing policies in
November, a spokesman said Wednesday.
The company contends it is losing hun
dreds of millions of dollars in Texas in part
because of an upsurge in claims for mold and
water damage. The decision to pull out of the
Texas market will affect about 700,000 cus
tomers, the company said.
The state sued Farmers in August, accus
ing it of charging customers too much and
engaging in deceptive trade practices. A week
later, the insurance department issued a
cease-and-desist order against Farmers,
telling the company to stop what it called
unfair pricing practices. The state also said it
would seek about $150 million in restitution
from Fanners customers.
State officials offered to settle the cease-
and-desist order this week if Fanners agreed
to change the way it prices policies and pay
restitution, and the insurance department said
it would waive proposed penalties that could
have totaled billions of dollars.
But Farmers, which has denied any
wrongdoing, said the conditions ordered by
the state Department of Insurance would not
allow the company to generate the money it
needs to survive.
“We have made every attempt to continue
offering homeowners insurance to the people
of Texas and we take this action with deep
regret.” said John Hageman, Texas State
Executive Director for Farmers. “We find the
grounds for the Department of Insurance’s
recent legal actions to be without merit.”
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The Department of Insurance said it
hoped Farmers would rethink its decision but
said it would not allow Fanners to do busi
ness illegally in Texas.
“We will not let Farmers use its sizable
market share to intimidate us,” said Executive
Deputy Commissioner Karina Casari.
Farmers issues about 20 percent of the te
owners insurance policies in Texas.
“It became clear during the past few £
that Farmers had no intention of comply
with the law or treating their customers;
agents fairly and honestly,” she said.
Homeowners insurance rates
increased for some Texas consumers by
much as 2(H) percent.
Insurance companies say the higherp:
miums stem from the rising cost of ware
related and mold-related claims, amongpy
factors. —
Farmers said Texas accounted lot 43 pet
cent of its total underwriting losses in the fit'
half of this year, even though onlyabo ut '
percent of its property and casualty prem®
came from the state.
Insurance has become the key issue in®
gubernatorial race that pits Republican G
Rick Perry against Democrat Tony Sanche.
Perry said Wednesday he wants Fanner:
do business in Texas but added, "The cn
sumers have been getting ripped off by
company and I’m not going to put up witf
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ed if Perry had not mismanaged theover^
of insurance companies and had acted sow'
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