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To: mishedlo who wrote (52944)	6/29/2006 11:22:15 AM
From: John Vosilla	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

"I don't know what anyone's going to do who's a working person," said Mrs. Martin, who battened her home and survived Hurricane Charley in 2004 with relatively little damage. "Then you add in the factor of the higher cost of fuel, electricity. Where's it going to stop?" Mish it seems the man or woman on the street sees inflation as a problem..

To: mishedlo who wrote (52944)	6/29/2006 12:17:50 PM
From: Chispas	Respond to of 116555

Mish, am pretty sure this large insurance company just went bankrupt, working on getting some more info : Southwestern Life Corporation, formerly I.C.H. Corporation, is an insurance holdoing company which a broad range of life insurance, accident and health insurance and annuity products. Products and services are marketed to individual and groups in over forty states and the District of Columbia. The insurance and annuity products of the company are marketed through more than 11,000 active, independent agents. Significant subsidiaries include Southwestern Life Insurance Co., Constitution Life Insurance Co., Union Bankers Insurance Co., Philadelphia American Life Insurance Co., Bankers Life Insurance Co. of New York, Integrity National Life Insurance Co. and Bankers Multiple Life Insurance Company. Individual health insurance acctd for 52% of 1994 premium revenues; individual life, 26% and group and other, 22%. Key People President & Chief Operating Officer J. R. Kerber Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer J. T. Hull Secretary D. B. Gail