TAMPA – Someone really wanted to kill Grigori and Galina Komissarchuk. ...more

January 8, 2008

Florida insurance regulators' long-running battle with St. Petersburg-based insurer Universal Health Care has ended with the company agreeing to pay $450,000 in fines and reimbursements to the state and follow more stringent financial reporting rules. ...more

December 22, 2007

Baby boomers are quitting the work force, so Wall Street's going to work. Its latest pitch: "payout" mutual funds that provide retirees with regular income. These funds come on the heels of a slew of new income-generating insurance products, including immediate-variable annuities, "longevity insurance" annuities and tax-deferred variable annuities with living benefits. ...more

December 9, 2007

Tests on more than 1,200 children's products, most of them still on store shelves, found that 35 percent contain lead - many with levels far above the federal recall standard used for lead paint. ...more

December 6, 2007

It's a shame you can't run your car on turkey. Unlike gasoline, prices for the traditional holiday poultry have dipped steadily the past several weeks across the Tampa Bay area. Some stores have dropped the price by more than a third, down to as low as 79 cents a pound. ...more

November 17, 2007