Now’s a good time to shop, choose insurance

State Farm, Florida’s largest private property insurer plans to leave the state. Major insurers, including Nationwide, Allstate and State Farm, have dropped more than 350,000 policies in recent years. And state regulators have licensed more than two dozen new insurers in just the past three years.

Branches in South Florida, elsewhere to be open Saturday as usual

Colonial BancGroup Inc. was taken over late Friday by BB&T Corp. of Winston-Salem, N.C., becoming the largest bank to fail this year.

Savvy businesses renegotiating leases or finding better deals elsewhere

Venerable law firm Proskauer Rose is getting new digs. Sort of.

Major carriers collect hundreds of millions in baggage fees

Fliers jetting off this month could be surprised at the ticket counter: Some carriers are charging $5 more each way to check every bag.

New guideline to take effect in September

As if there weren’t already enough to worry about on the foreclosure front, let me warn you about yet another troubling detail you may not have heard about, if you’re trying to modify your mortgage:

Seeks to counter threat of non-native species

As the state struggles to contain South Florida’s iguana problem, one man says he has a solution: Skin ‘em.