Despite the compatibility of coups headlines on the other candidates, the wind in their sails, representatives Jim Courter fought by the counties of Hudson and the ocean today a quiet and confidence of the project, he won the Republican candidate for governor of New Jersey on the choice of the primary on Tuesday.

These itself was not a foregone conclusion, as was withdrawn in the Republican campaign, which could be called neurotic its final stage, a moment, as these HQs campaign swing between enthusiasm and depression with the fewer new and little say, rather than the difference between perception and reality.

The four main candidates fighting for the care of about 400000 voters in the Republican primary, each trying to defend its own interpretation of a new survey. The survey indicates that Cary W. Edwards, a former attorney general of Bergen County, had drawn before the meeting, spokesman Chuck Hardwick of the Union County, Mr. Courter Warren County and State Senator William L. Gormley Ocean County. The survey also showed that some progress Mr. Hardwick and Mr. Gormley, while Mr. Courter never had a point. Perceptions Combat

But the survey, between 29 and 31 May by the TV station WCAU in Philadelphia, had a margin of error of 5 percentage points, so that the distance between the top four candidates were separated by only 6 points percentage, statistically insignificant. In addition, the survey revealed that 16 percent of the sample of voters were still undecided.

If Edwards was a boomlet in gestation was uncertain. But with a volatile electorate and a close race, the perception increasingly losing ground could influence the outcome.

He spoke aid Courter the results of its own investigation, which has shown, Mr Courter at the forefront of how the candidate joked with buyers older and has time to describe his hopes for autumn - campaign. ”If you have an answer to each of these smaller crises, you are wasting much time and energy, Sir,’’said Courter. ”I have full confidence that we do good.”

To a certain electorate today, Mr Courter announced his proposal, the elderly a tax break. On the other hand he says about his support for a bill protecting the elderly from crime. And on one point, he spent several minutes to explain that 85 years, a woman, like a trombone at the age of New Orleans, once revealed the secret of its longevity - a breakfast with a banana and whisky .

If the reaction of the elderly is assigned to and from the Food Town supermarket in Whiting, NJ, any allegation of the last week of intense television, Mr. Courter a known amount of at least a considerable number of potential voters. ‘Hoffe, he did something ”

”I’ve seen on television and I thought it was a very nice man aspect,’’said Irene F. Heyesey, 69, retired, lives in Whiting. ”But I hope he will do something. Many seniors can not afford car insurance, and if they continue these taxes, we put everyone on prosperity. I do not have my opinion, not yet. This weekend, I would like to rest and consider what they are.”

Another asked a senior aide, as many hands M. Courter, to shake this weekend. The appearance, she received as incredulous, as if she had asked how many there were grains of sand on the Jersey Shore.

Over lunch later in the day, Mr. Courter, when he wins the nomination, he hopes to break away with the issues of welfare for the state budget, auto insurance and taxes. He said he also wants to address his vision of the future, in particular the use of the private sector to support cities in distress. Mr. Courter said he foresaw a role for government in programs to help preschool children in the state of the poorest areas, though it has perhaps the success of the Federal Republic Head Start Program, began in 1960.

“In the shadow of the war on drugs, we have allows us to minor offences such as vehicle theft problems very seriously risk the quality of life and meaning that most people, their investments Financial second symbol of status and their homeland, “says Dwayne Smith, associate professor of sociology at Tulane University, New Orleans.

Car theft is primarily an urban crime, with growth of 7 per cent in the first six months of 1990 compared to the same period in 1989. But the suburban areas saw a sharp increase of 5 per cent during the same period. Nearly 40 percent of flights were in the 10 largest cities and their suburbs. 2 million per year

In 1989, 1.5 million cars were stolen and 2.9 million have been looted of valuables or accessories, and if current trends continue, experts predicted annual vehicle thefts maybe more than 2 million at the end of the decade.

“Theft Auto is an American epidemic, a direct influence over four million victims a year,” Paul W. Gilliland, president of the National Automobile Theft Bureau insurance funded by a research group, wrote in an annual report. Thirty years ago, he said, more than 30 percent of inmates in Federal prisons were stealing vehicles and 2 percent were drug offenders; today, these figures are reversed, with only about 15 percent of vehicle thefts is closed arrest.

The Committee believes that the auto theft and looting cost the American public over $ 7 billion per year Out-of-sac higher costs of insurance premiums and taxes at a higher level increases support criminal prosecution authorities. Normally, over 17 percent of losses, on behalf of robbery and looting that occur between Thanksgiving and New Year.

Authorities say thieves make cars, which are easily stolen and strong demand from those who buy stolen cars and vehicles with designs that are not year after year, modify, because their parties are useful over a longer period.

Patricia A. Ethridge, a criminal investigation with the Tennessee Highway Patrol and the President of the International Association of Automobile Theft Investigators said that relatively few police officers around the nation stolen car driven investigations, as prosecutors time only for simple cases and that the judge almost always together on thieves probation, because the prisons are aboard the violent offenders.

Many police officers to thieves professionals debt of a large number of thefts and drug addicts on what many say is a sharp increase in predation.

“We see more and more quick-bands, where people are Bing tomb tires, radios, seats - all they can be quickly - to sell drugs,” said Ethridge.

Jeanne B. McGough, commander of the auto-theft-section of the Chicago Police Department, said: “The problem is the flight no longer young riders joy is a department store, retagging, change vehicle identification numbers, export “.

The increase in car theft has caused a big industry in antitheft devices, including alarms, computers, identification systems and satellite tracking monitors. But many police, said the official best buy for their deterrent value is a label, sold by Radio Shack, which says: “Warning: Protected by a security system Radio Shack. A package of five stickers cost 1.19 $ And there is no obligation to purchase an alarm system. A low-cost charges

In Philadelphia, where in five years auto thefts have doubled, to 25000 last year, police have recently borrowed a small budget solution from New York. In an innovative program called Combat Theft Auto, a car owner puts a sticker on the window, which allows police to stop the car from 1 pm to 5 am and check the pilot.

The crosses are almost always near the West Street crossing, and mark the places where adolescents, weaving home bars and honky tonks across the boundary of Louisiana, do the road, crash and die. Wanda Grimes, a substitute teacher in Beaumont, aged 19, whose son was killed by a drunk driver at home from Louisiana in 1992, he called “our blood Border.”

For years, she worked and other supporters sewing Stop the hole, Louisiana, a law on protection of the criminal bar owners selling alcohol to people between 18 and 20, even when it is prescribed by the ‘adolescent purchase alcohol. She won last year, or if she thought at the very least, if the law prohibiting the sale of alcohol to people under 21

But then last week, the Louisiana Supreme Court decided that the State alcohol consumption age of 21 is a form of discrimination based on age, and raised the 1995 Act and a 1986 law that excluded those under 21 buying alcohol. Louisiana, the only State in the nation with an age-18 drinking water.

“I wonder how many people have contributed to bury their children now,” said Grimes.

In Louisiana, the judgement of the Court of Justice has brought joy to the extent of establishment and adolescence-age drinkers, but embarrassing, others are sorry that the State of third rate banana republic with its own law and its way of doing things. Mrs. Grimes and other supporters, it was as if the state unfurled a banner on its borders with Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas to welcome teens to drink.

Although many in the decision of the LA as woefully short on common sense, New Orleans, 4 to 3, the judgement was the judicial equivalent of a party Keg. Within a few hours of the decision, beer was flowing in the mouths of 18, students and Senior High School in the French Quarter and in bars near Tulane University, and some clubs have celebrated with owners $ 2 cans cutting rates and lobster.

The Attorney General of Louisiana, Richard Ieyoub, the Supreme Court on its decision; Dir Mike Foster, the legislature hastily by a constitutional amendment to repeal the Act 21. In the meantime, Mr. Ieyoub all others who have stopped selling alcohol to 18 to 20 years to its request for a rehearing.

Less than a week after the decision by the Clinton administration warned the LA find a way for the trial. The state loses $ 17 million in road money if they are not in conformity with the 1986 National Minimum Age beverage law, under which states their right to drink at age 21

“It is an embarrassment for our state,” said James Donelon state representative, Republican of Metairie. He said the difference was deliberate and was a magnet for young drinkers age limit of countries and entire nation. But the judgement of the Court of Justice is the worse thing, “he said. The state has officially opened its door to teen-drinkers and drivers age. “It is terrible.

The statistics are difficult to find because the reports of accidents which often lack details, where young people were and what they do. But Mrs. Grimes tells a frightening statistics, a result of their own research. During 1993, in the west of the track 50 miles of the line I-10 between their home and Lake Charles, there were 64 accidents in which persons under 21 or have been injured or killed . All parts of them drink.

There were only 16 accidents in the same year in the journey towards East on Interstate 10

Drinking is almost a point of pride in Louisiana, where young people absorb down Jello lacés with projectiles hard and run Schnaps “to go” Becher to return to their cars in bars. New Orleans, “Drive-up daiquiris.

The hall of alcohol is one of the most powerful in state government, which explains why the gap - as obvious as it was - lasted nine years, kill, “said Catherine Morgan, director of the victim “Services for Mothers Against Drunk Driving in Baton Rouge.

The legal case began last year in Evangeline Parish, if the four men against 21 and the law on local court. Two men, Burke Pierotti and Wendell Manuel, owned bars, and they arrived in the application of Mr. Manuel’s son, Jody, and a friend, Stacey Foret, both of them have less than 21 years.

“I was in the Navy during World War II, in a 31-man gun crews in the Pacific,” said Pierotti, 71, during Kazan Hotel Bar in Mamou. “I just had 21 , But half my team was 21, and when we went back to our home port, boys could not come at a bar with me and take a drink. Well, I think if a man is old enough to fight and die for his country, then a group of monkeys white hairs in Washington, DC, has no right to say it can not have a drink. And if I meaning in this respect. ”

Mr. Manuel, is underway, a bar just a few kilometers, said: “We do not want someone to see death. They are gonna drink. It is better to drink when they like in their cars. ”

Lawyers for bar owners argued that before the state can not discriminate between 18 and 20 years in their efforts to reduce drunk driving, it would be first on the implementation of the “other non-discriminatory methods, including public education, and a tax credit enables retailers to offer free non-alcoholic beverages, designated for pilots.

Finally, the case landed before the Supreme Court of the State, where four judges - is a temporary fill-in - has decided that lawyers had a point.

The state of public opinion, 18 years and adults, and it can not be free of any right to grant other adults, the court decided. Writing for the majority, Justice Catherine D. Kimball said the state failed to prove that the 21 and the law “clearly supports the important functions of government objectives of improving the security of the highway.

”If I had any brains,’’says Andrew Thomas, admits that while it is at Harvard, it was preferable to silver as a class,”I have an extra $ 10000 for and a display would be worth $ 1 million.”Still, Mr. Tobias demand at home, the best investment he ever made.

What is something to say. Mr. Tobias, the financial situation of writers with a sense of the absurd, has sold over a million copies von”The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need”(Harcourt Brace). He grew up in a rich range of personal protective equipment-finance is a software to Windows and Quicken rendered obsolete. Well, he is the author of von”Mein Vast Fortune: The Money, an adventure Quixotic Capitalist”(Random House), a fun retrospective financial eccentric in the life of a man with a Fifth Avenue childhood and an immense feeling of guilt.

The chronicles of memories, a successful investor is spukt by the feeling that everything is his fault, or at least his responsibility. Mr. Tobias attack on his quixotic adventure when he fights $ 250000 Ralph Nader and ineffective to combat no-fault auto insurance in California, where he never lived. (He joined the battle, if a State is trying to senator, from a book written about Mr. Tobias auto insurance in California, an amendment to the Constitution.”I said,” Tobias said.”But he said: “Let yourself be seduced not too excited, it will not happen.”) M. Tobias also bought airtime in the years 1993 and 1994 in the former Soviet Union to emerge in his own antismoking commercials, in which he spoke of the Russian Federation, he learned in high school. It measures its success by the parody of inspiration in Russian advertising, Ed Sullivan, a style. ”The most beautiful day of my life,”he said, pleased that someone closely.

Mr. Tobias, 50, speaks of its investment in the jewel of the San Remo apartment, his native country for two fall months of the year. (Today, it is there also a crane neck through the window, the Thanksgiving Day Parade. So it would be to Turkey upon his mother and stepfather apartment on Central Park South.) Mr Tobias’s principal residence since Miami in 1980, when he lost a war sophisticated New York above $ 44000 in enterprises with no taxes - he says it is absurd, a writer of taxes that businesses, especially for revenue outside New York - but he finally paid, then moves. ”I have not abandoned about money,”he said. ”I am left on how it treats me like a criminal.”

In any case, he likes to visit. It takes a guest in the kitchen, opens his refrigerator - there’s fuchsia-colored bouquet of meat, stole Louisiana, in the freezer - and provides a Starbucks Frappuccino. For those seeking a man who boasts of frugality, it is well decorated in the style heavy and the End-of-century Upper West Side: two enormous white sofas that swallow the occupants, dining room with blue walls depend on New York, drawings framed, Laundry, hair-thin combination of Germany, costs, taxes and delivery terms, $ 4300th

”I had a myocardial infarction, when we bought this thing,’’said Tobias.

He is satisfied with the apartment of the ex-Look 1970. ”I have had wonderful Haitian cotton Door Store everything,”he said. ”I thought it was great.”

The decorator is Mr. Tobias’s companion of three years, Charles Nolan, design, clothing Linda Allard Ellen Tracy, in accordance with. Their relationship is a source of happiness for Mr. Tobias, using the stylus on the name of John Reid schreiben”The Best Little Boy in the World”(1973), a fun, Poignant memories of adults become homosexual. Over the past five years, Mr. Tobias has gradually coming, and relaxed. ”It is very beautiful, you are,”he said.

He is also happy and self-deprecating as his writing, a man who has always gern””Wesen with money, as it expresses, but still want to give as much as half of his income by far. It suggests, among others, Steven Spielberg’s Shoah project, videotape the testimony of Holocaust survivors, Zero Population Growth, a scholarship that all tuition for a student pays to Xavier University in New Orleans, and Yes, the Democratic National Committee. ”Nobody wants this campaign finance reform more than me,”he said. ”I would be a fortune.”

But why not fault auto insurance?

”It is the last of what people want to think,”he says sheepishly. Believe me”, I often think, “Oh God, if only I had not received it.” But anyway, I’m in this case, and it is my kind of responsibility. If I do not know how much of him as I do, then nobody will do it.”He traces his involvement in the day, 1978, as his literary agents, Nan Talese, it made a stack of texts insurance, zu”The Invisible Bankers,”Le livre de M. Tobias on abuses in the insurance sector. The texts were throwaways’s husband of Ms. Talese, Gay Talese, decided to write instead Sex in”Thy Neighbor’s Wife.”

”It’s not for nothing that Talese, the big males,”M. Tobias wrote in his new book.

Mr. Tobias takes up 46 pages in his new book, with the subtleties of no-fault insurance battle, but to recognize, at page 100, he has perhaps the only person who finds it fascinating. He apology on page 106, who says he knows it’s time to pack, but then it goes up to page 115 It recognizes that it is owned, but for some reason. ”It’s a way of a nation we may be useful to more prosperity and more injure humans in the car breaks down,”he said.

His position on true no mistake, that doorman in a world without trial, where drivers need to buy insurance only to protect themselves. In essence, its fight against the California Trial Lawyers and was shocked to the conclusion that Ralph Nader, its former hero, was on their side. Indeed, the title of his book in the chapter on insurance business ist”Ralph Nader is a Big Fat Idiot.”

Mr. Tobias will not own that his happiness is high, although he indicated that somewhere in the $ 10 million. It is a Zunge”in”Wange great happiness, he stressed, particularly in New York, where he said there are apartments, it can not provide. According to him, his friend David Geffen, a founding partner of DreamWorks SKG, has a huge fortune.

John Stryker has a angeklagter diffuse on the flight from the FBI, real name Nofio Pecora Jr., an alleged fraudster series of links with the mafia.

The landlord is now in great Wandsworth prison awaiting extradition to the USA, where he was wanted at the federal level for the costs of fight against fraud for over a decade, Louisiana.

He seems to have taken its bulletin identity 1949 film Sands of Iwo Jima, in which John Wayne plays the stubborn U.S. Marine Sergeant John Stryker.

Tony Gardner, a periodical of the pub, said: “It was a beautiful man. It makes me feel welcome. It was a good old hole, and he turn.

“I do not know if he has a new identity for themselves, but as far as we are concerned, it was the best - joyful, warm.”

Both life was discovered last month when he accused of trying to British passports and a hunting license under a false name. Home Office officials were suspicious and alerted the police. She stopped him, when at a meeting on its application in London on December 1st.

Pecora, lived alone above the bar in the High Street three years, acknowledged the costs Horse Ferry Road Magistrates’ Court, Central London, was six months in prison.

The officers, raids on his home discovered he wanted to diffuse the international level, was organized jointly with his mother, Frances, 41 counts of money laundering and fraud during the year 1991.

Jim Latvians, USA prosecutor, said that the Ministry of Justice has worked on Pecora, extradition to the USA. Harry Rosenberg, New Orleans, the former lawyer, was in office, if Pecora was indicted in 1991, said the arrest showed that the Government has never been searching for fugitives.

“It’s the old adage that one run, but you can never hidden before by the federal government,” M. Rosenberg, is a private lawyer in New Orleans, said.

Pecora and his mother were in connection with the operation of certification Lloyd’s Insurance Co. The company wrote approximately $ 7.2 million in bonuses three offices in the region of New Orleans, especially high-risk auto insurance.

Frances Pecora made Certified Lloyd’s in 1987 and ran with his son until autumn 1991, as it was sold and renamed. She pleaded guilty to most charges and served two years in federal prison. She died in 1995.

His son has been released a short time later, he was never charged and tried.

As John Stryker, it is known in the pub Stryker’s Railway, but it has yet to the rail center of the house.

Rachel Brisland, new licensees, said: “The message, all talk. It is a bit like a shock. I have not heard a bad word against him. He was very popular. ”

A drinker, said: “We all knew standing as a member of the Commonwealth, with a good pub.

“He was very extroverted, and according to the Brash a little but it seemed very effective. It is quite incredible, he has the head of such a double life. I feel a little sorry for him, because he seems he had tried to Happy to be done, but obviously his past caught up with him.

Insurance companies, which have traditionally heavily on their earnings by investing the premiums, until the money was forced, claims are now back to pay the insurance premium less to raise funds, it , As indicated by AM Best Company, assesses the insurer.

This trend began long before Hurricane Katrina made, but the recent period was the worst, “said J. Robert Hunter, director of insurance for the Consumer Federation of America.

Insurers say it began paring back the collection and increase in insurance rates on home, if the costs of large claims began to eat their profits, and competitors only sell insurance Self began to draw away from their most lucrative customers.

In 2005, the insurer of origin in Louisiana and other coastal regions of several billion lost because of Hurricane Katrina and other storms, “said Hartwig, the insurance trade group, as earnings increased elsewhere in the country and for other types of insurance. Last year, profits rose across the sector, because the country has not made the case of hurricanes USA.

Mr. Hartwig said that insurers were not insensitive or hungry, but that “a financially weak insurer is insolvent or not to authorize the use for anyone”.

Premiums outside hand

Numerous damage caused by storms of 2005 has increased the costs of homeowners’ insurance in the region, for those who find a policy ever. These costs are a major obstacle for the resumption.

“It is very difficult for human beings, especially the marginalized, want to return to rebuild,” said Lawrence Ponoroff, the dean of the Tulane University School of Law. “It is very difficult against institutions and the recruitment of new business models in this area.”

The increase in premiums, buying a house - or a sale - more difficult here, “said Lynda Smith Nugent, real estate was sold for 34 years. “Suddenly, your insurance is $ 2000 per year to $ 6000 per year,” said Smith. “It is right that the icing on the entire pile of ice cream and whipped umfallen.

Spick insurance rates have also discouraged owners by presenting needed rental housing market here and lead to major problems non-profit groups trying to develop housing for the poor and elderly.

Such a group, the Enterprise Community Partners, 11 projects on paper, but only a Deal. And insurance in the project is approximately $ 2100 per year per unit, nearly seven times more than it was before the storm, “said Michelle K. Whetten, director for Gulf Coast businesses. “Another problem,” she says, “is a policy increasingly ever.

James J. Donelon, the insurance commissioner of the State, said that some companies have not been written over new policies in Louisiana and the fact that many of them have been rising prices, higher copayments and coverage to cut the wind and hail. (The State is also concerned by the fact that insurers are no longer used for professional activities, he agreed to spend $ 100 million for incentives to attract them.)

Mr. Annotti insurance spokesman, said the billion dollars paid for the unexpected rise in hurricanes in recent years has prompted insurers, for the first time on how crowded coast, with expensive houses and companies.

There are issues within the movement on this page, because every newspaper, “he added.” But we are always riveting an incredible history of horseback and on the reconstruction of a major American city. ”

A portion of that for rebuilding the city and the paper addresses his return from advertisers. “It’s a chicken and egg thing,” said Smith, who died, advertising, is launching plans for major clients in New Orleans. “What comes first, the services that people need persons or services? There are many unanswered questions. ”

The paper has many ads for car dealers (many people had car insurance, so that virtually all cars resemble New Orleans brand new). The document also contains a small ads for services such as sanitation and mold purified air duct. And its department stores, Dillard’s is open and full of individual purchase.

On the Gulf Coast, Dillard’s remains locked. But Vicki Barrett, the department head of advertising in The Sun Herald, said that what the paper had lost advertising in retail, they had won the classifieds. Perhaps a measure of the state of return of these two regions is an ad in The Sun Herald that seems unthinkable in New Orleans - a company promising to “all the needs of your pool.

The Sun Herald is optimistic about their future. Southern Mississippi, with its miles of white sandy beach and construction of new casinos inside the country, expects more than $ 30 billion in new investments in the coming years.

“It is once again a boom like no newspaper market has ever seen,” said Ricky R. Mathews, The Sun Herald Verlag.

Gary Pruitt, chief executive of McClatchy, which recently agreed to buy Knight Ridder, agrees with him. Mr. Pruitt sell 12 of Knight Ridder’s 32 titles, but he believes that The Herald Sun, “he says takes its criteria of a booming market.

“We are the basis of our decision about our reading of the economy and population projections and flexibility of the local economy,” he said.

Mr. Phelps, The Times-Picayune, the issue at a meeting of leaders of newspapers recently.

“The question of $ 64000 for us is this: What do companies want to look like 18 months, two years from now, when most insurance checks have been cashed and the Confederation of measures help slow down? ” Mr. Phelps asked.

“We simply do not know,” he said, adding later: “The truth is that, so great that we have not yet found the bottom of how life has changed for us. We are still riding Katrina’s winds.

As his son carted wheelbarrows of the destruction of property, Fr Moore Cupped one hand on his ears. “Listen. The birds are back there, which means that life is returning, “she says.” Now, they are crows, ravens, but they are birds. ”

Ms. Moore said that their residence in another neighborhood, New Orleans, if necessary. “But where we are going, we need help to restart,” she said.

Like many, peatlands not to flood insurance, and their owners’ insurer does not seem prepared to pay something, after deciding that the extent of damage to their house was entirely designed by the floods. Moores have maintained that the insurance policy for 42 years and say they are against the decision.

Financially, the Reddicks are in a better position, because both in their family are under construction and because Lvinia Reddick, M. Reddick’s 68-year-old mother, lack of flood insurance in addition to homeowners’ coverage.

Their house was insured by the citizens of Louisiana Property Insurance Corporation, a non-profit enterprise. Shortly before Christmas, Jason Norwood, insurance knob, met Mr. Reddick. Mr. Norwood’s car with a “re-defeat Bush” Bumper Stickers, Reddick and the house with a red label of the city proclaims it uncertain.

“They would have been better off without house owner” full insurance and flooding, “said Norwood.” There was roof damage, and water rained in, there had suffered flooding and evidence and insurance companies rather say that it was all flood. I’ll try to get everything paid. ”

Lvinia Reddick has already offered $ 35000 in flood areas insurance. They would be more than $ 100000 if they own a house “their pay the maximum.

A life in Houston townhouse with two other retirees, Lvinia Reddick has been created within and outside the hospital since the hurricane, is unable to travel to New Orleans. His son was itching to destroy their homes, but it has not. “I for me, even if it is not enough,” she said.

Finally, New Orleans, shortly before Christmas, Lvinia Reddick, wearing nitrogen framework of earrings and rubber boots, was in shock, before einstürzenden house in the desert of his life geisterhaften neighbourhood. It was a moment of silence, then cried on the heavens. Parents keep their bröckelt the earth.

“Little Charles”, yelled, it was his son, his late father was known as Big Charles, “you do not tell me that it was bad. Oh, Lord have mercy” .

Mr. Reddick, insofar as this September announced that the house of his mother has been destroyed, his arms folded over his chest and shook his head. He looked tough but it was whisper: “You want to be your home, baby.”

Lvinia Reddick’s niece, Deborah Lockley Wilkes, a High-School professor of physics at Houston, took his arm, which indicates that it creates plans for a dream house “with a Jacuzzi and works, girls.

“I would not like a jacuzzi,” said Lvinia Reddick. “I want my little house with my little fence and my little neighbor to cause”.

At the moment, a car was travelling slowly along the road, its passengers, photographs and notes. “This is what you see here, again,” said Reddick. “Nothing is known, but people want our country.”

Jimmy Slack, a relative and a police officer from New Orleans, has shown to offer moral support, climbed into his car frames. Starting, he radiated Aaron Neville singing “Please Come Home for Christmas” on its loudspeakers. Lvinia Reddick aufgeschreckt, then threw his head back and screamed with laughter. And also how she was ready to move.

Mr. Reddick treats his parents at a party in the house of Bourbon in the French Quarter, and retirees concerned about their intake of salt, because they caused seafood on the boards, where they could suspend trailers.

Since the hurricane met on 29 August, automobile clubs and criminal prosecution authorities warn consumers to consider used cars to analyze water damage and their stories. Because a damaged car titles can be “washed” - State laws make it relatively easy to obtain a clean title in one state for a vehicle of the mark of a “flood” or “salvage” title in another — Such warnings are always more storms.

But Katrina’s automotive was hardly routine losses. Car, sat in sewage and fuel, contaminated water in New Orleans could pose risks than ever for everyone, handles the vehicles or parts thereof, after the Coordinating Committee for Automotive Repair, a nonprofit organization, advice on the prevention and reduction of environmental pollution and health of workers on safety issues segments of the automotive industry, but also repairs.

“This is not just another flood vehicle is a totally different animal,” said Robert Stewart, the group of presidents.

The coordination committee has prepared a report on the website warning that contaminated sludge in May threaten doors, rails, rocker panels and gas and that the interior and carpets can be pathogenic near the port. The flooded cars should be regarded as biohazards, the group said.

“We can not tell you if a car from New Orleans never be sure,” said Lirel Holt, past chairman of the coordination committee.

Carfax, the nation a leading provider of information on the history of each vehicle is estimated that 570000 cars were damaged May by Katrina. Louisiana officials say, 300000 were May in New Orleans.

An ambitious project to help consumers identify at least some hurricane damaged vehicles available online Friday. On the website of the National Insurance Crime Bureau, www.nicb.org, one can in a car 17 digits vehicle identification number, VIN, to determine whether the 60000 identified so far in a database vehicles damaged by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

The insurance crime bureau, a nonprofit organization funded by insurance companies on the frontline in the fight against auto theft and insurance fraud, working with the Louisiana State Police on collecting VIN numbers both insured and uninsured vehicles.

Frank G. Scafidi, a spokesman for the insurance crime bureau, said more information on transport vehicles, including the title of history, would be made available to law enforcement and automotive services across the nation, and vehicle manufacturers to information such as Carfax history.

So far, the site is only lists WINE 3300’s New Orleans for vehicles. The vast majority of damaged cars have been listed so far, where contamination was less likely in other parts of Louisiana or Alabama and Mississippi. Most vehicles were insured, the settlements have been made, “said Scafidi.

Monday, Judge Barbara County Vigil ordered Allstate produce a series of slides by the consulting firm McKinsey & Co., Santa Fe lawyer David Berardinelli outline of a plan said that the company has been able to increase profitability in its auto insurance claims by insured severely.

Berardinelli said he believes that the documents represent a representative claims-Brech philosophy is reflected in the case of Katrina, and that the programme outlined by the McKinsey documents “in 1990, was finally extended to the less lucrative line of insurance homeowners. The documents must be sealed products, but they are used freely in each case, where Berardinelli has signed previously as a legal adviser, inter alia, by a group of lawyers from New Orleans area to work Allstate Katrina cases.

Thus, many people of New Orleans was devastated by the hurricane, but by post-hurricane towers and the disappointment of these companies, “said Berardinelli. Companies can establish their retarding the recovery of the region Gulf by decades. ”

Rich Halberg Allstate spokesman, said one of the documents came from people disaster, Martinez et al v. Allstate Insurance Co., arguing they had no importance for hurricane claims. “The case he is referring to a car injury cases and has nothing to do, property claims. Any attempt to backflip in a real estate situation is irrelevant,” said Halberg.

McKinsey no comment on the work for customers.

Clear mini-Paul, one of a half-dozen local lawyers, Berardinelli praised to work with them in over 40 cases to prove that Allstate has a corporate strategy to deny claims, said that access to movies McKinsey, except that they are several steps the continuation of their cases. He anticipated that once the documents are in some cases, they will quickly in all cases, Allstate, where they accelerate settlements or add fire-power in the courtroom.

“I believe that this development allows us, for the major obstacles that slow the process to show that philosophy was McKinsey Allstate to tangible assets of cases and disaster. This is the first step for us now go to the documents on request you after the presentation of films, which show how they become familiar with the claims of Katrina and Rita, “said the mini-Clear. “It is once again hit all cases, Allstate is underway.”

In July, New Orleans Denenea lawyer Johnny, another lawyer working with Berardinelli, tent the introduction of the McKinsey documents in one of its events, U.S. District Court in New Orleans. But the judges, they were not relevant Denenea trying to prove, by deposits with Allstate they are.

Denenea was part of the legal team in white v. Allstate, the first attempt to “Katrina” to adapt to a jury in federal court. In this case, the doctor Slidell Robert Weiss won $ 3.8 million bad faith Allstate judgement against the loss of his Treasure Island home and later to a confidential agreement with the Northbrook, Ill., company.

Berardinelli, “said McKinsey slides showing how the cheating Allstate Insurance to reward shareholders, and that the plan began with the installation of automatic claims and, finally, on other sectors of the business is the main reason why Allstate has also profitable in recent years.

Allstate said that Berardinelli has a career passing, for the attack on society, and it is fair and reasonable offers on loans, and tries to settle claims as quickly as possible.

Last year, Berardinelli has published a book entitled “Good hands Gloves boxing,” which receives its title from a piece of advice McKinsey, boxing gloves Don Allstate for all clients not to accept provide solution for penny on the dollar. It is precisely now that the book is the specialty particular legal order of $ 295, but Berardinelli has a project for a consumer version of the book.