Despite no hurricanes in five years, Florida insurers are demanding yet more money from homeowners. At the same time, the capital that insurers have on hand to pay claims has shrunk. One reporter spent a year trying to figure out why.
2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners
6 articles
ProPublica
2010
A series on how some Wall Street bankers, seeking to enrich themselves at the expense of their clients and sometimes even their own firms, at first delayed but then worsened the financial crisis.
The Chicago Sun-Times
Jul 2010
On a particularly bloody April weekend in 2008 when 40 people were shot, seven fatally. Not one has faced charges.
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal
Dec 2010
Nicholas Volker is a little boy with a rare, devastating disease. In a desperate bid to save his life, Wisconsin doctors must decide: Is it time to push medicine’s frontier?
The Newark Star-Ledger
Nov 2010
On the 2009 sinking of a scallop boat; a newly minted Pulitzer winner.
New York Times
2010
On Russia’s faltering justice system.
