Thursday, September 18th, 2008 — Perhaps the successful handling of Hurricane Ike, along with its near-miss nature, has left the storm a second-runner to other headlines in insurance news. The near-collapse and almost-selloff of American International Group Inc.--the latest headline in near daily doses of doom on the disintegration of Wall St. and the American financial system--has taken much attention away from the situation along the Gulf Coast of Texas, where citizens of Galveston were allowed just Tuesday afternoon to return to their properties and businesses to see if they were still there.