With Tigers Living Next Door, Exotic Pet Insurance Business Soars

As state and federal lawmakers continue to wrestle with proposed legislation on exotic pet ownership and trade, one Florida man has built a small-business empire around keeping exotic animals, their owners and their neighbors safe. Mitch Kalmanson is the wild animal insurance guy, selling sometimes gigantic, multimillion-dollar policies to insure the owners of nature's most ferocious animals and seemingly uninsurable exotic pets -- some of which might live right next door to you. "I've got...Full Story