Latest NonProfits Headlines
All the headlines from our NonProfits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
How Agency Helps Preserve Historic Homes, Business Districts
Apr 16 2010 // While other insurance agents are visiting manufacturing plants, shopping malls and office parks, Brian Phoebus is hanging out in historic homes, renovated museums, art galleries and performing arts theaters. His haunts...
Risk Managers Continue to Report Soft Market Pricing
Apr 15 2010 // Seven years and running, the soft market shows few signs of loosening its grip on commercial insurance pricing, according to a new industry study. Average premiums in every line tracked by the RIMS Benchmark Survey, fell...
Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Reforms of 2004 Lowered Costs
Apr 12 2010 // Workers’ compensation reforms enacted in Tennessee in 2004 have helped reduce costs in certain specific areas of the workers’ compensation system. The reform provisions related to permanent partial disability...
Leavitt Group Names Weinberg Senior VP
Apr 9 2010 // Leavitt Insurance Services of Los Angeles has named Rudi Weinberg senior vice president. Weinberg brings 40-plus years of experience in employee benefits, including group health, dental, vision, 401(k), human resources,...
When a House Is a Home … and a Museum
Apr 5 2010 // How One Insurance Agency Is Helping Preserve Historic Homes and Businesses While other insurance agents are out visiting manufacturing plants, shopping malls and office parks, Brian Phoebus is hanging out in historic...
When a House Is a Home … and a Museum
Apr 5 2010 // How One Insurance Agency Is Helping Preserve Historic Homes and Businesses While other insurance agents are out visiting manufacturing plants, shopping malls and office parks, Brian Phoebus is hanging out in historic...
Innovative Use of Insurance Tools in Disaster Risk Management for Sustainable Development
Mar 22 2010 // The devastating effects of Hurricane Ivan in the summer of 2004, when it crossed the Caribbean Sea causing major damage in Grenada, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, produced one good thing. The Caribbean Community and...
When a House Is a Home … and a Museum
Mar 22 2010 // How One Insurance Agency Is Helping Preserve Historic Homes and Businesses While other insurance agents are out visiting manufacturing plants, shopping malls and office parks, Brian Phoebus is hanging out in historic...
How New York Insurance Broker Has Used Social Media
Mar 12 2010 // To the 77 percent of independent insurance agencies that don’t have a social media presence, creating a profile and trying to form “friendships” via a computer can be daunting. Once an agency gets online,...
House Panels Face Environmental, Insurer Groups Over Catastrophe Bill
Mar 10 2010 // Two House subcommittees have scheduled a joint hearing today on ways to address homeowners insurance costs in disaster-prone communities, an issue that has some environmentalists, taxpayer groups and insurers standing...
Mississippi Homeowners Learning Credit Score Link to Insurance
Feb 21 2010 // Mississippi Gulf Coast policyholders are well aware a hurricane is guaranteed to hike insurance rates, but fewer realize their credit reports also are factored into homeowner and automobile insurance premiums. Consumers...
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Feb 7 2010 // Excess and surplus lines wholesale broker Maclean Oddy & Associates Inc. appointed Stan Ackerman senior vice president and manager of the property division in its Houston office, and Nancy Self vice president and...
Mississippi Homeowners Learning How Credit Score Affects Insurance Premium
Feb 5 2010 // Mississippi Gulf Coast policyholders are well aware a hurricane is guaranteed to hike insurance rates, but fewer realize their credit reports also are factored into homeowner and automobile insurance premiums. Consumers...
Charity First Insurance Names Binford Executive VP
Feb 4 2010 // San Francisco-based Charity First Insurance Services Inc. has appointed Riley Binford executive vice president. He will be responsible for managing Charity First’s existing programs as well as the development of new...
Zurich’s Foundation Supports ILO’s Microinsurance Facility
Jan 29 2010 // Zurich Financial Services announced that its Z Zurich Foundation will support the International Labor Organization’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility with a CHF 3 million [$2.85 million] grant. The Facility...
Dallas Institute Appoints SIG Insurance VP to Board
Jan 19 2010 // The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, a nonprofit organization that conducts public programs aimed at discovering what the humanities have to offer to the cultural life of the city, appointed Fred Wilkinson as...
Navigators Replacing CNA on Schinnerer Non-Profit D&O Program
Jan 14 2010 // CNA and Victor O. Schinnerer & Co., Inc. are ending their carrier and managing general underwriter relationship in the non-profit directors and officers (D&O) program. The split, which the firms said is amicable,...
Arizona Insurance Council Elects 2010 Officers
Dec 30 2009 // The Arizona Insurance Council (AIC) has elected new officers for 2010. New officers are: President Brett Clausen, Arizona business unit vice president for Farm Bureau Financial Services; Vice President Kerry Hayden,...
The Best Independent Agencies to Work For … And Why
Dec 20 2009 // The results are in from the “2009 Best Independent Insurance Agency to Work For” survey by Insurance Journal. The common theme resonating from the winning responses is one of family ideals. Regardless of size...
Allstate to Auction Recovered 1965 Volkswagen Van
Dec 16 2009 // Allstate announced today that it will sell a recovered 1965 Volkswagen bus at auction and donate the proceeds to Lydia Place, a nonprofit organization in Washington state serving homeless women and children impacted by...
