Latest NonProfits Headlines
All the headlines from our NonProfits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Eight P&C Insurers Get Top Marks for Climate Change Risk Management
Oct 22 2014 // Munich Re and ACE Ltd. are among insurers that are best prepared to manage risks related to climate change, a lobbying group said. The nine insurers that were found to be integrating climate change into underwriting and...
Educator-Focused Meemic Insurance Expands into Illinois
Oct 15 2014 // Meemic Insurance Co., a Michigan-based insurance provider offering personal auto, homeowners, and umbrella coverages tailored exclusively to teachers and other educational employees, announced that the company will...
Federal Aid OK’d For New Mexico Storm, Flood Damage
Oct 8 2014 // Local governments and some other entities in New Mexico are now eligible for federal assistance to recover from flooding and storm damage suffered during last summer. The White House says a disaster declaration by...
Barney & Barney Expands in Northern California’s Bay Area
Oct 8 2014 // Barney & Barney has relocated its San Francisco, Calif. offices to a new, larger location in the financial district. The new offices, located at California and Front, are 50 percent larger than the previous location at...
BP Still Trying to Undo Some Oil Spill Claims Payments to Nonprofits
Oct 6 2014 // BP Plc is seeking to undo payments to some victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill in a move opposing lawyers warn could open the floodgates to challenging hundreds of thousands of individual damage-claim awards. BP,...
U.S. Risk Pros and Western World Introduce a New and Improved Private and Non-Profit Organization Directors and Officers Liability Form
Oct 3 2014 // Dallas, TX, October 3, 2014– Effective October 1, 2014, this new form reflects the growing needs of organizations to address the issues confronting them in the 21st century. Coverage consists of Directors, Officers...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Hagedorn & Co. in New York
Sep 17 2014 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced that it has acquired Hagedorn & Company located in New York, New York. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1869, Hagedorn is a retail insurance broker...
University of North Texas Scholarship Program to Honor McLendon
Sep 17 2014 // A scholarship program for students majoring in risk management, insurance, or financial services at the University of North Texas has been established in honor of Maureen C. McLendon. McLendon, a Dallas-area insurance...
ACE Launches Global Primary Casualty Unit for U.S., Canadian Multinational Companies
Sep 11 2014 // ACE has launched a new division that consolidates its U.S. and global casualty offerings to create ACE Risk Management Global Casualty. The division will provide more efficient underwriting and servicing for large...
Maguire Agency Adds Tretter as Commercial Lines Producer in Minnesota
Sep 11 2014 // Aaron Tretter Roseville, Minn.-based Maguire Agency, an independent insurance agency offering property/casualty, employee benefits and personal insurance lines, has added Aaron Tretter as a producer for its...
Freedom Industries’ Insurance Plan Favors Nonprofits
Sep 8 2014 // Freedom Industries Inc., whose leaking chemical tank made much of West Virginia’s water undrinkable early this year, filed a proposed Chapter 11 plan under which proceeds from a settlement with AIG Specialty...
Obama Administration Offers Birth Control Fix for Religious Groups
Aug 25 2014 // Seeking to quell a politically charged controversy, the Obama administration announced new measures Friday to allow religious nonprofits and some companies to opt out of paying for birth control for female employees while...
Chubb Launches Crime Coverage for Payment Fraud
Aug 25 2014 // The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has created a crime insurance endorsement to help protect companies from an increasingly prevalent type of fraud. Chubb’s Social Engineering Fraud Endorsement provides coverage...
Freedom Industries’ Insurance Settlement Plan Favors Nonprofits
Aug 20 2014 // Freedom Industries Inc., whose leaking chemical tank made much of West Virginia’s water undrinkable early this year, filed a proposed Chapter 11 plan this week that offers nothing to people with claims for polluted...
Earthquake Gap: Insurance Sales Falling As Risk Rises
Aug 19 2014 // While earthquake risks are rising in the U.S., fewer homeowners nationally say they have earthquake insurance, creating a potentially huge gap in coverage, according to the Insurance Information Institute. That’s a...
Arkansas Sees Growth in Agricultural Tourism
Aug 13 2014 // Agritourism is growing in Arkansas as more farm owners open their gates to tourists and form a spiderweb-like network among several state agencies and nonprofit organizations. Pumpkin patches, corn mazes, “U-Pick...
Fire-afflicted Washington Declared Disaster by President
Aug 12 2014 // Federal disaster aid has been made available to Washington to supplement state, tribal and local recovery efforts in the area affected by wildfires from July 9 to Aug. 5, the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
Feds Offer Low-Interest Loans to Fix Mass. Tornado Damage
Aug 11 2014 // The federal Small Business Administration is offering low-interest loans to Massachusetts residents and businesses to repair property damage from the tornado that hit Revere on July 28. The tornado brought winds of up to...
New Specialty Insurer SIG Targets Sports, Entertainment Risks
Jul 10 2014 // Three specialty and risk insurance veterans have launched Specialty Insurance Group (SIG) to provide custom programs for the sports, leisure and entertainment markets. The new Indianapolis-based firm is a member company of...
Cook Maran’s Yuh Receives Insurance Society of Philadelphia’s Educator Award
Jul 3 2014 // Cook Maran & Associates announced the firm’s claims and risk management practice leader, Jiyun Yuh, received the Outstanding Educator Award at the Insurance Society of Philadelphia’s annual awards banquet...
