Latest NonProfits Headlines
All the headlines from our NonProfits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Assembly Panel Passes Bill On Sex Abuse Lawsuits
Aug 27 2013 // Some victims of childhood sexual abuse would have one more year to file civil lawsuits against private or nonprofit organizations that employed their alleged abusers under a bill that passed a key legislative committee...
101 Sales & Marketing Ideas for Agencies
Aug 19 2013 // Insurance Journal has listened to readers, spoken with experts, combed through columns and articles and even searched outside insurance circles to find the best sales and marketing tips for independent agencies today. Here...
Michigan’s Saginaw Bay Underwriters Celebrates 150 Years
Aug 14 2013 // The world has changed a lot since Saginaw Bay Underwriters was founded in 1863, and the insurance industry has changed along with it. “We started out insuring horses, and now we’re insuring computer...
Missouri Settles with Major Health Insurer over Claim Denials
Aug 9 2013 // Missouri insurance regulators announced a million-dollar settlement with a major health insurer over alleged violations that include denying childhood immunization and cancer screening claims. The Missouri Department of...
FEMA Publishes Latest Data on N.J.’s Sandy Recovery
Aug 5 2013 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency recently published its latest figures on federal assistance for New Jersey’s post-Superstorm Sandy recovery effort. FEMA said the total federal assistance so far for New...
$790K Grant Funds Evaluation of Sea Level Rise in Upper Texas Coast
Aug 2 2013 // The Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies (HRI) at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi has received a $790,000 grant from the Houston Endowment for a ground-breaking project to map and evaluate the...
Oregon Threatens To Decertify Workers’ Comp Group
Jul 31 2013 // Oregon insurance regulators said that they’ve taken the first steps toward decertifying a workers’ compensation self-insurance trust and will shut it down next week if the employers can’t come up with...
Leavitt Group Names Bosley in California
Jul 29 2013 // The Leavitt Group named Renee Bosley as vice president in the employee benefits division in its Sacramento, Calif. office. Bosley specializes in Health Care Reform compliance, cost containment, negotiations, wellness...
Travelers’ Small Business Risk Education Program Launched in Chicago
Jul 18 2013 // The Travelers Companies Inc. announced the launch of the Small Business Risk Education (SBRE) program in Chicago to help women and minority small business owners learn about risk management, develop safety risk management...
Fast-Growing Craft Brewers Slow to Adopt Workplace Safety
Jul 15 2013 // Welder Mark Moynihan crawled down a narrow tube into a space the size of a car interior to seal the crack in the fermentation tank at Calhoun’s Bar-B-Q & Brewery in Knoxville, Tennessee. The space was...
Survey: Nonprofits Unprepared, Under-Insured Against Risks
Jun 17 2013 // Crystal & Co., a worldwide risk and insurance advisor, has released the results of its Nonprofit Risk Survey, presenting a snapshot of risk awareness and exposure among U.S. nonprofit organizations, including human...
Tiny Southern California Agency Earns B Corp Status
Jun 17 2013 // Merely bringing your A-game may not be enough to entice certain companies to give you their business, especially those who are looking for environmentally or socially conscious partners. Following the challenging recession...
ThinkRisk Launches Comprehensive Content, Data Security, Privacy Program
Jun 13 2013 // Ryan Specialty Group’s Think Risk has launched [in]TELLIGENCE to address evolving and often overlooked operational exposures coming from technology and its effect on businesses. Recent surveys have reported that more...
ThinkRisk Announces [in]TELLIGENCE℠
Jun 12 2013 // New York, NY, 6/12/13 – Technology continues to transform businesses everywhere. Recent surveys have reported that more than half of small to mid-size U.S. firms have already experienced at least one data breach. The...
FEMA Publishes Latest Data on New Jersey’s Sandy Recovery
Jun 7 2013 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency this week released its latest figures regarding Superstorm Sandy disaster assistance and recovery in New Jersey — including the National Flood Insurance Program claims payments...
Recent Wrecks Belie Railroads’ Safety Record
Jun 3 2013 // It’s easy to think the railroads are unsafe when there are pictures of burning, derailed cars on the nightly news. But the nation’s railroads are actually safer than ever, government statistics...
Young Insurance Professionals Can Spark New Enthusiasm
Jun 3 2013 // John Wesley once said: “Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn.” Before I began my career in insurance, I spent my first few years out of college on staff with a local...
New York City Tops List of Cities With Most Questionable Claims
Jun 3 2013 // New York City tops the list of U.S. cities with the highest number of questionable insurance claims, according to the latest analysis by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB). The NICB’s annual look at...
Tiny Southern California Agency Earns B Corp Status
May 28 2013 // Merely bringing your A-game may not be enough to entice certain companies to give you their business, especially those who are looking for environmentally or socially conscious partners. Following the challenging recession...
Crystal & Co. Exec Moves to Hub International in New York
May 24 2013 // Chicago-based broker Hub International’s Northeast division hired Scott Konrad as senior vice president and not-for-profit business practice leader.Scott KonradBased in Hub’s New York City office, Konrad will...
