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Five of Six NAMIC Members Joining ‘Century Club’ in Midwest
Sep 14 2012 // Six mutual insurance companies have been inducted into the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies’ (NAMIC) Century Club in recognition of 100 years of serving their policyholders. Five of the new members...
One Year Later: Bastrop, Texas, Residents Recovering
Aug 13 2012 // Belinda Williams was preparing to go to bed in her beautiful Texas limestone house embedded in the lost pines of Bastrop when she looked out her window and saw a huge orange glow. She woke her husband and told him they...
10M Honolulu Police Suit Claims Excessive Force
Aug 9 2012 // A $10 million federal lawsuit claims Honolulu police used excessive force in restraining a man who suffocated. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser Tuesday Tassa Torres filed a lawsuit on behalf of her brother Aaron Torres. The...
One Size Does Not Fit All When Motivating a Sales Team
Aug 2 2012 // When a company’s sales numbers lag, its sales executives often blame the compensation package and take steps to change the way they reward their sales employees. In the meantime, finance executives view sales force...
Two Montana Counties Declare Drought Disasters
Jul 23 2012 // Yellowstone and Stillwater county commissions in Montana have declared drought disasters in their counties. Officials say low rainfall and warm temperatures have created conditions that one farmer says are not usually seen...
Two Montana Counties Declare Drought Disasters
Jul 6 2012 // Yellowstone and Stillwater county commissions in Montana have declared drought disasters in their counties. Officials say low rainfall and warm temperatures have created conditions that one farmer says are not usually seen...
Two Workers Hurt in Texas Fracking Tank Site Blast
May 17 2012 // Two workers were hurt in an explosion at a hydraulic fracturing tank site in south Texas early on Wednesday, a sheriff’s dispatcher said. U.S. workplace safety regulators cited the company that owns the site, Vann...
Two Dozen Agencies to Host Job Fairs Next Week Near Pittsburgh, Penn.
May 8 2012 // Some two dozen independent insurance agencies will host job fair events next week in the Pittsburgh, Penn., region. The agencies said they are looking to fill jobs in customer service and sales. The agencies are planning...
One Week Brought Most of Alabama’s $3.2 Billion Losses
May 7 2012 // Almost $3 billion of the $3.2 billion Alabama insurers paid out to their auto, home and business policyholders in 2011 for catastrophe losses can be traced directly to the tornadoes, hail and thunderstorms that swept...
Three Massachusetts Hospitals Cited for Denial of ER Care
Apr 24 2012 // State health officials have cited three Massachusetts hospitals in the past six months for turning patients away from their emergency rooms, including one case when the person died en route to another...
One Week Brought Most of Alabama’s $3.2 Billion Insured Losses in 2011
Apr 20 2012 // Almost $3 billion of the $3.2 billion Alabama insurers paid out to their auto, home and business policyholders in 2011 for catastrophe losses can be traced directly to the tornadoes, hail and thunderstorms that swept...
Nine Out of Ten People Won’t Read This
Apr 16 2012 // There’s never a shortage of studies, statistics and polls to read, or write, about. And they all seem designed to get the reader to look at things another way. They are also designed to get you to scratch your head...
Two Strong Quakes near Sumatra Trigger Tsunami Alert
Apr 11 2012 // Two strong earthquakes in the Indian Ocean, located off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, have triggered tsunami warnings across the region. The US Geological Survey (USGS) reported the first quake at...
Three Regional Insurance Executives Join The Buckner Co.
Apr 9 2012 // The Buckner Co. named Ryan Loftin, Jeremy Stucki and Micah Zabriskie to the Salt Lake City, Utah-based firm’s executive ranks. Loftin will work out of the firm’s Salt Lake City, Utah office, while Stucki and...
Two Named to Louisiana Workers’ Comp Corp. Manager Positions
Mar 20 2012 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. (LWCC) has filled two key management positions. Brent Toups is the company’s new business unit manager for large accounts and U.S. Longshore and Harbor Workers’...
Three Mull Lawsuits in U.S. Against Murdoch’s News Corp.
Mar 5 2012 // Three people who believe they were targeted by a private investigator working for Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World while they were in the United States are considering suing his company in U.S. courts, a source...
One Insurance Broker’s Drive for Innovation
Mar 5 2012 // When Jessica Scorpio, 24, began her quest for insurance for Getaround.com, a peer-to-peer car sharing organization, she ran into a few closed doors. “I definitely spent my whole 22nd year banging on insurance...
One-Armed Man Sues Starbucks For Not Hiring Him
Feb 23 2012 // A man who was born with half a left arm is suing Starbucks for failing to hire him as a barista. Eli Pierre sued the company in San Diego, Calif. two weeks ago for unspecified damages. Pierre says that during a Feb. 1...
Four More Bodies Found on Italian Costa Concordia Cruise Liner
Feb 22 2012 // Salvage workers have found four more bodies in the submerged Costa Concordia cruise liner, bringing the confirmed number of dead to 21 on the ship that ran aground and capsized off the Italian coast last month, authorities...
One Year Later, Christchurch Still ‘Safe Haven’ for New Zealand Quake Survivor
Feb 21 2012 // Jane Taylor was managing a women’s clothing store in downtown Christchurch a year ago when the earthquake struck. She was dug from the rubble within minutes with horrific injuries — her vertebrae were crushed, her...
