October 23, 2008
Companies of all sizes are vulnerable to potentially devastating management, employment and fiduciary liability lawsuits. Even claims filed without merit can result in defense expenses that are financially draining. Private Accord, a new packaged liability policy available through Business Risk …
October 22, 2008
North Dakota’s insurance commissioner is proposing new restrictions on teenage drivers, saying it should reduce youth car crashes and deaths and cut drivers’ auto insurance bills. Adam Hamm’s proposal would bar 14- and 15-year-olds from driving between 11 p.m. and …
October 22, 2008
North Dakota’s workers’ compensation law is relatively tightfisted in paying claims from workers whose job injuries can be blamed on previous hurts and natural body aging, a consultant says. The state’s Workforce Safety and Insurance (WSI) agency has become more …
October 21, 2008
A new report says North Dakota’s former workers’ compensation director may have been ineligible for a $150,000 severance package because he resigned before the agency’s board of directors approved the payment. North Dakota law does not allow severance payments to …
October 20, 2008
Have the free-wheeling, capitalism-at-all-cost titans of business who maintain the market will fix all ills had their day — at least for now? For the last 30 years deregulation has been all the rage — from the airline industry to …
October 20, 2008
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October 20, 2008
90 Percent Michigan says nine in 10 school buses passed safety inspections last school year. Ten percent failed the checks. Some could continue operating as long as defects were repaired within two months. Eight percent of the 17,220 buses checked …
October 17, 2008
North Dakota’s candidates for insurance commissioner agree that protecting the consumer is their top priority but disagree over who best can get it done. Republican Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm and Democratic challenger Jasper Schneider, both Fargo lawyers, traded jabs throughout …
October 17, 2008
Reagan Consulting and the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (Big “I”) announced the Best Practices Agencies for 2008-2009. A total of 189 agencies from around the country maintained their Best Practices status this year, and one from each …
October 15, 2008
North Dakota’s candidates for insurance commissioner will be competing for undecided voters in the campaign’s final weeks. In a poll commissioned by The Forum newspaper, 43 percent of the people surveyed said they haven’t made up their minds whether to …