Monthly Archives: <span>October 2007</span>

Fired-up over safer cigarettes

By Chris Hamby
Now 21 states require cigarettes to be self-extinguishing Cigarettes sold in 21 states will be self-extinguishing after a strikingly high...

Commerce Banc Insurance to be sold

Canada’s TD Bank Financial Group reported that it will acquire the Mid-Atlantic regional bank Commerce Bancorp Inc. in a 25...

People and Places

The Insurance Marketing Communications Association named its 2007/2008 slate of directors and officers, with Cora Barran of Farmers Insurance Group...

Sparking fire safety

Jackson Holland was smoking a cigarette around 4 p.m. one weekend day outside his Mount Ivy, N.Y., home when he...

It Figures

$130 million October and November are two of the most dangerous months in Michigan for car-deer crashes, according to AAA...

Declarations

Funeral director’s scam “I didn’t try to deceive anyone out of their money, I was just trying to maintain my...