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Insurance, Business Leaders Hold Forum on Keeping Workers in Iowa
Jul 19 2006 // Business leaders expressed continued concern this week that Iowa lacks enough workers to maintain a growing business climate. Business managers, insurance executives, and economic development directors discussed the issue...
Florida State University Wins $6.2M Grant to Foretell Future Hurricane Strength
Jul 11 2006 // The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded a $6.2 million, five-year grant to the Florida State University Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Studies to develop a new tool that could possibly see the...
Group Sues Michigan State University Over Same-sex Benefits
Jul 7 2006 // A conservative group this week filed suit to stop Michigan State University from offering health insurance to the partners of gay workers and said the school is violating a 2004 amendment to the state constitution. The...
California Connects Workers to Insurance Careers
Jul 7 2006 // A coalition of insurance companies, community colleges and workforce development specialists have started a statewide insurance education program, called the California Insurance Careers Program, aimed at preparing...
Five Arrested in Western Kentucky University Fire
Jun 26 2006 // It will cost more than $1.3 million to repair Western Kentucky University’s Cherry Hall, which was damaged by an arson fire April 23. Western’s President Gary Ransdell said the university has about half the...
Wis. General Casualty Announces Names of Scholarship Winners
Jun 20 2006 // Sun Prairie, Wis.-based General Casualty Insurance Companies has announced the names of 20 winners of its renewable $1,000 scholarship awards. “The General Casualty scholarship program was created four years ago to...
Research Team to Study Genesis of Monsoon Storms
Jun 12 2006 // A team of researchers from Alabama and other states will train an array of instruments skyward in Arizona this summer for an unprecedented study of the genesis of monsoon storms. About 20 scientists will spend July and...
Colorado State University Team Predicts Fewer Hurricanes Will Make Landfall
May 31 2006 // The U.S. Atlantic basin is likely to experience another active hurricane season, but coastal regions may face fewer land-falling major hurricanes than last year, according to Prof. William Gray and the Colorado State...
Assurance Awards 2006 Scholarships to Illinois State University Students
May 16 2006 // Assurance Agency, Ltd., recently announced the recipients of its 2006 insurance college scholarship program. Illinois State University students Matt Britton and Christopher Switzer were each presented with a $1,000...
Insurance Department Deputy Director Honored by Ohio University
May 10 2006 // Ohio Department of Insurance Deputy Director Holly Saelens recently was recognized at the Ohio University (OU) State Government Alumni Luncheon at The Athletic Club of Columbus for her outstanding achievements in public...
R.I. Governor Names College President as Beacon Mutual Director
May 8 2006 // Rhode Island Governor Donald L. Carcieri has named the president of Salve Regina University, Sister Therese Antone, Ed. D., to replace John Holmes on the board of directors for Beacon Mutual Insurance Company. Holmes...
Research Center to Unveil New Hurricane Loss Prediction Model
May 5 2006 // The first public model to project hurricane losses for the State of Florida has been completed by the International Hurricane Research Center in Miami, Fla. The new model already has produced excellent figures on Hurricane...
Hazing Incident Involving Arizona Band to Cost School District $50,000
May 4 2006 // Scottsdale, Ariz.’s Unified School District officials say a hazing incident involving Coronado High School band students will cost the district nearly $50,000. A victim of a high-profile hazing case that occurred at...
University of Michigan Provides Diabetes Medicine Free
Apr 25 2006 // Trying to slow the growing health care costs of diabetes, the University of Michigan said this week that it will provide most diabetes medicines free to insured employees and their families who need the drugs. The program,...
State Farm Automobile Insurance Co. President to Retire after 44 years
Apr 11 2006 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. announced today that Vincent J. Trosino Sr., its president, vice chairman and chief operating officer, will retire at the end of 2006, ending a 44-year career with the...
Father Sues Mass. University Over Daughter’s Drug Death
Apr 11 2006 // The father of Clark University freshman who died of a heroin overdose two years ago has filed a wrongful death lawsuit claiming lax supervision contributed to his daughter’s death. Michele C. Bash’s death could...
University of Wyoming Offers Workshop to Help Reduce Agricultural Risk
Mar 6 2006 // Workshops focusing on energy crops, manure and irrigation management, and risk management and insurance products will be offered this month to producers in Pine Bluffs, Casper, Riverton and Powell, Wyo. The programs,...
Memorial Services Held in Elba, Ala. for Jack Brunson
Mar 6 2006 // Jack Rushing Brunson, 77, former CEO of the National Security Group in Elba, Ala. died on March 1 at Flowers Hospital in Dothan, Ala. Rev. Mart Gray officiated at March 6 memorial services for Brunson at the First Baptist...
University of San Diego Hosts Real Estate Risk Management Seminar
Feb 24 2006 // The University of San Diego’s Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate will hold a free seminar in risk management Monday, Feb. 27 in USD’s Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice. The event begins with a...
Don Horner
Feb 19 2006 // Aon Risk Services of Oklahoma welcomed Don Horner to its staff as vice president, Health & Welfare Practice leader. He will be responsible for new business production, management of the Tulsa office’s Health...
