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Facebook Firing Suit Settled
Feb 9 2011 // A settlement has been reached in the case of a Connecticut worker who was fired for criticizing her boss on Facebook, according to the The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The case centered on a complaint issued last...
Courts Allowing Private Facebook Posts As Evidence in Lawsuits
Jan 27 2011 // It’s the latest litigation tactic in the online age: U.S. lawyers are trying to mine the private zones of Facebook and other social-media sites for photos, comments, status updates and other tidbits that might...
Florida Student Settles Over Facebook Suspension
Dec 30 2010 // A girl suspended from a Broward County charter school after she criticized a teacher on Facebook has settled a federal lawsuit against the school’s principal. Court documents show that Katherine Evans will receive...
Insurer Launches Ad Campaign Within Facebook Game ‘Car Town’
Dec 15 2010 // Building its brand messages directly into the game play of the popular social game Car Town – the only game on Facebook built around licensed automotive brands –State Farm today launched a six-month advertising...
Lawyer Malpractice Claims on the Rise
Dec 8 2010 // The economy has taken its toll on all businesses today and law firms are no exception. They have experienced downsizing, pressure to change specialties in order to compete for new business, and other cost cutting measures,...
Employees Beware: Employers Monitor Twitter, Facebook, Internet Posts
Dec 5 2010 // Those photos on Facebook showing you palling around with drunks, the raunchy joke you posted on Twitter, and those links to politically incorrect groups on your personal web site -all of this information can now become...
Connecticut Employee Fired Over Facebook Comments
Dec 5 2010 // Federal labor officials have taken aim at a Connecticut ambulance company they allege fired a union employee who posted negative comments about her supervisor on her personal Facebook page. The complaint issued by the...
Lawyer Malpractice Claims on the Rise
Dec 5 2010 // Economy, Fees Countersuits and ‘Door Law’ Changing E&O Climate The economy has taken its toll on all businesses today and law firms are no exception. They have experienced downsizing, pressure to change...
Connecticut Firm Must Defend Firing Employee Over Facebook Comments
Nov 12 2010 // Federal labor officials have taken aim at a Connecticut ambulance company they allege fired a union employee who posted negative comments about her supervisor on her personal Facebook page. The complaint issued by the...
Facebook Boast Leads to Probation for $9K Workers’ Comp Fraud
Sep 17 2010 // A supposedly injured New York woman caught bragging on Facebook about her salary and job has pleaded guilty of stealing nearly $9,000 in undeserved worker’s comp benefits and sentenced to three years probation for...
A Year in Social Networking
Sep 6 2010 // 5 Lessons for Insurance Brand Decision-Makers Since its inception just a few years ago, social networking has provided both hype and hope for businesspeople. Social networking practitioners in the insurance industry have...
Maine Man Arrested for Arson After Posting Burned Car on Facebook
Jul 14 2010 // Photo Courtesy of Belfast Facebook Page A Belfast, Maine, man is facing charges he set a Mercedes-Benz on fire and then posted photos of the burning vehicle on Facebook. Belfast police say 36-year-old Asgard Tarick Gilbert...
Is Your Agency’s Web Site Dangerously Obsolete?
Jun 21 2010 // Letting Your Site Atrophy is Online Suicide With all of the high level hype regarding social media, it’s easy to imagine that your agency’s Web site is as obsolete in cyberspace as Sputnik is in outer space....
Consultant: Social Media Can Drive Traffic to Agency’s ‘Home Base’
Mar 24 2010 // One of the primary reasons why insurance agents don’t jump into the world of social media — such as blogging, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and the myriad other Web-based avenues for reaching out to the...
New York’s Bryan Insurance Gets Personal With Social Media
Mar 18 2010 // There’s no better time for insurance agents and brokers to delve into social networking technologies than now, according to those who study marketing and technology trends. More than four in five U.S. online adults...
California’s Crescenta Valley Insurance Self-Brands With Social Media
Mar 18 2010 // “While young people continue to march toward almost universal adoption of social applications, the most rapid growth occurred among consumers 35 and older. This means the time to build social marketing applications...
Google, Facebook Face Heat from Cyber-Bullying Cases
Mar 9 2010 // The Internet was built on freedom of expression. Society wants someone held accountable when that freedom is abused. And major Internet companies like Google and Facebook are finding themselves caught between those...
How Agencies Are Leveraging Social Networking
Mar 8 2010 // Technology Trailblazers Build Relationships, Business Receipts There’s no better time for insurance agents and brokers to delve into social networking technologies than now, according to those who study marketing and...
Learning the Lingo
Mar 8 2010 // Blogs: A blog is a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks provided by the writer, known as the blogger. Blogs give voice to an organization, boost search engine...
Agency Innovators: How Agencies Leverage Social Networking
Mar 7 2010 // Technology Trailblazers Build Relationships, Business Receipts There’s no better time for insurance agents and brokers to delve into social networking technologies than now, according to those who study marketing and...
