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Fast-Growing Craft Brewers Slow to Adopt Workplace Safety
Jul 15 2013 // Welder Mark Moynihan crawled down a narrow tube into a space the size of a car interior to seal the crack in the fermentation tank at Calhoun’s Bar-B-Q & Brewery in Knoxville, Tennessee. The space was...
26 Motorcyclists Killed on Minnesota Roads This Year
Jul 12 2013 // The year so far has been a deadly one for motorcycle riders in Minnesota. The state Department of Public Safety says 26 motorcyclists have been killed on Minnesota roadways this year. Last year at this time, 18 riders were...
Texas Mutual, VFIS of Texas Fund Safety Training for Rural Fire Departments
Jul 10 2013 // Workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., has partnered with VFIS of Texas, a provider of specialized insurance solutions for the emergency service industry, to create a grant program for rural fire...
Alabama County Plans Site-Specific Tornado Warnings
Jul 3 2013 // Emergency officials in an Alabama county plan to sound tornado sirens in specific areas where storms are, and will no longer activate all sirens in the county with every tornado warning. Madison County’s system is...
Erie Insurance Announces Property Development Plan for Downtown Erie, Penn.
Jul 2 2013 // Erie Insurance announced Monday that beginning this summer, the company will begin development of several properties that it recently bought near its headquarters in downtown Erie, Pennsylvania. The plan includes building...
Study: 290,000 Idaho Jobs to Be Available By 2020
Jul 1 2013 // Nearly 290,000 jobs will become available in Idaho by 2020, a new study says. Georgetown University’s Center for Education and the Workforce in a study finds the fastest-growing occupations will be health care...
Colleges Could Face Lawsuits Following Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling
Jun 26 2013 // The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action may force universities to re-examine their admissions policies and face waves of litigation about race- based admission. In a 7-1 ruling yesterday, the justices...
Investigators to Examine Heat Exchanger at Louisiana Blast Site
Jun 26 2013 // State and federal officials investigating the cause of the deadly blast on June 13 at the Williams Companies Inc. plant near Gonzales, La., plan to inspect a key element of the facility that one federal investigator said...
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Out of Step with Today’s GOP
Jun 26 2013 // Sandy Praeger was always the team player and never the black sheep. As mayor of Lawrence, state representative, state senator and now Kansas’ three-term insurance commissioner, Praeger was mainstream Republican all...
Tennessee Conference Focuses on Workers’ Compensation Changes
Jun 21 2013 // Changes to the state’s workers’ compensation system is the focus of the Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference this week. The three-day conference began on Wednesday at the Nashville...
Survey: Michigan Businesses Confident About Growth
Jun 17 2013 // The latest Michigan Future Business Index survey of small and midsize business leaders shows unequalled confidence in the state’s business economy and a rekindled desire to reinvest in their own future, according to...
XL Group Launches New Online Platform ‘Fast Fast Forward’ for Risks
Jun 10 2013 // XL Group announced the launch of “Fast Fast Forward,” which it described as a “new online platform for commentary, news and tools to advance discussion of risk and business challenges. Fast Fast...
U.S. on Offense in Cyber War: Building Command Center, Hiring Warriors
Jun 7 2013 // On the site of a former military golf course where President Dwight Eisenhower once played, the future of U.S. warfare is rising in the shape of the new $358 million headquarters for the military’s Cyber Command. The...
Recent Wrecks Belie Railroads’ Safety Record
Jun 3 2013 // It’s easy to think the railroads are unsafe when there are pictures of burning, derailed cars on the nightly news. But the nation’s railroads are actually safer than ever, government statistics...
Four Major Universities Facing Sexual Assault Claims by Students
May 28 2013 // Students from four universities said they filed federal complaints alleging that their schools failed to address campus sexual assault and harassment. The college students filed actions with the U.S. Education Department...
New York, Pennsylvania Rank High for Opioids Among Injured Workers
May 20 2013 // Editor’s Note: This is part of a team report on opioid use by injured workers. For the national story read: Opioid Epidemic Plagues Workers’ Comp The epidemic of opioid abuse and its impact on workers’...
White Promoted, Elected to Central Insurance Board of Directors
May 14 2013 // Van Wert, Ohio-based Central Insurance Companies has elected Janet L. White, to its board of directors, appointed her to its executive committee and promoted her to senior vice president of human resources White holds the...
Hail Storm Damage to Mississippi Government Property Estimated at $25 Million
May 10 2013 // The Mississippi Law Enforcement Officers Training Academy in Pearl isn’t the most aesthetically appealing place to train officers these days, its director, Pat Cronin, concedes. The March 18 hailstorms that struck...
Idaho School Found Liable In Boy’s Driver’s Ed Death
May 6 2013 // A Blaine County jury has awarded $3.5 million in damages to the family of a 15-year-old Carey boy who died in a crash during his driver’s education class. The Idaho Mountain Express reports jurors deliberated for...
Interest in Personal Gun Liability Insurance Protection Increasing
May 6 2013 // The media focus on gun-centric events and the public discussion of liability issues has piqued interest in personal liability insurance for firearms owners, insurance professionals say. While coverage is available through...
