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Bipartisan Optimism As Sweet As Maple Syrup at Workers’ Comp Conference
Feb 28 2013 // The political stalemate in Washington regarding the deficit and sequestration is not as dire or depressing as most people and pundits proclaim, and is in fact a positive sign that the country is grappling with important...
New FEMA Flood Maps for NYC Include WTC Site
Feb 27 2013 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency has released new advisory maps for Manhattan that include the World Trade Center site in the zone seen as most at risk for flooding during a powerful coastal storm.The construction...
PG&E Boosts Training After Deaths Of 3 California Workers
Feb 26 2013 // Officials at Pacific Gas and Electric Co. are boosting the utility’s training on safety procedures after the deaths of three workers in three years, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The deaths prompted PG&E...
Project CAP Selects EZLynx for Real-Time Pricing on Updated Consumer Site
Feb 26 2013 // The independent insurance agents’ online service for insurance buyers, Project CAP, has selected EZLynx to be the key real-time rating technology partner for its enhanced TrustedChoice.com website. The EZLynx Rating...
How Process Improvement Drives Agency Profitability
Feb 26 2013 // To boost their profitability, agencies make investments all the time in people and technology, as well as in other businesses through acquisitions. But Dan Epstein, CEO of ReSourcePro, says there is another often...
Six Leaking Tanks Are Washington Nuclear Site’s Latest Woe
Feb 25 2013 // Federal and state officials say six underground tanks holding a brew of radioactive and toxic waste are leaking at the country’s most contaminated nuclear site in south-central Washington, raising concerns about...
Alabama Court System Endangered by Budget Woes, Says Chief Justice
Feb 25 2013 // Alabama’s new chief justice, Roy Moore, said the state judicial system is in danger and conditions will worsen if the Legislature approves a budget recommended by the governor. Moore said the system already is...
Yacht Fires Pose Challenge to Firefighters and Insurers
Feb 25 2013 // Difficult to access and usually within confined spaces, yacht fires can grow into big losses quickly, posing challenges to both firefighters and insurers. Severity, a concern for high-end watercraft insurers led to the...
E&O Insights: Insuring Personal Watercraft
Feb 25 2013 // Do Your Customers Know the Options? It won’t be long before Mother Nature lets your customers know it’s time to get their boats out of storage and into the water. Other customers might decide it’s time to...
Guns on Campus Bills Moving Through Oklahoma Legislature
Feb 12 2013 // While a special school safety commission formed after the massacre of schoolchildren in Connecticut continues its work, Oklahoma legislators are pushing ahead with their own proposals to allow for armed teachers and more...
Unfair Drivers
Feb 11 2013 // In its latest report on auto insurance premiums, the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) said insurers charge higher premiums to safe drivers than to unsafe drivers. That claim seems to go against the grain when...
Policyholder Education: Agent or Carrier Responsibility?
Feb 7 2013 // Policyholder education about insurance coverage wording is a critical challenge for the property/casualty insurance industry. But who should be doing the teaching — agents or carriers? During a recent industry meeting, a...
South Dakota Lawmakers Endorse Teen Driving Safety Measures
Feb 6 2013 // A package of recommendations that would ban beginning drivers from using cellphones behind the wheel and make other changes aimed at reducing teen traffic fatalities and serious injuries is progressing through the South...
Arkansas State Senator Announces School Safety Bill
Feb 5 2013 // Arkansas Senator Missy Irvin of Mountain View announced she is drafting legislation to better prepare students and faculty in Arkansas for incidents of deadly school violence. Irvin said a goal of her legislation would be...
EMC Insurance Launches New School Safety Initiative
Feb 5 2013 // Des Moines, Iowa-based EMC Insurance Companies is partnering with SafeSchools to create safer learning environments for its insured schools. Schools insured by EMC will now have complimentary access to SafeSchools...
Texas Mutual Awards $300K in Safety Education Grants
Feb 4 2013 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. has awarded a combined $300,000 in grants to Kilgore College, Midland College and College of the Mainland in Texas City near Houston. The grants will continue to fund free workplace safety...
Industry Opposition Slows Airline Safety Law Implementation: Report
Feb 4 2013 // Federal regulators are struggling to overcome substantial industry opposition and implement a sweeping aviation safety law enacted after the last fatal U.S. airline crash nearly four years ago, according to a report by a...
Three More Bodies Found at Mexico Pemex Blast Site, Death Toll Reaches 36
Feb 4 2013 // Mexican rescue workers found three more bodies over the weekend amid the rubble of a deadly blast that tore through state oil firm Pemex’s main office complex, the government said, as search efforts appeared to near...
Insurance Industry Predicts Super Bowl XLVII
Feb 1 2013 // Insurance experts who make their living predicting and paying losses overwhelmingly believe that the Baltimore Ravens are headed for a loss in Sunday’s Super Bowl XLVII (47 for those who never learned Roman...
South Dakota House Passes Bill on Arming Teachers
Feb 1 2013 // A bill that would allow school districts to arm teachers and other personnel with guns was approved by the South Dakota House after supporters said it could make would-be attackers think twice about entering a school...
