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Workplace Deaths Rise In North Dakota Oil Patch
Dec 26 2012 // North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency is offering safety training to companies in the state’s booming oil patch, an effort to decrease job-related deaths and injuries happening most often to...
The Griffith Foundation: 279 Teachers Receive Insurance Education
Dec 19 2012 // Columbus, Ohio-based The Griffith Insurance Education Foundation said it has provided insurance education to 279 teachers through the Insurance Education Institutes. The purpose of the program is to enable junior high and...
78 Texas School Districts Without Safety Plan
Dec 19 2012 // Seventy-eight Texas school districts either have failed to submit state-mandated safety plans in the event of a mass shooting or have filed ones that are too incomplete to be useful, Attorney General Greg Abbott said on...
Oklahoma Lawmaker, Texas Governor Want Teachers to Be Armed
Dec 19 2012 // Teachers and school administrators who receive proper training would be authorized to carry firearms on school campuses and at school events under a bill being drafted by an Oklahoma lawmaker. Republican Rep. Mark...
2013 Buyer’s Guide
Dec 17 2012 // Welcome to Insurance Journal‘s Annual Buyer’s Guide, your A-Z for P&C. Looking for insurance services, products, and solutions? Save this valuable directory – it’s listed by category so...
IICF Northeast Division Awards Record Total of Grants
Dec 13 2012 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) Northeast division made its largest-ever distribution of charitable grants at its sixth annual benefit dinner on Wednesday, Dec. 12. The total amount of awarded grants is...
Profile: Workers’ Comp Fraud Expert Takes Old School Approach
Dec 12 2012 // When a Southern California family was convicted of workers’ compensation insurance premium fraud, it wasn’t due to sophisticated software, a supercomputer or even high-tech surveillance techniques. It was the...
Georgia Opens Mock City for Disaster Training
Dec 12 2012 // A mock city designed to help emergency workers train for disasters is now open for business in central Georgia. The Telegraph reported that the first exercises are being held at the Guardian Centers at the former Northrop...
Insurance to Pay for New $120M Acid Plant at LSB’s Arkansas Site
Dec 11 2012 // An Oklahoma City-based company says it will build a $120 million nitric acid plant at a chemical facility in El Dorado, Ark., that was the site of an explosion in May. LSB Industries Inc. announced that the company signed...
Ex-Utah Cop Sues Over Firing Over Training Allegations
Dec 11 2012 // A former Brigham City, Utah police officer is suing the city after being fired over alleged off-hours contact with a female officer he was training. Ronnie Aldridge, in his lawsuit filed in October in 1st District Court,...
Despair after Climate Conference Inaction, but UN Still Offers Hope
Dec 10 2012 // At the end of another lavishly-funded U.N. conference that yielded no progress on curbing greenhouse emissions, many of those most concerned about climate change are close to despair. As thousands of delegates checked out...
Univ. of Rhode Island Gets $206K Grant for Crop Insurance Education
Dec 6 2012 // The University of Rhode Island has been awarded a $206,000 federal grant to help educate the state’s agricultural producers on crop insurance. U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin announced the grant from the U.S. Department of...
Building Momentum in the Construction Market
Dec 5 2012 // After four years of one of the most challenging construction markets, construction insurance experts are beginning to see signs of a slow recovery with some of their contractor and builder accounts. The current...
Missoula County Wants Montana Mill Site On Superfund List
Dec 3 2012 // Missoula County commissioners have sent a letter to Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer asking him to support putting the former Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. mill site in Frenchtown on the Superfund National Priorities...
Kansas Assistant Commissioner Tomlinson Accepts New State Appointment
Nov 26 2012 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger has announced that Bob Tomlinson, the Kansas Insurance Department’s assistant commissioner, has accepted a position in the state Department of Administration. Tomlinson,...
Veterans’ Advocate Seeks to Change Attorneys’ Role in Disability Claims
Nov 26 2012 // David Huffman has helped thousands of military veterans seeking disability benefits navigate the complex, often slow and at times frustrating claims process. The Wood County, West Virginia lawyer can relate: he was a...
Missouri Company Cited Following Fatality at Joplin Site
Nov 16 2012 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited utility company Missouri American Water for two willful safety violations following the May 16, 2012, death of a worker. Proposed...
Indiana’s Ronk: Agents Enjoy a Healthy Insurance Environment in State
Nov 14 2012 // The current business environment for independent insurance agents in Indiana is pretty good thanks to the hard work and legislative involvement of agents and other industry professionals, according to one longtime agent...
Independent Insurance Agents of Texas Offers WAHVE Staffing Services
Nov 8 2012 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) is offering its members remote staffing services provided by WAHVE (Work At Home Vintage Employees) on a preferred basis. WAHVE provides experienced insurance professionals...
Indiana Agents Benefit from a Healthy Insurance Environment
Nov 5 2012 // And, It’s One They Helped Create, Association Leader Says The current business environment for independent insurance agents in Indiana is pretty good thanks to the hard work and legislative involvement of agents and...
