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ARCO to Pay $1 Million to EPA At Montana Superfund Site
Mar 12 2012 // Atlantic Richfield Co. has agreed to pay $1 million to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for managing the Superfund site at the former Black Eagle smelter. “It really allows us to have a special account to do...
Vale Training Solutions Teams Up With the Insurance Journal Academy
Mar 2 2012 // From green risks to restaurant claims, there are many topics to choose from in this year’s webinar courses. Three Vale Training Solution instructors, with varying backgrounds, have one thing in common: They are...
Iowa Judge Orders California Porn Site to Pay $4M In Piracy Case
Feb 22 2012 // A judge has ordered the operators of a popular pornographic website to pay $4 million for copyright infringement to an Iowa-based adult film company – a ruling that should serve as a deterrent to others who pirate...
The Compensation Connection: Aligning Rewards with Results
Feb 20 2012 // The state of the labor market is changing. Unemployment rates are dropping and companies are opening up hiring budgets. Organizations that believe employees are lucky to simply have a job in this economy are headed for...
Georgia Disaster Training Site Replicates New Orleans’ 9th Ward
Feb 17 2012 // Work is under way on what might be one of the most unique construction projects ever done in Middle Georgia. For years, the whisper of the wind around vacant buildings has been about the only thing to be heard at the...
Creator of Consumer Watchdog Attack Site Says More Attacks to Come
Feb 16 2012 // The owner of a website that launched an attack last week against a consumer group that often does battle with the insurance industry is now calling the attacks and information he put on the site “just the tip of the...
Alabama Governor Wants 1 Year Tax Holiday for Storm Supplies
Feb 16 2012 // Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has proposed a once-a-year sales tax holiday on weather radios, flashlights, generators and other supplies needed to help prepare for weather disasters. Bentley made the proposal at a news...
Beyond Golf: P-U-T-T-E-R’s the Name of the Game in E&S World
Feb 16 2012 // Bill Reynolds, Atlantic Casualty Insurance Golf could be called the go-to sport of the insurance industry, so it’s safe to assume that most insurance professionals know what a putter is – a tool for cursing and...
Heffernan Names Tapia Education and Communication Specialist
Feb 9 2012 // Heffernan Financial Services, a division of Heffernan Insurance Brokers, has promoted Rebecca Tapia to education and communication specialist. In Tapia’s new role, she will be working with retirement plan sponsors...
Ohio Lawmakers Hear Workforce Message in Governor’s Address
Feb 9 2012 // Republican legislative leaders say they took away from Gov. John Kasich’s State of the State speech a renewed focus on bolstering training programs for Ohio workers, answering the governor’s call to find ways...
Upcoming ReSource Pro Webinar Delivers Insights on Insurance Process Improvement
Feb 8 2012 // New York, NY, 2/8/12 – ReSource Pro LLC, the premier provider of business processing solutions for the insurance industry, announced today that the members of its Productivity Solutions Group will join Assurex Global...
Nonprofits Show Job Growth Despite Decade of Turmoil
Feb 6 2012 // Defying two recessions, the nonprofit sector posted a remarkable 10-year record of job growth, achieving an average annual growth rate of 2.1 percent from 2000 to 2010, while for-profit jobs declined by an average of minus...
How to Maximize Producer Talent
Feb 6 2012 // With many challenges facing the insurance industry — such as competition from banks and other brokerages, as well as direct marketing to consumers — it takes a flexible and engaged producer to adapt and understand what...
How Insurance Distribution Is Changing
Jan 26 2012 // Insurance distribution is changing and agents and brokers—retailers and wholesalers—have to define the value they offer and what type of relationships they will have with carriers and customers in the years ahead,...
Agents Creating At-Home Insurance Jobs for Disabled Veterans
Jan 23 2012 // For insurance agents Gary Trippe and Jim Pender, the idea for DVIC, or Disabled Veterans Insurance Careers, which aims to provide disabled veterans with employment in insurance, evolved in part from their own personal...
Agents to Build Insurance Careers for Disabled Vets
Jan 23 2012 // Insurance agents James R. Pender and Gary V. Trippe, principals with Ft. Myers, Florida-based BB&T-Oswald Trippe and Co., have experienced disability in their own families. That has been part of their motivation for...
Beyond Golf: P-U-T-T-E-R’s the Name of the Game in E&S World
Jan 23 2012 // Golf could be called the go-to sport of the insurance industry, so it’s safe to assume that most insurance professionals know what a putter is – a tool for cursing and hurling to the ground after a missed shot,...
Agents to Build Insurance Careers for Disabled Vets
Jan 23 2012 // Insurance agents James R. Pender and Gary V. Trippe, principals with Ft. Myers, Florida-based BB&T-Oswald Trippe and Co., have experienced disability in their own families. That has been part of their motivation for...
The Importance of Education in Today’s Insurance Market
Jan 23 2012 // Insurance is the lifeblood of our capitalist society; without it commerce cannot function. A vibrant insurance industry requires skilled and trained knowledgeable workers who can understand the broad aspects of risk in a...
How Retail, Wholesale Distribution Chains Are Changing to Justify Value, Purpose
Jan 23 2012 // Retail and wholesale brokers face the challenge — and opportunity — of redefining their relationships and value proposition in today’s changing insurance distribution world, according to Glenn Hargrove,...
