Posts Tagged ‘ insurance industry ’

Offers Commercial Insurance To Green Businesses

Jun 14th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Business

Green Business Insurance, Inc. is the nation’s first independent insurance agency to focus on the unique property and casualty insurance needs of green businesses according to Pat Thompson, CPCU, President.
“Green businesses, of all types, are important to the future of our nation’s economy and environment and we are excited to help manage their exposure to [...]



Join Nurses In Protest Against Profit-Hungry Insurance Industry

Jun 14th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Health

Members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) are fighting back against insurance companies that care more about profits than people.
CNA/NNOC members, nurses, doctors, patients and Americans of every stripe will join in a national day of protest against insurance companies June 19. In more than 15 cities from Baltimore to Pittsburgh to [...]



Former Singapore Re Head Learns From Experience

May 27th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Business

Crucial to the efficient functioning of modern economies are reinsurance companies that, for a fee, insure policies sold by other insurers, essentially to spread the risk. A founding father of Singapore’s reinsurance industry is Hwang Soo Jin, 72 years old, chairman emeritus and senior adviser at Singapore Reinsurance Corp., or Singapore Re as it is [...]



Darling To Meet Insurance Industry Over Tax Changes

May 20th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Business

In an unprecedented move, the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, will make an appearance at tomorrow’s board meeting of the Association of British Insurers, where the trade body will press him on a range of issues including tax and regulation.
The ABI board, chaired by Archie Kane, who runs Scottish Widows, invited Mr Darling – the first time [...]



Local Insurance Man Knows The Meaning Of True Commitment

May 17th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Business

As noteworthy as Deane Myer’s 61 years of service to the insurance industry is, a more impressive milestone will come early this summer when he and his wife Evelyn celebrate 65 years of matrimonial bliss.
So what’s the key to a lengthy marriage?
“That’s easy,” says Myer, who happened into the insurance business as an afterthought in [...]



Banning Genetic Discrimination

May 8th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Health

Business groups support the purpose of the law but worry about the unintended consequences that may ensue from the restrictions on information about genetic information. The bill leaves open the possibility that employers can be sued for just receiving — not acting upon — a worker’s genetic information.
The bill President George W. Bush will sign [...]



National Health Insurance Best Way To Ensure Care For All Americans

May 1st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Health

The need for meaningful health care reform remains one of the hottest topics in the public as we approach our national election. Health Insurance An important new study, in the prestigious Annals of Internal Medicine, reveals a growing consensus among practicing physicians that our broken health care system would be best fixed by legislation [...]