Latest NonProfits Headlines

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Florida Governor Opens Disaster Fund

Aug 30 2012 // Florida Gov. Rick Scott has announced that the state is activating Florida’s disaster fund to help residents who suffered property losses from Hurricane Isaac and Tropical Storm Debbie.Earlier this week, Hurricane...

Philadelphia Insurance Cos. Appoints 2 New Executives

Aug 3 2012 // Philadelphia Insurance Companies, a Bala Cynwyd, Penn.-based property/casualty insurance company for niche markets, announced the hiring of two industry veterans.The insurer said it has appointed John Sherlock as senior...

CNA Expands Management Liability Coverage for Aging Services Providers

Jul 20 2012 // CNA insurance companies has announced changes in its management liability coverage form for not-for-profit aging services providers. The global business insurers’ Epack Extra policy and coverages, previously offered...

Everest National Launches Non-Profit Social Service Industry Program

Jul 17 2012 // Everest National Insurance Co., a U.S. insurance subsidiary of Everest Re Group, Ltd., has launched anon-profit social service program with NIF Group, Inc. that will target a variety of social service providers. NIF is a...

Zodiac Insurance Services to Distribute IronPro Small Business Coverages

Jul 16 2012 // IronPro, the U.S. professional and management liability unit of Ironshore, has announced a strategic alliance with Zodiac Insurance Services, Inc. focused on the coverage needs of small business enterprises. Zodiac...

Report: Vehicle Theft Falls, California Still Dominates Top 10 List

Jul 2 2012 // The National Insurance Crime Bureau reported 2011 is on track for another consecutive year of declining vehicle thefts, but California still dominates the top 10 list for areas highest auto theft rates.Seven of the top 10...

President Declares Major Disaster for Colorado

Jun 29 2012 // President Barack Obama declared a major disaster in Colorado late Thursday, making funds available for two large fires in the state which have reportedly destroyed nearly 600 structures combined. Obama was to tour...

July 16 Deadline for Federal Disaster Loans in 3 W.Va. Counties

Jun 27 2012 // Private nonprofits and small businesses in three West Virginia counties that suffered losses due to drought, heat and storms last year have until July 16 to apply for federal disaster loans. The U.S. Small Business...

Report: Vehicle Theft Falls, California Still Dominates Top 10 List

Jun 20 2012 // The National Insurance Crime Bureau reported 2011 is on track for another consecutive year of declining vehicle thefts, but California still dominates the top 10 list for areas highest auto theft rates.Seven of the top 10...

Business Moves – Midwest

Jun 18 2012 // strong>Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., Grossman & AssociatesArthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Grossman & Associates Inc. in Beachwood, Ohio. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1980,...

Health Insurer UnitedHealth Vows to Keep Reforms Whatever Court Decides

Jun 11 2012 // UnitedHealth Group Inc., the largest U.S. health insurer by market value, said it would maintain the health coverage protections included in President Barack Obama’s healthcare law regardless of how the Supreme Court...

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Grossman & Associates

Jun 7 2012 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Grossman & Associates Inc. in Beachwood, Ohio. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1980, Grossman & Associates is an employee benefits broker and...

Maryland’s State-Run WC Insurer IWIF to Become Private Nonprofit Co.

May 23 2012 // The Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund (IWIF), Maryland’s state-run workers’ comp insurance carrier, will become a private, nonprofit company under a new name Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance, effective...

General Ledger Accounting for P/C Agencies

May 23 2012 // In current practice insurance premium accounting is based on general ledger (GL) accounting. It is used by all agency management software applications: AMS, Applied Systems, etc., just to name a few. Developed more than...

Business Moves – Midwest

May 21 2012 // Neace Lukens, Matrix BenefitsNeace Lukens has completed its acquisition of Matrix Benefits and Consulting Group, a Ft. Wayne, Ind.-based consulting firm. Matrix employees will report to the Neace Lukens Indianapolis office...

Senate Panel to Probe Ties Between Painkill Drugmakers, Medical Nonprofits

May 10 2012 // A U.S. Senate panel has launched a probe of possible links between three drugmakers and nonprofit medical groups that advocated for increasing the use of prescription painkillers, now the target of a nationwide law...

Job Disability Rolls Rise During Recession

May 7 2012 // Monica Soltes was excited 10 years ago to leave Merrill Lynch and start her own business as an independent financial planner in San Diego. After she fell off a porch at her cousin’s cottage and broke her elbow, her...

California Workers’ Comp Reform Taking Shape – Again

May 7 2012 // At a recent joint hearing in Sacramento on workers’ compensation in California with the Assembly and Senate, statistic after statistic flew out of the mouths of speaker after speaker during the nearly four-hour...

Is General Ledger Accounting Adequate for P/C Insurance Premium Transactions?

May 7 2012 // In current practice, insurance premium accounting is based on general ledger (GL) accounting. It is used by all agency management software applications including AMS and Applied Systems just to name a few. Developed more...

Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Schiff, Kreidler-Shell

May 2 2012 // Itasca, Ill.-based Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired Schiff, Kreidler-Shell Insurance and Risk Services headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Schiff, Kreidler-Shell Insurance and Risk...