All the headlines from our NonProfits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 1 2006 // Philadelphia Insurance Cos. has launched Employed Lawyers Protection Plus, a product that protects attorneys working as in-house counsel, their support staff and eligible independent contractors from claims arising out of...
Oct 25 2006 // President Bush on Tuesday issued a major disaster declaration for western New York following a record-breaking snowfall in the Buffalo area earlier this month.The declaration triggers federal aid for uninsured losses to...
Oct 20 2006 // Maj. Gen. Robert Lee, Hawaii’s director of civil defense, said 1,173 homes on the Big Island were damaged from Sunday’s earthquake, including 29 considered uninhabitable.Preliminary damage estimates from the...
Oct 18 2006 // Indiana Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group and an insurer of public and private schools throughout the Midwest, is hosting a free, day-long seminar on Oct. 23, 2006, to help Ohio school officials develop better...
Oct 11 2006 // Insurance companies are the litigation champions confronting an average of 1,696 lawsuits, spanning from product liability and environmental class actions to directors and officers claims, and even coverage fights over...
Sep 25 2006 // What do a parent advisory board, parish council, the United Way and local athletic club have in common? They are all nonprofit organizations. Most people serving on the board of such organizations are volunteers who...
Sep 14 2006 // Mark C. Russell, Grange Insurance vice president and chief administrative officer, has been named chairman of the Board of Governors for the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), a not-for-profit organization dedicated...
Sep 12 2006 // Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. is offering a new not-for-profit directors and officers program designed to insure small to medium IRS tax-exempt 501(c)3 and 501(c)4 organizations. The program is through RLI...
Sep 5 2006 // Rutherfoord, a Roanoke, Va. insurance broker, says it is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and has become the first in the U.S. insurance industry to establish a carbon neutral footprint in response to the...
Sep 4 2006 // A New Jersey law protecting nonprofit organizations from negligence lawsuits does not apply to all sex abuse cases, the state Supreme Court ruled. The ruling allowed John W. Hardwicke Jr. to continue his lawsuit against...
Sep 1 2006 // Serving as a board member of insurance and financial services company Principal Financial Group Inc. has become more lucrative.The Des Moines-based company announced this week that it has increased the annual retainer it...
Aug 30 2006 // Insurers seeking a competitive edge in diverse markets are in the final stages of designing a study that will test a wide array of traditional and non-traditional information.Chicago-based Urban Insurance Partners...
Aug 23 2006 // California State Fund Eureka District Office employees raised nearly $18,000 for the American Cancer Society Humboldt County’s 15th annual “Relay For Life.” The relay, held at the College of the Redwoods,...
Aug 17 2006 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s office announced that a federal disaster declaration for El Paso has been approved by President Bush as a result of recent flooding in the area.“This disaster declaration means much...
Aug 6 2006 // With Maryland’s groundbreaking Wal-Mart health care bill declared invalid by a federal judge, state officials are re-examining their options for providing medical care to many of the almost 800,000 people who have no...
Aug 2 2006 // The Chubb Group announced that it has “enhanced its Kidnap/Ransom and Extortion Insurance policy,” reflecting “global realities.”Greg Bangs, who manages Chubb’s K&R-extortion unit,...
Aug 1 2006 // GoodWorks Insurance, LLC announced that the first insurance client under its recently established insurance brokerage agreement with Hilb Rogal & Hobbs, Connecticut (HRH) was written on behalf of the Hancock Shaker...
Jul 27 2006 // Citizens Property Insurance Corporation has $5 billion in reserves to deal with potential losses as the 2006 hurricane season moves into the traditionally active month of August, according to Bob Ricker,...
Jul 26 2006 // John Ireland has been named associate research director of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute, the Oakland-based nonprofit organization that serves as the research arm of the California workers’...
Jul 26 2006 // \Arizona State University has been sued by an anti-abortion student group which alleges the university discriminated against students trying to voice their opinions on the issue.ASU Students for Life filed the suit in...