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Three More Bodies Found at Mexico Pemex Blast Site, Death Toll Reaches 36

Feb 4 2013 // Mexican rescue workers found three more bodies over the weekend amid the rubble of a deadly blast that tore through state oil firm Pemex’s main office complex, the government said, as search efforts appeared to near...

Four ‘Red’ States Get Health Exchange OK

Jan 7 2013 // Injecting a rare shot of bipartisanship in the nation’s contentious health care overhaul, the Obama administration Thursday cleared four Republican-led states to build their own consumer-friendly insurance...

Five Republican Governors Reject State-Run Health Exchanges

Nov 19 2012 // Five Republican governors rejected on Friday a major provision of President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law that calls on states to set up online health insurance markets where consumers can purchase private...

Four Types of Producers

Oct 22 2012 // I have spoken at more than 200 insurance industry events. I have met with thousands of agency owners, producers and CSRs. In more than two decades of working with insurance agencies, the No. 1 need has never changed:...

One Agency – Two Producer Management Methods

Oct 22 2012 // Today, as in the past, agencies need to set the stage for future sales (both new and renewal) with continuous marketing efforts.These actions typically include brand building, highly targeted solicitations and everything...

Five of Six NAMIC Members Joining ‘Century Club’ in Midwest

Sep 14 2012 // Six mutual insurance companies have been inducted into the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies’ (NAMIC) Century Club in recognition of 100 years of serving their policyholders. Five of the new members...

One Year Later: Bastrop, Texas, Residents Recovering

Aug 13 2012 // Belinda Williams was preparing to go to bed in her beautiful Texas limestone house embedded in the lost pines of Bastrop when she looked out her window and saw a huge orange glow. She woke her husband and told him they...

10M Honolulu Police Suit Claims Excessive Force

Aug 9 2012 // A $10 million federal lawsuit claims Honolulu police used excessive force in restraining a man who suffocated. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser Tuesday Tassa Torres filed a lawsuit on behalf of her brother Aaron Torres. The...

One Size Does Not Fit All When Motivating a Sales Team

Aug 2 2012 // When a company’s sales numbers lag, its sales executives often blame the compensation package and take steps to change the way they reward their sales employees. In the meantime, finance executives view sales force...

Two Montana Counties Declare Drought Disasters

Jul 23 2012 // Yellowstone and Stillwater county commissions in Montana have declared drought disasters in their counties. Officials say low rainfall and warm temperatures have created conditions that one farmer says are not usually seen...

Two Montana Counties Declare Drought Disasters

Jul 6 2012 // Yellowstone and Stillwater county commissions in Montana have declared drought disasters in their counties. Officials say low rainfall and warm temperatures have created conditions that one farmer says are not usually seen...

Two Workers Hurt in Texas Fracking Tank Site Blast

May 17 2012 // Two workers were hurt in an explosion at a hydraulic fracturing tank site in south Texas early on Wednesday, a sheriff’s dispatcher said.U.S. workplace safety regulators cited the company that owns the site, Vann...

Two Dozen Agencies to Host Job Fairs Next Week Near Pittsburgh, Penn.

May 8 2012 // Some two dozen independent insurance agencies will host job fair events next week in the Pittsburgh, Penn., region. The agencies said they are looking to fill jobs in customer service and sales. The agencies are planning...

One Week Brought Most of Alabama’s $3.2 Billion Losses

May 7 2012 // Almost $3 billion of the $3.2 billion Alabama insurers paid out to their auto, home and business policyholders in 2011 for catastrophe losses can be traced directly to the tornadoes, hail and thunderstorms that swept...

Three Massachusetts Hospitals Cited for Denial of ER Care

Apr 24 2012 // State health officials have cited three Massachusetts hospitals in the past six months for turning patients away from their emergency rooms, including one case when the person died en route to another...

One Week Brought Most of Alabama’s $3.2 Billion Insured Losses in 2011

Apr 20 2012 // Almost $3 billion of the $3.2 billion Alabama insurers paid out to their auto, home and business policyholders in 2011 for catastrophe losses can be traced directly to the tornadoes, hail and thunderstorms that swept...

Nine Out of Ten People Won’t Read This

Apr 16 2012 // There’s never a shortage of studies, statistics and polls to read, or write, about. And they all seem designed to get the reader to look at things another way.They are also designed to get you to scratch your head...

Two Strong Quakes near Sumatra Trigger Tsunami Alert

Apr 11 2012 // Two strong earthquakes in the Indian Ocean, located off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, have triggered tsunami warnings across the region.The US Geological Survey (USGS) reported the first quake at 2:38...

Three Regional Insurance Executives Join The Buckner Co.

Apr 9 2012 // The Buckner Co. named Ryan Loftin, Jeremy Stucki and Micah Zabriskie to the Salt Lake City, Utah-based firm’s executive ranks. Loftin will work out of the firm’s Salt Lake City, Utah office, while Stucki and...

Two Named to Louisiana Workers’ Comp Corp. Manager Positions

Mar 20 2012 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. (LWCC) has filled two key management positions. Brent Toups is the company’s new business unit manager for large accounts and U.S. Longshore and Harbor Workers’...