Dallas, TX, September 16, 2008 – Council on Education in Management (Council) announced that Division of Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Rod Bordelon will present a Keynote Address at the upcoming Texas Workers’ Comp Forum, October 1-3, 2008, taking place at the …
The remnants of Hurricane Ike knocked out power to more than 200,000 customers in Arkansas and killed one person as storm bands passed through Saturday night and Sunday morning. The damage spanned a wide area across the state, including a …
Rescuers searching the waterlogged streets and splintered houses left behind by Hurricane Ike in Galveston they had saved nearly 2,000 people – many of whom then boarded buses to shelters without knowing where they were going or when they could …
Assurant Specialty Property and National ID Recovery (NIDR) have launched a Red Flag ID fraud detection, notification and protection program for financial institutions and credit unions. Red Flag ID Fraud Solutions is a collaborative identity theft solution created in response …
It’s a rainy day for the owner of an upscale Manhattan restaurant who filed a lawsuit against a supermodel over a damaged designer umbrella said to be worth $5,000. State Supreme Court Justice Joan. A. Madden threw out the lawsuit …
Estimates of insured damage from Hurricane Ike vary widely – from $6 billion to $18 billion, according to several catastrophe risk modeling firms, but Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin has pointed out that only insurance adjusters on the ground would …
In the aftermath of Hurricane Ike, the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas has initiated its catastrophe response plan to offer assistance to member agencies that have been severely adversely affected by the massive storm. The plan includes a statewide call …
Half a dozen people have lost their homes after their apartment building collapsed in Philadelphia. The front of the three-story brick building in the city’s Fishtown neighborhood collapsed Saturday. Authorities say four units were occupied. Officials say a construction company …
A painting company owner told a worker to pose as a qualified scaffold-rigging foreman on a job where a scaffold collapse killed another employee, investigators said Friday. The owner and worker were arrested on misdemeanor criminal impersonation charges a day …
Hurricane Ike spared Louisiana a direct hit, but its winds and waters killed two people as coastal areas were inundated with a storm surge that crawled some 30 miles inland, flooding tens of thousands of homes and making many roads …