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Montana drinking and driving culture at crossroads
HELENA, Mont. — Montana has long had a reputation as a place where you could crack open a beer while driving down the interstate just about as fast as you liked. Until 2005, when the state came under heavy duress from the federal government, it was legal to drink ...
State Farm, Nationwide Among Property Insurers in Hurricane Earl's Path
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. and Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. are among insurers with the most at risk from Hurricane Earl, which threatens to graze North Carolina on Sept. 3. The state had about $133 billion of coastal property covered by insurers according to 2007 data from AIR ...
Securing Social Media
The debate surrounding the use of social media technologies by insurance companies has seemingly moved from “if” to “how.” Like what you see? Click here to sign up for Insurance Networking News weekly newsletter to get the latest on breaking industry news, carrier technology implementations and developing business and ...
MetLife Study Finds Typical First Year Income Loss for a Critical Illness is ...
Two MetLife companion studies released last week found that experiencing a critical illness, such as cancer, a heart attack or stroke, can reduce a family's income by more than $12,000 in the first year alone -- even with medical coverage in place -- primarily due to the inability to work. ...
P&C insurers solid despite lower profits
Property-and-casualty insurance companies are seeing leaner profits
because of recently high catastrophe losses, but they continue to have
solid capital positions, Moody's Investors Service said Monday.
Moody's said second-quarter profits for publicly traded P&C
insurers were generally lower than a year ago because of losses from
hailstorms, ...