by admin | Aug 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
The governors of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi declared states of emergency as a hurricane warning went into effect for the northern Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle. It included New Orleans, devastated when Hurricane Katrina swept over the city...
by admin | Jul 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
Last Friday, Congress passed the “Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2012” which would extend the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) for five years, until Sept. 30, 2017, and make needed reforms modernize the program. These...
by admin | Jun 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
“There are a lot of people that don’t have workers’ compensation coverage,” says Jack Bayliss, an attorney with Carruthers & Roth in Greensboro. “If you have a corporation, and you’re the president, and someone’s a secretary, and you have one employee, that still...
by admin | Jun 11, 2012 | Uncategorized
10. Charleston, S.C. Total properties potentially affected by all categories of hurricane: 79,556 Total structural value: $17,287,678,966 Average value: $217,302 Home to some of the nation’s most historic neighborhoods, Charleston could sustain as much as $8 billion...
by admin | May 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
Your incentive and recognition program might not pass OSHA’s “sniff test” if “the incentive involved is of sufficient magnitude that failure to receive it ‘might have dissuaded reasonable workers from’” reporting, says Fairfax. In the memo, Fairfax states: “Section...
by admin | May 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
8. Mark Burnett Television producer Mark Burnett is best known as the producer of Survivor and the creator of the Apprentice. But before becoming a TV mogul, Burnett worked odd jobs including a nanny job that eventually led to a spot at an insurance firm owned by the...
