Social Responsibility
Africa Experiments With Sovereign Risk Pool Insurance Scheme
In the 1980s images of skeletal Ethiopian babies and their parents, dying from hunger during a devastating famine, helped galvanize global humanitarian and financial aid to drought-ravaged African ...
Zurich Gives $3M Grant to Nonprofit Helping with Disaster Recovery
On Wednesday, Zurich Insurance Group announced that its Z Zurich Foundation is giving a $3 million grant to St. Bernard Project (SBP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping disaster-impacted ...
In Search of Scientific, Engineering Solutions to Make Cities Resilient
Sandia National Laboratories is bringing decades of experience solving problems with practical engineering and modeling complex systems to cities around the world under a new agreement to support the ...
Markel Leads City of Hope Fund Raising Effort
Tony Markel was recently honored for his work on a national campaign to raise $1 billion for cancer research. Markel, known as the name and the man behind building Markel Corp. into one of the ...
German Companies Told No Exceptions to Board Gender Quotas
German listed companies will be granted no exceptions to a 30 percent women's quota for supervisory boards by 2016, said Manuela Schwesig, the minister responsible for drafting the legislation. ...
IICF Northeast Division Announces 16 Grants, Honors Ironshore
The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) Northeast division announced 16 charitable grants at its seventh annual benefit dinner on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013. The total amount of the grants ...
AmWINS’ DeCarlo Will Be City of Hope’s 2014 Spirit of Life Award Honoree
The City of Hope and the National Insurance Industry Council said M. Steven DeCarlo, CEO of Charlotte, North Carolina-based AmWINS Group Inc., will be honored at the NIIC's 2014 Spirit of Life Award ...
Left and Right Are Both Wrong About Regulation: Bloomberg View
In 1981, President Ronald Reagan instructed federal agencies that they could issue regulations only after demonstrating that their benefits justified their costs. With modest changes, Reagan's ...