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Employers Screening Social Media Accounts May Alienate Job Candidates
Research from North Carolina State University shows companies that screen the social media accounts of job applicants alienate potential employees – making it harder for them to attract top job ...
Asteroids Pose Serious Threat But Should Be Manageable
On Feb. 15, a 13,000-ton rock plunged through the skies above Chelyabinsk, Russia. It shone 30 times brighter than the sun, and hurtled at 42,000 miles per hour toward a city of more than a million ...
Progressive Insurance Chairman, Former CEO, Philanthropist Lewis Dies
Progressive Corp. Chairman Peter B. Lewis, the billionaire who turned a company founded by his father into one of the largest U.S. auto insurers, has died. He was 80. Lewis died Saturday at his home ...
Harleysville President Browne to Retire in May; Toth to Succeed As Senior Executive
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. announced that Michael Browne, president and chief operating officer of the Harleysville Insurance, a member of the Nationwide family of companies, will retire ...
Tower Group Reports $500M Loss for Second-Quarter 2013, Job Cuts
On Friday, Tower announced a second-quarter loss of more than $0.5 billion, with previously disclosed reserve and goodwill charges contributing to the result. The company also said it is cutting ...
Everest’s Mt. Logan Re Appoints Whiting as CUO
On Friday, Mt. Logan Re, Ltd. announced the appointment of David Whiting to the position of Chief Underwriting Officer. Mt. Logan Re, Ltd. is Everest Re Group Ltd.'s special purpose reinsurer formed ...
Colorado State Running Out of Money for Hurricane Forecasting
Colorado State University, which pioneered seasonal hurricane forecasting 30 years ago, may have issued its last prediction. The school's Tropical Meteorological Project needs $150,000 or it will end ...
Wildfire Risk Seen as High or Extreme at 4.5 Million U.S. Homes
More than 4.5 million U.S. homes are at high or extreme risk from wildfires, led by properties in California, according to Verisk Analytics Inc., the supplier of actuarial data to insurers and banks. ...