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St. John’s University to Relocate Manhattan Campus
St. John's University has leased 71,000 square feet of space for its Manhattan campus at 51 Astor Place, between Third and Fourth Avenues in the East Village, Manhattan. The new location will house ...
U.S. Employees Not Rewarded for Innovation, Accenture Survey Finds
U.S. employees are hungry to be entrepreneurial, but most believe their companies don't do enough to support and reward their efforts to generate ideas, according to a new study by Accenture. More ...
Producer compensation programs send clear messages about what a carrier values. Commission rates, incentive structures, bonuses, and performance thresholds direct...
U.S. Property Insurance Rates Continue to Soften Through Q3: Marsh
The surplus of capital among insurers and reinsurers continued to fueloverall softening in the U.S. property insurance market through the third quarter of 2013, Marsh said in a new report. For the ...
Paint Manufacturers to Pay $1.1B to California Municipalities in Nuisance Liability Case
Sherwin-Williams Co., NL Industries Inc. and ConAgra Grocery Products LLC have been ordered by a judge to pay $1.1 billion to replace or contain lead paint in millions of homes after losing a ...
Liberty Mutual Buying Rest of Quinn Insurance in Ireland
Liberty Mutual Group Inc. said it will buy the 49 percent stake in the former Quinn Insurance Ltd. in Ireland that it doesn't already own from failed lender Irish Bank Resolution Corp. The company ...
Universal, Fireman’s Fund Seek ‘Fast and Furious’ Solution Following Star’s Death
When "Fast And Furious" star Paul Walker died and left the seventh film in the franchise hanging in the balance, it wasn't the first time a studio and its insurer faced such a situation, but the ...
SEC Hikes Limit for Small Stock Deals to $50M Under JOBS Act
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission unanimously proposed boosting by 10 times the amount of money companies can raise under a simplified public offering, the agency's latest step to ease ...