ABD Insurance and Financial Services Now 2nd Largest D&O Broker In the United States.
Silicon Valley Based Broker Continues Climb in D&O Rankings REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 11 /PRNewswire/ -- ABD Insurance and Financial Services, a leading provider of global risk management and employee benefits solutions, now ranks as the second largest U.S. broker of directors & officers (D&O)...

Weyerhaeuser layoffs in Eugene, Junction City involve 103 employees.
Byline: Joe Mosley The Register-Guard Weyerhaeuser Co. on Monday cited a cooling nationwide housing market as the reason for laying off 103 employees at its engineered lumber products plants in Eugene and Junction City. The layoffs will go into effect Nov. 1 and are expected...

ABD to Help Directors and Officers Avoid Legal Pitfalls Surrounding Corporate Governance Issues.
ABD Teams with Industry Experts to Educate Directors and Officers on Key Corporate Governance Issues REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 29 /PRNewswire/ -- ABD, a leading provider of global risk management and employee benefits solutions, will co-host a continuing education-accredited seminar at the Hotel...

Paying for family leave: California was the first to pass a paid family leave law. Now other states are considering following in the Golden State's footsteps.
The United States is a leader in protecting workers' rights. We offer unemployment benefits to the jobless and compensate those injured on the lob. Despite these worker friendly policies, this country is one of only two industrialized nations (the other is Australia) that do not offer paid family and...

MN: nursing assistant threatens supervisor: unemployment insurance benefits denied.
CASE FACTS: Martha Thomas worked part-time as a certified nurse's assistant (CNA) for St. Paul's Church Home from September 1998 until she was fired in October 2001. In June 2000, a supervising nurse directed Thomas to preform certain duties. Thomas yelled at the supervisor. The supervisor informed Thomas that...

HessMorganHouse, LLC. Appoints John Balaban as Senior Vice President, Client Relations.
PRINCETON, N.J., Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- HessMorganHouse, LLC., the strategic advisory firm to corporations, life insurers and high net worth individuals with respect to specialized applications of life insurance, has appointed John Balaban to the position of senior vice president, client relations. John Balaban joins HessMorganHouse from...

LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG.
Byline: The Register-Guard Focus on Thurmond misplaced Sen. Strom Thurmond was an easy target for the editors of The Register-Guard on Dec. 24, especially since he has little chance of responding to their attack on his lifeless form. Perhaps he was deserving of critical statements...

Ceridian, The Frick Company Announce Strategic Agreement; Alliance Helps Companies Manage Unemployment Taxes, Reduce Costs.
MINNEAPOLIS, March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Ceridian, a leading provider of human resource solutions, and The Frick Company, a leader in unemployment cost control, announce a strategic agreement that will provide Unemployment Compensation Tax Management (UCTM) services to new and existing Ceridian customers. Under the terms of the...

The real scandal of "janitors insurance".
The past year has brought extensive media coverage of apparent corporate wrong-doing. High-profile bankruptcies, such as Enron's, and the "perp walk" arrests of corporate officers have been most prominent, but attention also has been given to the practice of purchasing so-called janitors insurance on rank-and-file workers. Although...

An honorable system no more.
Lynn Szymoniak, a former executive for the National Council on Compensation Insurance, has developed a legal specialty in rooting out abuses by both employers and insurers. Speaking to an audience in South Carolina, in the throes of debate over workers' compensation legislation earlier this year, she estimated...