Water safety can prevent summer tragedy. (Your Life).
Summer is here, and that means plenty of people will be heading to the beach or pool to enjoy the warm weather. Before packing up the swimming and boating gear, however, Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. (PIANY) urges consumers to consider this: Most boating and swimming...

Review coverage for college students. (Insurance).
Students heading off to college, especially for the first time, face many insurance issues they or their parents may not have considered, the Financial Planning Association, Denver, Colo., cautions: Renter's insurance is probably the most-overlooked form of coverage when a student heads for college. Students today tend...

Hot Fun in the Summer Time Is Your Chapter Going to Your County Fair?
Your county fair this summer presents the ideal opportunity to let your community know that a chapter is active in the area and that pro-lifers are the people with whom they shop, work, and go to church. It's amazing what sitting behind a fair booth, just being yourself, does...

Around The Nation.
Family in mcycle mishap ZAMBOANGA CITY Overtaking on the wrong side of the road proved fatal to a motorcycle-riding insurance agent and caused serious injuries to his backriding wife and son, recently in Barangay Upper Calarian this city. A police report received by city police...

1.2-M GSIS members, pensioners to get P1.5 B dividends & cash gifts.
The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) announced yesterday the distribution of R1.085 billion in dividends to its 1.2-million active members and policyholders, and R587 million in cash gifts to its 120,502 pensioners. GSIS president and general manager Winston F. Garcia said the GSIS will start distributing the...

BUSINESS BEAT.
Byline: The Register-Guard People Kenneth Haglund Jr. has become an agent for Country Insurance & Financial Services in Eugene. Jackie Wolfe has joined the Adobe Resort and Spa in Yachats as a massage therapist. With six years experience as a massage therapist, she...

IBM Phils introduces new ThinkPad G40.
IBM Philippines has unveiled the latest line of notebook ? the ThinkPad G40 ? with the aim of targeting the growing desktop replacement market. Designed for the user who requires a full-featured machine with occasional mobility, the ThinkPad G40 is ideally suited for small- to medium-sized businesses,...

BUSINESS BEAT.
Byline: The Register-Guard People Justin Heide has been rehired by Insta-Print in Eugene, after working for four years with Shelton Turnbull Printers in Eugene. Heide will serve as an IT support technician for the Insta-Print digital print applications division. Rick Skogmo has joined...

Obituaries.
Byline: The Register-Guard Robert Bauder COTTAGE GROVE - A memorial service will be held April 27 for Robert "Bob" Bauder of Cottage Grove, who died April 22 of cancer. He was 74. Bauder was born Oct. 18, 1927, in Cottage Grove to John...

Insurers see growth in unit-linked products.
Byline: LEE C. CHIPONGIAN The P260-billion insurance industry is looking to develop more unit-linked policies to beef up its portfolio and market profile through an insurance product enhanced by an investment value. Unit-linked products, which are expected to contribute 60 percent of income generated from...