Key cover.
Byline: Aman Dhall It promised to be a key policy for corporate India especially small and medium enterprises (SMEs), but never took off after Insurance and Regulatory Development Authority (IRDA) clipped its wings two years back. Keyman insurance primarily aims to provide cover to enterprises, which are...

MN:-nurse, tired of putting up with guff, quits: leaving 'without cause'--U.I. benefits denied.
CASE FACTS: Karen Humenik worked as a registered nurse at Mission Farms Nursing Home, Inc., from June 2003 until August 29, 2003. She maintained that over an eight-month period her nursing supervisor, Heidi Larsen, drove her to quit her job. Nurse Humenik identified five separate incidents leading to the...

Directors' new attitude toward D & O insurance: are you--and your assets--adequately protected? More directors than ever are interested and engaged in knowing the answer.
AFTER YEARS OF HEADLINES highlighting claims against directors and officers, many directors have determined that they need to be more involved in ensuring their D & O insurance is up to par. Gone are the days when they would accept on faith that they had sufficient coverage. Today, most...

IRDA bars keyman policy sale via ULIPs.
The insurance regulator has categorically barred selling the keyman policy through endowment or unit-linked plans. It has said the keyman insurance cover can be sold only through term assurance, which combines life, accident and disability insurance policies to protect business of a company from the death or...

Uncovering a gatekeeper: why the SEC should mandate disclosure of details concerning directors' and officers' liability insurance policies.
This Article explores the connection between corporate governance and D&O insurance. It argues that D&O insurers act as gatekeepers and guarantors of corporate governance, screening and pricing corporate governance risks to maintain the profitability of their risk pools. As a result, in a well-working insurance market, D&O insurance premiums...

The development of social benefits and social policy in Poland, Hungary and the Slovak Republic since the system transformation.
Social policy is generally understood in the social sciences as the counterpart of the economic policy. Its necessity as corrective of the market economy was respected by liberal economists like Friedrich A. Hayek (1960). It is therefore surprising that there have been very few investigations into the social policies...

Extra benefits, training target ex-H&R workers.
Byline: George Barnes GARDNER - Workers who will lose their jobs when H&R 1871 is closed by Remington Arms Co. may find new careers through retraining offered through the U.S. Department of Labor. Mayor Mark P. Hawke said yesterday the company has been certified through...

Sensex inches up 82 pts, but sentiment's weak.
Byline: Ashish Rukhaiyar MUMBAI: Thursday turned out to be a lacklustre day on the domestic bourses with the indices trading in a narrow range, before closing with marginal gains. The weak sentiment was further corroborated by the fact that losers outnumbered gainers with many of the sectoral...

D&O insurance: a pressure check: as companies caught 'financial flu,' liability risk rose. A few educated guesses about what's ahead.
IF YOU, AS A BOARD DIRECTOR, had been stranded on a desert island for the past year, and you were rescued today, you might not recognize the financial world to which you returned. For one thing, your chances of being hit with a directors and officers (D&O) liability lawsuit...

A faulty stimulus.
You'll probably be getting your rebate check soon from George W. Bush. Go ahead and cash it, and spend it, too, preferably at a locally owned business. The economy needs the injection. But the stimulus package...