At a time when confidence in many financial institutions worldwide has fallen, support for the organization founded by the insurance industry to promote ethical conduct has waned. The Insurance Marketplace Standards Association (IMSA) reported in May that its membership had dropped to 88 companies, down from a high of 241 in January 2000 and 197 in June 2003. Two years ago, IMSA sought help from McKinsey & Co, a management consulting firm, on how to address membership challenges. As a result of the McKinsey study, the IMSA board of directors in June 2008 created optional new ways for companies to either renew or reinstate memberships. For renewals, a company's chief compliance officer and CEO can attest that the company is in compliance with the 25 IMSA standards. IMSA also determin...
The West Virginia attorney general's Consumer Protection Division sued DirectBuy of Charleston-Huntington this week, alleging that the business used bait-and-switch tactics to trick consumers into joining the buying club. In a request for a temporary and a permanent injunction filed in Kanawha Circuit Court on Wednesday, the agency alleges that the company promises members access to low "insider" prices, and pressures them into buying three-year memberships for thousands of dollars.
BALDWIN, Ga. (AP) - In the early 1990s, Fieldale Farms had a troubling problem: Employee heart attacks, at an average cost of $50,000 apiece, were quickly making insurance unaffordable for the small chicken processing company. At the time, the average worker was 45 years old," said Denise Ivester, Fieldale's human resources manager. "I said, 'This is from gravy and biscuits in the South."'
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Royal Palms Travel is headquartered in Dallas but sells travel clubs and packages nationwide. Its website has pictures of palm trees, a cruise ship and the Tower Bridge in London. It claims it can offer you great deals because of its "high purchasing power with luxury resort providers, hospitality companies and major cruise lines. The Texas Attorney General says the company "unlawfully misled potential customers and relied upon improper high-pressure sales tactics to sell worthless travel club memberships." Customers found that "free" trips the company promised were subject to restrictions that rendered them effectively worthless. The attorney general has sued the company and its principals.
, 84, of Mountville passed away on Sunday, November 29, 2009. He was the husband of Betty Gingerich Metzger with whom he celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary on April 20, 2009. He was born in Columbia, son of the late John A. and Ellen Schlossman Metzger. He worked for the former ITT Grinnell Corporation for 38 years where he was Security Chief and a Master Millwright before retiring in 1986. He was a Mountville Borough Police Officer from 1954 to 1974 and served as Chief for 13 years. He was a Mountville Borough Constable for 30 years from 1961 to 1991. A member of St. Paul's United Methodist Church and it's men's fellowship. A veteran of the US Navy and the US Marine Corps serving during WWII, 1943-1946, serving 19 months in the Pacific Theater. A life membe...
KANSAS CITY - Jan Mason is a 50-pound-lighter testimonial to the power of workplace wellness programs. Mason's boss, Ken Sigman, president of HBS LLC, a health-care consulting company in Leawood, Kan., gave his six employees free memberships to Center for Health & Human Performance at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City.
The clinic, a new company named Freedom Health Group Corp., of Spokane Valley, charges about $700 a year for individual memberships, which give members access to the clinic's nurse practitioners, who are able to write prescriptions, diagnose and peat illnesses, and provide preventive, primary, and urgent health-care services, says owner Rick Hansen.
, 80, of Lancaster, PA, and formerly of Wantagh, NY and Jupiter, FL, passed away on October 29, 2009. He was born in Mason City, Iowa and was a decorated U.S. Army Veteran. Upon completion of military service, he met and married Ruth Rangel Hoeffner and had three children. Mr. Gilmore graduated from Columbia University, then earned the LL.B. Degree from New York Law School, graduating Cum Laude. He retired after 26 years as Vice President and Chief Counsel of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association. Prior to joining TIAA-CREF, he was an attorney for Home Life Insurance Company for seventeen years. Mr. Gilmore held active memberships in many associations, including the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Association of Life Insurance Counsel and was a ...
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