In our April issue (which will be available online tomorrow available now), we feature an article about how the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is ramping up its enforcement efforts of late. Our May issue will discuss how OSHA is doing the same. And this post last week talks about how the EPA is planning [...]
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E&J Gallo,
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Heinz,
Mark Stoeckle,
OSHA
Officials throughout the West are claiming that grasshoppers will likely hatch in bigger numbers than any year since 1985 — a year that saw “hundreds of millions of dollars in damage when [the grasshoppers] devoured corn, barley, alfalfa, beets — even fence posts and the paint off the sides of barns.” The article in the [...]
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State Farm has been branching out into nontraditional avenues to promote its products, services and brands for a while now — but never as extravagantly as its collaboration with the indie rock group OK Go. The band, which hails from Chicago, gained internet fame in 2006 when its foray into treadmill choreography for the video [...]
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Here It Goes Again,
OK Go,
Social Media,
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YouTube
It seems more and more insurers are choosing to stick with writing policies and collecting premiums while leaving the management of their assets to others. This is good news for Wall Street since its money managers have watched their asset bases dwindle during the downturn. According to industry estimates stated in The Wall Street Journal, insurers [...]
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Allstate,
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