The U.S. division of Sun Life Financial Inc. announced it has won the Better Business Bureau’s 2009 Local Torch Award for Excellence, marking the company’s fourth consecutive win in the category for businesses with over 1,000 employees. The award, given by the BBB serving eastern Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont, selected Sun Life based [...]
American Safety Insurance Holdings, Ltd. announced that Harris Chorney has been appointed to serve on its Board of Directors and on the Audit Committee of the Board. Mr. Chorney’s appointment fills the vacancy on the Board created by the previously announced resignation of Joseph Fisher. Mr. Chorney will stand for re-election at the Company’s 2009 [...]
For the first time, the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index™ has released the Thriving-Struggling-Suffering Index for Americans revealing that, in the first two weeks of November 2008, the average number of struggling Americans hit 60 percent, a rise of 14 percent from the beginning of 2008. At the same time, the weekly average of Americans thriving hit [...]
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) and Care New England (CNE) announced that an agreement has been reached to extend CNE participation in the BCBSRI network until March 31, 2009. This means that BCBSRI members will continue to have access to CNE Hospitals and the CNE VNA as they currently do [...]
A series of public service announcements (PSAs) jointly sponsored by the US Family Health Plan, a DoD-sponsored military healthcare plan and the National Military Family Association, a non-profit organization committing to improving the lives of military families, has been honored with an Emmy® Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The PSA [...]
Rhode Island insurance consumers can now combine their home, auto, personal property, watercraft and liability protection in a single policy, with the added convenience of one bill and a single deductible for any loss involving both homeowners and auto.
OneChoice CustomPac from OBI Insurance provides a true blanket limit, which offers excellent value at a time [...]
U.S. affiliate of RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. WeatherPredict Consulting Inc. and the University of Rhode Island Foundation (URIF), on behalf of the University’s Graduate School of Oceanography (URI-GSO), today announced the awarding of $630,000 to support innovative atmospheric hazards research being conducted at URI. The two-year grant, one of the largest corporate research awards the University [...]
On November 7, members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), grocery workers and community members—over one hundred people in total—gathered at the Providence PriceRite store on 325 Valley St to reach out to shoppers. Workers handed out flyers to customers and talked to them about the need for good union jobs, especially [...]
