| An Independent Approach To Car Insurance
(NAPSI)-Many consumers are finding they can drive down the cost of car insurance-and the time it takes to select the right policy-by contacting an independent insurance agent or broker. Because they represent many different insurance companies, independent agents have the flexibility to review rates and coverage from competing carriers and get you the best deal. Plus, they can offer affordable protection for your home, business and other assets. So rather than spending hours gathering quotes from various companies, you can get it done with one simple call or visit to your independent agent or broker. If you're thinking of contacting an independent agent, here are a few things to consider: • What's your lifestyle? Many factors determine auto insurance rates, not just vehicle year, make and model.
MADD and Nationwide(R) Kick Off Prom With Music by Bow Wow at Sam ...
HOUSTON, April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company (Nationwide) kicked off prom season in Houston with a special celebrity performance by R&B music artist Bow Wow at Sam Houston High School (SHHS). MADD's THINK.Prom program, which is nationally sponsored by Nationwide, asks students to pledge to be alcohol and drug free during prom. Statistics show that traffic deaths among teens during typical prom weekends are higher than any other time of year. The SHHS junior/senior prom is April 27. "We are proud to work with Nationwide to provide the THINK.Prom program because the choices students make today impact their lives tomorrow," said Glynn Birch, MADD National President. "We are asking teens to leave alcohol out of prom, never ride with someone who's been drinking and to buckle up.
Market spasms fail to deter investors
LONDON (Reuters) - A month of sharp volatility on global financial markets has failed to put a major dent in leading investors' confidence, leaving them roughly positioned where they were when it began, Reuters polls showed on Friday. Surveys of 44 investment firms in the United States, Japan, continental Europe and Britain showed them ending March with an average of 60.8 percent stocks in their portfolios, barely changed from the 60.7 percent at the end of February. The steady nature of the findings comes despite a wave of risk aversion on financial markets that saw MSCI's main world stock index (.MSCIWD: Quote, Profile, Research) tumble as much as 6.5 percent and volatility soar. It implies that major investors have kept their nerve during the period and do not view it as having been a major sea change that required them to adjust their long-term outlooks.
UK's Standard Life Beats Forecasts, Eyes Job Cuts
Insurer Standard Life beat market forecasts on Thursday with a 55% rise in 2006 profit and said it planned a shake-up of its core U.K. business, including 1,000 job cuts to squeeze out more costs by 2009. In its first full-year results since its July listing, Standard Life said operating profit for the full year came in at 614 million pounds ($1.2 billion) on a European embedded value basis, pushed higher by one-off items including changes to mortality assumptions. That was well above an average forecast of 497 million according to a poll by Reuters Estimates. Standard Life underwent a major overhaul ahead of its listing, but the insurer said it planned further changes to its U.K. structure, aiming to reduce underlying costs by a further 100 million pounds per year by 2009, in addition to existing targets, by driving savings within its divisions as well as cutting its headcount.
NeoStem Spotlights High-Growth Business Initiatives for 2007 and ...
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 4, 2007 - NeoStem, Inc. (OTCBB:NEOI - News), the first company to specialize in the collection, processing and storage of stem cells from healthy adult donors for personal use in times of critical medical need, invites investors to review an investor presentation highlighting the Company's visionary business model targeting the projected $8.5 billion stem cell therapeutics industry. The presentation also outlines NeoStem's first-to-market competitive advantage, which uniquely positions the Company to capitalize on the hundreds of stem cell-based therapy research programs currently under development. The Company believes these programs will result in stem cell-based therapies becoming available, and that NeoStem clients could be among the first to benefit from the life saving progress that has already been made for such debilitating conditions as cancer, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, lupus, and many others.
Insurance agent offers $250 reward
An east county insurance agent is offering a $250 reward for any information about the hit-and-run of one of his client's properties in February. From tire tracks and paint chip evidence, police believe that a green Land Rover pulling onto Murray Boulevard from Science Park Drive crossed the entire street into the parking lot of dentist Richard M. Weigel, 740 NW Murray Blvd., made a U-turn and crashed into the corner of the building. The marauding vehicle also damaged trees and decorative lattice work. Insurance agent Jerry R. Hrabal says he's holding out hope someone saw a Land Rover with similar damage on or around Feb. 10. Call The Washington County Sheriff's Office at 503-846-2700 with any information. .
Andy Mackintosh: FT Services Lands A Record $1 Billion Maintenance ...
Suncor Energy Inc. and Flint Transfield Services Ltd. (FTS) have signed what is probably North America's biggest industrial maintenance contract to date, with revenue surpassing $1 billion over five years. The initiative also marks the first large-scale collaborative maintenance agreement in the oilsands. Andy Mackintosh, FTS's president and CEO, acknowledges that skepticism still dogs the concept of co-operative management on this scale between petroleum producer and contractor. "You'll hear someone say 'we tried that five years ago and it didn't work.' From experience, though, we believe otherwise. This contract is cost-reimbursable but our profitability is linked directly to improvements in Suncor's safety, plant reliability, and overall efficiency gains." To handle Suncor's turnarounds, maintenance and related engineering, along with some capital construction services, FTS anticipates hiring more than 1,000 additional employees and perhaps 200 subcontractors.
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