“Children were trampled.”
Source: PEZ Easter Egg Hunt in Connecticut Reportedly Descends into a ‘Mess’ : People.com
If initial reports turn out to be true and factual then we can no longer consider our species to be civilized.
Happy Easter.
There is always hope.
Some fast-food franchisees are rethinking putting workers on part-time status to avoid having to provide them with health insurance. The business hassles are exceeding the savings.
Source: Bosses Find Part-Time Workers Can Come With Full-Time Headaches : Shots – Health News : NPR
It’s all about corporate culture. Good luck trying to change that.
Meet the man who could own Aviva France | FT Alphaville.
Do you know what a Fixed Price Arbitrage Life Insurance Contract is? Read this article.
Insurer Genworth Financial Inc. said it didn’t have adequate controls in place and failed to identify a $44 million calculation error as it implemented changes to its methodologies as part of a review of its long-term-care claim reserves.
via Genworth Finds Material Weakness – WSJ.
oops.
Update 03.04.15
Miscalculated Risk: The Old-Age Bill That s Crushing Genworth – Insurance Networking News.
This link provides more in depth analysis.
The New Measles – The Atlantic.
I am having trouble with the collective nature of stupidity.
Measles is already one of the leading causes of death among young children worldwide. About 400 people die from the virus each day—that’s about 16 deaths every hour, according to the WHO.
A whopping 75% of them said that the biggest drain on their resilience reserves was “managing difficult people or office politics at work.”
via What Resilience Means, and Why It Matters – HBR.
Presented without the usual snide comment.
For a better article on understanding the importance of resilience read the following article:
Everyone who works in the insurance industry should read this article.
Everyone.
Ebola, Quarantine, and the Law – ercast.org.
Somebody please tell the Maine Department of Health and Human Services to listen to this podcast.
Ebola nurse plans to end voluntary quarantine – PostBulletin.com: Nation.
Well, 12.5 percent of patients don’t run a fever. In that New England Journal of Medicine study, where they just looked at several thousand of these cases in West Africa, the lead author of the paper is adamant. He says, I sat there, I monitored this patient’s temperature myself until they died and they never ran a fever.
Very informative article on Ebola.
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