WINDSOR, Connecticut, April 9 (TNSEve) -- LIMRA issued the following news release: The pandemic has caused all businesses, including financial services, to take a fresh look at strategy and operations. That is why the theme for this year's LIMRA and LOMA Canada Virtual Annual Conference, on May 19 -20, is "pivot, persevere and prosper." John Carroll, head of Member Relations and Sales -- Insurance, U.S. and Canada for LIMRA and LOMA will kick off the conference by sharing LIMRA research that i  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, April 9 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut issued the following statement: * * * Recent news reports have indicated that the Lamont administration may be considering housing children who arrive unaccompanied in the United States in the former Connecticut Juvenile Training School, a former youth prison that closed in 2018. The following is a reaction from David McGuire, executive director of the ACLU of Connecticut: "Immigrant children should be able   more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, April 8 (TNSPol) -- The Connecticut Business and Industry Association issued the following news release on April 7, 2021: Small business leaders and organizations today called for policymakers to use federal COVID-19 relief funds to address an unemployment debt crisis that threatens the state's economic recovery. CBIA, NFIB Connecticut, the Connecticut Restaurant Association, the Connecticut Food Association, and the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce urged the Lamont  more

EAST HARTFORD, Connecticut, April 6 (TNSPer) -- The Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology issued the following news release: The Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT) announces the appointment of Dr. Jacquelynn (Jackie) Garofano as its new Chief Technology Officer, effective April 2. "Having Jackie in this senior technology role is a tremendous opportunity for CCAT. Her experience and deep understanding of advanced technologies as a solution to complex problems will be extreme  more

NORWALK, Connecticut, March 30 (TNSOps) -- The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued the following news release: The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) today issued an Accounting Standards Update (ASU) that provides an accounting alternative expected to reduce the complexity for private companies and not-for-profit organizations when performing the goodwill triggering event evaluation. Under current GAAP, goodwill must be tested for impairment when a triggering event occurs that  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 7 (TNSPol) -- GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders issued the following news release: GLAD's amicus brief submitted in Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities v. Edge Fitness et al. argues the creation of an implied right to "gender privacy" that is not authorized by any statutory language will create a substantial risk of being utilized in other contexts to undermine the state's nondiscrimination laws, including for transgender people. GLAD has submitted an amic  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, April 7 (TNSAwa) -- The Women's Basketball Coaches Association issued the following news release on April 6, 2021: The Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) announced today the 2021 WBCA Victory Club honorees. Rhonda Farney of Georgetown High School in Georgetown, Texas, reached 1,200 victories on Jan. 15, 2021, to lead this year's Victory Club list of honorees. Farney finished the 2020-21 season with 1,209 wins which makes her the sixth-most winning coach in high sch  more