An offshore petroleum platform exploded and was burning Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site where BP's undersea well spilled after a rig explosion.
Whirlpool Corp. employee Cheryl Johnston said the company’s biggest-ever new plant project will give her something few workers have these days — job security.
It’s called add-on insurance. When a consumer makes a purchase, gets credit, rents a vehicle or other similar transactions, often times the vendor or selling company asks if the customer would like an insurance policy to “protect” him or her from a variety of perils.