Latest Human Resources Headlines

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Lloyd’s: Electronic Claims Processing Advances; Too Slow Says Langley

Oct 17 2007 // The Market Reform Group (MRG), which directs the efforts of Lloyd’s and the London insurance market to move from paper to electronic processing, has issued its latest bulletin. It focuses on the committee’s...

La. Citizens to Break From Managing Agency, Board Says

Oct 15 2007 // Facing allegations it’s been mismanaged for years, Louisiana’s taxpayer-backed insurance company will sever its relationship with the agency that has overseen the firm since its inception, the company’s...

Assurance Agency’s Seminar HIghlights Legal Concerns, Human Resources

Oct 9 2007 // Schaumburg, Ill.-based Assurance Agency, recently held an educational seminar on “The ‘New’ Legal Landscape for HR Professionals – A 2007 Report” at the headquarters in Elk Grove Village, Ill....

U.S. Risk Expands Brokerage Operations in Australia

Oct 3 2007 // Dallas, Texas-based U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc., the seventh largest managing general agency and surplus lines wholesaler in the nation, expanded its operations by opening a brokerage operation in Sydney, Australia.The...

Survey Projects Annual Employee Cost for Health Care to Exceed $9,300

Sep 26 2007 // New data from Towers Perrin indicate that the average corporate health benefit expenditure in 2008 will be $9,312 per employee — an increase of 7 percent over 2007.According to Towers Perrin’s annual Health Care...

Washington Casualty Adds New Managing Director

Sep 25 2007 // Medical professional liability insurer Washington Casualty Co. (WCC), today announced it has named Mike Rutz to the newly created position of managing director. WCC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lansing, Mich.-based...

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Sep 24 2007 // The National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices has named its officers and directors for the 2007-2008 term. The new NAPSLO president is Mary Ellen Rozzell, who is with Continental/Marmorstein & Malone...

Lloyd’s MGA Joins China Platform

Sep 17 2007 // S.A. Meacock and Co. is the most recent Managing General Agent to join Lloyd’s rapidly-growing China platform, bringing the total to 11.Ian Faragher, Managing Director of Lloyd’s China Re, observed that the...

Aon Construction Adds New Managing Director, National Property Solutions

Sep 10 2007 // Aon Construction Services Group, the construction risk management arm of Aon Corporation recently appointed Vincent Zegers as managing director, National Property Solutions. In his new position Zegers will be responsible...

Robin Frost Joins Mystic Capital’s Investment Banking Team

Sep 6 2007 // New York (Sept. 6 2007) – The ever-expanding investment banking firm, Mystic Capital Advisors Group, LLC, is pleased to announce its newest associate: Robin Frost. Mr. Frost joins Mystic Capital as Vice...

Guy Carp Names Lumbis Managing Director, Corporate Finance-Europe

Sep 4 2007 // Guy Carpenter & Company has appointed Paul Lumbis as Managing Director of Corporate Finance, Europe. He will be responsible for leading the firm’s European corporate finance business, with a particular emphasis...

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Sep 3 2007 // Atlanta-based insurance broker Beecher Carlson has named Gerald Levine as managing director. Levine will be responsible for client development for Beecher Carlson’s Risk Management Practice. He will be based in the...

People

Sep 3 2007 // Richard E. Meuret has been appointed vice president and manager, Field Operations Analysis, for Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company operations. Meuret will be based in the insurer’s Boston home office and...

Fitzgerald to Head Marsh UK’s HR Dept.

Aug 30 2007 // Marsh UK announced the appointment of Michael Fitzgerald as Head of Human Resources in the UK. He will assume responsibility for all aspects of Marsh UK’s HR management, including HR strategic development,...

Wells Fargo Insurance Names Managing Director of N.C. Operations

Aug 30 2007 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services selected Steve Smith senior vice president, managing director of its North Carolina operations. Prior to joining Wells Fargo in 2006, Smith held leadership positions with CNA Financial, The...

Dean’s Damages Delimited

Aug 20 2007 // Hurricane Dean, is the most powerful storm to roil the waters of the Caribbean since Wilma in 2005. So far it’s been responsible for at least six deaths. After ravaging Martinique and St. Lucia as a category two...

Flanagan and Lamprecht Join Aon Risk Services in Chicago

Aug 16 2007 // Aon Corp. recently announced that Michael S. Flanagan has been named managing director within the Aon Technology Group and Michael C. Lamprecht has been named senior vice president within the Aon Financial Services Group....

Managing energy industry risk in a volatile world

Aug 6 2007 // The world has experienced rapid and profound changes in recent years, and the energy industry has been no exception. Climate changes (including global warming), market fluctuations, ever-increasing business mergers and...

Ohio Governor Names 11 to New Board of Workers’ Comp Bureau

Aug 2 2007 // Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland named 11 new non-legislative directors to oversee the state’s scandal-marred Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, the state’s insurance fund for injured workers that has been...

Andersen Named Assistant Communications Manager for Calif. SCIF

Jul 31 2007 // Patrick Andersen has been promoted to assistant communications manager for the California State Compensation Insurance Fund’s corporate Communications Department. Prior to his State Fund career, Andersen served as...