All the headlines from our Talent Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 2 2023 // Polo Managing Agency Ltd., an independent Lloyd’s turnkey managing agent, has assumed management of Coverys Syndicate 1975. The specialist medical professional lines syndicate will novate to Polo on Oct. 2, 2023.In...
Oct 2 2023 // What’s the best billboard you’ve ever seen? Why did it stand out? Think of job advertisements like billboards. It’s something everyone can see, and the best ones are creative, memorable and lead to...
Oct 2 2023 // Workers and employers in the U.S. have endured 17 recessions during NCCI’s 100 years of operation. Recessions produce far-reaching consequences on the economy, and the extent of those impacts depends on the severity,...
Oct 2 2023 // New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed three bills into law that affect workers, including one raising the minimum disability benefit under workers’ compensation, over three years.The workers’ comp legislation...
Oct 2 2023 // A new Connecticut law making it easier for firefighters who develop cancer to receive workers’ compensation benefits will go into effect on October 1, 2023.Approved as part of the state budget bill, the law creates a...
Sep 29 2023 // Allianz’s Chief Financial Officer Giulio Terzariol is set to leave his post at the German group to take a top job at Italy’s biggest insurer Assicurazioni Generali, two Italian newspapers reported on...
Sep 28 2023 // ST. LOUIS (AP) __ Ben Phillips’ childhood memories include basketball games with friends, and neighbors gathering in the summer shade at their St. Louis housing complex. He also remembers watching men in hazmat suits...
Sep 28 2023 // A Dorchester woman was sentenced recently in federal court in Boston for tax and workers’ compensation fraud offenses in connection with her operation of a temporary employment agency, according to officials.Dam Ngoc...
Sep 26 2023 // Connecticut workers’ compensation insurers are recommending an overall 9.8% reduction in loss costs in the voluntary market and a 10.5% overall reduction in the assigned risk market.The rate filing submitted to the...
Sep 21 2023 // California lawmakers, union leaders and truck drivers are trying to steer Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom toward signing into law a proposal that could save jobs as self-driving trucks are tested for their safety on the...
Sep 15 2023 // Flexibility in their job is the number one priority for employees, while attracting new employees and retaining current workers remain the top challenges for businesses, according to the results of the 2023 New York...
Sep 14 2023 // Markel, the insurance operation within Markel Group Inc., announced it is has hired an in-country leader for Australia and will open three new offices there in September 2023.These offices, in Sydney, Melbourne and...
Sep 12 2023 // It was reasonable for an injured employee who is returning to work to refuse a job that accommodated his disability because he had personal and religious objections to getting a COVID-19 vaccine.The Virginia Workers’...
Sep 11 2023 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A northern Wisconsin sawmill has agreed to pay nearly $191, 000 and stop hiring children under 16 to settle a federal lawsuit labor regulators filed after a teenager was killed on the job this summer...
Sep 11 2023 // New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed three bills into law that affect workers, including one raising the minimum disability benefit under workers’ compensation over three years.The second new law prohibits employers...
Sep 7 2023 // The Delaware Supreme Court has broken with its own precedent to rule that a workers’ compensation insurance carrier may assert a lien against benefits an injured employee recovers from other sources.The particular...
Sep 4 2023 // The #1, MOST IMPORTANT recruiting tool is one most insurance agencies and carriers don’t use to its fullest potential is … (drumroll please!) … a candidate database. Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and...
Sep 1 2023 // Alphabet’s Google was hit with a lawsuit on Thursday by Danish online job-search rival Jobindex, a year after the latter complained to EU antitrust regulators that the U.S. tech giant unfairly favored its own...
Aug 31 2023 // A new Connecticut law making it easier for firefighters who develop cancer to receive workers’ compensation benefits will go into effect on October 1, 2023.Approved as part of the state budget bill, this law creates...
Aug 30 2023 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation announced a 3.9% rate reduction for the state’s public employers, a rate cut that will go into effect Jan. 1, 2024.The rate reduction will result in nearly $8 million...