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Allstate Urging Texas Agency Owners to Boost Hiring of Sales Professionals

Jul 27 2011 // Allstate Insurance agency owners across Texas are planning to hire at least 350 licensed sales professionals by the end of the year, the company announced.Allstate is encouraging its 1,000 plus agency owners to continue to...

Japan Committee Clears Nuclear Compensation Bill

Jul 26 2011 // A lower house committee of Japan’s parliament on Tuesday passed a bill to help Tokyo Electric Power pay billions of dollars in compensation to those hurt by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, ensuring a law will soon be...

Best Names Holzberger as Managing Director – Analytics for EMEA

Jul 25 2011 // A.M. Best Co. announced that Stefan Holzberger has joined A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited as managing director, analytics. He will be based in London and will report directly to Roger Sellek, CEO –...

New York Workers’ Compensation Cost Hike Approved

Jul 20 2011 // New York regulators have approved an average 9.1 percent hike in loss costs used by insurers, which is less than the 10.4 percent increase sought by the industry.The New York State Insurance Department approved the...

Moran Named to California Workers’ Compensation Administrator Post

Jul 19 2011 // Rosa Moran, 50, of Oakland, has been appointed administrative director of the California Division of Workers’ Compensation by Gov. Jerry Brown. Moran has served as a workers’ compensation judge since 2005....

What the Waffle House Can Teach About Managing Supply Chain Risk

Jul 19 2011 // What can Waffle House teach about disaster preparedness and risk management, especially in the wake of this spring’s devastating tornadoes?Plenty, says a supply chain expert at Olin Business School, Washington...

Calif. Court Limits Employer’s Liability in Acts by Employees

Jul 18 2011 // The California Supreme Court has confirmed a limitation on an employer’s potential tort liability for the acts of its employees, with a particular emphasis on employees operating motor vehicles in the course of their...

Agency Satisfaction With Insurers Not Driven by Price, Compensation

Jul 18 2011 // Insurance agents tend to give a greater share of their business to insurers with whom they are highly satisfied, according to a J.D. Power and Associates Insurance Agency Satisfaction Study-Personal Lines.The study, based...

New Jersey Court OKs Workers’ Compensation in Obesity Death Case

Jul 18 2011 // The husband of an obese woman who died of a blood clot after working long hours at her home office is eligible to receive workers’ compensation benefits, a New Jersey appeals court ruled.The case has raised questions...

Florida Tweaks Its Workers’ Compensation Law

Jul 18 2011 // A variety of changes to Florida’s workers’ compensation law went into effect July 1 after Gov. Rick Scott signed into law CS/HB 1087. The changes affect cancellations, premium audits and prepaid benefit...

House Committee Approves Federal Workers’ Compensation Reforms

Jul 14 2011 // A House committee has advanced legislation updating the workers’ compensation program for federal employees.The U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce passed with unanimous support the Federal...

Florida Tweaks Its Workers’ Compensation Law

Jul 8 2011 // A variety of changes to Florida’s workers’ compensation law went into effect July 1.Gov. Rick Scott signed into law CS/HB 1087, a catch-all insurance bill that includes changes relating to workers’...

Penn Millers Introduces Workers Compensation Toolkit

Jul 7 2011 // Penn Millers Insurance Co. has launched ComPENNsation, a web-based workers’ compensation toolkit for agents and insureds. ComPENNsation provides a single point of access to a collection of workers’ compensation...

California Workers’ Compensation Law Draws Scrutiny with NFL Case

Jul 5 2011 // A leading Republican in the California State Legislature said he will push for an overhaul of a state labor law that makes the Golden State a magnet for workers’ compensation claims by injured former professional...

Illinois Governor Signs Workers’ Compensation Reform

Jun 30 2011 // Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn said companies should see their workers’ compensation premiums drop because of a new law he signed June 28 overhauling the system that takes care of employees injured on the...

New Jersey Court OKs Workers’ Compensation in Obesity Death Case

Jun 30 2011 // The husband of an obese woman who died of a blood clot after working long hours at her home office is eligible to receive workers’ compensation benefits, a New Jersey appeals court ruled in a case that raised...

More West Virginia Counties Join Workers’ Compensation Pool

Jun 30 2011 // In the wake of a decision by a West Virginia workers’ compensation insurer to drop its program for government agencies, more counties are lining up to join a risk pool.County governments throughout the state are...

Calif. Court Limits Employer’s Liability in Acts by Employees

Jun 29 2011 // The California Supreme Court has confirmed a limitation on an employer’s potential tort liability for the acts of its employees, with a particular emphasis on employees operating motor vehicles in the course of their...

How Workers’ Compensation Politics Shut Maine Government 20 Years Ago

Jun 28 2011 // The hallways of Maine’s State House were jammed with irate, screaming protesters, and scores of state workers pitched a tent “union city” in a park across the street.The already cool relations between the...

Vermont Contractor Faces Workers’ Compensation Fraud Charge

Jun 28 2011 // Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 1 for a Vermont contractor who has pleaded guilty to operating without workers’ compensation insurance. Prosecutors say Donald Bevins, of Williston, doing business as Twin City...