All the headlines from our Talent Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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’...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Jun 24 2011 // The private sector continued to lead non-seasonally adjusted nonfarm job growth in May for the state and in most of Louisiana’s metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), the Louisiana Workforce Commission has...
Jun 22 2011 // State lawmakers have agreed to give compensation to the families of two unarmed Louisiana insurance fraud investigators who were shot and killed earlier this month while looking into a fraud case.Existing law will be...
Jun 20 2011 // West Virginia’s volunteer fire departments looking to offset anticipated increases in their workers’ compensation insurance premiums can turn to a website launched by the state auditor’s office.Auditor...
Jun 20 2011 // Victor Hugo wrote that “Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come,” a sentiment which could suitably be applied to the concept of reputational risk. It is now difficult to read any quality business...