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Florida Approves 7.8% Workers’ Compensation Rate Increase

Oct 15 2010 // Florida workers’ compensation insurers have been given the green light to raise rates an average 7.8 percent starting Jan. 1, 2011.Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has told the insurers’ rating...

Loss of Insurance Job Cited in California School Shooting Case

Oct 15 2010 // The man suspected of opening fire at a Carlsbad elementary school, wounding two girls, had a minor brush with the law in 2002 in Illinois when he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor telephone harassment, the San Diego...

Kentucky Auditor Clears League Over Workers’ Compensation Purchase

Oct 7 2010 // Kentucky’s state auditor has found no fraud in the insurance buying practices of the Lexington-Fayette County Urban Government.Auditor Crit Luallen said her agency found no evidence to conclude that the city’s...

Florida Weighs 8.3% Workers’ Compensation Rate Increase Today

Oct 5 2010 // Workers’ compensation insurers in Florida will be asked to explain their request for an average 8.3 percent rate hike today before the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR).The OIR is holding a public hearing...

Workers’ Compensation Results Continue in Downward Spiral

Oct 4 2010 // The nation’s workers’ compensation insurance industry’s underwriting performance has continued to weaken as the composite combined ratio deteriorated 8.8 percentage points to 120.0 in 2009, representing...

Stronger Economic Times Add to Recruitment Challenges

Oct 4 2010 // People are a company’s greatest asset. Yet finding the right people is often challenging, particularly in the insurance industry. While the economic downturn put a hold on hiring for many firms, the seemingly steady...

For Award Winning CSR, Going ‘Above and Beyond’ is Part of the Job

Oct 4 2010 // What does it take to deliver outstanding customer service? Kimberly J. Muesse, a senior account manager with the Lockton Companies in Houston, should know. She’s won a string of awards during her 25-plus years in the...

A Wonderful Life

Oct 4 2010 // If a creative insurance cinematographer were to capture the story of McQueary Henry Bowles Troy LLP, it might appear to be a familiar tale. That’s because although times are tough in the national economy, at this...

Help Wanted: U.S. Insurance Chief; Salary to $179K, Good Benefits; D.C. Office

Sep 29 2010 // The U.S. Treasury is looking for a Director of the Federal Insurance Office. The full-time job pays $119,554 to $179,700 per year depending on experience. Applications will be accepted from all qualified individuals until...

TDI Names Associate Medical Advisor for Workers’ Compensation

Sep 28 2010 // Edwin R. Buster III, MD has joined the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation as an associate medical advisor. Since 1970, Dr. Buster has been in private practice at Capital Neurosurgical...

Lloyd’s Program Aims to Increase Claims Talent

Sep 24 2010 // Lloyd’s has announced that it will establish a dedicated program to recruit and train 50 claims professionals over the next five years, which it said is equivalent to “10 per cent of claims personnel currently...

Illinois Ex-Trooper in Deadly Crash Wants Workers’ Compensation

Sep 22 2010 // The former Illinois State Police trooper blamed in a southwestern Illinois freeway wreck that killed two sisters wants state compensation for his crash-related injuries.The Belleville News-Democrat reports that Matt...

6 Ways Agents Fail Their Workers’ Compensation Customers

Sep 20 2010 // Like most agents, you work hard at writing new accounts, what salespeople through the years have referred to as “getting the fish in the boat.” But it doesn’t take a master angler to know that once you...

Stronger Economic Times Add to Recruitment Challenges

Sep 20 2010 // People are a company’s greatest asset. Yet finding the right people is often challenging, particularly in the insurance industry. While the economic downturn put a hold on hiring for many firms, the seemingly steady...

North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Insurers Seek Slight Increase

Sep 20 2010 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has received the 2010 workers compensation rate filings from the North Carolina Rate Bureau, the organization that represents the state’s workers compensation...

6 Ways Agents Fail Their Workers’ Compensation Customers

Sep 20 2010 // Like most agents, you work hard at writing new accounts, what salespeople through the years have referred to as “getting the fish in the boat.” But it doesn’t take a master angler to know that once you...

Stronger Economic Times Add to Recruitment Challenges

Sep 20 2010 // People are a company’s greatest asset. Yet finding the right people is often challenging, particularly in the insurance industry. While the economic downturn put a hold on hiring for many firms, the seemingly steady...

Reid, Evans Appointed to Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Court

Sep 13 2010 // Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry has appointed two new judges to the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Court.Judge David Reid of Tulsa will fill the Office 6 position previously held by Mary Black and Judge Owen Evans of Tulsa...

California Workers’ Compensation Institute Assists With Posting Requirements

Sep 13 2010 // The California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) announced it has newly revised DWC-1 claim form/Notice of Potential Eligibility (NOPE), as well as English and Spanish versions of its new hire pamphlet (Facts...

U.S. RE Analytics Names Kutsina as Managing Director

Sep 8 2010 // Anya Kutsina has been named managing director of U.S. RE Analytics LLC, a subsidiary of U.S. RE Companies Inc., an international financial services and reinsurance brokerage group.Kutsina has served as head of sales and...