All the headlines from our Talent Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 15 2009 // I have been an insurance broker since 1974. However, my principal occupation is attorney, practicing in insurance law. I have had many conversations with insurance agency managers, insurance agents and customer service...
Nov 15 2009 // The Montana Supreme Court has upheld a state law that allows insurance companies to cut off workers’ compensation payments for those suffering permanent total disability when the disabled party is of retirement...
Nov 15 2009 // The board of directors of California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) appointed Doug Stewart, chief risk officer, as president and CEO on an interim basis, replacing outgoing CEO Janet D. Frank.“The...
Nov 12 2009 // InStrategy Group, an insurance consultancy company based in Charlotte, N.C., has appointed Barbara Murphy as managing director. Murphy will lead the company’s Operations Practice. Murphy has more than 25 years of...
Nov 11 2009 // I have been an insurance broker since 1974. However, my principal occupation is attorney, practicing in the field of insurance law. I have had many conversations with insurance agency managers, insurance agents and...
Nov 11 2009 // American International Group Inc.’s tough talking chief executive has reportedly threatened to quit, but the giant insurer, which is showing signs of life after its brush with bankruptcy last year, could do fine...
Nov 9 2009 // A South Carolina couple has sued a Georgia-based security company for hiring a guard accused of setting fires.The Island Packet of Hilton Head reports Friday that Norman and Marjorie Agin say Norred & Associates and...
Nov 2 2009 // A national trade organization estimates the number of lost construction jobs in South Dakota at 1,400 during a year in which a weak economy and tight credit slowed developers and builders.The 6 percent drop in South Dakota...
Nov 2 2009 // North Carolina workers’ compensation rates paid by employers are going down.The state has agreed to a 9.6 percent decrease to the voluntary market loss costs and no change (zero percent) for the assigned risk...
Nov 1 2009 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has given the green light to an overall statewide average workers’ compensation rate decrease of 6.8 percent.The decrease, which was proposed by the industry’s...
Nov 1 2009 // State funds blunt the impact of bigger losses through concerted loss prevention efforts.An insurance industry think tank has concluded that 25 public and quasi-public workers’ compensation insurance plans perform...
Nov 1 2009 // I have been an insurance broker since 1974. However, my principal occupation is attorney, practicing in insurance law. I have had many conversations with insurance agency managers, insurance agents and customer service...
Nov 1 2009 // Sales management is vitally important to the growth and survival of an agency. However, as important as it is, sales management does not have to be a full-time job in most firms.Often the task falls to an owner or the top...
Oct 30 2009 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations has proposed an update to regulations for the Workers’ Compensation Information System. The update is part of the Division of Workers’ Compensation’s...
Oct 29 2009 // A workers’ compensation insurer for 3,000 public entities, hospitals, private companies and associations in Georgia has been declared insolvent and will be liquidated.Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas...
Oct 29 2009 // Charlotte, N.C.-based insurance consultancy InStrategy Group has appointed Robert Jones as managing director to lead the group’s retail practice.Jones has 30 years of experience in the insurance industry. The...
Oct 27 2009 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has issued a final order approving the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s (NCCI) amended rate filing for workers’ compensation insurance rates that will...
Oct 23 2009 // Louisiana was the only state in the country where more people were working in the construction industry last month than in September 2008.That’s according to a state-by state analysis by the Associated General...
Oct 21 2009 // An insurance industry think tank has concluded that 25 public and quasi-public workers’ compensation insurance plans perform better financially than the private market in a number of performance categories and at...
Oct 21 2009 // BrickStreet Insurance is looking to shed about 24 jobs as it continues adjusting to a market in which it’s no longer the sole provider of workers’ compensation insurance in West Virginia.President and CEO Greg...