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Essentials: A Reminder on Managing Agency E&O Risk

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...

CEO Benmosche Believes AIG Employees’ Compensation Too Low

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...

South Carolina Couple Sues Firm for Hiring Accused Arsonist

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...

Report: South Dakota Lost 1,400 Construction Jobs

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...

North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Rates Cut 9.6%

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...

Florida Approves 6.8% Workers’ Compensation Rate Cut

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...

Study: Workers’ Compensation Public Options Outperform Private Industry

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...

It’s Time to Review Essential Procedures for Managing E&O

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...

Managing Producers: How to Set Sales Goals and Monitor Performance

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...

California to Update Workers Compensation Regulations

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...

Georgia Workers’ Compensation Insurer Southeastern US Faces Liquidation

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...

Jones Joins Consultant InStrategy as Managing Director of Retail Practice

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...

Florida 6.8% Workers’ Compensation Rate Cut Officially Approved

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...

Louisiana Alone in Construction Jobs Gains

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...

Study: Workers’ Compensation Public Options Outperform Private Industry

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...

West Virginia Insurer Brickstreet Plans to Trim 24 Jobs

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...

Nurse Assistant Denied Workers’ Compensation, Attorney Says

Oct 21 2009 // A nurse assistant who is in a vegetative state after being attacked at a Pasadena hospital has been unfairly denied care by workers’ compensation and her health insurance, her attorney alleges.Amelia Mendoza, 52, was...

New Mexico Drops Workers’ Compensation Rate

Oct 21 2009 // The New Mexico Department of Insurance has approved rate reductions in workers’ compensation premiums for the fourth year in a row. Workers’ Compensation Administration director Glenn Smith says such rate...

How to Keep Workplace Friendships from Jeopardizing Your Job

Oct 20 2009 // When it comes to workplace relationships, the general advice is to keep your distance. After all, friendships can be tested by a number of different issues in the workplace. But the people we see every day at work often...

Bayeux Joins Aon Risk Services as Managing Director

Oct 20 2009 // Aon Corp has named John Bayeux as managing director of Aon Risk Services. Bayeux has 22 years of experience as a risk manager and insurance broker in the financial institutions sector. He will work with clients, the...