All the headlines from our Talent Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 5 2009 // Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe will appoint Watson Bell of Searcy to chair the state’s Workers’ Compensation Commission, replacing Olan “Butch” Reeves of Bryant.Reeves will remain chairman of the WCC...
Jan 4 2009 // West Virginia’s BrickStreet Insurance is looking to trim costs in 2009 by dropping nearly 1,000 workers’ compensation policies its chief calls the worst of the worst.Greg Burton says the policies have brought...
Dec 31 2008 // The Port Gibson, Mississippi Police Department was open Monday, three days after a payment lapse on an insurance policy forced its closure.Mayor Fred Reeves said the workers’ compensation insurance policy for Port...
Dec 23 2008 // U.S. insurers and actuarial firms increasingly are outsourcing, offshoring, and importing actuarial talent from abroad, industry experts report.They are also learning that good management practices and an understanding of...
Dec 22 2008 // Oregon doctors have won a major dispute with insurance companies over worker compensation billing.The state Workers Compensation Division has issued a permanent rule forbidding insurers from unilaterally taking discounts...
Dec 22 2008 // North Dakota’s former workers compensation director has been convicted on the more serious of two felony charges that he misspent public funds. It carries a possible 10-year prison term.Sandy Blunt’s attorney,...
Dec 19 2008 // The Ohio Senate has signed off on preserving a workers’ compensation rate system that many businesses say is unfair and detrimental to the economy.The Senate voted 31-1 on Dec. 15 to preserve the current group rating...
Dec 18 2008 // Summit, a provider of workers’ compensation insurance services in the southeastern states, has released web-based WriteNow Risk Eligibility Tool, a complementary feature to the company’s WriteNow Online Quoting...
Dec 16 2008 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has completed its report summarizing insurer loss and premium experience through Sept. 30, 2008.WCIRB said: “California written premium (gross of...
Dec 11 2008 // Des Moines-based Principal Financial Group Inc. says it is cutting 300 jobs at its headquarters and around 250 in 45 other locations.The insurance, banking, retirement and asset management company on Dec.9 blamed the cuts...
Dec 10 2008 // Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings Limited announced that it has agreed to acquire the business and operations of Australian managing general agent Dexta Corporation Pty Ltd. from its shareholders, Ironbridge Capital,...
Dec 10 2008 // Employers in private industry in Texas reported a total of 69,320 nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work for 2007, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
Dec 1 2008 // South Carolina businesses may see a break on workers’ compensation rates next year. The insurance industry’s National Council on Compensation Insurance told state regulators that loss costs — a key...
Dec 1 2008 // Fewer workers in Virginia are being killed while on the job.Federal figures released Monday show workplace fatalties declined by 15 percent, from 165 in 2006 to 141 in 2007. Highway accidents were the top cause of...
Nov 30 2008 // Employee retention programs drive better bottom line performance in growing and uncertain economies. In fact, engaging and rewarding employees with financial or non-financial awards are retention actions that can no longer...
Nov 30 2008 // A Florida Supreme Court ruling has resulted in a request to raise workers compensation rates by 8.9 percent.The National Council on Compensation Insurance filed the request, citing last month’s ruling in which...
Nov 30 2008 // After more than 50 years of urging on Florida football fans, one the Gators most enthusiastic supporters is retiring.George E. Edmondson Jr., a retired insurance agent who is known to UF fans as Mr. Two-Bits, says...
Nov 25 2008 // American International Group, Inc. (AIG) announced voluntary restrictions on executive compensation that include a $1 salary for its chief executive officer; no 2008 annual bonuses and no salary increases through 2009 for...
Nov 24 2008 // Texas House Bill (HB) 7 (79th Legislature, Regular Session, 2005) included a new Section 405.0026, Texas Labor Code, which requires the Commissioner of Insurance to adopt an annual research agenda for the Workers’...
Nov 19 2008 // American International Group Inc., the insurer getting a $152 billion federal bailout, in a regulatory filing late on Tuesday disclosed it would pay roughly $3 million to several executives under deferred compensation...