All the headlines from our Talent Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 19 2008 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based C.M. Meiers Co. Inc. has named Greg Jones managing director for the production insurance division of CMM Entertainment, a division of C.M. Meiers Co. Inc. A 28-year veteran of the insurance...
Sep 15 2008 // Employers in Oregon will pay nearly 6 percent less on average for workers’ compensation coverage in 2009, the Department of Consumer and Business Services announced.The reduction in the workers’ compensation...
Sep 15 2008 // The Juneau Assembly has authorized spending $55,000 to help pay for an avalanche forecaster this winter. City Manager Rod Swope says he looks at the expenditure approved Wednesday as insurance. The forecaster will test...
Sep 12 2008 // Workers’ compensation insurance rates will be dropping in North Carolina next year, for the first time in five years.The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Sept. 10 the North Carolina Rate Bureau has requested...
Sep 9 2008 // In late August, Texas Gov. Rick Perry named Rod Bordelon of Austin as commissioner of the Workers’ Compensation Division at the Texas Department of Insurance, replacing outgoing commissioner Albert Betts....
Sep 4 2008 // Willis Group Holdings has announced the appointment of Vince McGeehan as Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Willis Bermuda, effective immediately. He is responsible for the company’s insurance broking...
Sep 1 2008 // Second (or subsequent) injury funds (SIF’s) have been abolished in 19 states. Alabama and Maine began this movement in 1992, with Arkansas and New York being the most recent converts; each ending its respective...
Sep 1 2008 // The word “marketing” may conjure up images of the fast-paced world of television advertising, a piece of direct mail that catches your attention, an interactive e-mail — even talk of demographics and...
Sep 1 2008 // The word “marketing” may conjure up images of the fast-paced world of television advertising, a piece of direct mail that catches your attention, an interactive e-mail — even talk of demographics and...
Sep 1 2008 // If you’re like most insurance firms, your workforce is aging. Or, as a friend of mine recently put it, “There’s a lot of gray hair in the room.” Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but...
Sep 1 2008 // Workers’ compensation direct premiums written (DPW) for calendar year 2007 exceeded $46 billion. This represented a slight decline from year-end 2006’s $47.2 billion. However, using 2003 as a reference point,...
Sep 1 2008 // The number of workers killed on the job annually dropped to an historic low in 2007, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced last month.The number of worker deaths dropped to 5,488 last year — the fewest since the...
Aug 29 2008 // Maryland workers’ compensation carriers will be able to lower their rates an average 5.4 percent under a loss cost filing approved by the state’s regulator.The Maryland Insurance Administration this week gave...
Aug 29 2008 // Recruiting and staffing in the insurance industry has never been as “hot” as it is right now, said Susan Henry, senior vice president, The Jacobson Group, an executive search, professional recruiting and...
Aug 26 2008 // U.S. workers’ compensation payments for medical care and cash benefits for workers disabled by workplace injuries or diseases declined in 2006, according to a study released by the National Academy of Social...
Aug 21 2008 // The number of workers killed on the job annually dropped to a historic low in 2007, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Wednesday.The number of worker deaths dropped to 5,488 last year — the fewest since the...
Aug 8 2008 // Louisiana-based Amerisafe Inc., which provides workers’ compensation insurance for small to mid-sized companies in hazardous industries, recorded a 13 percent increase in second-quarter profit despite a slight...
Aug 8 2008 // Oklahoma added 22,500 jobs last year as the energy sector fueled an employment growth rate of 1.4 percent, sixth highest among all states, according to a newly released report.“We’re growing 1 percent faster...
Aug 4 2008 // If you’re like most insurance firms, your workforce is aging. Or, as a friend of mine recently put it, “There’s a lot of gray hair in the room.” Not that there’s anything wrong with that, mind...
Aug 4 2008 // During a soft market, when businesses often are struggling to survive, it hardly seems like the appropriate time to scrutinize staffing. Yet Paul Hering, managing principal and CEO for San Diego-based B&B Co. says...