All the headlines from our Talent Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 16 2008 // Soft market conditions could last for another nine months to five years, predict representatives from the agent, broker, carrier, reinsurance, and excess and surplus lines sectors of the insurance industry.“I...
Nov 16 2008 // Given today’s tough economic times, most insurance agencies and carriers in the Southern California region are not planning to give their employees cost of living increases in 2009, although many companies have not...
Nov 14 2008 // American International Group Inc. said on Friday that it is terminating 14 voluntary deferred compensation programs involving 5,600 employees and independent agents and representatives.Approximately $500 million in earned...
Nov 5 2008 // The Hartford says it will be cutting 500 jobs, citing losses in its investment portfolios and declining revenues.The Connecticut-based financial services company says the layoffs will include nearly 125 in the Hartford...
Nov 3 2008 // A New York State appeals court has upheld workers’ compensation benefits for an illegal alien injured while working as a parking lot attendant despite falsely using another man’s identification. Benjamin Amoah,...
Oct 29 2008 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has opened a new green campus in Vacaville, Calif. The group said in a demonstration of its ongoing commitment to ensuring the health of California’s communities...
Oct 29 2008 // Louisiana experienced a loss of 17,500 jobs in the seasonally adjusted number of nonfarm jobs from August to September 2008, the Louisiana Workforce Commission announced recently.However, the September nonfarm job total of...
Oct 28 2008 // A 49-year-old Nassau County, New York woman has been arrested on charges of fraudulently collecting $20,000 in workers’ compensation benefits, the New York State Insurance Department reported.Maria Escobar, of Valley...
Oct 28 2008 // Given today’s tough economic times, most insurance agencies and carriers in the Southern California region are not planning to give their employees cost of living increases in 2009, although many companies have not...
Oct 24 2008 // Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd. announced that it has received approval from the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) and Lloyd’s to establish a wholly owned Lloyd’s Managing Agent subsidiary. The new unit...
Oct 21 2008 // Jubilee Managing Agency, a specialist Lloyd’s insurer, has announced the appointment of Andreas Loucaides, the former CEO of Catlin UK, as Director of Underwriting “to expand its portfolio and diversify its...
Oct 20 2008 // Commercial insurance brokerage and risk management consultancy Beecher Carlson has appointed Steve Levene as managing director. Levene will establish an office in Dallas to expand Beecher Carlson’s footprint in...
Oct 16 2008 // During recent Congressional hearings into the financial crisis at American International Group (AIG) and the resulting $85 billion federal bailout for the financial giant, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., asked former AIG CEO...
Oct 6 2008 // Soft market conditions could last for another nine months to five years, predict representatives from the agent, broker, carrier, reinsurance, and excess and surplus lines sectors of the insurance industry.“I...
Oct 1 2008 // The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has found that booster seats are doing a poor job of improving the fit of lap and shoulder belts for children.Booster seats are meant to do one thing — elevate children so...
Sep 26 2008 // The Keating Group (tKg), a new England excess and surplus lines wholesaler, has named Todd S. Pollock as president of tKg Comp, its newly formed workers’ compensation division. Pollock began his career in 1995 with...
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...