All the headlines from our Talent Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 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, mind...
Aug 1 2008 // The Virginia State Corporation Commission is setting an October 28 hearing to consider adjustments in premiums charged for workers’ compensation insurance. The National Council on Compensation Insurance has requested...
Jul 31 2008 // Kentucky lawmakers adopted insurance legislation during the 2008 regular legislative session that will affect agents and carriers working in the state.The Insurance Producer Modernization bill (HB 334) allows an agent to...
Jul 29 2008 // Eighteenth century pirates and a nineteenth century German “Iron” Chancellor preceded the United States in the creation of a social system for the protection of injured workers. The modern workers’...
Jul 28 2008 // New York livery drivers will now have better access to workers’ benefits.Gov. David A. Paterson announced Friday that he has signed a law to aid the drivers in New York City, and in Westchester and Nassau counties....
Jul 22 2008 // West Chester, Pa.-based Venture Insurance Programs, a national program administrator, recently named Michael Rogers as executive vice president and managing director of a new specialty property unit. Rogers will establish...
Jul 17 2008 // A top executive for a key insurance broker urged New York regulators to quash the practice of insurance agents taking contingent commissions, despite calls from agents that the practice would hurt their businesses, and do...
Jul 15 2008 // The findings from A.M. Best Co.’s cycle management study show just how difficult it is for property/casualty companies to surpass the performance of their peers on a consistent, long-term basis. Only 14 percent of...
Jul 11 2008 // New York officials have closed 14 workers’ compensation self-insured trusts in the past few years and questioned the financial stability of 22 others.However, that still leaves 29 group trusts operating in the state...
Jul 11 2008 // The New York State Insurance Department and attorney general’s office will hold the first of three scheduled public hearings on insurance agents’ compensation arrangements on Monday in Buffalo. The meetings,...
Jul 9 2008 // Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry has appointed four people to the state’s Workers’ Compensation Court. The three new members of the court are Robert Lake Grove of Oklahoma City, William R. Foster of Norman and Eric W....
Jul 7 2008 // PeopleMcQueary Henry Bowles Troy LLP (MHBT) added Jim Anderson as senior vice president in the Dallas-based firm’s property/casualty group. Anderson will oversee the production and account management of...
Jul 3 2008 // Republican House attorney John Brady has resigned from his General Assembly position to prepare for his campaign for state insurance commissioner.Brady stepped down so to avoid any conflict of interest or concerns about...
Jun 30 2008 // All of West Virginia employers, other than governmental entities, can for the first time, shop their workers’ compensation coverage among carriers in a competitive market.Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline said all...
Jun 27 2008 // Former Cold War workers and their supporters rallied in Oak Ridge, Tenn. to demand help for workers made ill from exposure to hazardous and radioactive materials in the government’s nuclear weapons facilities.The...
Jun 24 2008 // Beacon Mutual Insurance Co., Rhode Island’s largest workers’ compensation carrier, reported that it will implement a 7.2 percent average decrease in rates that has been approved by the Department of Business...
Jun 23 2008 // A mortgage insurance company in Winston-Salem, North Carolina says it is cutting 100 jobs as the housing crisis continues.Triad Guaranty Inc. said 65 jobs will be eliminated in Winston-Salem, beginning June 30 because of...
Jun 23 2008 // The Cortina Inn in Killington, Vermont, which closed two months ago after being linked to Legionnaires’ disease, has filed for bankruptcy.But a bankruptcy court judge in Connecticut dismissed the inn’s case...
Jun 18 2008 // Aon Risk Services has appointed Marguerite Soeteman-Reijnen as managing director, head of broking excellence for Aon Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), with immediate effect.The bulletin from Aon’s London office...
Jun 16 2008 // Companies big and small — in and outside the insurance industry — can reduce risk and increase profits by improving diversity. And improving diversity can help a company to avoid potential lawsuits and claims,...