All the headlines from our Talent Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 7 2008 // Rumors that California is considering selling the State Compensation Insurance Fund to help close the state budget gap are true, but government officials said the idea has amounted to no more than discussion at this...
May 7 2008 // The Minnesota legislature has given final approval of a 38 million compensation package for victims of last year’s bridge collapse.The bill passed the Senate unanimously Monday, May 5th after clearing the House on a...
May 5 2008 // New Jersey insurers using education and employment to rate drivers for risk are justified in doing so and the practice does not amount to racism or classism, according to a new, 581-page report released by Garden State...
Apr 25 2008 // New Jersey insurers who use education and employment to rate drivers for risk are justified in doing so and the practice does not amount to racism or classism, according to a new, 581-page report released by Garden State...
Apr 24 2008 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman announced a decrease in workers’ compensation rates effective July 1, 2008.Since the passage of an all-encompassing workers’ compensation legislative...
Apr 21 2008 // Insurance Journal‘s Editor-in-Chief Andrea Wells was at the Big “I” Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C., where she caught up with Robert Fulwider, an independent agent from Iowa who is chairman of...
Apr 21 2008 // Insurance Journal‘s Editor-in-Chief Andrea Wells interviewed Robert Rusbuldt, CEO and president of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (the Big “I”), at the Big “I”...
Apr 15 2008 // The number of jobs in Louisiana rose during the third quarter of 2007 by 51,855 over the third quarter of 2006, according to the “Louisiana Employment and Wages – Third Quarter 2007” report released by...
Apr 11 2008 // California State Compensation Insurance Fund has been facing many changes recently, but it has no intent to be the dominant player in the state workers’ compensation insurance market, according to Janet Frank,...
Apr 11 2008 // Zurich North America Commercial (NAC) said it will reduce approximately 400 positions or four percent of the staff that support its business division, primarily in non-market-facing roles. Mike Foley, CEO of NAC, said the...
Apr 7 2008 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services Inc. has named Mark Stokes managing director for its San Francisco office. In addition to maintaining his current managing director responsibilities for Wells Fargo Insurance Services’...
Apr 7 2008 // Arizona’s Court of Appeals has ruled that an administrative law judge erred in finding that an off-duty police officer’s gunshot injury in the course of protecting a friend was not due workers’...
Apr 3 2008 // Buried deep inside one version of a bill to compensate the victims of the Interstate 35W bridge collapse is language that would shield the University of Minnesota from any liability.University researchers authored a 2001...
Apr 2 2008 // In a flurry of statewide appointments to boards and commissions last month, Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen appointed two new members to the state Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council. Katherine D. Boyte, of Nashville...
Mar 28 2008 // Negotiations over a compensation fund for victims of the Minnesota Interstate 35W bridge collapse have begun.A House-Senate conference committee conducted its first meeting without resolving any major differences between...
Mar 27 2008 // Bermuda-based monoline insurer Security Capital Assurance Ltd. (SCA) announced that it will reduce its workforce by approximately 60 positions.“The reductions are focused largely on the insurance business origination...
Mar 25 2008 // A Wyoming County, W. Va. man pleaded Monday guilty to one misdemeanor count of wrongfully seeking workers compensation benefits in an amount less than $1000, according to West Virginia Insurance Commissioner, Jane L....
Mar 25 2008 // The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has joined with the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), the UK’s leading employers’ organization, and Citizens Advice to call for the Government to introduce its...
Mar 25 2008 // A Brockton, Mass. man was arraigned on charges he collected over $9,000 in workers’ compensation benefits while he worked at two different jobs, according to the attorney general’s office.Officials said John...
Mar 24 2008 // As the workforce ages, organizations are faced with challenges in assimilating new workers with older workers who are reaching retirement age.A study from the American Society of Training and Development shows that 76...