All the headlines from our Talent Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 14 2008 // The city of Los Angeles spent millions of dollars settling lawsuits that could have been avoided if effective risk management programs had been in place, according to an audit.City Controller Laura Chick said the city...
Jan 14 2008 // Rejected in the Legislature Friday was an attempt to revise state workers’ compensation law so injured employees who drink or use illegal drugs on the job must prove that those things were not substantial factors in...
Jan 13 2008 // Some fire departments in south Mississippi are struggling to fill vacancies as firefighters leave for better paying jobs.Officials in Petal, Miss., are trying to recruit qualified people to work in the physically demanding...
Jan 9 2008 // The chairman of North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency has resigned, less than three weeks after his Bottineau County employers requested an investigation of Robert Indvik’s use of county...
Jan 9 2008 // Charlotte, N.C.-based LMC Capital LLC, named Patrick Vaughn as managing director. He will lead LMC’s M&A practice for insurance technology and services companies. Previously, Vaughn was a managing director at...
Jan 8 2008 // West Virginia officials announced that a Raleigh County woman pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining workers’ compensation benefits exceeding $3,800.00.On May 15, 2007, a Raleigh County Grand Jury indicted Angel M....
Jan 4 2008 // After a yearslong fight, tens of thousands of workers at a former nuclear fuel processing plant in Armstrong County, Pa. are now eligible for government aid for their illnesses.To qualify for the $150,000 in compensation,...
Jan 3 2008 // San Diego, CA – ARROWHEAD General Insurance Agency, Inc. is pleased to announce that effective January 1, 2008, the company will have completed the integration of Cypress Point-Arrowhead General Insurance Agency,...
Jan 3 2008 // As promised, New Hampshire lawmakers made changes to a controversial workers’ compensation measure affecting small contractors one of their first orders of business for 2008.Meeting in Concord on Jan. 2, the House...
Dec 23 2007 // The latest power struggle between W.Va. Gov. Joe Manchin’s administration and lawmakers spilled out into the open recently.Led by House Judiciary Chairwoman Carrie Webster, several legislative leaders quizzed...
Dec 23 2007 // The debate over payments to the Aggregate Trust Fund is one, although by no means the only, workers’ compensation insurance reform that New York carriers want to see changed.“We were generally very pleased with...
Dec 21 2007 // Some fire departments in south Mississippi are struggling to fill vacancies as firefighters leave for better paying jobs.Officials in Petal, Miss., are trying to recruit qualified people to work in the physically demanding...
Dec 14 2007 // For the past 15 years personality tests have been thought to be valid predictors of job performance. So much so that and many employers are now using them when selecting workers or making promotion decisions.But a group of...
Dec 11 2007 // A 52-year-old New Hampshire man has pleaded guilty to theft in a workers’ compensation case.Attorney General Kelly Ayotte says Philip Rice of Derry was sentenced to serve six months in jail with the sentence...
Dec 7 2007 // New Hampshire state lawmakers from both parties said this week they hope to quickly fix a workers’ compensation law when they return to the Statehouse in the new year.Earlier this year the Legislature closed a...
Dec 5 2007 // North Carolina Insurance Department officials denied an ongoing licensure request of Castleton Group Inc., a professional employer organization based in Raleigh, “due to its hazardous financial condition.”The...
Dec 3 2007 // There are some signs that the workers’ compensation prescription drug share of total medical costs is leveling off – at least temporarily, according to a National Council on Compensation Insurance study updated...
Dec 2 2007 // New York City fire department officials and construction contractors have formed a joint advisory council to lay down stringent safety rules for job sites, aimed at forestalling such mishaps as the fire that killed two...
Dec 2 2007 // The insurance industry survives on relationships built between agents and carriers. The two parties can strive for a harmonious partnership with few problems. Yet when communications break down and there are disagreements,...
Nov 30 2007 // According to the Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers (ABIR), International insurance and reinsurance companies based on the island employ over 9,000 Americans and indirectly generate an estimated 95,045 jobs in...