All the headlines from our Talent Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 8 2007 // Beecher Carlson, an insurance brokerage and risk management consulting firm appointed Kevin L. Gabhart as managing director. Operating from the company’s Nashville, Tenn. office, Gabhart will focus on the development...
May 7 2007 // Gaining too much weight can be as bad for an employer’s bottom line as it is for a person’s waistline.A Duke University Medical Center analysis found that obese workers filed twice the number of workers’...
Apr 25 2007 // Gaining too much weight can be as bad for an employer’s bottom line as it is for a person’s waistline.A Duke University Medical Center analysis found that obese workers filed twice the number of workers’...
Apr 23 2007 // More than a 1,000 insurance agencies nationwide responded to the 2007 Agency Salary Survey published in the March 12, 2007, issue of Insurance Journal. While Insurance Journal published the survey results in its annual...
Apr 23 2007 // With this being Insurance Journal’s “Salute to Independent Agents” issue, I got to thinking about what it means to be an independent agent. I’m not an agent of course so I can’t speak from...
Apr 23 2007 // With this being Insurance Journal’s “Salute to Independent Agents” issue, I got to thinking about what it means to be an independent agent. I’m not an agent of course so I can’t speak from...
Apr 23 2007 // More than a 1,000 insurance agencies nationwide responded to the 2007 Agency Salary Survey published in the March 12, 2007, issue of Insurance Journal. While Insurance Journal published the survey results in its annual...
Apr 20 2007 // A.M. Best Co. announced that Roger Sellek will be joining the rating agency as Managing Director – Global Financial Services for A.M. Best Europe in early May.He will work from Best’s London offices and will...
Apr 19 2007 // Workers’ compensation insurance is costing less for most Vermont employers since new rates became effective April 1.The Vermont Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration approved...
Apr 11 2007 // Martin J. Sullivan, who has been running insurance giant American International Group Inc. since the ouster of longtime chief executive Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, received compensation valued at nearly $22.5...
Apr 11 2007 // The proposed merger of Pennsylvania’s two largest insurance companies could result in about 1,000 lost jobs, mostly through attrition, a company executive said this week.Highmark CEO Dr. Kenneth Melani made the...
Apr 10 2007 // What becomes of student-athletes when their collegiate sports careers come to a close?With less than one percent making it to the professional level, the vast majority move on to work in the “real world”...
Apr 10 2007 // Calabasas, Calif.-based Countrywide Insurance Group, a member of the Countrywide Financial Corporation (NYSE: CFC) family of companies, named Myron Hendry as managing director and chief operating officer of Countrywide...
Apr 9 2007 // A Florida report on the use of occupation and education in underwriting and rating auto insurance asserts that while the practices “unintentionally harm minorities and low-income individuals,” they are...
Apr 9 2007 // A Florida report on the use of occupation and education in underwriting and rating auto insurance asserts that while the practices “unintentionally harm minorities and low-income individuals,” they are...
Apr 9 2007 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California Governing Committee submitted a rate filing to the California Department of Insurance recommending a 11.3 percent decrease in advisory pure premium...
Apr 6 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Leonard Cano of Houston has pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. Cano worked for three different employers while collecting workers’ comp...
Apr 3 2007 // Results of a report on the factoring of occupation and education for underwriting and rating of auto insurance policies show that while the practices “unintentionally harm minorities and low-income individuals”...
Apr 3 2007 // Florida insurers are hammering a Florida Office of Insurance Regulation report on the use of occupation and education for rating of auto insurance policies, calling the report’s claims that the use of these factors...
Apr 2 2007 // Michael G. Cherkasky, president and chief executive of Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc., the nation’s largest insurance brokerage, received compensation valued at $8.7 million last year, according to a regulatory...