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Guy Carpenter Appoints Mueller a Managing Director

Sep 30 2004 // Guy Carpenter & Company, Inc., Marsh Mac’s global risk and reinsurance specialist division, announced the appointment of Wilfried Mueller as a Managing Director, effective January 1, 2005. He will lead the...

Aviva to Outsource an Additional 950 Jobs

Sep 24 2004 // Aviva Plc., the U.K.’s largest insurer, announced that it plans to increase its offshoring capacity by moving some 950 jobs offshore “to service its existing Norwich Union businesses.”The group has...

Sen. Schumer Seeks N.Y. Nuke Workers’ Compensation

Sep 23 2004 // Standing with former nuclear workers from western New York, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) took the federal government to task for not processing claims of 525 former nuclear workers or their survivors, and...

Growth Determines Retail, Wholesale Broker’s Value

Sep 20 2004 // Sustaining Progress in a Changing Rate EnvironmentThe wind has been at the back of insurance agents and brokers for the past several years and has resulted in smooth sailing. Organic growth rates have been in double digits...

Allianz to Disclose Individual Executives’ Salaries

Sep 17 2004 // Germany’s Allianz AG announced that its Board of Management has agreed by mutual consent with the Supervisory Board to provide individual disclosure of remuneration for the members of the Board of Management...

Workers’ Compensation Reform Regulations Move Forward On Schedule

Sep 14 2004 // The California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is on track to meet its Nov. 1 deadline for adopting emergency regulations that will allow medical provider networks to begin...

Kaiser Joins Insurance Journal Staff as New Southeast Managing Editor

Sep 14 2004 // Dave Kaiser Dave Kaiser has joined the Insurance Journal staff as managing editor of Insurance Journal Southeast based in Crystal River, Florida, north of Tampa and northwest of Orlando. Kaiser replaces Dave Thomas, who...

GEICO Expansion Creates Jobs in Buffalo

Sep 14 2004 // Last month, New Jersey state officials announced that GEICO is now selling private passenger automobile insurance in the state through the company’s Web site, geico.com. This was good news not only for New Jersey...

Converium Appoints Clarke Managing Director

Sep 10 2004 // The Board of Directors of Swiss-based Converium Holding Ltd. announced that Terry G. Clarke, F.I.A., 62, has been appointed to the position of Managing Director with immediate effect. Clarke, a British citizen, already...

California Still Vulnerable in Workers’ Compensation Market

Sep 6 2004 // Just when it seemed California might overcome its perennial workers’ compensation crisis, renewed downward pricing pressure threatens to send the market into another tailspin, according to analysts at Standard &...

S&P Report Warns on California Workers’ Compensation

Aug 16 2004 // Downward pricing pressures threaten to send the California workers’ compensation market into another tailspin, according to a new report from Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services.“The industry has...

TWCC, IWCF to Hold 14th Annual Texas Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference

Aug 11 2004 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission and the International Workers’ Compensation Foundation Inc. are the sponsors of the 14th Annual Texas Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference. The...

Acordia Names Young Managing Director

Aug 11 2004 // Acordia Inc., a Wells Fargo Company, announced that Stuart Young has been appointed managing director in Acordia’s Central Region. Based in its Salt Lake City office, Young will be responsible for overseeing...

Accident Compensation Corp. Chooses SumTotal for Improvement to Workforce Readiness

Aug 9 2004 // SumTotal Systems, an industry provider of learning and business performance technology, services and processes, announced that New Zealand’s Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), which handles approximately 1.5...

ICT to Hold Fall 2004 Workers’ Compensation Seminars

Aug 2 2004 // The Insurance Council of Texas announced the schedule for its Fall 2004 workers’ compensation seminar, Managing Disabilities and Other Benefit Issues in the Texas Workers’ Compensation System.The seminar will...

Growing U.K. Compensation Culture Poses Major Threat to Profitability, Jobs, Survey Reveals

Aug 1 2004 // U.K. businesses are being increasingly hampered by the costs of dealing with the burgeoning compensation culture, which in turn is diverting management resources and financial investment away from core business and revenue...

Maryland’s Job Loss Could be Virginia’s Gain as State Farm Insurance Reorganizes in Mid-Atlantic States

Jul 28 2004 // State Farm Insurance confirmed it is moving to phase-out its Frederick, Md. claims and operations office as part of a reorganization that could eliminate from 400 to 500 jobs there and an equal number in field offices in...

St. Paul Travelers to Cut 3,000 Jobs

Jul 26 2004 // St. Paul Travelers Cos. plans to cut 3,000 jobs so it can deliver the savings that executives promised to investors when The St. Paul Cos. merged with the Travelers Property Casualty Corp.Extensive layoffs have been...

Safeguards in Hiring Process Can Help Prevent Lawsuits Later

Jul 19 2004 // There are five times in the employer-employee relationship when the company is most vulnerable to a worker’s lawsuit: when a person is hired, promoted, disciplined, fired or affected by a new policy.Both litigation...

Managing Patient Expectations Key to Reducing Malpractice Risk

Jul 19 2004 // While insurers and lawyers groups have debated the merits of capping medical malpractice awards in the statehouses and on Capitol Hill, the reality of soaring jury awards, insurance premiums and seemingly out-of-control...