All the headlines from our Talent Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 &...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Jul 5 2004 // ‘Clean Slate’ U.S. P/C Insurers Learn from Sins of Their PredecessorsIn the summer of 2001, the hard cycle had already arrived for the U.S. property/casualty marketplace. Prices were trending up as experts...
Jul 5 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...
Jun 24 2004 // Financial Guaranty Insurance Company (FGIC) announced that Rick Watson has been appointed Managing Director-Structured Finance in the company’s London office, effective June 22.Before joining FGIC, Watson headed ABS...
Jun 23 2004 // Applicant attorneys, who have been lining their pockets with profits by abusing California’s workers’ compensation system, do not want to see their gravy train end so they are working to undermine the recently...
Jun 16 2004 // Since its founding in 1914, the New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF) has been focused on providing a workers’ compensation market for small to medium sized accounts. NYSIF has not been involved with big corporate...