All the headlines from our Talent Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 24 2003 // A former resident of Jupiter, Fla. was sentenced in Martin County Circuit Court to 20 years in prison after pleading no contest to fraud and grand theft charges stemming from his use of aliases in a scheme to reportedly...
Jan 17 2003 // Willis Re announced the recent hiring of facultative brokers in the Chicago office.Noreen Metcalfe has joined the office as vice president and property manager. She brings 17 years of property reinsurance underwriting...
Jan 16 2003 // The GAB Robins Group of Companies, a leading claims services firm, announced that it has formed GAB Robins Capital Partners Consulting Group and appointed Michael Flaharty, an internationally recognized expert on claims...
Jan 8 2003 // Fireman’s Fund McGee Marine Underwriters is making FOCUS(SM), its new e-solution for managing ocean cargo insurance, available to agents/brokers and their clients on a nationwide basis.The FOCUS Solution, which...
Dec 31 2002 // Hallmark Financial Services Inc., based in Dallas, announced that president and chief executive officer Linda H. Sleeper will leave the company effective January 1, 2003. Hallmark’s Board of Directors elected board...
Dec 18 2002 // The PMI Group Inc. named Donald P. Lofe, Jr. executive vice president and CFO, effective Jan. 6, 2003. Lofe will manage the financial, accounting and reporting functions for PMI. His roles will include overseeing GAAP and...
Dec 16 2002 // RAND and Risk Management Solutions (RMS) have formed a partnership to create a research center at RAND to study the risk of terrorism and how to compensate victims of terrorism.The center’s goal will be to support...
Dec 4 2002 // The long anticipated job cuts at Peal Insurance, the loss making U.K. subsidiary of Australia’s AMP, have finally been announced. CEO Andrew Mohl said yesterday that the company plans on reducing its workforce by...
Dec 2 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: PMC Insurance Group is offering a program for workers’ compensation.Dollars: Policy limits are statutory. Minimum premiums of $5,000. Carrier: AIG, Kemper, Zurich, Crum & Forster, Hartford....
Dec 2 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Gaslamp Insurance Services Inc. is offering a program for workers’ compensation.Dollars: Policy limits of $1,000,000/$1,000,000/$1,000,000. No minimum premium. Carrier: PEO. Admitted market.States...
Nov 19 2002 // Revenues and profitability largely determine the total compensation levels for insurance agency owners, executives and producers, according to the new Business Management Group (BMG) 2002 Owner, Executive & Producer...
Nov 11 2002 // Much has been written in the insurance press lately about the cyclical nature of the insurance industry. Now the market is hard, or hardening. For most of the 1990s stock markets boomed, the insurance market softened and...
Nov 5 2002 // Standard & Poor’s has lowered its financial strength rating on American Compensation Insurance Co. (ACIC) to single-‘Bpi’ from triple-‘Bpi’ because for year-end 2001 and 2000, ACIC had a...
Nov 4 2002 // GAB Robins North America, Inc. named Dianne Parker, senior vice president and managing director of GAB Robins Capital Partners. GAB Robins Capital Partners is a division that designs runoff solutions, provides outsourcing...
Oct 4 2002 // Core Solutions Inc. announced that it has developed a strategic initiative that will allow its clients to effectively manage the rising costs related to maintaining workers’ compensation coverage. President Christine...
Sep 30 2002 // Agency principals and managers have a new tool available to assist in the process of hiring and managing producers. The product is entitled “Hiring and Managing Inexperienced ProducersTM,” written and produced...
Sep 30 2002 // Studies show that fewer South Carolina workers are dying on the job and safety training is being attributed to the decline.According to the South Carolina newspaper The State, the increased emphasis by businesses and...
Sep 16 2002 // One consistent trend throughout the United States is the difficulty in finding people to fill job openings. No matter where I travel, I hear this lament from agency owners and managers. In some areas of the country, there...
Sep 16 2002 // When I was a student in college and majoring in insurance, my professors used to tell us that there was a crying need for good, educated insurance agents.In their opinion, there were too many agents who were insufficiently...
Sep 16 2002 // When I was a student in college and majoring in insurance, my professors used to tell us that there was a crying need for good, educated insurance agents.In their opinion, there were too many agents who were insufficiently...