All the headlines from our Talent Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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 13 2002 // Aon Corporation announced that its global reinsurance intermediary, Aon Re Worldwide, has completed a major excess of loss reinsurance program for the State Compensation Insurance Fund of California. The transaction...
Aug 29 2002 // EPIX Holdings Corporation, a privately held Professional Employer Organizations (PEO) headquartered in Tampa, Fla., annouced it has established a relationship with American International Group Inc. (AIG) to provide...
Aug 19 2002 // Success in managing terror risk will come only through unprecedented collaboration between the public and private sectors, and the insurance and reinsurance industries must play a leading role as the tools to assess,...
Aug 1 2002 // Crawford & Company of Atlanta, a provider of diversified services to the insurance industry, announced a number of cost-cutting efforts that include the elimination of certain positions and salary cuts to top...
Jul 30 2002 // Success in managing terror risk will come only through unprecedented collatoration between the public and private sectors, and the insurance and reinsurance industries must play a leading role as the tools to assess,...
Jul 22 2002 // The CPCU Society recently introduced its redesigned Web site, www.cpcusociety.org. The updated Web site corresponds with the launch of the new CPCU Job Network, an online employment resource for recruiters, employers, and...
Jul 1 2002 // The CPCU Society recently introduced its redesigned Web site, www.cpcusociety.org. The updated Web site corresponds with the launch of the new CPCU Job Network, an online employment resource for recruiters, employers, and...
Jun 28 2002 // Guy Carpenter &. Company, Inc., the global risk and reinsurance division of Marsh & McLennan, announced the appointment of Martin Markoff, 44, as Managing Director for its Continental Europe operations. “In...
Jun 10 2002 // Following an investigation by the CDI Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division, Todd Owen Balcom was arrested at his residence in Port Hueneme pursuant to an arrest warrant issued by Ventura County Superior...
Jun 10 2002 // Upon his retirement as the executive director of the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas later this summer, Ernie Stromberger has no intention of resting long enough to gather any moss. Instead, travel, time with family...
Jun 3 2002 // San Diego-based HNC Software Inc., a provider of high-end analytics and decision management software, announced that Workers Compensation Fund, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, has installed HNC Claims Advisor for...
May 27 2002 // We tried to get George Hogue to come to the IIAT convention in June so we could give him a plaque and a round of applause, but he won’t be there. He made other plans. And besides, he doesn’t like to call...
May 27 2002 // We tried to get George Hogue to come to the IIAT convention in June so we could give him a plaque and a round of applause, but he won’t be there. He made other plans. And besides, he doesn’t like to call...
May 15 2002 // France’s AXA announced plans to undertake a wholesale restructuring of its p/c operations in the U.K. which will eventually involve the loss of between 700 and 1000 jobs.The job cuts are aimed at stopping the losses...