All the headlines from our Talent Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 20 2000 // Aon Corp. reported it will cut 3,000 jobs, or 6 percent of its work force, and take up to $325 million in charges over the next few quarters in an effort to overhaul its operations. Aon’s third-quarter profits rose 1...
Nov 10 2000 // The Academy of Producer Insurance Studies has published a new study on customer service representatives, The CSR Profile: Facing Challenges in Customer Service. Based on the survey results of over 1,000 CSRs, it updates...
Nov 2 2000 // Aon Corp. reported today it will cut 3,000 jobs, or 6 percent of its work force, and take up to $325 million in charges over the next few quarters in an effort to overhaul its operations. Aon’s third-quarter profits,...
Nov 1 2000 // The Circuit Court of Cook County, Ill. has granted Insurance Director Nathaniel S. Shapo’s petition to place Illinois Earth Care Workers Compensation Trust into liquidation. The Illinois group workers’...
Oct 27 2000 // The California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation (CHSWC) is evaluating a proposal that it undertake a study of the California Hospital Fee Schedule. The study would include the following:...
Oct 23 2000 // Bermuda’s XL Capital Ltd. unveiled the second phase of its restructuring plan, announcing a refocusing on more profitable underwriting lines and a consolidation of management functions, which will lead to a drop in...
Oct 19 2000 // Despite the generally poor workers’ comp marketplace conditions throughout California, San Francisco-based State Compensation Insurance Fund announced projected dividends totaling $82 million for policyholders...
Aug 31 2000 // Insurance software manufacturer Mynd Corp. is awaiting government approval of a proposed buyout by Computer Sciences Corp. at $16 per share. The financially struggling company also said 300 jobs would be cut. The reduction...
Aug 25 2000 // Des Moines-based GuideOne Insurance will cut 200 local jobs over the next year as the company eliminates three business lines, according to a report by The Des Moines Register. The company employs roughly 1,000 people at...
Aug 21 2000 // Air France announced it would compensate relatives of all 113 people who perished as a result of the July 25 crash of a Concorde aircraft near Paris. The airline’s Deputy Managing Director Philippe Calavia said that...
Aug 8 2000 // Results of a new survey, conducted by management Recruiters International Inc. (MRI), indicate that 50.4 percent of executives with responsibility for hiring in the insurance industry plan to increase staff hiring in the...
Aug 4 2000 // Farmers Insurance Group will close an insurance call center in Timonium, Maryland by the end of this year, a company official said. The move, done for financial reasons according to Carol Siegfried, Farmers’...
Jul 11 2000 // Insure.com has launched its new Insurance Executive Salary Tool, an interactive guide to the paychecks of the leaders of the insurance industry. The tool allows insure.com readers to view executive compensation for a...
Jun 29 2000 // Ohio Casualty Corp. is restructuring its Avomark Insurance Co. operations, which will result in cutting 114 jobs. The changes are geared to reflect the company’s new Internet-only strategy and will result in an...
Jun 21 2000 // A Westmoreland County employer who pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor violations of the Pennsylvania workers’ compensation law was recently sentenced to five years probation, ordered to pay $14,798 in restitution and...
May 15 2000 // Jo Blackmore of Van Nuys was arrested on workers’ comp fraud. The 55-year-old real estate agent continued to work while receiving disability benefits. According to CDI fraud investigators, on April 28, 1998,...
Apr 10 2000 // As much as 10 years ago, independent insurance agents were being courted by professional employer organizations (PEOs), which viewed the small structure of agents’ offices as ripe for their human resources...