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Hiring in A Virtual World: How to Successfully Compete for Talent

Nov 15 2021 // We just attended a Bend Venture Conference event this past week (in Bend, Oregon) that included many angel investors on various panels, as well as several new ventures pitching for those angel investments.There was a good...

Boeing Reaches Compensation Terms With Victims of Ethiopian Airlines Crash

Nov 12 2021 // Boeing Co. agreed on Wednesday to acknowledge liability for compensatory damages in lawsuits filed by families of the 157 people killed in the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX crash, according to a filing in U.S. District...

Huneycutt Credits Hiring Process, Communication as Keys to Success

Nov 1 2021 // Like other insurance agencies that have been named Best Agencies to Work For, the Huneycutt Group in Wilmington, North Carolina, credits its family atmosphere and regular group activities for promoting an environment where...

Insurance Distribution Channels: Managing Multiple Channels At Once

Oct 25 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.When carriers, agencies, and MGAs/MGUs first start out, they typically build a distribution strategy centered around a single channel. That makes sense: A fledgling...

Texas Workers’ Compensation Saw Telemedicine Services Skyrocket During Pandemic

Oct 22 2021 // Utilization of telemedicine services in the Texas workers’ compensation rose dramatically during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recently published report from the Texas Department of Insurance...

1,887 Washington Workers Fired, Leave Jobs Due to Vaccine Mandate

Oct 21 2021 // More than 1,800 Washington state workers have been fired, resigned or retired due to the state’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate, according to data released Tuesday.The latest numbers released by the governor’s...

Unvaccinated Employees Risk Job Losses as Employer Mandates Take Effect

Oct 20 2021 // Thousands of unvaccinated workers across the United States are facing potential job losses as a growing number of states, cities and private companies start to enforce mandates for inoculation against COVID-19.In the...

People Moves: LP Adds DeHart, Pino and Warner in Nevada; Powers-Leavitt Names Woodruff Managing Partner

Oct 18 2021 // LP Insurance Services LLC added Deanna DeHart, Courtney Pino and Bryce Warner to the Reno, Nev., employee benefits insurance team.All three brokers will serve employee benefits clients in the northern Nevada community....

Workers’ Compensation Reserve Redundancy Reaches $14 Billion, Reports NCCI

Oct 18 2021 // Workers’ compensation insurers continue to stow away more money than necessary in reserves, even as reported loss ratios continue to climb, according to a report released by the National Council on Compensation...

Pay Compression Creates Challenges for Agencies Hiring Client Service Talent

Oct 18 2021 // Dear Mary: Our agency is a regional, independent, privately held broker in the Midwest that has been in business for decades. Every year we hire young, inexperienced people to come into the business as assistants and CSRs....

Workers’ Compensation Insurers Find That as Opioid Cost Slows, Marijuana Grows

Oct 15 2021 // Workers’ compensation insurers have slashed spending on opioids, reducing the risk of addiction and delayed recovery, but now they are under increasing pressure to reimburse injured workers for a new kind of...

People Moves: WTW Hires ERS’ Shepherd to Lead Facultative; Specialty Insurer Fusion Names Gallagher’s Simmonds as Managing Partner; AXIS’ Quane Is CUO at Beazley

Oct 14 2021 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at broker Willis Towers Watson, specialty insurer Fusion and insurer Beazley.A summary of these new hires follows here. Willis Towers Watson Hires ERS’...

UK Companies Struggle to Find Workers Despite Salary Increases

Oct 14 2021 // Eight in 10 UK companies struggled to find workers last month despite many of them increasing wages, according to a survey that shows labor shortages are intensifying.The proportion was up sharply from three months...

Oregon Doughnuts Workers Fired in Heat Wave Getting Jobs Back

Oct 13 2021 // Some workers at Voodoo Doughnuts who were fired during a deadly Pacific Northwest heat wave in June after going on strike are set to get their jobs back.KOIN-TV reports the National Labor Relations Board ruled the workers...

Insurate, Workers’ Compensation Insurtech, Secures $4.5M Investment

Oct 6 2021 // Omaha-based Insurate, a data science-based provider of workers’ compensation, announced a $4.5 million seed round led by HSCM Ventures, the venture capital arm of Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd.Joining the...

Workers’ Compensation Reserve Redundancy Reaches $14 Billion, Reports NCCI

Oct 4 2021 // Workers’ compensation insurers continue to stow away more money than necessary in reserves, even as reported loss ratios continue to climb, according to a report released by the National Council on Compensation...

Beyond the Headlines: Workplace Violence and Workers’ Compensation Claims

Oct 4 2021 // Whenever a legal dispute arises as to insurance coverage, the court will evaluate policy language to determine if a specific cause of loss constitutes a covered event under the terms of that policy.When workers’...

Workers’ Compensation Premiums Flat for First Six Months of 2021

Oct 4 2021 // A comparison of workers’ compensation direct premium written indicated an overall decrease of approximately 0.3% for the first six months of 2021 compared to the first six months of 2020. Fifteen of the Top 25...

3 Keys for Recruiting Quality Insurance Producers

Oct 4 2021 // Many agency owners want to hire new producers, and the good news is that there’s a flood of candidates right now looking for jobs. It seems like it’d be a win-win, but the bad news is that most agency owners I...

Arkansas Company Sued for Race Discrimination in Hiring

Sep 30 2021 // A federal agency has charged in a lawsuit that an Arkansas site preparation company steered Black applicants into lower-paying positions and paid Black applicants less money at hire.In its lawsuit the U.S. Equal Employment...