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Managing COVID-19 Employment Practice-Related Exposure

Mar 1 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by The Hanover Insurance Group.As the pandemic continues, we’re seeing new COVID-19-related regulations, restrictions and advisories issued and adjusted by federal, state, and...

Insurance Employment Impresses With Insurers Adding 20K Jobs During Pandemic

Feb 26 2021 // Levels of employment for the insurance industry are “holding up much stronger than the overall economy,” the leader of an insurance search firm said recently, reporting that insurers have added almost 20,000...

Crawford & Company Appoints Pageau as VP, Managing Director in New England Region

Feb 25 2021 // Crawford & Company, a publicly listed independent provider of claims management and outsourcing solutions to carriers, brokers and corporations, has appointed Robert Pageau as vice president and managing director of...

Workers’ Compensation and COVID: More Data on Evolving Claims

Feb 25 2021 // Workers’ compensation insurers aren’t getting the large aggregate volumes of COVID-related claims projected during the early months of the pandemic, but different data sources give varying readouts on...

Minick Retiring from Texas Workplace Injury Benefit Risk Managing Firm, PartnerSource

Feb 24 2021 // Bill Minick, founder of Texas-based workers’ compensation/workplace injury benefit risk management firm, PartnerSource, will retire at the end of March.Jennifer Hurless, president of PartnerSource, will continue in...

Risk Strategies Promotes Hoffman, Smith to Managing Directors

Feb 22 2021 // Risk Strategies, a national specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has promoted Tracy Hoffman and Matthew Smith to managing directors as part of planned leadership successions in both its Managed Health...

Evolving Compensation Practices to Meet Changing Employee Needs

Feb 22 2021 // Hiring managers have had to transform many of their standard activities and procedures to accommodate today’s primarily virtual environment. From adapting interview processes to be effective and efficient over Zoom...

How Your Diversity & Inclusion Plan Can Positively Impact Recruiting

Feb 22 2021 // Here are the top two statements insurance agencies said to me in 2020:The events of last year spurred many insurance agencies toward a renewed focus on Diversity & Inclusion. Prior to 2020, I sensed most agencies were...

It Could Have Been Worse. COVID-19’s Impact on Workers’ Compensation

Feb 22 2021 // While it obviously presented challenges, 2020 is looking like it may not have been such a bad year for workers’ compensation insurers and insureds after all.Insurers took in less premium but paid fewer claims. They...

Agency Salary Survey: Satisfaction Rises, Compensation Falls, Agencies Kept Employees Happy Through Disruption

Feb 22 2021 // Independent insurance agencies not only managed to survive through the 2020 economic downturn and pandemic, but also managed to keep their employees happy through all of the year’s disruption.In Insurance...

Caribbean Agricultural Workers Keep Fighting for Compensation from Pesticide Exposure

Feb 19 2021 // SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Agricultural workers who have long sought compensation for contamination from a pesticide banned in France but used in the country’s Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe have...

Brown Reappointed as Texas Workers’ Compensation Commissioner

Feb 16 2021 // Cassie Brown has been reappointed by Gov. Greg Abbott as Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation at the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) for a term set to expire on Feb. 1, 2023. Brown has led the Division of...

It Could Have Been Worse. An Update on COVID-19 Impact on Workers’ Compensation.

Feb 9 2021 // While it obviously presented challenges, 2020 is looking like it may not have been such a bad year for workers’ compensation insurers and insureds after all.Insurers took in less premium but paid fewer claims. They...

Grow Big or Go Home; 5-Step Evidence-Based Hiring Process to Help Your Agency Grow

Feb 8 2021 // Each bad hire can easily cost you $100,000 to $200,000. However, quality producers can add $1 million of annual revenue to the agency (which nets most owners around $150,000 to $250,000 in profit.)There’s a lot of...

Last Chance for 2021’s Agency Salary Survey

Feb 5 2021 // The deadline to participate in the 2021 Agency Salary Survey is today.Would you like to know where agency salaries and total compensation ranks today? Find out by completing this year’s survey. Survey respondents...

Workers’ Compensation Underwriters Under the Gun to Understand Pandemic Data

Feb 4 2021 // Workers’ compensation underwriters are about to be tested in the marketplace like never before.While the current situation is not all because of the pandemic, the pandemic has “put gas on a fire that was...

Iowa’s CGA Insurance Services Launches Managing General Underwriter Program

Feb 3 2021 // West Des Moines, Iowa-based Career General Agency LLC (CGA Insurance Services), a subsidiary of GuideOne Insurance, has launched a managing general underwriter (MGU) program with its newly developed CGA Energy...

Crawford & Co. Appoints Wang as Managing Director, Global Technical Services

Feb 1 2021 // Crawford & Company, an independent provider of claims management and outsourcing services to carriers, brokers and corporations, has appointed Baoling Wang as vice president, managing director and international...

Low-Level Jobs, Less School Could Mean Costly Auto Policies

Jan 29 2021 // Drivers with less education and lower-ranking jobs could wind up paying more for auto insurance, magnifying the impact of systemic racism, according to a Consumer Reports analysis.The consumer-advocacy group sought price...

What Biden’s First Year Might Mean for Job Creation

Jan 27 2021 // Joe Biden’s first year in office could go down in history as a record-breaker on the job-creation front, with an explosion in hiring expected as the coronavirus vaccine rollout allows Americans to emerge from a year...