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Insurance Educator Shares BBQ Talent with Firefighters, Friends and Neighbors

Dec 17 2018 // When we think about giving, we think about people and organizations going all out and making big splashes around the world. Yet, many in the insurance world, do their giving quietly and in their neighborhood. That’s...

Should You Hire an Appointment Setter?

Dec 17 2018 // One of my mentors, Dan Sullivan, says: “All progress starts with telling the truth.”Is it true that you don’t spend enough time prospecting to have a pipeline of real opportunities that you can win? And...

Latest Edition of AMA Guides Lowers Impairment Ratings in Workers’ Compensation

Dec 14 2018 // For workers injured at work, the amount of compensation they receive depends on which edition of the medical guidelines on evaluating impairments is used.The American Medical Association (AMA) Guides to the Evaluation of...

New York Contractor Convicted of Hiring Hit Men for Killing

Dec 14 2018 // A Schenectady, N.Y., contractor has been convicted of first-degree murder in a scheme to kill a man for life insurance money.A jury convicted 54-year-old Tarchand Lall on Wednesday for hiring hit men from Delaware to kill...

Michigan Business Index Shows Hiring, Retaining Talent Still Challenging

Dec 13 2018 // Acquiring and retaining talent remains the top challenge for Michigan’s small- to mid-sized business leaders, according to a survey commissioned by Accident Fund Insurance Company of America and the Michigan Business...

A Guide to What Matters to Gen Zers, the Next Class of Insurance Recruits

Dec 11 2018 // Today’s insurance labor market is colored by the rapid graying of the workforce. The industry’s growing retirement rate and burgeoning skills and knowledge gap are creating a candidate-driven market. As many...

BHSI Withdraws from Hong Kong Employees’ Compensation Terrorism Pool

Dec 10 2018 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Co. (BHSI) announced that it has withdrawn from the Hong Kong Employees’ Compensation (EC) terrorism pool, effective Dec. 1, 2018.BHSI said it is now the first insurer in Hong...

The Insurance Recruiter: Q&A

Dec 3 2018 // Q:I’m keenly aware of the talent shortage in our area. As vice president of benefit operations, our agency not only wants to hire more account managers but is battling against the constant solicitation of those...

Managing Natural Disasters Becomes Priority for Nation’s Governors

Nov 28 2018 // Governors have a wide range of priorities they want to tackle in the coming year, from tax reform to education. Yet it’s a topic that receives less attention on the campaign trail and in their speeches that could...

Louisiana Posts 13 Straight Months of Job Gains

Nov 21 2018 // Seasonally adjusted data released by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics shows that seasonally adjusted nonfarm employment in Louisiana increased by 19,400 jobs to 1,989,700 since October 2017.According to the Louisiana...

UK Prime Minister Defiantly Battles to Save Brexit Divorce Deal – and Her Job

Nov 16 2018 // British Prime Minister Theresa May won the backing of the most prominent Brexiteer in her government on Friday as she fought to save a draft European Union divorce deal that has stirred up a plot to force her out of her...

Nationwide Insurance Cutting 1,000 Jobs

Nov 15 2018 // Nationwide intends to eliminate the jobs of about 1,100 employees across the country _ around 3.6 percent of its workforce.The insurance and financial services company says about 80 workers in Des Moines and 350 in...

Winning, Sharing, Trusting, Failing, Losing: 10 Insuretech Connect Takeaways

Nov 5 2018 // Pulling together some loose threads from October’s Insuretech Connect Conference, here are 10 takeaways: Innovation Rap. “I actually feel the industry gets a bad rap in terms of innovation,” Dan Glaser,...

Pressure’s on the Trucking Sector

Nov 5 2018 // The transportation industry is considered a barometer of the U.S. economy. If freight is trending up, so too is the U.S. economy. But capacity constraints for trucking – including a shortage of qualified drivers, low...

People

Nov 5 2018 // The Main Street America Group, a Jacksonville, Fla.-headquartered super-regional property and casualty insurance carrier, has promoted Jerry Waters to vice president and chief accounting officer, effective...

AIG Executives Outline Path to Underwriting Profit in 2019

Nov 2 2018 // “We do see it coming. We expect that in 2019 we’re going to be in an underwriting profit position, not a great one, but a profit. And we’ll move from there to a great one.”So said Brian Duperreault,...

More Compensation Disclosure Doesn’t Settle Goldman Investor’s Claim

Oct 24 2018 // A bid by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to settle a lawsuit over how much it pays directors was rejected by a judge who said that simply making changes in corporate governance didn’t provide enough benefit to the firm.The...

Midwest Food Distributor to Pay $3.6M to Settle Sex Discrimination Lawsuit

Oct 23 2018 // A food distributor with warehouses in Cleveland, Ohio, and Detroit, Michigan, will pay $3.6 million to settle a class sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...

The Lowdown: Share The ABCs of Job Site Safety

Oct 19 2018 // Of the 200 fatalities under investigation by OSHA during the first 8 months of 2018, these terms appear in 148 of those deaths,- accidentally crushed, struck or fell from, fell off of, fell into…or something fell...

Update: Liberty Mutual Conducts Strategic Review of Pembroke Managing Agency

Oct 18 2018 // Liberty Mutual Insurance announced it is undertaking a strategic review of its London-based Pembroke Managing Agency Ltd., acquired through the lronshore purchase in May of 2017. The company has retained Evercore to serve...