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People Moves: Pastorius Joins Alliant Insurance Services as EVP, Managing Director

May 31 2024 // Mark Pastorius Mark Pastorius joined Alliant Insurance Services as executive vice president, managing director within Alliant Specialty. Pastorius’ insurance career spans more than 37 years. Before joining Alliant,...

Is Trampoline Job Landscape Work? AI Says Yes. 11th Circuit Says It’s Not Covered

May 30 2024 // Is the installation of an in-ground trampoline considered landscaping work, covered by a landscaper’s liability insurance policy?Artificial intelligence programs suggest that it is. But human judges with the 11th...

Virginia Tech Firm Settles Allegations Over Whites-Only Job Listing

May 30 2024 // A northern Virginia tech company is paying $38,500 to settle claims that it discriminated by posting a job listing seeking white, U.S.-born candidates for an opening as a business analyst.The Justice Department announced...

Caterpillar to Pay $800K Over Systemic Hiring Discrimination at Illinois Plant

May 24 2024 // Heavy equipment company Caterpillar has agreed to pay $800,000 to resolve allegations of systemic hiring discrimination against Black applicants at an Illinois plant, the U.S. Labor Department said on Tuesday.The money...

Texas Manufacturer to Pay $35K for Denying Job to Applicant with Opioid Use Disorder

May 23 2024 // The Modern Group, Ltd. (TMG), headquartered in Beaumont, Texas, and one of its subsidiaries, Dragon Rig Sales and Service, LLC, a manufacturing and service company which builds oilfield service equipment for energy and...

Dean Denied Workers’ Compensation for Injury From ‘Walking and Turning’ in Hallway

May 22 2024 // A community college dean who was injured when she fell after she turned in a hallway to address a colleague is not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits, the Virginia Court of Appeals has ruled.Mary Pat...

Compensation for Injured Passengers on Singapore Airlines Could Vary Dramatically

May 22 2024 // Passengers injured by severe turbulence on a Singapore Airlines flight on Tuesday are likely eligible for compensation, but the amount each receives could differ dramatically even for identical injuries due to an...

Workers’ Compensation Bars Doctor Who Was Shot at New York Hospital From Suing

May 20 2024 // New York’s highest court has ruled that a doctor who was injured in a shooting at the hospital where he works cannot sue his employer, finding that his injuries arose out of his employment and are thus covered by...

Process Improvement Is the Secret to Recruiting Success

May 20 2024 // I see a lot of insurance agencies sink a never-ending amount of time and money into recruitment in the hopes it will solve the frustrations related to finding candidates and filling jobs. The problem with focusing too much...

Maine OKs 15.7% Rate Cut for Its Biggest Workers’ Compensation Insurer, MEMIC

May 16 2024 // The Maine Bureau of Insurance has approved a 15.7% average rate reduction in workers’ compensation insurance premiums for Maine Employers’ Mutual Insurance Co. (MEMIC), the largest workers’ compensation...

PoloWorks Launches Managing General Agent Incubator

May 13 2024 // PoloWorks, a Lloyd’s and London Market insurance services business, announced the launch of Polo MGA – a managing general agent (MGA) incubator.This new offering provides services to both startup and established...

People Moves: Aon Names Allen as Executive Managing Director of Capital Advisory; BMS Re Hires 6 for MGA Business ProLink Solutions

May 10 2024 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Aon’s Capital Advisory function and BMS Re.A summary of these new hires follows here. Aon Names Allen as Executive Managing Director of Capital...

Texas Launches Compensation Program for Border Property Crime Damage

May 10 2024 // Texas landowners along the U.S.-Mexico border who have experienced damage caused by border property crime can now file for reimbursement of up to $75,000, attorney general Ken Paxton announced this week.Texas lawmakers...

US Financial Regulators Restart Work on Long-Delayed Dodd-Frank Compensation Rules

May 9 2024 // A trio of U.S. financial regulators have resumed work on a long-delayed rule-writing project to make executive compensation plans at financial firms more sensitive to risk.The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office...

Oil Majors Offered Faster Nigerian Exit if They Pay for Cleanup, Compensation

May 6 2024 // Major oil companies, such as Exxon Mobil and Shell, that aim to exit Nigeria’s onshore oil can get quicker approval to do so if they take responsibility for spills rather than wait for authorities to apportion blame,...

Pennsylvania High Court to Decide If Workers’ Compensation Covers CBD Oil

May 3 2024 // A veteran Pennsylvania workers’ compensation attorney will soon have a chance to argue before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that his own use of cannabinoid oil (CBD oil) is covered by workers’...

Newark Wants Cargo Ship Firefighters’ Deaths Handled Under Workers’ Compensation

May 2 2024 // The city of Newark is asking a federal court to dismiss negligence and wrongful death claims against it by the families of two firefighters who died last July while battling a fire on a cargo ship,The city maintains that...

New York Court Officer Wins 9/11 Workers’ Compensation Benefits on Appeal

May 1 2024 // On the morning of September 11, 2001, Robert Liotta was at his job as a senior court officer at 100 Centre Street in New York City when not far away terrorists attacked the World Trade Center. Right away, he began...

‘It’s in the Mail’ Is Not Good Enough to Protest Workers’ Compensation Claim

Apr 25 2024 // A Connecticut employer lost its right to contest a workers’ compensation claim because although it mailed its notice to the workers’ compensation law judge within the 28 day statutory period, the judge did not...

One Novel Approach to Solving the Talent Crisis

Apr 25 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.It’s not a secret. Insurance has a talent crisis. Not that people who work in insurance aren’t talented – whooooo boy. But that there aren’t enough...