All the headlines from our Talent Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 19 2018 // Rose Barrett of the Berkshire Hathaway Group was elected chair of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute board of directors for 2018.Barrett was first elected to the CWCI board as a representative of AIG in...
Mar 19 2018 // Advancements in technology are driving continued evolution throughout the insurance industry. From insurtech and telematics to artificial intelligence (AI) and digitalization, the industry continues to face increased...
Mar 6 2018 // Overall customer satisfaction among homeowners filing property insurance claims has reached a new all-time high, despite record-high property losses following a spate of hurricanes, earthquakes and fires in North America....
Mar 6 2018 // Digital agency Pie Insurance said it is ready to start selling its workers’ compensation policies in four states this month, with a goal of operating in as many as 20 states by the end of 2018.The startup that claims...
Mar 5 2018 // Workers’ compensation rates in 2018 will be mixed, with some programs seeing pricing flat to down and others seeing spikes, according to a market prediction from the broker USI.In other words, market trends should...
Mar 5 2018 // The insurance industry needs help, lots of help. By 2020, it’s predicted that we’ll have 400,000 open positions. Of course, we’ve been talking about the talent shortage for years, but we’ve...
Mar 1 2018 // Insurance giant Geico says it will expand its operations in Carmel, Indiana, creating close to 1,500 jobs within five years.The Washington, D.C.-based company will invest more than $16 million to add an additional 104,000...
Feb 27 2018 // Authorities say a Massachusetts trolley driver paid a man $2,000 to attack him while wearing a Halloween mask so the driver could fraudulently collect workers’ compensation and disability insurance.A Suffolk County...
Feb 23 2018 // Though states and the federal government remain at odds on marijuana legalization, the drug is gaining traction as a viable treatment in workers’ compensation claims.In a recent discussion with Claims Journal, Brian...
Feb 20 2018 // Fifty-eight percent of insurance companies plan to increase staff during the next 12 months in part due to expected increase in business and new markets, according to the Semi-Annual U.S. Insurance Labor Outlook Study...
Feb 20 2018 // The third annual Insurance Careers Month kicked off with the annual Insurance Careers Movement (ICM) Town Hall on Feb. 1 in Chicago. Co-hosted by A.M. Best and ICM, the virtual event assembled executives from companies...
Feb 19 2018 // In today’s business reality, an organization’s biggest investment is its human capital. In fact, employees are the key to any successful company. Unfortunately, the insurance industry faces an increasingly...
Feb 19 2018 // Total compensation for insurance agency management, owners, principals and support staff were up in 2017, while total comp for producers declined just slightly over the year before.That’s according to the 2018 Agency...
Feb 19 2018 // As the economy continues to improve, insurance agencies are finding that hiring and retaining qualified employees, which is never easy, has become even more of a challenge. It’s become tougher even though salaries at...
Feb 14 2018 // A Silicon Valley entrepreneur and unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate is running to retake his old seat as California’s top insurance watchdog.But this time Steve Poizner is running for insurance commissioner as an...
Feb 14 2018 // Workers’ compensation rates in 2018 will be mixed, with some programs seeing pricing flat to down and others seeing spikes, according to a market prediction from the broker USI.In other words, market trends should...
Feb 14 2018 // Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has appointed Scott Stamper as managing director to run day-to-day operations and help guide the growth of Atlass Insurance Group,...
Feb 13 2018 // Wholesale insurance brokers have been selling off their businesses and it’s not because they are all ready to retire.As in the retail agency segment, consolidation among wholesale brokerages is being driven by buyers...
Feb 8 2018 // The California Earthquake Authority, the state’s privately funded and publicly managed earthquake “instrumentality,” is growing like mad. A spate of recent natural disasters—in combination with savvy...
Feb 5 2018 // Should full frontal lobotomies be required of Silicon Valley engineers looking to change jobs?Uber Technologies Inc. has said with a touch of hyperbole that that’s what the future holds if Waymo wins its lawsuit...