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Top Technology Investments of Workers’ Compensation Carriers: Novarica

Oct 30 2017 // Workers’ compensation insurers are looking to technology to deliver operating efficiencies, underwriting insights and product development as they navigate a fragmented market with high sensitivity to state...

Assurance Furthers Expansion Into Washington D.C. with Hiring of Groseclose

Oct 27 2017 // Assurance, a Schaumburg, Ill.-headquartered, independent insurance brokerage, has hired Jack Groseclose to serve as an employee benefits advisor.In his new role, Groseclose will be based in Washington D.C., furthering...

How Employers Can Help Make Workers’ Compensation Work

Oct 26 2017 // Nurse care management and a solid return-to-work program are two ways employers can proactively manage workers’ compensation costs.Panelists at the 2017 Risk Management Summit in Las Vegas, Nev., emphasized the role...

UK Must Secure Brexit Transition Deal or Risk Losing Jobs: Business Leaders

Oct 23 2017 // The British government must act urgently to secure a Brexit transition deal or risk losing jobs and investment in the country, business leaders representing millions of workers are due to warn.In a draft letter due to be...

Delaware Announces Workers’ Compensation Rate Decrease

Oct 19 2017 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro has announced that there will be a decrease in workers’ compensation insurance rates, effective December 1, 2017.“This insurance rate decrease has a direct...

Compensation for London’s Grenfell Fire Victims May Be Capped at $5M: Reuters

Oct 18 2017 // The bill for compensating families of those who died in the Grenfell Tower fire in London may be as low as 4 million pounds ($5 million), according to several lawyers and a Reuters analysis of how damages laws apply in...

Insurance Journal, Insurance Careers Movement Partner on ‘Cool’ Job Contest for Under-40 Pros

Oct 16 2017 // Insurance Journal today launched a contest in conjunction with Insurance Careers Movement on what young insurance professionals believe is the coolest part of their job. It’s a bit tricky, however, because...

Venbrook in California Names Mercer’s Exton Managing Director

Oct 11 2017 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based Venbrook has named Lee Exton managing director of employee benefits and total rewards. Exton will oversee all aspects of benefits and total rewards programs. Exton has more than 25 years of human...

What Insurance Companies Need to Know About Part 500 Cybersecurity Compliance

Oct 10 2017 // If there were any remaining doubts about the vulnerability of our online systems, they were dispelled in September when giant credit reporting company Equifax revealed it was breached in July by cyber criminals,...

10 Critical Job Skills of the Future

Oct 10 2017 // The world sits on the precipice of the fourth industrial revolution, as a coming wave of disruptive technology in fields like artificial intelligence, machine learning, the mobile internet and 3-D printing remake entire...

Maine Employers Receive $21M Workers’ Compensation Refund

Oct 9 2017 // Maine Employers’ Mutual Insurance Company has returned $21 million to Maine employers insured by the workers’ compensation provider. About 18,000 employers in the state will see insurance returns from the...

Trust But Verify: New York Cyber Regs Mean Managing Third-Party Security

Oct 2 2017 // This year, the beginning of September marked a critical implementation deadline for some of the toughest new cybersecurity regulations in the country – the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS)...

What Employees Really Want

Oct 2 2017 // In today’s increasingly competitive labor market, human capital is critical to business success. Organizations are only as strong as their employees. With this in mind, insurance organizations are focused on engaging...

Texas Sets Annual Workers’ Compensation Weekly Benefit Wage

Sep 27 2017 // The workers’ compensation state average weekly wage for dates of injury from Oct. 1, 2017, through Sept. 30, 2018, is set at $913.37, the Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation announced.The maximum weekly...

Workers’ Compensation Insurers Report Slow Growth: A.M. Best

Sep 27 2017 // The workers’ compensation industry reported a record high $58.5 billion in direct premiums written in 2016 but year-after-year growth slowed for the first time in five years.According to an A.M. Best report, the...

Glatfelter Adds Workers’ Compensation Coverage to Program Business Offerings

Sep 27 2017 // Glatfelter Program Managers (GPM) has added workers’ compensation to its program business offerings, effective Nov. 1.Educational institutions, independent school bus contractors, water/sewer entities, senior living...

Despite Low Unemployment Rates, Many Oklahoma Residents Without a Job

Sep 26 2017 // Many Oklahoma residents are out of the workforce despite the state’s low unemployment rates.The Tulsa World reports that about 25 percent of state residents between ages 25 and 54 don’t have a job. Shelley...

Generali Chief Underwriting Officer Sees His Job as Part Science, Part Art

Sep 22 2017 // Bill Skapof, chief underwriting officer and head of global corporate and commercial in North America for Generali, considers underwriting as much art as it is science.Skapof has more than 30 years of global insurance...

Britain to Lose Out on 10,000 Finance Jobs in First Wave of Brexit Reaction: Reuters Survey

Sep 18 2017 // Around 10,000 finance jobs will be shifted out of Britain or created overseas in the next few years if the UK is denied access to Europe’s single market, according to a Reuters survey of firms employing the bulk of...

CopperPoint Acquires Pacific Compensation Insurance in California for $150M

Sep 13 2017 // CopperPoint Mutual Insurance Co. announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire California-based workers’ compensation carrier Pacific Compensation Insurance Co. from Alleghany Insurance Holdings LLC...