All the headlines from our Talent Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 19 2015 // Ask errors and omissions (E&O) carriers about their results when dealing with commercial lines shops and most, if not all, would comment that heavy commercial lines agencies definitely generate their share of E&O...
Oct 18 2015 // Disabled Veterans Insurance Careers (DVIC) has launched its next class of disabled veteran trainees. The veterans will spend the next six months training and learning the many facets of the insurance industry in order to...
Oct 15 2015 // A central Kansas pharmaceutical plant accused of gender discrimination must pay about $400,000 in back wages and hire more women, according to a federal settlement.The U.S. Department of Labor said in a release that the...
Oct 15 2015 // American Financial Group Inc.* announced that Martin Reith has been appointed chief executive officer of Marketform Managing Agency, which operates Syndicate 2468 at Lloyd’s of London, effective November 2015.Reith...
Oct 15 2015 // Energi has launched a new workers’ compensation triage program called Company Nurse. This new injury-reporting program seeks to provide injured workers with immediate medical triage and medical advice over the phone...
Oct 14 2015 // Almost a quarter of the insurance industry is set to retire by 2022, and Butler University’s College of Business in Indianapolis is preparing its graduates to fill those voids by establishing its own student-run...
Oct 9 2015 // Global Risk Partners Limited (GRP)* is pleased to announce that Neil Thornton will be joining as managing director of GRP’s Retail Broking business.Thornton was previously head of the Commercial Division of Bluefin...
Oct 7 2015 // AXIS Capital Holdings Limited announced it will wind down its retail insurance operations in Australia and continue to operate in the market via its international wholesale insurance and global reinsurance platforms.As a...
Oct 5 2015 // U.S. property/casualty insurers are welcoming the news that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) parties have reached an agreement. Although details of the pact are unknown, the U.S. insurers say they believe the agreement...
Oct 5 2015 // Despite low unemployment, competitive salaries and overall job stability, a career within insurance or at an insurance agency, is often overlooked by today’s Millennial generation. However, with the industry in the...
Oct 5 2015 // Wisconsin’s troubled job-creation agency handed out more awards last year but created fewer jobs, according to its annual report.The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation awarded nearly $90 million more in...
Oct 2 2015 // Morgan Stanley is asking employees to give up their right to sue the firm in class actions for civil rights violations including discrimination based on race, gender or age, according to a former employee’s...
Sep 25 2015 // Workers’ compensation insurers reported a 5.3 percent increase in direct written premiums during the first six months of 2015 versus the same period in 2014, according to actuarial firm Demotech’s review of...
Sep 24 2015 // Wisconsin’s troubled job-creation agency handed out more awards last year but created fewer jobs, according to its annual report.The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation awarded nearly $90 million more in...
Sep 24 2015 // Kevin Eggleston has joined HUB California as managing director responsible for the hospitality practice.Eggleston will be based in the HUB California Sacramento office. Eggleston began his career in management positions...
Sep 21 2015 // In its annual report for FY 2014, dated June 16, 2015, the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission shows the following: Illinois is one of the top 10 wage states, with wages that run 6 percent higher than the U.S....
Sep 15 2015 // Goji, an independent online insurance agency based in Boston, said it plans to add some 115 new employees during the next 12 months. The firm also announced the appointment of Erin Barriere as vice president of Human...
Sep 14 2015 // ProSight Specialty Insurance has appointed Michael Furgueson as managing director of ProSight Managing Agency, succeeding Bernard Mageean, who has decided to step down due to personal reasons.Furgueson takes up the post...
Sep 10 2015 // A higher-than-average number of workers died on the job in Wyoming last year.The Wyoming Department of Workforce Services said this week that 34 people died at work in Wyoming last year. That’s up from 26 in 2013 and...
Sep 10 2015 // Asta Managing Agency Ltd. and Everest Re Group Ltd. announced the Lloyd’s Franchise Board has granted “in principle” approval to establish and manage a new dedicated corporate syndicate backed by Everest...