All the headlines from our Talent Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 20 2015 // Pacific Compensation Insurance Co. has named Ronnie O’Dell corporate development director. O’Dell will focus on expanding PacificComp’s presence in the California workers’ compensation marketplace....
Jan 20 2015 // Aviva Plc said it may eliminate about 1,500 jobs with its £5.6 billion ($8.48 billion) takeover of Friends Life Group Ltd.The job losses form part of an estimated £225 million [$340.76 million] in annual savings from the...
Jan 19 2015 // Workers’ compensation costs and claims frequency in the healthcare sector are going down, according to a report that studied 1,1150 facilities in 11 states.Aon Risk Solutions’ Health Care Workers’...
Jan 16 2015 // Florida’s insurers are breathing easier after the state’s high court ruled that the workers’ compensation law bars injured workers from seeking additional benefits in civil court.The Florida Supreme Court...
Jan 9 2015 // Builders & Tradesmen’s Insurance Services, Inc. (BTIS) has expanded its Victory Workers’ Comp program into all U.S. states except for Alaska, North Dakota, Ohio, Washington, and Wyoming. The program offers...
Jan 7 2015 // Markel appointed Matt Huels as managing director, brokerage casualty, for its product line leadership team. He is based in Chicago. Huels comes to Markel from XL, where he was vice president of the casualty product line...
Jan 7 2015 // A former ING Financial Services trader sued the owners of Madison Square Garden for booting him from the arena last year after he yelled “Carmelo, you stink” during a New York Knicks game, a move he said cost...
Dec 23 2014 // The city of Terre Haute and surrounding areas of western Indiana had the nation’s second-highest percentage gain in construction jobs during the past year, a new analysis of job data shows.A spokesman for one state...
Dec 17 2014 // Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford (CGSC), the reinsurance, wholesale and specialty broker, has launched Cooper Gay Uruguay as part of its strategic expansion in Latin America. Based in Montevideo, the team will focus on...
Dec 16 2014 // Beecher Carlson Insurance Services LLC, a specialized large account insurance brokerage in Atlanta, has hired Allyson Martin as managing director. She is based in Beecher Carlson’s New York office.Martin most...
Dec 16 2014 // BusinessFirst Insurance Co., a monoline workers’ compensation company, is now offering coverage to employers in Georgia.BusinessFirst and affiliate RetailFirst Insurance Co. comprise the RetailFirst Insurance Group....
Dec 10 2014 // A federal study shows the rate of workplace injuries dropped last year in Virginia and remained below the national average. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Dec. 4 that for every 100 full-time workers in private...
Dec 4 2014 // The trustee overseeing the bankruptcy of a Massachusetts pharmacy linked to a 2012 meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people, filed a plan that would set aside at least $135 million to compensate victims and their...
Nov 26 2014 // In 2013, 65,880 firefighter injuries occurred in the line of duty, a decrease of 5.1 percent from the previous year.Of those injuries, 29,760 (45.2 percent) occurred during fireground operations, with the leading causes...
Nov 20 2014 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin said new workers’ compensation rates have been approved as filed and will go into effect April 1, 2015. There will be a 3.4 percent average decrease to loss costs...
Nov 18 2014 // With seasonal hiring in the U.S. expected to be at its highest level in years, fraud experts warn that companies that loosen their usual processes in order to add staff quickly put themselves at increased risk to...
Nov 18 2014 // A Maryland-based environmental remediation services contractor will pay $415,000 and provide comprehensive equitable relief to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) race, gender discrimination and...
Nov 18 2014 // Willis Re, the reinsurance division of Willis Group Holdings, plc, announced the appointment of Tsuyoshi Noguchi as Managing Director for Willis Re Japan KK, effective December 1, 2014. He is based in Willis Re’s...
Nov 17 2014 // The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been the law of the land for less than a year and the buzz is far from beginning to quiet.The overall impact of the ACA on those citizens who did not have healthcare seems to be obvious:...
Nov 13 2014 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation said it has approved an overall decrease of 5.2 percent in workers’ compensation insurance rates in Florida, the first decrease in four years. As expected, The National...