All the headlines from our Talent Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 21 2013 // Portland, Ore.-based RiskPoint Insurance Advisors LLC named Blake Schellenberg managing principal.Schellenberg becomes one of four managing principals for RiskPoint. He has experience in insurance, and in several other...
Nov 20 2013 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. (LWCC) announced that it is aligning its Safety and Communications Departments, and has promoted Michael Johnson to communications manager and Michael Page as director of...
Nov 19 2013 // The workers’ compensation industry’s results improved in 2012. Premiums grew for the second straight year, the combined ratio improved, and claims frequency declined at a faster rate than severity increased,...
Nov 14 2013 // The costs per workers’ compensation claim in Pennsylvania are moderating, following years of steady growth in previous years, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI).The report,...
Nov 12 2013 // Japan’s government is finalising plans to borrow an additional 3 trillion yen ($30 billion) to pay for compensating Fukushima evacuees and cleaning up the area outside the wrecked nuclear plant, said people with...
Nov 7 2013 // Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Insurance announced that the company is looking to add 100 new Advantage Program insurance agents in the Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio, Texas markets. Nationwide Insurance...
Nov 4 2013 // XL Group Plc, the insurer led by Chief Executive Officer Mike McGavick, hired David Miller as senior vice president and head of claims for international property/casualty coverage.Miller joins from American International...
Nov 4 2013 // State Farm Insurance Co. says it will likely move at least some of its claims services employees out of Bloomington, Ill.State Farm spokeswoman Holly Anderson said that the company told employees that the potential move is...
Nov 4 2013 // The costs of medical care to treat injured workers in Illinois are declining, the result of regulatory change enacted in 2011, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI).The report,...
Oct 28 2013 // The costs of medical care to treat injured workers in Illinois are declining, the result of regulatory change enacted in 2011, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI).The report,...
Oct 21 2013 // Insurers need to learn how to manage new risks, not just exclude them, and actuaries can help.Since the mid-1980s, casualty insurance has shrunk as a share of gross domestic product. Insurers have been able to push...
Oct 21 2013 // Insurance sales success can be like a game of tennis. Many summers ago I fell in love with the game of tennis. For the next six years, I played every day possible. One of my limitations was that living in Colorado, winter...
Oct 21 2013 // We made it! We survived the economic instability of the past few years and have more than rebounded. The insurance industry is well ahead of the greater economy; and the picture painted by our labor market is much...
Oct 21 2013 // Florida’s workers’ compensation system has reached a rare state of rate stability, according to insurers and officials.The agency, the National Council on Compensation Insurance, filed for a one percent...
Oct 18 2013 // Growth in the Lake Charles and Baton Rouge, La., areas is expected to help boost employment in Louisiana to an all-time high of more than 2 million jobs in 2015 in spite of plodding national growth, a new report...
Oct 17 2013 // A federal investigation into a multi-million-dollar workers’ compensation scheme extended to the Bank of Mingo in southern West Virginia, where authorities seized computer hard drives and documents.FBI Special Agent...
Oct 11 2013 // Hylant, one of the nation’s largest privately owned insurance brokerage firms, appointed Matthew Dills as executive vice president of talent management. Dills is in charge of employee engagement, recruiting,...
Oct 11 2013 // The London-based Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA) announced the appointment of Peter Staddon as its first managing director, effective from the 1st of November 2013.“Staddon will drive the...
Oct 10 2013 // Class action lawsuits in federal courts on both coasts have been initiated on behalf of small businesses in California, New York and New Jersey against American International Group (AIG) over workers’ compensation...
Oct 10 2013 // Consulting firm PwC US announced that Alice V. Edwards has joined the firm as managing director for the Forensic Services practice in the Atlanta office. Edwards previously worked with forensic accounting services firm...