All the headlines from our Talent Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 25 2013 // A Florida district court judge’s ruling that declared unconstitutional a 104-week limitation on injured workers’ temporary benefits left insurers and employers scrambling to come up with a legislative...
Mar 25 2013 // MetLife Inc. announced it will move 2,600 jobs from offices in four Northeast states and California to lower-cost locations in two North Carolina cities, while also getting tax breaks and other incentives that could reach...
Mar 25 2013 // Common strategies for risk management include catastrophe modeling, reinsurance, higher deductibles or broader exclusions in risk-prone areas, particularly coastal zones, and a tight control of aggregate exposure,...
Mar 25 2013 // Insurance giant MetLife Inc. recently announced a plan to move some 2,600 positions into newly created facilities in North Carolina by the end of 2015. And this means a lot of folks in the Northeast could be facing some...
Mar 21 2013 // Geico is announcing plans to bring 1,200 jobs to Indiana and pump millions of dollars into developing a campus just north of Indianapolis.The Washington, D.C.-based insurance company plans to equip a 109,000 square-foot...
Mar 20 2013 // From top level managers to office and support staff — every person in an agency has a role to play in helping the agency win in the sales game.When one person fails, the whole agency suffers. And when an agency suffers,...
Mar 20 2013 // Tennessee lawmakers have advanced a workers’ compensation reform bill that could change how injured workers’ claims disputes are handled.Governor Bill Haslam has been looking to reform the state’s workers...
Mar 18 2013 // Warren Buffett’s total compensation declined 14 percent last year to $423,923 as Berkshire Hathaway spent less on his security, but his salary remained unchanged at $100,000. Buffett’s salary for leading...
Mar 18 2013 // Wells Fargo Insurance named John Haskell managing director for the Pacific Northwest.Haskell will lead business development, client service and sales, and cross-sell strategy for the company’s insurance operations in...
Mar 13 2013 // Working from home has become a hot topic following Yahoo Inc. CEO Marissa Mayer’s announced plans in late February to bring telecommuters back into the office, and the issue is being taken up by some insurance firms,...
Mar 11 2013 // Britain’s Barclays and RBS paid more than 500 staff over 1 million pounds ($1.5 million) in 2012, a year when both were embroiled in rate rigging and mis-selling scandals.Both Barclays and RBS are paying out billions...
Mar 11 2013 // Insurance giant MetLife Inc. said last week that it will move 2,600 jobs from offices in four Northeast states and California to lower-cost locations in two North Carolina cities, while also getting tax breaks and other...
Mar 5 2013 // ANV Holdings BV, the Dutch headquartered specialty insurance business founded by R. Matthew Fairfield, and owner of ANV Syndicate 1861, announced the appointment of Peter Haynes as the Managing Director for the...
Mar 4 2013 // Workers’ compensation wonk Alex Swedlow will become the fourth president of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute in 50 years following the announced retirement on Monday of J. Michael Nolan as...
Feb 25 2013 // If you haven’t heard the news, the federal government is a little short of money after racking up multiple annual trillion-dollar deficits. A trillion here and there, and after a while, someone might figure out the...
Feb 25 2013 // Managing sales in an independent agency is a team sport. From top level managers to office and support staff – every person in an agency has a role to play in helping the agency win the sales game.When one person fails...
Feb 21 2013 // The University of Pennsylvania Health System says it plans to stop hiring smokers and tobacco users.The policy starts in July at a system that includes the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Applicants must be...
Feb 21 2013 // The state agency that decides how thousands of people are compensated for workplace injuries does a poor job of making sure companies obey a law requiring them to carry insurance, the state’s internal government...
Feb 20 2013 // Farmington Hills, Mich.-based Amerisure Mutual Insurance Co. has added Jennifer Tomko as director of compensation and benefits. Tomko will report to Angela McBride, vice president of human resources at Amerisure. Tomoko...
Feb 19 2013 // Esurance, the direct-to-consumer personal car insurance company, is opening a new office in San Antonio and will hire up to 150 new associates during the next 18 months, the company announced. The company will be hiring...