Latest Human Resources Headlines

All the headlines from our Human Resources Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Robin Frost Joins Mystic Capital’s Investment Banking Team

Sep 6 2007 // New York (Sept. 6 2007) – The ever-expanding investment banking firm, Mystic Capital Advisors Group, LLC, is pleased to announce its newest associate: Robin Frost. Mr. Frost joins Mystic Capital as Vice...

Guy Carp Names Lumbis Managing Director, Corporate Finance-Europe

Sep 4 2007 // Guy Carpenter & Company has appointed Paul Lumbis as Managing Director of Corporate Finance, Europe. He will be responsible for leading the firm’s European corporate finance business, with a particular emphasis...

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Sep 3 2007 // Atlanta-based insurance broker Beecher Carlson has named Gerald Levine as managing director. Levine will be responsible for client development for Beecher Carlson’s Risk Management Practice. He will be based in the...

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Sep 3 2007 // Richard E. Meuret has been appointed vice president and manager, Field Operations Analysis, for Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company operations. Meuret will be based in the insurer’s Boston home office and...

Fitzgerald to Head Marsh UK’s HR Dept.

Aug 30 2007 // Marsh UK announced the appointment of Michael Fitzgerald as Head of Human Resources in the UK. He will assume responsibility for all aspects of Marsh UK’s HR management, including HR strategic development,...

Wells Fargo Insurance Names Managing Director of N.C. Operations

Aug 30 2007 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services selected Steve Smith senior vice president, managing director of its North Carolina operations. Prior to joining Wells Fargo in 2006, Smith held leadership positions with CNA Financial, The...

Dean’s Damages Delimited

Aug 20 2007 // Hurricane Dean, is the most powerful storm to roil the waters of the Caribbean since Wilma in 2005. So far it’s been responsible for at least six deaths. After ravaging Martinique and St. Lucia as a category two...

Flanagan and Lamprecht Join Aon Risk Services in Chicago

Aug 16 2007 // Aon Corp. recently announced that Michael S. Flanagan has been named managing director within the Aon Technology Group and Michael C. Lamprecht has been named senior vice president within the Aon Financial Services Group....

Managing energy industry risk in a volatile world

Aug 6 2007 // The world has experienced rapid and profound changes in recent years, and the energy industry has been no exception. Climate changes (including global warming), market fluctuations, ever-increasing business mergers and...

Ohio Governor Names 11 to New Board of Workers’ Comp Bureau

Aug 2 2007 // Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland named 11 new non-legislative directors to oversee the state’s scandal-marred Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, the state’s insurance fund for injured workers that has been...

Andersen Named Assistant Communications Manager for Calif. SCIF

Jul 31 2007 // Patrick Andersen has been promoted to assistant communications manager for the California State Compensation Insurance Fund’s corporate Communications Department. Prior to his State Fund career, Andersen served as...

The Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act

Jul 23 2007 // The right policy at the right time … After decades of frustration and brutal disappointment, the vexing and seemingly intractable tax payment and regulatory compliance problems surplus lines brokers face on...

Congress gets serious about surplus lines insurance reform

Jul 23 2007 // Legislation passes House, heads for the Senate; but not all in the industry think it’s the answer as now written Insurance regulatory reform efforts on Capitol Hill took a giant leap forward with the recent House...

Managing energy industry risk in a volatile world

Jul 23 2007 // Taking the time to qualify a responsive and capable carrier with energy industry-specific expertise, upfront, before scrambling to line up quotes or compare policy parameters, is worth the investment. The world has...

THE NONADMITTED INSURANCE AND REINSURANCE REFORM ACT OF 2007 (HR 1065)

Jul 23 2007 // The bill would establish national standards for how states regulate the surplus lines market and reinsurance. HR 1065 creates: a uniform system of premium tax allocation and remittance for surplus lines premium...

The Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act

Jul 23 2007 // After decades of frustration and brutal disappointment, the vexing and seemingly intractable tax payment and regulatory compliance problems surplus lines brokers face on multi-state risks are about to be solved. The long...

Managing energy industry risk in a volatile world

Jul 23 2007 // Taking the time to qualify a responsive and capable carrier with energy industry-specific expertise, upfront, before scrambling to line up quotes or compare policy parameters, is worth the investment. The world has...

Managing energy industry risk in a volatile world

Jul 23 2007 // The world has experienced rapid and profound changes in recent years, and the energy industry has been no exception. Climate changes (including global warming), market fluctuations, ever-increasing business mergers and...

The Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act

Jul 23 2007 // After decades of frustration and brutal disappointment, the vexing and seemingly intractable tax payment and regulatory compliance problems surplus lines brokers face on multi-state risks are about to be solved. The...

Industry supports terror bill but not all agree with NBCR mandate

Jul 23 2007 // At a congressional hearing in Washington, D.C. last month, insurance industry group representatives generally spoke in favor of a bill that would extend the federal backstop for terrorism insurance coverage for another 10...