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Landlords Hit With $21.5M Verdict for Hiring Sex Offender Who Set Tenants on Fire
Dec 3 2025 // Landlords in Baltimore are being held liable for hiring a convicted sex offender with a violent criminal record who then attacked two tenants and set them on fire, with a jury awarding the victims $21.5 million. The same...
Unlocking the Future Workforce in High School: The Impact of Emerging Talent Programs and Local Industry Engagement
Dec 1 2025 // The future of insurance is sitting in today’s classrooms. We hold this truth to be self-evident: when young people gain insurance knowledge, real exposure to professional pathways, and meaningful engagement with...
Allianz Unit Discussing Call Center Jobs Cuts in AI Transition
Nov 26 2025 // Allianz SE is in talks about potential job cuts at its assistance and travel insurance subsidiary Allianz Partners as it seeks to use more artifical intelligence. The cuts will likely affect call center positions, the...
Ex-Lloyd’s CEO Lost $17 Million AIG Job After Office Romance
Nov 21 2025 // American International Group Inc.’s announcement last week that it was parting ways with incoming President John Neal stunned insurance industry observers and raised questions about what caused the veteran executive...
Zurich, Arrowsight Camera-Coaching Pilot Slashes NYC Workers’ Compensation Claims
Nov 20 2025 // A three-year pilot program using video surveillance and coaching at New York City construction sites led to enhanced job safety and a more than 50% drop in workers’ compensation claims frequency. According to insurer...
Workers’ Compensation Medical Claims Trending Up
Nov 17 2025 // Medical costs per claim have begun to rise following a period of relative stability post-pandemic, a new report shows. A new Workers Compensation Research Institute report shows medical payments per claim recently started...
Delaware Workers’ Compensation Rates Dropping Again
Nov 17 2025 // Delaware’s workers’ compensation insurance rates paid by employers will decrease for the ninth year in a row, effective December 1. The voluntary private market average loss costs are expected to drop by 11.6%,...
Delaware Supreme Court Revives Workers’ Compensation Insurer’s UIM Subrogation
Nov 13 2025 // The Delaware Supreme Court has revived a workers’ compensation insurer’s claim for subrogation in a case where an employee injured while driving for her employer received payment from her employer’s...
Texas Workers’ Compensation System Reports $12M Loss in 2024, Report Finds
Nov 10 2025 // The Texas workers’ compensation system saw a modest $12 million loss in 2024 as insurers reported an increase in direct losses paid and overall, according to a report compiled by the Insurance Council Texas...
Zurich Invests Heavily in Underwriting Talent to Boost Mid-Market, Specialty Growth
Nov 7 2025 // Zurich Insurance Group is continuing to expand its middle market and specialty footprint by investing heavily this year in targeted recruitment of “top-tier underwriting talent” across the company. “In...
Connecticut Approves Workers’ Compensation Cost Decrease for 2026
Nov 3 2025 // Connecticut’s insurance regulator has approved an industry filing that will lower workers’ compensation rates beginning January 1, 2026. The new voluntary market rates will reflect an average 3.8% decrease in...
Five Correctional Department Employees Charged With Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Oct 31 2025 // Five current and former New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) employees were arrested this week for separate schemes to defraud DOCCS and the state’s workers’ compensation...
GM to Cut EV, Battery Production and 1,200 Jobs at Michigan Plant
Oct 30 2025 // General Motors GM.N said on Wednesday it will cut U.S. electric vehicle and battery production and 1,200 factory jobs at its EV plant in Detroit along with 550 jobs at an Ohio battery plant as the automaker responds to a...
Starr Acquiring IQUW; Starr Managing Agency to Be Among 10 Largest at Lloyd’s
Oct 29 2025 // Starr, a global investment and insurance organization, announced it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire IQUW Group, a specialty insurance and reinsurance business that combines data and analytics with...
Delaware Workers’ Compensation Rates Dropping Again
Oct 24 2025 // Delaware’s workers’ compensation insurance rates paid by employers will decrease for the ninth year in a row, effective December 1. The voluntary private market average loss costs are expected to drop by 11.6%,...
Why Remote Hires Can Be Your Agency’s Best Recruiting Solution
Oct 20 2025 // Before I make my case about the value of remote hires, it’s important to acknowledge the reasons agencies, large and small, tell me they don’t want to hire remote employees. “I had a bad...
NAMIC to Federal Lawmakers: Do Your Job on Flood Insurance Program
Oct 16 2025 // Two weeks into the expiration of the National Flood Insurance Program, one of the insurance industry’s trade associations is once again calling for a reauthorization. The National Association of Mutual Insurance...
Workers’ Compensation Medical Claims Costs Rising Across Most States: WCRI
Oct 16 2025 // Medical costs per claim have begun to rise following a period of relative stability post-pandemic, a new report shows. A new Workers Compensation Research Institute report shows medical payments per claim recently started...
Proactive Strategies for Managing Multifamily Housing Risks
Oct 15 2025 // Date: Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025 Venue: Zoom Time: 10:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. ET CHESHIRE, CONNECTICUT – HAI Group is pleased to announce its seventh annual Virtual Risk Management Conference, a free event tailored to housing and...
Fintech and AI Drive London Finance Job Vacancy Growth in Q3, Recruiter Says
Oct 14 2025 // A boom at financial technology firms and growing demand to get to grips with artificial intelligence lifted financial sector job vacancy numbers in London in the third-quarter, Morgan McKinley’s London Employment...
