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People Moves: Mosaic Promotes Duggan to Lead North American Claims; Hiscox Names Sinkus CUO in US; EPIC Appoints Jackson Managing Principal, Global Leader
Apr 30 2025 // Mosaic Promotes Duggan to Lead North American Claims Thomas Duggan Mosaic, headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda, named environmental and casualty risk specialist and former district attorney Thomas Duggan as the...
Progressive Insurance Is Hiring Again; 12,000 More People Needed
Apr 29 2025 // Almost a year to the day after Progressive announced it would hire more than 10,000 people to fill claims, IT and legal roles in 2024, the nation’s second largest auto insurer said it now has 12,000 job openings. As...
Don’t Forget Tariff Impacts on Workers’ Compensation: Berkley
Apr 22 2025 // The chief executive of W.R. Berkley Corp. said his company is very focused on the impacts of tariffs on loss costs, and ultimately pricing for short-tail lines of business. But the possibility of impacts of other lines,...
Black Residents Get Most of the Pollution But Few Jobs From Chemical Industry: Study
Apr 17 2025 // Residents of the mostly Black communities sandwiched between chemical plants along the lower Mississippi River have long said they get most of the pollution but few of the jobs produced by the region’s vast...
New York Inspector Uncovered $2.7 Million in Workers’ Compensation Fraud in 2024
Apr 17 2025 // New York State’s Inspector General said her office identified $2.7 million in workers’ compensation fraud in 2024, a nearly 30% increase compared to 2023. Inspector General Lucy Lang also reported there were 14...
People Moves: California Workers’ Compensation Institute Elects 2025 Board
Apr 14 2025 // Eric M. Hansen, senior vice president – underwriting at Preferred Employers, has been re-elected as chair of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute board of directors for 2025. Hansen was first elected to...
Pennsylvania Approves Workers’ Compensation Loss Costs Drop of 8.67%
Apr 11 2025 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department (PID) has approved a workers’ compensation filing with an 8.67% reduction in loss costs. New or renewal policies issued on or after April 1, 2025 will be subject to the new loss...
Judge Nixes Gender Bias Claim by Woman Denied Job as Top Pastor of Black Church
Apr 8 2025 // A federal judge has dismissed a gender discrimination lawsuit filed by a professor and minister who lost her bid to become the first woman to serve as senior pastor of New York City’s prominent Abyssinian Baptist...
Generali Investors Should Vote to Keep CEO Donnet in Job: Proxy Adviser ISS
Apr 7 2025 // Leading governance adviser Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has recommended Generali investors vote to hand CEO Philippe Donnet another term at a general meeting on April 24. Donnet has been put forward as a...
Maine Approves 9.6% Decrease in Workers’ Compensation Costs
Apr 7 2025 // Maine has approved the insurance industry’s filing that will lower workers’ compensation insurance loss costs an average of 9.6%. The lower loss costs will go into effect for new and renewing policies as of...
People Moves: The Hanover Creates COO Position, Names Lavey to the Job
Apr 4 2025 // The Hanover, based in Worcester, Massachusetts, named Dick Lavey to the newly created role of chief operating officer, the property-casualty insurer said. Dick Lavey (The Hanover) Lavey has 35 years of experience in...
What Talent Gap? Making Adjuster Management a Recruiting Point with AgentSync
Apr 1 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Onboarding processes are often a barrier to recruiting and retaining talented claims adjusters, but one innovative insurance services firm flipped the script by...
HCI Invested in Tampa Office Site, Now Leasing it to GEICO for 1,000-Job Expansion
Mar 31 2025 // Berkshire Hathaway’s GEICO insurance plans to open a new campus in Tampa late this summer, bringing more than 1,000 jobs to the area. The property and auto insurer also plans to open an office in the Dallas area by...
Department of Labor Award Continues Disaster-Relief Jobs for Maui Wildfires
Mar 31 2025 // The U.S. Department of Labor is awarding $2.5 million to Hawaii to continue employment and training services and support disaster-relief jobs for people in communities affected by the wildfires that swept across the island...
Family of Ironworker Who Died on Job Awarded $12 Million
Mar 28 2025 // A Pennsylvania cement company has agreed to pay $12 million to the family of an ironworker who fell to his death while attempting to set up a temporary catwalk at the company’s plant in Stockertown. In July 2021, the...
The Insurance Industry’s Talent Crunch: Attracting and Retaining Gen Z
Mar 24 2025 // The last three years have exposed a growing challenge for insurance carriers: attracting, hiring, and retaining young talent. Despite the passing of the so-called “Great Resignation,” the insurance industry...
‘Bleak’ Data: Insurance Carriers’ Entry Level Hiring Expectations Hit Low Point
Mar 19 2025 // Insurance carriers expecting to add staff in 2025 are largely looking for experienced professionals rather than filling entry level roles, according to the latest Insurance Labor Market Study from Jacobson Group and...
Employee Whiffs on Workers Compensation Claim for TopGolf Injury
Mar 19 2025 // An employee who claims he injured his knee while swinging a club during an employer-sponsored TopGolf event has failed to qualify for workers’ compensation benefits. The Virginia Workers’ Compensation...
People Moves: Alera Group Appoints Bashford as Managing Director of Midwest Region
Mar 11 2025 // Talicia Bashford Alera Group, headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois, appointed Talicia Bashford as managing director of the Midwest region. Bashford will lead the growth of Alera Group’s capabilities and market share...
People Moves: Miller Taps SCOR’s Foucart as Managing Director in Reinsurance Practice; Acrisure Re Corporate Advisory & Solutions Appoints 4 Senior Hires
Mar 7 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at the brokers Miller and Acrisure Re. A summary of these new hires follows here. Miller Taps SCOR’s Foucart as Managing Director in Reinsurance...
