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Alabama Sheriff Arrested for Hiring Uncertified Officers, One Accused of Violence
Jun 10 2025 // The sheriff of an Alabama county mired in allegations of abuse was arrested on Monday for hiring officers without state training or certification, according to an indictment. Walker County Sheriff Nick Smith, 41, was...
Funding Cuts Threaten Safety Training for Workers in America’s Most Dangerous Jobs
Jun 2 2025 // By the time Robbie Roberge spotted the fire consuming his boat’s galley last August, he knew he had just minutes to evacuate his beloved Three Girls fishing vessel, named for his daughters. As the flames spread up...
Size of Florida’s Slide Insurance Exec Compensation Has Tongues Wagging
Jun 2 2025 // When Tampa-based Slide Insurance registered for an initial public stock offering last week, one page of the filing quickly had people talking in the Florida insurance industry. On page 132 of the filing with the U.S....
Viral Work Trends Q&A: A Fun Way for Your Agency to Discuss Recruiting
Jun 2 2025 // Recruitment doesn’t have to be a dull subject. Imagine discussing it in a more enjoyable way at your next management meeting. Viral work trends are an excellent starting point. TikTok alone has 115,000 videos tagged...
Mercedes Will Put its North American HQ in Georgia, Moving Hundreds of Jobs
May 23 2025 // Mercedes-Benz announced Thursday that it plans establish its North American headquarters in metro Atlanta, where the automaker will expand its existing U.S. corporate hub by adding hundreds of jobs relocated from other...
Former Brewers Player Sues Reds Over Career-Ending Injury
May 23 2025 // Former major league outfielder/first baseman Darin Ruf is suing the Cincinnati Reds for damages after he suffered a career-ending injury while crashing into an uncovered tarp roller at Great American Ballpark two years...
Leaning into Uncertainty and Managing Risk
May 19 2025 // In a climate of rapid, often unforeseen change, leaning into uncertainty and adapting quickly is not easy but is always advantageous. For businesses to respond to challenges and harness opportunities for growth and...
When Harassment Follows You Home: Managing EPL Risk in a Remote Work Era
May 19 2025 // The boundaries between work and home have never been blurrier. The shift to remote and hybrid environments brought flexibility, but for insurers and employers alike, it also introduced a new exposure: harassment claims in...
The Most Important Elements in a Recruiting Contract
May 5 2025 // These days, recruiters are floating a lot of different terms and conditions out there, from insurance agencies paying per resume to no money up front but six-month exclusivity. It can be confusing to know what’s...
7 Marketing Strategies to Establish Your Workers’ Compensation Expertise
May 5 2025 // Being an expert in workers’ compensation has become a coveted differentiator for insurance agents and brokers. Unlike some of the more commoditized insurance lines, workers’ comp demands specialized...
Managing Safety in Workers’ Comp
May 5 2025 // After more than 25 years of counseling businesses on ways to improve worker safety, Steven Simon, senior risk control manager for Safety National, said the one piece of advice he could offer to any size organization...
Student Competition to Showcase Young Talent at RIMS
May 2 2025 // Attendees of the RIMS’ Riskworld annual conference in Chicago will have an opportunity to meet a cohort of aspiring risk management professionals, who are participating in a global university competition. Teams from...
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...
