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Insurance Employment Report: Jobs Outlook Improving, Slowly
Apr 16 2012 // Looking for work can be an exhausting, soul-draining endeavor during the best of economic times. It goes without saying that job searching is considerably more challenging these days, when the U.S. unemployment rate is...
East Insurance Employment: Hiring Is ‘Slightly Elevated’ in 2012
Apr 16 2012 // The insurance employment market in the East and Northeast regions — as in most other parts of the country — can be summed up the following way: hiring is “slightly elevated” compared to last year, but there...
Vicarious Liability Ruling May Impact Education Insureds in California
Apr 16 2012 // The California Supreme Court ruled that a public school district may be vicariously liable for the negligent hiring, retention and supervision of a guidance counselor who allegedly sexually abused a student. And that...
States’ Group Considers Model Workers’ Compensation Drug Bill
Apr 12 2012 // In the wake of the Florida Legislature’s failure to cut physician reimbursements for prescribing repackaged drugs to workers’ compensation patients, a national group of state legislators is looking to create a...
40 Million U.S. Jobs Tied to Intellectual Property Protection: Report
Apr 12 2012 // U.S. movie studios, drug manufacturers and other companies that depend heavily on copyrights, patents and trademarks to protect their creative works support 40 million jobs, or about 28 percent of the U.S. workforce, a...
N.Y. Judge Approves Deal Over Tunnel Minority Hiring
Apr 9 2012 // A New York judge has approved the $7.5 million settlement of civil fraud claims over minority hiring against two construction companies building a tunnel connecting the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central...
Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Bill Goes Back to Senate
Apr 9 2012 // The Mississippi House last Thursday advanced a bill to make changes that manufacturers and business groups are seeking in the workers’ compensation system. Senate Bill 2576 passed the House 59-58 and returns to the...
New Jobs Act Does Not Reduce Management Liability
Apr 9 2012 // Any U.S. corporate executives who think they can use the Jobs Act’s relaxed rules for public listing to cut corners on accounting and disclosure may want to think again. The Act, signed into law by President Barack...
Missouri Senate Backs Study of State-Created Workers’ Compensation Insurer
Apr 6 2012 // The Missouri Senate has endorsed the establishment of a special committee to study whether to change a state-created workers’ compensation insurer. Senators gave initial approval on April 4 to a bill creating a...
California Workers’ Compensation Bureau to Make Midyear Filing
Apr 6 2012 // California workers’ compensation insurers will be seeking a midyear correction — a 7.7 percent increase — in pure premium rates. The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California reported that...
Workers’ Compensation Upheld for North Carolina School Principal Shot in Face
Apr 5 2012 // The state Court of Appeals has upheld a decision awarding workers’ compensation to a middle school principal shot in the face in 2009. The court ruled that former Fairmont Middle School Principal James Hunt’s...
Cooper Gay Names Calverley New Managing Director for Australia
Apr 5 2012 // Cooper Gay Australia, the Sydney based reinsurance broker, announced that Jon Calverley will be assuming the responsibilities of managing director, effective immediately. The bulletin noted that he “will be key to...
Hamm Gets North Dakota Republican Backing for Insurance Job
Apr 4 2012 // Republicans are sticking with Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm as their choice for North Dakota’s top insurance regulator. At the North Dakota GOP state convention on March 31, delegates endorsed Hamm for...
Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Bill Hits Snag in House
Apr 4 2012 // A bill that would revise Mississippi’s workers’ compensation system survived attempts to kill it this week, but ended up further away from passage. After earlier rejecting proposed changes to the system of...
North Carolina Vows Crackdown on Workers’ Compensation Scofflaws
Apr 4 2012 // Officials in North Carolina said they will review their efforts to ensure that employers are purchasing workers’ compensation coverage after facing criticism they have done little to make sure that employers comply...
160-Year Old Hanover Retaking Its Place as P/C Industry Leader
Apr 3 2012 // Eight out of 160 years of history may not seem like a big deal but for Hanover Insurance Group, founded in 1852, the last eight years have seen a series of big deals. Eight years ago in 2004, the $2.4 billion heavily...
Agency Management Challenges
Apr 2 2012 // How Money, Motivation and Morale Connect Pop quiz: Agency owners, please write down a short list of the management challenges constantly facing your company. The catch – you cannot list increasing new business revenue or...
Louisiana Swamp Tour Owners Seek Compensation for Flooding
Mar 27 2012 // Iberville and Ascension parishes in Louisiana should compensate the owners of Alligator Bayou Swamp Tours for opening a floodgate in 2009 that ruined their business, an attorney for the company told a state appellate...
Legality of Employers Asking Job Applicants For Facebook Passwords Questioned
Mar 22 2012 // In their efforts to vet job applicants, some companies and government agencies are going beyond merely glancing at a person’s social networking profiles and instead are asking to log in as the user to have a look...
N.Y. Agency Groups Will Not Appeal Compensation Disclosure Ruling
Mar 21 2012 // It looks like the courtroom battle has ended for the New York State’s broker compensation disclosure regulation. Earlier this month, the New York appeals court agreed with the lower court and said insurance...
