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Agency Compensation Expected to Rise in 2012: Ward Group
Jan 30 2012 // Contingent commission payouts to insurance agencies are estimated to be 12 percent higher in 2012 than 2011, a new study says. The study by the Ward Group also found that carriers are continuing to increase their volume...
Judges Weigh HIV-Positive Man’s Job Bias Claim Against Atlanta Police
Jan 27 2012 // A panel of federal judges appeared skeptical Wednesday of the Atlanta police department’s decision to reject a job application from an HIV-infected man. The 40-year-old man sued the city in 2010, claiming he was...
Study: Recession Impacts California Workers’ Compensation
Jan 25 2012 // More people in California stayed on disability longer because a fewer “light duty” jobs are available in the down economy, authors of a study on worker’s compensation said. The impact of the recession on...
Workers’ Compensation Turn a Profit? Fahgettaboudit!
Jan 23 2012 // Workers’ compensation carriers with visions of profits over the next few years are dreaming. It ain’t goin’ to happen, according to insurance analysts at Standard & Poors Ratings Services. “All...
Agents Creating At-Home Insurance Jobs for Disabled Veterans
Jan 23 2012 // For insurance agents Gary Trippe and Jim Pender, the idea for DVIC, or Disabled Veterans Insurance Careers, which aims to provide disabled veterans with employment in insurance, evolved in part from their own personal...
Agents to Build Insurance Careers for Disabled Vets
Jan 23 2012 // Insurance agents James R. Pender and Gary V. Trippe, principals with Ft. Myers, Florida-based BB&T-Oswald Trippe and Co., have experienced disability in their own families. That has been part of their motivation for...
Beyond Golf: P-U-T-T-E-R’s the Name of the Game in E&S World
Jan 23 2012 // Golf could be called the go-to sport of the insurance industry, so it’s safe to assume that most insurance professionals know what a putter is – a tool for cursing and hurling to the ground after a missed shot,...
P/C Insurers Added No Jobs, Agencies Added 1500, Latest Data Show
Jan 23 2012 // Earlier this month, the U.S. Labor Department published its November 2011 data on detailed insurance industry employment figures. These latest figures show that in November, employment at insurance carriers rose overall,...
Allstate Revises Agent Compensation Plan
Jan 23 2012 // Allstate’s captive agents have been spared part of a planned cut in their commissions as the insurer has revised its compensation strategy. The insurer said it would cut its base commission to its agents to 9 percent...
Agents to Build Insurance Careers for Disabled Vets
Jan 23 2012 // Insurance agents James R. Pender and Gary V. Trippe, principals with Ft. Myers, Florida-based BB&T-Oswald Trippe and Co., have experienced disability in their own families. That has been part of their motivation for...
Winning the Talent War
Jan 23 2012 // The talent war is not new but today the insurance industry is under heavy pressure to come up with a more successful strategy. The insurance industry workforce is old. The average age of an insurance industry professional...
Six Things I Learned from Reading Steve Jobs Authorized Biography
Jan 23 2012 // The first lesson learned from Walter Issacson’s best-selling biography, Steve Jobs (Simon and Schuster), is that you should have started your agency in a garage with a guy called “Woz.” If you did, stop...
Veteran Gambled and Won in Starting Own Agency
Jan 20 2012 // A recent study from the Small Business Administration suggests there is a strong correlation between self-employment and past military experience. Veterans are at least 45 percent more likely to start their own businesses...
Mission Accomplished: Post-Military Job with a Purpose
Jan 19 2012 // One of the things Shane Crockett loved about being in the military was the sense of purpose he felt on the job every day, something he said was missing from his first post-military job as an engineer. So like the veteran...
Aon’s Warriors Bring Military Values to Managing Global Risks
Jan 18 2012 // When the phone rings in the Crisis Management Operation Center within Aon Corp.’s headquarters in Chicago, it’s typically not someone calling with good news or to say, “Have a nice day.” Chances are...
P/C Insurance Industry Enlisting Veterans in Talent War
Jan 17 2012 // The property/casualty insurance industry is calling on the military for help in the talent war. Through special units, concerted outreach, mentoring programs, job fairs and partnerships with veterans organizations,...
Florida Workers’ Compensation Costs Per Claim Growing: WCRI Study
Jan 17 2012 // Workers’ compensation costs per claim in Florida, which dropped in the year following system reforms in 2003, showed signs of growth from 2005 to 2009, according to a new study. The WCRI study found that the average...
Bollinger to Head Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. Board
Jan 16 2012 // The board of directors of Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) has elected its officers for 2012. They are: Donald T. “Boysie” Bollinger, chairman; Murphy J. “Mike” Foster, Jr.,...
Florida Workers’ Compensation Rate Hike Irks Businesses
Jan 16 2012 // Florida small businesses seeing their second workers’ compensation rate increase in as many years are calling on the state to reduce the increase because they fear it will harm the economy. A small business group is...
Tennessee to Study Workers’ Compensation System
Jan 13 2012 // Tennessee state officials, business groups, labor leaders and legal experts are lining up to study the state’s workers’ compensation system, although it may be 2013 before any legislative deals are...
