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Top 10 Risks Facing Business Leaders
May 2 2011 // Economic risk is the greatest threat today’s business leaders face, followed by legislative and regulatory changes and increased competition. Business leaders across the globe also emphasized the need to innovate,...
Japan’s Edano: No limit on Tepco Nuclear Compensation Claims
May 2 2011 // Japan’s government will not put a cap on the liabilities faced by Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) for damages stemming from its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said...
8 Experts: Happy Birthday Workers’ Compensation – Now What?
Apr 19 2011 // This year marks the 100th anniversary of the workers’ compensation system in the U.S., as explained by Christopher J. Boggs, director of education for Insurance Journal’s Academy of Insurance, in Workers’...
Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Insurers Must File Safety Plans
Apr 19 2011 // All carriers licensed to offer workers’ compensation in Mississippi must file a summary or copy of any safety plans they offer their policyholders with state regulators under a new regulation. The Mississippi...
Illinois Senate Rejects Workers’ Compensation Changes
Apr 18 2011 // A Republican plan to overhaul the Illinois workers’ compensation system failed April 14 in the state Senate, largely over the question of whether workers should be required to prove injuries are...
Who’s Worth What in the Agency System: Time to Evaluate Frozen Salaries
Apr 18 2011 // Agency Salary Survey Reveals Frozen Salaries; Experts Say Time Is Right to Evaluate Compensation Any business owner knows that a great employee is worth a lot. That holds true for independent insurance agencies when it...
Barney & Barney Adds Ward, Winn to Compensation Consulting Practice
Apr 14 2011 // California-based insurance brokerage Barney & Barney LLC has expanded its Compensation Consulting practice with the addition of compensation experts Matt Ward and Annette Winn. Ward and Winn were most recently with the...
Japan Businesses Demand Compensation for Nuclear Evacutaion
Apr 14 2011 // Small business owners and laborers forced to leave their homes and jobs because of radiation leaking from Japan’s tsunami-flooded nuclear plant rode a bus all the way to Tokyo on Wednesday to demand compensation from...
North Carolina Lawmakers Urged to Preserve Workers’ Compensation Benefits
Apr 13 2011 // Injured workers’ groups, trial lawyers and others are sending a clear message to North Carolina lawmakers — leave the state’s workers’ compensation law alone. Hundreds of people descended on the...
Massachusetts Workers’ Compensation Rates Not Going Up
Apr 13 2011 // Massachusetts regulators and insurers have agreed that workers’ compensation rates will not rise. Last month, the industry filed for a 6.6 percent average increase effective Sept. 1 but insurers have agreed to hold...
Feds Probe Illinois Public Agencies’ Workers’ Compensation Payouts
Apr 5 2011 // Two federal prosecutors are investigating possible workers’ compensation abuses at Illinois government agencies after disclosures of millions of dollars in payouts and questionable practices by arbitrators. The...
Starr Aviation Develops Workers’ Compensation Small Business Unit
Apr 5 2011 // Starr Aviation Agency, Inc., a member of Starr Cos., has developed a Small Business Unit within their Workers’ Compensation division. The focus of the Workers’ Compensation Small Business Unit is to provide an...
Responsible for Hiring? How to Make Your Job Ads Work for YOU!
Apr 4 2011 // It’s not new news, but the United States Department of Labor reported at the end of February 2011, there were 13.7 million unemployed nationwide, with 6 million of those being unemployed long term, over 27 weeks. To...
Judge Limits NFL Offset for Players’ Workers’ Compensation Benefits
Mar 30 2011 // A New York judge says the NFL must be limited in how much money it can recover when injured NFL players receive state workers’ compensation awards. Judge Paul Crotty wrote in a decision that the NFL sometimes wants...
West Virginia Counties’ Program Expanding to Workers’ Compensation
Mar 29 2011 // A West Virginia risk pool created to provide property and liability coverage to counties around the state is looking to expand into workers’ compensation. The West Virginia Counties Group Self-Insurance Risk Pool...
Louisiana Sees Big Over-the-Year Increase in Nonfarm Jobs
Mar 28 2011 // A gain of 3,000 construction jobs from January to February contributed to the largest over-the-year gain in seasonally adjusted nonfarm jobs in Louisiana in more than two years, the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC)...
Happy 100th Birthday Workers’ Compensation: The Great Tradeoff!
Mar 23 2011 // Happy 100th Birthday Workers’ Compensation: Now What ? This year marks the 100th anniversary of the workers’ compensation system in the U.S. As Christopher Boggs, director of Education for Insurance...
Next for IBM’s Watson: Insurance Jobs in Jeopardy?
Mar 21 2011 // IBM wasted no time in parlaying the winning performance of its artificially intelligent Watson on the TV game show “Jeopardy!” into real business. The company recently announced a deal to commercialize...
Next for IBM’s Watson: Insurance Jobs in Jeopardy?
Mar 21 2011 // IBM wasted no time in parlaying the winning performance of its artificially intelligent Watson on the TV game show “Jeopardy!” into real business. The company recently announced a deal to commercialize...
SBA: Small Businesses Provide Nearly 55% of Private-Sector Jobs in Louisiana
Mar 15 2011 // The U.S. Small Business Administration reports that in 2008 nearly 400 thousand small businesses were operating in Louisiana, representing 97.4 percent of the state’s employers. A report released in February by the...
