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Mississippi Firm Sued for Hiring Bias By Non-Immigrants
Mar 2 2011 // A Mississippi company that pleaded guilty to conspiracy related to the largest U.S. workplace raid on illegal immigrants is now facing a lawsuit accusing it of discriminating against non-immigrants who applied for jobs. A...
Allstate Accelerates California Recruiting
Feb 23 2011 // Allstate Insurance Co. announced it plans to add 120 new agency owners in California during 2011, in an “aggressive recruiting campaign” in the state. Allstate signed on 44 new California “exclusive...
Next for IBM’s Watson: Insurance Jobs in Jeopardy?
Feb 22 2011 // IBM wasted no time in parlaying the winning performance of its artificially intelligent Watson on the TV game show “Jeopardy!” into real business. Last week, it announced a deal to commercialize Watson’s...
Vermont Charges Contractor with Workers’ Compensation Violation
Feb 22 2011 // Williston, Vermont-based home improvement contractor Donald Bevins with three counts of failing to maintain workers’ compensation insurance and two counts of violating a stop work order by state labor...
Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Panel Criticized Over Outside Adviser
Feb 22 2011 // An audit has found the Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Funding Commission paid about $510,000 to a private financial adviser when the law requires it to use state-employed advisers. Auditor Crit Luallen said the...
No Business As Usual For Agents in Workers’ Compensation
Feb 21 2011 // It may be the perfect storm that will change the workers’ compensation landscape for decades. Individually, the forces are daunting, but put together the impact could be industry changing. Health care reform,...
Workers’ Compensation – Now What?
Feb 21 2011 // Industry Leaders On the Challenges Ahead for Century-Old System This year marks the 100th anniversary of the workers’ compensation system in the U.S., as explained by Christopher J. Boggs, director of Education with...
Workers’ Compensation History: The Great Tradeoff!
Feb 21 2011 // Pirates of the 18th century and a 19th century German “Iron” Chancellor preceded the United States in the creation of a social system for the protection of injured workers. The modern U.S. workers’...
Montana Vows to Reform Workers’ Compensation Insurance
Feb 21 2011 // Legislators in Montana are making workers’ compensation reform a priority in 2011, having introduced three bills aimed at lowering rates: House Bill 87 would cap the amount that doctors and those in the health care...
Advising Clients on How to Minimize Medical Liens in Workers’ Compensation
Feb 21 2011 // Close early and close quickly. For brokers advising their clients on how to control their workers’ compensation costs, this axiom is a prime directive. There are a host of reasons why this does not always happen. As...
Liens Stress California Workers’ Compensation System
Feb 21 2011 // Liens are “choking” California’s workers’ compensation system, with employers and insurers spending roughly $200 million per year in the state on loss adjustment expense to handle medical liens...
Personal Internet Use Becoming Part of Employee Record
Feb 21 2011 // Those photos on Facebook showing you palling around with drunks, the raunchy joke you posted on Twitter, and those links to politically incorrect groups on your personal Web site Ñ all of this information can now become...
Unpaid Workers’ Compensation Shuts West Virginia Fire Department
Feb 17 2011 // A volunteer fire department must stop answering calls because it failed to pay workers’ compensation premiums for its members. Marshall County emergency management director Tom Hart said the state fire...
A Career in Insurance (aka) “An Offer He Couldn’t Refuse”
Feb 17 2011 // Come along for the ride as we hear from Ryan Hanley about how he got into “the business”. – Ryan Hanley, Account Executive, The Murray Group and author of the Albany Insurance Professional blog located at...
Workers’ Compensation Research Group Defends Work in North Carolina
Feb 15 2011 // A non-profit workers’ compensation research organization that maintains its work is independent of the industry and objective has found itself at the center of a controversy in North Carolina over whether to trim...
Florida Advances Workers’ Compensation, Commercial Deregulation Bills
Feb 10 2011 // The Florida House Subcommittee on Insurance and Banking has approved a bill that would codify the Florida Workers’ Compensation Joint Underwriting Associations’ current rating plan and create the position of...
Investigation Solutions Saves Client $50,000 on Fraudulent Workers’ Compensation Claim
Feb 10 2011 // San Diego, CA, 02/10/11 – Investigation Solutions, Inc., the subsidiary of American Claims Management, Inc. (ACM) that handles fraud and special investigations, announced its first fraud arrest for 2011. A suspicious...
Missouri Business Leaders Outline Agenda to Create, Keep Jobs
Feb 7 2011 // Tort, Workers’ Comp Reform Among Legislative Proposals Business leaders in Missouri are asking state lawmakers for reforms that they say will help protect and create jobs. Among the priorities for the Fix the Six...
Bordelon Reappointed as Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation
Feb 4 2011 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry reappointed Rod A. Bordelon Jr. of Austin as commissioner of Workers’ Compensation at the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) for a term to expire Feb. 1, 2013. Bordelon has served as...
Women Less Interested in Jobs Where Pay Is Linked to Competition
Feb 4 2011 // Men are more likely than women to seek jobs in which competition with coworkers affects pay rates, a preference that might help explain persistent pay differences between men and women, a study at the University of Chicago...
