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How To Use Compensation to Boost Sales
Aug 16 2010 // Al Diamond is one of the country’s best known agency management consultants. His firm, the Agency Consulting Group, is based in Cherry Hill, N.J. He deals with agencies across the country on issues ranging from...
3 Keys to Establishing a Total Agency Growth Culture
Aug 16 2010 // Why is agency growth important? Agents and brokers are faced with a continued economic downturn combined with sustained soft market conditions; insurance companies continue to tier agents based on future growth;...
3 Keys to Establishing a Total Agency Growth Culture
Aug 16 2010 // Agency Leadership Must Assure that Sales Force Does Not Shoulder New Business Production Alone Why is agency growth important? Agents and brokers are faced with a continued economic downturn combined with sustained soft...
How to Use Compensation to Boost Sales
Aug 16 2010 // Al Diamond is one of the country’s best known agency management consultants. His firm, the Agency Consulting Group, is based in Cherry Hill, N.J. He deals with agencies across the country on issues ranging from...
California Commissioner Asked to Raise Workers’ Compensation Rate
Aug 12 2010 // The California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s Governing Committee has approved the recommendation to allow the pure premium rate in the state to rise by 29.6 perent, as was expected and widely...
ACE European Group Names Dixon as Regional Managing Director
Aug 11 2010 // ACE European Group named Steve Dixon as regional managing director, ACE Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Dixon succeeds Giles Ward, who has led ACE MENA since 2006, now appointed to the position of CEO for ACE...
Judge Blocks FDNY Hiring, Says Test Invalid
Aug 6 2010 // The mostly white Fire Department of New York is temporarily barred from hiring more than 300 rookie firefighters because it used an entry exam that discriminates against blacks and Hispanics, a federal judge ruled. In a...
Midwest Economy: North Dakota Tops Region in Job Growth
Aug 3 2010 // The Institute for Supply Management, formerly the Purchasing Management Association, began formally surveying its membership in 1931 to gauge business conditions. The Creighton Economic Forecasting Group uses the same...
Marsh Names 59 Managing Directors in U.S., Canada
Aug 2 2010 // Marsh announced the appointment of 59 new managing directors in North America. The members of the Marsh 2010 Class of Managing Directors work within a number of different risk practice and industry groups and are located...
$264K Proposed as Compensation for New Louisiana Citizens CEO
Jul 28 2010 // A committee of the Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. board has recommended a compensation package of $264,000 annually for the insurer’s next chief executive. The full board of the property insurer of last...
Marsh Promotes Deguia to Managing Director
Jul 26 2010 // Marsh has appointed Etet Deguia as a managing director in the firm’s San Diego office. She currently acts as a global client executive, where she manages client relationships. Deguia has been an integral part of the...
Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. Promotes Buffone, White
Jul 23 2010 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. (LWCC) has promoted two key executives. Paul Buffone is now senior vice president of Risk Management Services, and David T. White is now vice president of Internal Audit. Buffone...
Jury Convicts South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Consultant
Jul 22 2010 // After a two day trial, a South Carolina workers’ compensation consultant and former state representative has been found guilty of mail fraud for fabricating payroll figures in order to obtain lower premiums for a...
Louisiana, Texas Gain Jobs in June; Arkansas, Oklahoma Post Losses
Jul 21 2010 // The South Central states of Louisiana and Texas posted job gains for the month of June, but Arkansas and Oklahoma saw slight losses in employment. The Louisiana Workforce Commission reported Louisiana’s seasonally...
Rainmaker Advisory Names Estrada Managing Director
Jul 16 2010 // David Estrada has been named managing director at Rainmaker Advisory LLC, based in Portland, Ore. Estrada has more than 25 years of experience in the retail insurance brokerage indutsry. He previously was president of USI...
Markel to Acquire Workers’ Compensation Insurer FirstComp
Jul 15 2010 // Specialty insurer Markel Corp., has struck a deal worth at least $135 million to acquire Aspen Holdings, which sells workers’ compensation under the name FirstComp to small businesses in 31 states. Aspen, which is...
Self-Employed Contractor Cannot Hold Hirer Vicariously Liable for Job Injuries
Jul 12 2010 // Property owners who hire independent contractors are not vicariously liable for on-the-job injuries to the contractor’s employees, the California Supreme Court has ruled. The state high court extended the decision in...
Insurance Skills Center Names Koch Managing Director
Jul 8 2010 // Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West’s (IBA West) education division, Insurance Skills Center (ISC), has entered into an agreement with Cheryl L. Koch, president and CEO of Agency Management Resource Group, for...
New York Workers’ Compensation Fund Premium, Accounts Down
Jul 7 2010 // For 2009, the New York State Insurance Fund reported workers’ compensation premium of $1.31 billion and disability benefits premium of $16.6 million. The competitive fund wrote 41 percent of the state’s...
UPMC WorkPartners Offers Workers’ Compensation in Pennsylvania
Jul 7 2010 // UPMC WorkPartners, part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, has announced a new workers’ compensation product line offering dollar one coverage for Pennsylvania companies. “Health care reform is...
