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Johnston Re-Elected by California Workers’ Compensation Institute
Apr 13 2010 // T. Hale Johnston, senior vice president and regional manager, Pacific Region, for Reno, Nev.-based Employers, has been re-elected as chairman of the board of directors of the California Workers’ Compensation...
Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Reforms of 2004 Lowered Costs
Apr 12 2010 // Workers’ compensation reforms enacted in Tennessee in 2004 have helped reduce costs in certain specific areas of the workers’ compensation system. The reform provisions related to permanent partial disability...
Older Workers Sticking with Jobs; Employment for Youngest Falls
Apr 9 2010 // More adults over age 65 are staying in the work force, which could make it harder for younger workers to find jobs, a private report showed Friday. Older workers have delayed retirement because of a drop in household...
Arizona Aims to Privatize State Workers’ Compensation Insurer
Apr 8 2010 // The Arizona House Commerce Committee has unanimously endorsed newly proposed legislation to require State Compensation Fund of Arizona (SCF Arizona) to become a private mutual insurance company owned by its...
Lloyd’s Graduates First Student Group
Apr 2 2010 // Lloyd’s announced that it has graduated the first group of graduate students from its new Program, which features an 18 month rotation, after which the new graduates will continue to work in London’s insurance...
Eastern Alliance Enters Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Market
Apr 2 2010 // Eastern Insurance Holdings Inc. has established a satellite office in Nashville, Tennessee in support of its subsidiary Eastern Alliance Insurance Group (EAIG), which specializes in workers’ compensation...
Last Chance to Join IJ’s 2010 Agency Salary Survey
Mar 30 2010 // Insurance Journal is calling on all insurance agents and brokers nationwide to find out who’s worth what in the independent agency system. It’s the last chance for agents and brokers to participate in the 2010...
California Workers Compensation Institute Elects 2010 Board
Mar 30 2010 // T. Hale Johnston, senior vice president of Employers Compensation Insurance Co., has been re-elected chairman of the board of directors of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute for 2010 at the...
Knowledge-Sharing Technology Could Boost Insurance Underwriter Recruiting
Mar 30 2010 // The shortage of experienced property/casualty insurance underwriters is growing as senior underwriters retire and the issue is keeping carrier executives up at night, according to an industry software provider that thinks...
NIP-RCG Forms New Executive Compensation and Benefits Group
Mar 19 2010 // Austin, Texas-based NIP-RCG, a national professional advisory firm offering consulting services to directors and management of many of America’s public corporations, has merged its executive compensation and...
Bliss & Glennon Appoints Moran as Managing Director
Mar 19 2010 // Mike Moran has been named as managing director of national specialty brokerage business and eastern region executive for Bliss & Glennon Inc. (B&G), the wholesale property and casualty division of Fortegra...
Florida’s Market and How Surplus Lines Agents Are Faring
Mar 19 2010 // Hurricane Andrew, for all of the grief it delivered, gave wholesale broker Hull & Co. and Bruce Bowers a big opportunity. “Prior to ’92, there wasn’t much of a need for personal lines in the excess...
Michigan Legislator Seeks Workers’ Compensation for Illegal Immigrants
Mar 18 2010 // A Michigan state representative has filed a bill to give illegal aliens in the state access to workers compensation benefits if they are injured on the job. State Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Detroit, has introduced legislation...
New Startups, Only 1% of All Firms, Generate 10% of New Jobs
Mar 16 2010 // While discussion about economic recovery focuses primarily on expanding job growth in existing companies, a new study suggests policies should be focused more on creating a favorable environment for entrepreneurship—...
Starr, Chubb Form Workers Compensation Underwriting Agreement
Mar 15 2010 // Starr Indemnity & Liability Co., Inc., an indirectly wholly owned subsidiary of Starr International Company, Inc., and Chubb & Son, a division of Federal Insurance Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Chubb, have...
Young Agents Survey: Why Agents Stand By Their Career Choice
Mar 15 2010 // Most enter the insurance business by accident but for young independent insurance agents, the decision to stick with insurance as a permanent career is a matter of choice. A healthy 84 percent of young insurance agents say...
Worker’s Compensation Bill Passes Oklahoma Senate
Mar 11 2010 // The Oklahoma Senate has passed a bill aimed at worker’s compensation system reform, SB 1973, sponsored by Senate President Pro Tem Glenn Coffee. Provisions of SB 1973 include: Decreases the number of Worker’s...
South Carolina Worker Hurt at Job, Housing Covered by Insurance
Mar 7 2010 // A seasonal worker is entitled to workers compensation benefits for an injury sustained after falling at a housing complex supplied by his employer, the South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled. The court sided with the...
State of Challenge: How Florida’s Surplus Lines Agents Are Faring
Mar 7 2010 // Interview with FSLA President Bruce Bowers Weak Economy, Insureds Going Bare, Hungry Admitted Markets and Citizens’ Low Rates Test Agents Hurricane Andrew, for all of the grief it delivered, gave wholesale broker...
Fired Ohio Workers’ Compensation Board Employees Allege Religious Bias
Mar 5 2010 // The staff of a board created to monitor legislation affecting Ohio’s massive injured worker insurance fund after a rare coin investment scandal has been fired, plunging its oversight role into chaos. The three fired...
