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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...
Private Sector Surveys Point to U.S. Jobs Recovery
Mar 4 2010 // Three forward-looking surveys of U.S. hiring intentions point to a tentative jobs recovery in coming months. The surveys by U.S. staffing and payroll companies suggest businesses are cautiously rebuilding staff, especially...
Mass. AG Coakley Opposes Proposed Workers’ Compensation Rate Hike
Mar 3 2010 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said she opposes an insurance industry request to raise workers’ compensation premiums by about four percent this year. She said the hike would put an “additional...
Kentucky Governor Urges Workers Compensation Rate Cut
Mar 3 2010 // Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has asked the state’s largest workers’ compensation insurer to consider returning some of its $147 million surplus as a premium reduction or dividend to the small businesses that it...
Massachusetts Worker’s Compensation Premium Rates Could Rise
Mar 2 2010 // Massachusetts workers’ compensation insurance rates would rise an average of 4.5 percent under a new rate proposal submitted by the Workers’ Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau. The bureau is the licensed...
Arrowhead Announces Workers’ Compensation & Commercial Division Executive Appointments
Feb 26 2010 // San Diego, CA, 02/26/2010 – ARROWHEAD General Insurance Agency, Inc., a leading provider of top rated insurance programs, is pleased to announce executive management level promotions. These changes are effective...
Mississippi Court Rules on CGL Coverage for Subcontractor Work
Feb 19 2010 // A general contractor’s hiring of a subcontractor does not necessarily preclude coverage under its commercial general liability (CGL) policy for shoddy work performed by the subcontractor, Mississippi’s highest...
