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Study: Workers’ Compensation Public Options Outperform Private Industry
Nov 1 2009 // State funds blunt the impact of bigger losses through concerted loss prevention efforts. An insurance industry think tank has concluded that 25 public and quasi-public workers’ compensation insurance plans perform...
It’s Time to Review Essential Procedures for Managing E&O
Nov 1 2009 // Systems, Checklists, Guidelines, Manuals Among Tools Useful in Reducing Agency Errors I have been an insurance broker since 1974. However, my principal occupation is attorney, practicing in insurance law. I have had many...
Managing Producers: How to Set Sales Goals and Monitor Performance
Nov 1 2009 // Sales management is vitally important to the growth and survival of an agency. However, as important as it is, sales management does not have to be a full-time job in most firms. Often the task falls to an owner or the top...
California to Update Workers Compensation Regulations
Oct 30 2009 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations has proposed an update to regulations for the Workers’ Compensation Information System. The update is part of the Division of Workers’ Compensation’s...
Georgia Workers’ Compensation Insurer Southeastern US Faces Liquidation
Oct 29 2009 // A workers’ compensation insurer for 3,000 public entities, hospitals, private companies and associations in Georgia has been declared insolvent and will be liquidated. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas...
Jones Joins Consultant InStrategy as Managing Director of Retail Practice
Oct 29 2009 // Charlotte, N.C.-based insurance consultancy InStrategy Group has appointed Robert Jones as managing director to lead the group’s retail practice. Jones has 30 years of experience in the insurance industry. The...
Florida 6.8% Workers’ Compensation Rate Cut Officially Approved
Oct 27 2009 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has issued a final order approving the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s (NCCI) amended rate filing for workers’ compensation insurance rates that will...
Louisiana Alone in Construction Jobs Gains
Oct 23 2009 // Louisiana was the only state in the country where more people were working in the construction industry last month than in September 2008. That’s according to a state-by state analysis by the Associated General...
Study: Workers’ Compensation Public Options Outperform Private Industry
Oct 21 2009 // An insurance industry think tank has concluded that 25 public and quasi-public workers’ compensation insurance plans perform better financially than the private market in a number of performance categories and at...
West Virginia Insurer Brickstreet Plans to Trim 24 Jobs
Oct 21 2009 // BrickStreet Insurance is looking to shed about 24 jobs as it continues adjusting to a market in which it’s no longer the sole provider of workers’ compensation insurance in West Virginia. President and CEO Greg...
Nurse Assistant Denied Workers’ Compensation, Attorney Says
Oct 21 2009 // A nurse assistant who is in a vegetative state after being attacked at a Pasadena hospital has been unfairly denied care by workers’ compensation and her health insurance, her attorney alleges. Amelia Mendoza, 52,...
New Mexico Drops Workers’ Compensation Rate
Oct 21 2009 // The New Mexico Department of Insurance has approved rate reductions in workers’ compensation premiums for the fourth year in a row. Workers’ Compensation Administration director Glenn Smith says such rate...
How to Keep Workplace Friendships from Jeopardizing Your Job
Oct 20 2009 // When it comes to workplace relationships, the general advice is to keep your distance. After all, friendships can be tested by a number of different issues in the workplace. But the people we see every day at work often...
Bayeux Joins Aon Risk Services as Managing Director
Oct 20 2009 // Aon Corp has named John Bayeux as managing director of Aon Risk Services. Bayeux has 22 years of experience as a risk manager and insurance broker in the financial institutions sector. He will work with clients, the...
Q&A with Ironshore’s Kelley: Why He Left AIG and His Plans for Ironshore
Oct 19 2009 // In December, 2008, Kevin Kelley left Lexington Insurance Co., the largest excess and surplus lines insurance company, after more than 30 years during which he helped the company become one of parent American International...
Supreme Court Notebook: Judges as Umpires of Lawyers’ Compensation
Oct 16 2009 // Chief Justice John Roberts once famously and controversially described a judge’s role as akin to an umpire who merely calls balls and strikes. This past Wednesday, Roberts offered a new take on that argument in a...
Chimp Owner Claims Connecticut Woman was Mauled on the Job
Oct 16 2009 // An attorney representing the owner of a chimpanzee that mauled and blinded a woman is calling the attack a work-related incident and said her family’s case should be treated like a workers’ compensation...
Risk Services Expands Workers’ Compensation Program Unit Nationally
Oct 15 2009 // Florida-based Risk Services, a provider of traditional and alternative commercial insurance programs, has expanded its workers’ compensation program administrator division nationally. Risk Services said it will...
Florida Approves 6.8% Workers’ Compensation Rate Cut
Oct 15 2009 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has given the green light to an overall statewide average workers’ compensation rate decrease of 6.8 percent. The decrease, which was proposed by the industry’s...
P/C Insurance Company Salaries Holding Steady
Oct 15 2009 // Despite tough economic times, salary budgets within the property/casualty insurance industry appear to be holding steady, according to a new study from an insurer trade group. According to the Property Casualty Insurers...
