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Survey: Insurance Agent Salaries Could Freeze in 2009
Oct 28 2008 // Given today’s tough economic times, most insurance agencies and carriers in the Southern California region are not planning to give their employees cost of living increases in 2009, although many companies have not...
Montpelier Re Forms Lloyd’s Managing Agent
Oct 24 2008 // Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd. announced that it has received approval from the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) and Lloyd’s to establish a wholly owned Lloyd’s Managing Agent subsidiary. The new unit...
Loucaides Joins Lloyd’s Jubilee Managing Agency
Oct 21 2008 // Jubilee Managing Agency, a specialist Lloyd’s insurer, has announced the appointment of Andreas Loucaides, the former CEO of Catlin UK, as Director of Underwriting “to expand its portfolio and diversify its...
Beecher Carlson Names Levene Managing Director, Opens Dallas Office
Oct 20 2008 // Commercial insurance brokerage and risk management consultancy Beecher Carlson has appointed Steve Levene as managing director. Levene will establish an office in Dallas to expand Beecher Carlson’s footprint in...
New York AG Goes After AIG Exec Compensation, Event Expenses
Oct 16 2008 // During recent Congressional hearings into the financial crisis at American International Group (AIG) and the resulting $85 billion federal bailout for the financial giant, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., asked former AIG CEO...
Soft Market Challenges
Oct 6 2008 // Relationships, Recruiting, Training Key to Survival Soft market conditions could last for another nine months to five years, predict representatives from the agent, broker, carrier, reinsurance, and excess and surplus...
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Says Booster Seats Not Doing Job
Oct 1 2008 // The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has found that booster seats are doing a poor job of improving the fit of lap and shoulder belts for children. Booster seats are meant to do one thing — elevate children so...
Pollock to Head New Workers’ Compensation Unit for Keating Group
Sep 26 2008 // The Keating Group (tKg), a new England excess and surplus lines wholesaler, has named Todd S. Pollock as president of tKg Comp, its newly formed workers’ compensation division. Pollock began his career in 1995 with...
Jones Named Managing Director for Film and TV at CMM Entertainment
Sep 19 2008 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based C.M. Meiers Co. Inc. has named Greg Jones managing director for the production insurance division of CMM Entertainment, a division of C.M. Meiers Co. Inc. A 28-year veteran of the insurance...
Oregon Workers’ Compensation Costs To Decrease About 6%
Sep 15 2008 // Employers in Oregon will pay nearly 6 percent less on average for workers’ compensation coverage in 2009, the Department of Consumer and Business Services announced. The reduction in the workers’ compensation...
Juneau Hiring Avalanche Forecaster
Sep 15 2008 // The Juneau Assembly has authorized spending $55,000 to help pay for an avalanche forecaster this winter. City Manager Rod Swope says he looks at the expenditure approved Wednesday as insurance. The forecaster will test...
Workers’ Compensation Rates Expected to Drop in North Carolina
Sep 12 2008 // Workers’ compensation insurance rates will be dropping in North Carolina next year, for the first time in five years. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Sept. 10 the North Carolina Rate Bureau has requested...
Bordelon Named Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation
Sep 9 2008 // In late August, Texas Gov. Rick Perry named Rod Bordelon of Austin as commissioner of the Workers’ Compensation Division at the Texas Department of Insurance, replacing outgoing commissioner Albert Betts....
Willis Appoints McGeehan Exec. VP – Managing Director for Bermuda
Sep 4 2008 // Willis Group Holdings has announced the appointment of Vince McGeehan as Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Willis Bermuda, effective immediately. He is responsible for the company’s insurance broking...
The Rise… and Fall… of Workers’ Compensation Second Injury Funds
Sep 1 2008 // Second (or subsequent) injury funds (SIF’s) have been abolished in 19 states. Alabama and Maine began this movement in 1992, with Arkansas and New York being the most recent converts; each ending its respective...
Managing and Using Information to Grow an Agency
Sep 1 2008 // Eight Good Reasons to Get Your Database Efforts Underway The word “marketing” may conjure up images of the fast-paced world of television advertising, a piece of direct mail that catches your attention, an...
Managing and Using Information to Grow an Agency
Sep 1 2008 // Eight Good Reasons to Get Your Database Efforts Underway The word “marketing” may conjure up images of the fast-paced world of television advertising, a piece of direct mail that catches your attention, an...
Speak Up if You Care …
Sep 1 2008 // The Case for Risk Management and Insurance Education If you’re like most insurance firms, your workforce is aging. Or, as a friend of mine recently put it, “There’s a lot of gray hair in the room.”...
Premium Growth: Top 25 Workers’ Compensation Companies
Sep 1 2008 // Workers’ compensation direct premiums written (DPW) for calendar year 2007 exceeded $46 billion. This represented a slight decline from year-end 2006’s $47.2 billion. However, using 2003 as a reference point,...
Labor Department Reports Fewer Workers Killed on Job in 2007
Sep 1 2008 // The number of workers killed on the job annually dropped to an historic low in 2007, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced last month. The number of worker deaths dropped to 5,488 last year — the fewest since the...
