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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...
Maryland Workers’ Compensation Costs Drop 5.4%
Aug 29 2008 // Maryland workers’ compensation carriers will be able to lower their rates an average 5.4 percent under a loss cost filing approved by the state’s regulator. The Maryland Insurance Administration this week gave...
No Absolutes in Agency Training and Recruitment
Aug 29 2008 // Recruiting and staffing in the insurance industry has never been as “hot” as it is right now, said Susan Henry, senior vice president, The Jacobson Group, an executive search, professional recruiting and...
California Drop Lowers U.S. Workers’ Compensation Payments
Aug 26 2008 // U.S. workers’ compensation payments for medical care and cash benefits for workers disabled by workplace injuries or diseases declined in 2006, according to a study released by the National Academy of Social...
Labor Dept: Fewer Workers Killed on Job in 2007
Aug 21 2008 // The number of workers killed on the job annually dropped to a historic low in 2007, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Wednesday. The number of worker deaths dropped to 5,488 last year — the fewest since the...
Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Carrier Boosts Q2 Earnings
Aug 8 2008 // Louisiana-based Amerisafe Inc., which provides workers’ compensation insurance for small to mid-sized companies in hazardous industries, recorded a 13 percent increase in second-quarter profit despite a slight...
On a Roll, Oklahoma Expected to Add Jobs This Year
Aug 8 2008 // Oklahoma added 22,500 jobs last year as the energy sector fueled an employment growth rate of 1.4 percent, sixth highest among all states, according to a newly released report. “We’re growing 1 percent faster...
Speak Up if You Care …
Aug 4 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.”...
Survival Skills
Aug 4 2008 // During a soft market, when businesses often are struggling to survive, it hardly seems like the appropriate time to scrutinize staffing. Yet Paul Hering, managing principal and CEO for San Diego-based B&B Co. says...
The Case for Risk Management and Insurance Education
Aug 1 2008 // 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.” Not that there’s anything wrong with that, mind...
Virginia Plans Hearing on Workers’ Compensation Premiums
Aug 1 2008 // The Virginia State Corporation Commission is setting an October 28 hearing to consider adjustments in premiums charged for workers’ compensation insurance. The National Council on Compensation Insurance has requested...
