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Choosing a workers’ compensation network that fits
Jun 18 2007 // The new legislation includes a shift to a more proactive approach to workers’ compensation claims management to reduce over-utilization of medical services provided to injured workers. In 2005 the Texas Legislature...
Managing D&O claims expense
Jun 18 2007 // One of the standard features of the typical directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policy is the provision allowing the insureds to select their own defense counsel, subject only to the insurance...
How to avoid common producer sales management mistakes
Jun 18 2007 // There is more to working with producers than just paying and praying. It also takes continuous in-office supervision. Some agencies are fortunate enough to have the time and talent to coach their sales staffs. Regretfully,...
Wells Fargo Names New Managing Director in Omaha Office
Jun 14 2007 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services recently announced that it has named Gina Samland managing director of its Omaha, Neb. office. Samland’s responsibilities include the overall management, direction, expansion, and...
Utah’s Workers Compensation Fund Announces Promotions
Jun 13 2007 // The Workers Compensation Fund in Salt Lake City has made several promotions. Ray Pickup has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer. Pickup has been with WCF for 14 years and most recently served as...
W. Va. Woman Jailed for Committing Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Jun 13 2007 // An Upshur County woman was sentenced to serve time in a West Virgina correctional facility after pleading guilty to worker’s compensation insurance fraud. Stacie L. McLean, age 34 of Buckhannon, W. Va., pleaded...
Construction Boom Leading to More Wash. Job-Site Accidents, Death
Jun 13 2007 // The number of workplace deaths and accidents is on the rise as construction continues its boom in King County, Wash., according to state statistics. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that accidents and deaths on the...
First Cardinal Reports Hirings, Promotions at N.Y. Headquarters
Jun 11 2007 // Workers compensation administrator First Cardinal LLC announced the hiring and promotion of several employees at its Latham, N.Y. headquarters. Christine D. Bentsen has joined the accounting department as a senior...
Tenn.: Alexander Says Sick Nuclear Workers Need Compensation Now
Jun 8 2007 // U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander is pressing the Bush administration to fully fund a compensation program for sick nuclear weapons workers and calling for Senate hearings on why claims have been delayed. “It has come to our...
Nonfarm Job Growth Continues in La.
Jun 1 2007 // Louisiana gained 69,500 seasonally adjusted nonfarm jobs between April 2006 and April 2007, bringing the total number of jobs in the state to 1,905,200, the Louisiana Department of Labor announced...
Miss. Commissioner Dale Defends Hiring Insurance Lobbyist as Lawyer
May 23 2007 // Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale says he sees no conflict in his having been represented in a ballot dispute by Greg Copeland, an attorney who is a longtime lobbyist for the insurance industry. “Yes, he...
Where have all the underwriters gone?
May 21 2007 // The commercial insurance industry is not what it was 20 years ago. Clients present deeper risks and greater needs for cost control, and large brokerage houses and carriers are being challenged to respond. But the challenge...
Where have all the underwriters gone?
May 21 2007 // The commercial insurance industry is not what it was 20 years ago. Clients present deeper risks and greater needs for cost control, and large brokerage houses and carriers are being challenged to respond. But the challenge...
Where have all the underwriters gone?
May 21 2007 // The commercial insurance industry is not what it was 20 years ago. Clients present deeper risks and greater needs for cost control, and large brokerage houses and carriers are being challenged to respond. But the challenge...
Tenn.: Beecher Carlson Appoints Managing Director to Nashville Office
May 8 2007 // Beecher Carlson, an insurance brokerage and risk management consulting firm appointed Kevin L. Gabhart as managing director. Operating from the company’s Nashville, Tenn. office, Gabhart will focus on the development...
Study: Obese workers drive up workers’ compensation costs
May 7 2007 // Gaining too much weight can be as bad for an employer’s bottom line as it is for a person’s waistline. A Duke University Medical Center analysis found that obese workers filed twice the number of workers’...
Study: Obese Workers Drive Up Workers Compensation Costs
Apr 25 2007 // Gaining too much weight can be as bad for an employer’s bottom line as it is for a person’s waistline. A Duke University Medical Center analysis found that obese workers filed twice the number of workers’...
2007 Agency Salary Survey says …
Apr 23 2007 // More than a 1,000 insurance agencies nationwide responded to the 2007 Agency Salary Survey published in the March 12, 2007, issue of Insurance Journal. While Insurance Journal published the survey results in its annual...
Editor’s Note: A ‘hot career path’
Apr 23 2007 // With this being Insurance Journal’s “Salute to Independent Agents” issue, I got to thinking about what it means to be an independent agent. I’m not an agent of course so I can’t speak from...
Editor’s Note: A ‘hot career path’
Apr 23 2007 // With this being Insurance Journal’s “Salute to Independent Agents” issue, I got to thinking about what it means to be an independent agent. I’m not an agent of course so I can’t speak from...
