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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...

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...

Sellek Named as Managing Director for Best Europe

Apr 20 2007 // A.M. Best Co. announced that Roger Sellek will be joining the rating agency as Managing Director – Global Financial Services for A.M. Best Europe in early May. He will work from Best’s London offices and will...

Vermont Employers Enjoy Declining Workers’ Compensation Prices

Apr 19 2007 // Workers’ compensation insurance is costing less for most Vermont employers since new rates became effective April 1. The Vermont Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration approved...

AIG Chief Sullivan’s 2006 Compensation Valued at $22.5 Million

Apr 11 2007 // Martin J. Sullivan, who has been running insurance giant American International Group Inc. since the ouster of longtime chief executive Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, received compensation valued at nearly $22.5...

Pa. Health Insurers’ Merger Could Eliminate 1,000 Jobs

Apr 11 2007 // The proposed merger of Pennsylvania’s two largest insurance companies could result in about 1,000 lost jobs, mostly through attrition, a company executive said this week. Highmark CEO Dr. Kenneth Melani made the...

March Madness Over, College Athletes Prepare for Future ‘Real World’ Careers

Apr 10 2007 // What becomes of student-athletes when their collegiate sports careers come to a close? With less than one percent making it to the professional level, the vast majority move on to work in the “real world”...

Countrywide Names Hendry COO, Managing Director

Apr 10 2007 // Calabasas, Calif.-based Countrywide Insurance Group, a member of the Countrywide Financial Corporation (NYSE: CFC) family of companies, named Myron Hendry as managing director and chief operating officer of Countrywide...

Florida officials: Education, job rating ‘unintentionally’ harms minorities

Apr 9 2007 // A Florida report on the use of occupation and education in underwriting and rating auto insurance asserts that while the practices “unintentionally harm minorities and low-income individuals,” they are...

Florida officials: Education, job rating ‘unintentionally’ harms minorities

Apr 9 2007 // A Florida report on the use of occupation and education in underwriting and rating auto insurance asserts that while the practices “unintentionally harm minorities and low-income individuals,” they are...