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Travelers O&G Rolls Out Emergency Response Plan for Managing Blowouts
Mar 5 2007 // Travelers Oil & Gas recently launched an emergency response planning guide for managing well blowouts that occur on U.S. oil and gas land drilling operations. According to the company announcement, it is the...
Disasters, Healthcare Challenges Spell Jobs for Actuaries
Feb 27 2007 // Actuaries, those number-crunching whizzes who help determine insurance premiums based on the odds of bad things happening, are in high demand these days, because new mathematical models are needed to respond to natural...
New producer must have ‘skin in the game’ on the first day on the job
Feb 26 2007 // In almost every aspect of any business, the best day to do everything is the first day, especially when it comes to a new producer’s first day on the job. In order to make the most of the agency’s investment,...
Insurers defend use of education, job criteria in rating in Florida
Feb 26 2007 // Insurers are defending the factors they use in pricing auto insurance, including the occupation and education levels of insureds, arguing that the criteria have been actuarially tested for their ability to predict...
Insurers defend use of education, job criteria in rating in Florida
Feb 25 2007 // News Currents Insurers are defending the factors they use in pricing auto insurance, including the occupation and education levels of insureds, arguing that the criteria have been actuarially tested for their ability to...
New producer must have ‘skin in the game’ on the first day on the job
Feb 25 2007 // In almost every aspect of any business, the best day to do everything is the first day, especially when it comes to a new producer’s first day on the job. In order to make the most of the agency’s investment,...
Building Materials Firm Sued Over Australian Asbestos Compensation Plan
Feb 22 2007 // Australia’s corporate regulator has launched a civil suit against building materials giant James Hardie Industries NV for allegedly misleading investors about the cost of compensating victims of its asbestos...
Insurers Dispute Fla. Criticisms of Education and Job Rating Criteria
Feb 16 2007 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies disputed claims made by the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation that auto insurance companies use education and occupation underwriting criteria to charge higher...
Industry Defends Job, Education as Rating Factors in Fla. Inquiry
Feb 13 2007 // Insurers are defending the factors they use in pricing auto insurance, including the occupation and education levels of insureds, arguing that the criteria have been actuarially tested for their ability to predict...
DISCLOSING COMPENSATION
Feb 11 2007 // Does voluntary disclosure work? CATASTROPHE LOSSES Lessons learned from ’05 & ’06 UNACCEPTABLE LEVEES West leads in systems that need fixing
Fla. Questioning Use of Education, Job Criteria in Rating Auto Policies
Feb 9 2007 // In Florida, it literally pays to have a high school diploma and a post secondary education – to the disapproval of Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty. The use of occupation and education as underwriting factors by...
National Insurance Partners Forms Executive Compensation Firm
Jan 29 2007 // Texas-based National Insurance Partners Inc. (NIP) announced that in partnership with veteran executive compensation expert, Steven Cross, it is building a new company, Cogent Compensation Partners (Cogent), that will...
TDI Offers Resources on Insurance Careers
Jan 29 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced it has a new interactive resource on the agency’s Web site, http://www.tdi.state.tx.us/commish/careers.html, describing careers available in the insurance industry: from...
Contractors’ Workers’ Compensation
Jan 28 2007 // When helping contractors and subcontractors reduce their workers’ compensation costs, focus on four key elements: accurately determine the cause of the high costs, improve communications with employees, bring...
The Hartford’s Data Outsouring Reported to Affect 400 Conn. Jobs
Jan 25 2007 // Nearly 400 Connecticut jobs are being affected as The Hartford Financial Services Group outsources data services. The Hartford has signed a five-year contract with IBM, which will support and maintain systems and data...
R.I. High Court Throws Out Lawsuit Based on Bad Job Reference
Jan 24 2007 // Rhode Island’s highest court this week dismissed a lawsuit filed by a licensed nurse who sued her former boss over a bad job reference. Paula Kevorkian said Judith Glass, her former supervisor at the Pawtuxet Village...
Aon to Cut 500 Jobs in N.Y., Texas, Maryland
Jan 22 2007 // Insurance brokerage firm Aon Corp. said last week it would lay off 550 workers at its facilities in New York, Texas and Maryland. Aon spokesman Rahsaan Johnson said the Chicago-based company was consolidating its...
Corporations Urged to Bring Jobs to New Orleans
Jan 22 2007 // The federal government hopes to talk to 100 of America’s top firms into bringing 100 jobs each to New Orleans to help the city recover from Hurricane Katrina, the head of the federal recovery operation said. The...
Higginbotham & Associates Names Two Managing Directors
Jan 18 2007 // Fort Worth-based independent insurance agency Higginbotham & Associates named brokers Tami Rodgers and Scott Shapard to its managing director team for 2007. Higginbotham appoints its brokers to managing directors who...
‘Apprentice’ Reject Accuses Trump of Age Bias in Hiring
Jan 10 2007 // Richard J. Hewett never heard “You’re fired!” — but he’s suing Donald Trump anyway. The rejected applicant for NBC’s “The Apprentice” is suing the real estate mogul claiming...
