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Making Hartford shine again as insurance capital
Oct 23 2006 // While other states from Minnesota to New Hampshire compete to attract the insurance sector by lowering premium taxes and extending incentives, Connecticut thinks it has the best offer: an unmatched talent pool of insurance...
New Mexico Workers Compensation Insurance Rates are Cut
Oct 18 2006 // Rates are being cut for New Mexico workers’ compensation insurance premiums. The state Insurance Department has approved overall rate reductions of 4.2 percent for the voluntary market and 1.3 percent for the...
Agents Seek Delay in Approval of Zurich Compensation Settlement
Oct 13 2006 // The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents has asked the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey to delay preliminary approval of a class settlement with Zurich Insurance until what agents say are...
Aetna to Cut 650 Jobs
Oct 13 2006 // Hartford-based health benefits giant Aetna said that it would cut about two percent of its 30,000 workforce or 650 positions as part of a new streamlining effort. The layoffs will include nearly 200 employees in management...
ICT Announces Line Up for Workers’ Compensation Seminars
Oct 10 2006 // The Insurance Council of Texas is hosting workers’ compensation seminars on Nov. 7 and Nov. 15 that focus and provide training on the new rules adopted by the Division of Workers’ Compensation to implement...
California anticipates lowering workers’ compensation insurance rates 6.3 percent
Oct 9 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced on Sept. 28 that he will likely recommend a further reduction in the state’s workers’ compensation insurance rates of at least an additional 6.3...
California governor vetoes workers’ compensation bills
Oct 9 2006 // Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed two bills that he said would have undermined the bipartisan workers’ compensation reforms passed by the legislature in 2004. “When I ran for office, skyrocketing...
Oregon employers to pay less for workers’ compensation in 2007
Oct 9 2006 // Oregon will reduce the workers’ compensation pure premium rate by 2.1 percent for 2007, maintaining Oregon’s streak of not raising the rate in 16 years, Gov. Ted Kulongoski recently announced. “No other...
Managing the rising tide of employment practiceslawsuits
Oct 9 2006 // The reality of today’s workplace is that a wide variety of employee grievances may escalate, almost without warning, into costly lawsuits. Any time an employee objects to a company employment practice that is...
Agents take aim at Zurich compensation, disclosure settlement
Oct 9 2006 // Two associations for independent insurance agents have urged a federal court to reject recent settlement provisions between Zurich Insurance and states that affect thousands of agents who were not involved in the original...
Managing the rising tide of employment practices lawsuits
Oct 9 2006 // The reality of today’s workplace is that a wide variety of employee grievances may escalate, almost without warning, into costly lawsuits. Any time an employee objects to a company employment practice that is...
California governor vetoes workers’ compensation bills
Oct 9 2006 // Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed two bills that he said would have undermined the bipartisan workers’ compensation reforms passed by the legislature in 2004. “When I ran for office, skyrocketing...
Oregon employers to pay less for workers’ compensation in 2007
Oct 9 2006 // Oregon will reduce the workers’ compensation pure premium rate by 2.1 percent for 2007, maintaining Oregon’s streak of not raising the rate in 16 years, Gov. Ted Kulongoski recently announced. “No other...
California anticipates lowering workers’ compensation insurance rates 6.3 percent
Oct 9 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced on Sept. 28 that he will likely recommend a further reduction in the state’s workers’ compensation insurance rates of at least an additional 6.3...
Iowa Principal Group to Expand Operations, Add 200 Jobs
Oct 2 2006 // Principal Financial Group Inc. is expanding its Des Moines operations and anticipates hiring at least 200 more workers by the end of 2007. The Des Moines-based insurance and financial services company said Friday it...
Integro Adds New Managing Principal in Chicago Office
Sep 26 2006 // Integro today announced that William T. Sullivan has joined the firm’s Chicago office as a managing principal. He comes to Integro from Aon, where he served as a relationship manager. According to the Integro written...
California State Compensation Insurance Fund appoints Tudor president
Sep 25 2006 // The California State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Board of Directors appointed James C. Tudor as the organization’s president. Tudor’s appointment caps an extensive four month national search for a...
Marsh & McLennan cutting 750 jobs
Sep 25 2006 // Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc., the world’s biggest insurance brokerage, said it will cut 750 jobs, consolidate some locations and revamp its information technology structure to cut costs. Marsh & McLennan,...
Aon freed to accept contingent pay when serving as managing general agents
Sep 25 2006 // Aon Corporation said it has obtained agreement from five agencies in three states to amend its settlement agreements so that it can accept contingent compensation from an insurer for which Aon is acting as a general agent...
Swiss Re Confirms 2000 Job Cuts
Sep 25 2006 // From a financial standpoint Swiss Re’s integration of GE Insurance Solutions seems to be progressing well. However, it has inevitably led to job cuts, or as the British would put it, redundancies. Swiss Re announced...
