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California Connects Workers to Insurance Careers
Jul 7 2006 // A coalition of insurance companies, community colleges and workforce development specialists have started a statewide insurance education program, called the California Insurance Careers Program, aimed at preparing...
Mich. Workers’ Compensation Agency, State Bar to Sponsor Seminar
Jul 6 2006 // For attorneys and others interested in learning about the state’s workers’ compensation law, the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth (DLEG) and the State Bar of Michigan have teamed up to sponsor a...
California Workers’ Compensation Loss Ratios Down Significantly
Jul 6 2006 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has completed its report summarizing insurer loss and premium experience through March 31, 2006. According to the report, workers’ comp reforms...
Washington Workers’ Compensation Benefits to Increase 3.5 Percent
Jul 5 2006 // Workers currently receiving Washington workers’ compensation wage-replacement or pension benefits will receive a 3.5 percent cost-of-living increase. State law requires that benefits be recalculated each July 1 to...
Target Markets Mid-Year Meeting
Jul 4 2006 // Steve Way Has Built Giant HCC Holdings Via Acquisitions and He’s Not Done Yet Managing general agents and program administrators have an admirer with deep pockets in Steven Way. Getting some of that money might be...
Esurance Expands Central Valley, Calif., Office, Adds Jobs
Jun 27 2006 // Esurance, a direct-to-consumer personal auto insurance company, is expanding its sales and claims office in Rocklin, Calif., from 25,000 square feet to 48,000 square feet. With the expansion, the office will be able to...
Ark. AG Says Job Scam May be Operating From State
Jun 27 2006 // Attorney General Mike Beebe recently issued a consumer alert aimed at job seekers who receive bogus offers of employment from overseas. The offers are designed to trick individuals who are looking for work into wiring...
Compensation Survey: Agencies Reward on Organic Growth, Profitability, Retention
Jun 27 2006 // With fewer large books of business changing hands recently, insurance agencies are relying on staff-driven, organic growth to expand their operations. Compensation packages and new recruitment and training strategies have...
Allianz Plans Restructuring; 7480 German Job Cuts
Jun 23 2006 // Germany’s Allianz AG confirmed growing speculation that it would launch substantial cost cutting measures with the announcement on Thursday, June 22, that it plans to reduce the number of workers at Allianz...
Legal and effective incentive compensation still under fire
Jun 19 2006 // There is a critical need to preserve the right of insurance companies to determine how best to compensate the insurance agents and brokers who sell their products. In this regard, the insurance industry is like virtually...
California State Compensation Insurance Fund files average 10 percent premium decrease
Jun 19 2006 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund filed its sixth consecutive rate reduction, reflecting an average collectible premium decrease of 10 percent on new and renewal workers’ compensation policies with...
Pride Industries Employee Arrested for Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Jun 16 2006 // A Sacramento man has turned himself in for insurance fraud. Darren Stanton was a long term employee of PRIDE Industries, an employer of people with disabilities, according to LWP Claims Solutions Inc. On March 28, 2005,...
Insurers Defend Job, Education as Auto Insurance Pricing Criteria in N.J.
Jun 13 2006 // Insurance industry representatives urged New Jersey lawmakers not to restrict insurers’ use of certain rating variables including occupation and education in the pricing of auto insurance policies, insisting that the...
Legal and effective incentive compensation still under fire
Jun 5 2006 // There is a critical need to preserve the right of insurance companies to determine how best to compensate the insurance agents and brokers who sell their products. In this regard, the insurance industry is like virtually...
Legal and effective incentive compensation still under fire
Jun 5 2006 // There is a critical need to preserve the right of insurance companies to determine how best to compensate the insurance agents and brokers who sell their products. In this regard, the insurance industry is like virtually...
Q & A with Texas Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Albert Betts
Jun 5 2006 // Chief of state’s workers’ comp division says much reform work has been done but there’s more to do Insurance Journal: What are some of the major aspects of the Division of Workers’...
Big ‘I’ Bob Rusbuldt is on the job
Jun 5 2006 // Rusbuldt, chief executive officer of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America, needs no introduction to independent agents, insurance company executives or the power brokers in Washington, D.C., before whom...
Legal and effective incentive compensation still under fire
Jun 5 2006 // There is a critical need to preserve the right of insurance companies to determine how best to compensate the insurance agents and brokers who sell their products. In this regard, the insurance industry is like virtually...
Legal and effective incentive compensation still under fire
Jun 5 2006 // There is a critical need to preserve the right of insurance companies to determine how best to compensate the insurance agents and brokers who sell their products. In this regard, the insurance industry is like virtually...
Q & A with Texas Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Albert Betts
Jun 5 2006 // Insurance Journal: What are some of the major aspects of the Division of Workers’ Compensation’s Strategic Management Plan for implementing workers’ compensation system reforms? Commissioner Albert Betts:...
