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Kan. Governor Vetos Workers’ Compensation Bill
Mar 23 2006 // Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius vetoed a workers’ compensation bill, SB 461, this week that would have lowered compensation settlements for workers injured on the job. The bill would have allowed a physician to...
Calif. Man Arrested for Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Mar 17 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced that Sacramento resident Wayne Allen Sorenson, 35, has been arrested on workers’ compensation insurance fraud charges after an investigation by the...
Wall Named CEO at Louisiana Worker’s Compensation Corporation
Mar 16 2006 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC), announced that Kristin Wall, president and chief operating officer, was named by the company’s Board of Directors to replace Steve Cavanaugh as Chief...
Acordia Names Rudolph as Managing Director for Its Ariz. Operations
Mar 15 2006 // Acordia, the insurance brokerage subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Co., has promoted Cameron Rudolph to managing director for its Arizona operations. Rudolph has been in the insurance industry for 14 years. He joined...
Privacy, Workers’ Compensation Dominate Utah’s Legislative Session
Mar 9 2006 // Utah insurers faced a busy and difficult year throughout the Utah 2006 legislative session, the American Insurance Association (AIA) said. “Insurers had to play a lot of defense this year,” said Steve Suchil,...
Atlas Management Appoints Leighton Group Managing Director
Mar 7 2006 // Atlas Insurance Management, an independent insurance management and consulting company, announced from its headquarters in Georgetown, Grand Cayman, the appointment of Nicholas Leighton as Group Managing Director for the...
Calif. commissioner issues new workers’ compensation regulations
Mar 6 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced new workers’ compensation regulations that will require all insurers in the state to submit certification forms that verify that claims adjusters and...
Putnam Appointed VP of Calif.’s State Compensation Insurance Fund
Mar 3 2006 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has appointed John E. Putnam to vice president and member of its Executive Committee. Putnam, 52, of Fresno, brings a quarter century of workers’ compensation...
Colo. Supreme Court Decides Negligent Hiring Case
Mar 3 2006 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) has joined other industry members in an amicus brief to Colorado’s Supreme Court arguing that an employer is not liable under the tort of negligent...
Calif. Commissioner Issues New Workers’ Compensation Regulations
Feb 22 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced new workers’ compensation regulations that will require all insurers to submit certification forms that verify that claims adjusters and medical bill...
Growing Your Property Casualty Agency
Feb 20 2006 // Hiring a relative can be a terrific or a terrible move. Unfortunately, it isn’t always easy working with your relatives, day after day. Personal and professional problems frequently arise. Regardless, for years,...
Off-the-job worker injuries outpacing safety gains
Feb 20 2006 // Contrary to popular belief, today’s workers are safer on the job than they are at home or in their communities. According to the National Safety Council, recent gains in lowering workplace death rates, which are down...
AIG affirms ban against contingency compensation
Feb 20 2006 // Producers should no longer expect contingent commissions from American International Group, according to the settlement with New York Attorney General Spitzer and what the company says is its own global policy...
Calif. Workers’ Compensation
Feb 19 2006 // Reduced rates and renewed competition in Calif. California workers’ compensation insurance rates are taking a turn for the better. Thanks to reform legislation, employers should have more access to reasonable rates....
AIG affirms ban against contingency compensation; N.Y. insurance chief Mills disagrees with Spitzer
Feb 19 2006 // Producers should no longer expect contingent commissions from American International Group, according to the settlement with New York Attorney General Spitzer and what the company says is its own global policy...
Growing Your Property Casualty Agency
Feb 19 2006 // Hiring a relative as an agency producer Hiring a relative can be a terrific or a terrible move. Unfortunately, it isn’t always easy working with your relatives, day after day. Personal and professional problems...
Fireman’s Fund to Bring Nearly 200 Jobs to St. Louis Area
Feb 17 2006 // Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company is in the process of adding 190 new jobs, including 145 new claims professional positions, to its existing operations in Earth City, near St. Louis. As part of the company’s...
Acordia Names Van Ness Managing Director for Central, Northern Calif.
Feb 16 2006 // Acordia, the insurance brokerage subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Co., has named Greg Van Ness managing director for all of its insurance brokerage operations in Northern and Central California, including the San Francisco...
Calif. Man Arrested on Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Feb 13 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced the arrest of Alejandro Ruiz Lopez, 26, on felony charges of workers’ compensation fraud after an investigation revealed that Lopez allegedly falsified a...
Travelers Introduces Indian Tribal Workers’ Compensation Product
Feb 9 2006 // St. Paul Travelers has introduced a Tribal Workers’ Compensation product for Indian tribes and their enterprises. This product is specifically designed for federally-recognized Indian tribes that have a tribal...
