Latest Talent Headlines
All the headlines from our Talent Topic Page, ordered by recency.
HIRING, CONTEXT AND THE CANDIDATE
Apr 3 2006 // Good employees are key to your company’s success. The first step in hiring stellar employees is to attract them, similar to how you attract clients. You need to “sell” the potential hire on the benefits...
Zurich agents caught in compensation disclosure web
Apr 3 2006 // Independent agents representing Zurich Insurance in the U.S. will have to disclose their income before binding any commercial lines policies for Zurich and some Zurich agents may be denied contingency compensation under...
Producer Compensation: What Should You Pay?
Apr 3 2006 // Compensation for any agency is always the largest expense category. For the typical agency, total compensation (producer and employee compensation plus benefits and taxes) ranges from 50 percent to 75 percent of total...
Agency Advisor
Apr 3 2006 // By serving your employees with the same retention principles that you use with clients, you can enhance the value and durability of your employee relationships and ensure a long-term relationship. In previous articles,...
Agency Advisor
Apr 3 2006 // In previous articles, Paul Martin and I have shared key strategies for recruiting, hiring and training employees. While designed to be effective and efficient, the processes we outline, nevertheless, require significant...
Managing Disasters
Apr 3 2006 // Totally ready or just terrorism ready? Is the nation’s terrorism-centric focus hurting its efforts to plan for other disasters? Dr. James L. Valverde Jr., director of economics and risk management for the Insurance...
Producer compensation: What should you pay?
Apr 3 2006 // Compensation for an agency is always the largest expense category. For the typical agency, total compensation (producer and employee compensation plus benefits and taxes) ranges from 50 percent to 75 percent of total...
Closer Look: Workers’ Compensation
Apr 3 2006 // The savings varies by state and other factors but in 2005 the average risk in pilot states placed in the VCAP program saved $646 compared to what it would have been charged if placed in the residual market. Agent and...
Safeco Offers Monoline Workers Compensation Program
Mar 31 2006 // Safeco, based in Seattle, is offering its workers compensation product on a stand-alone — or monoline — basis in 25 states. The move is designed to give small businesses more flexibility in acquiring coverage...
Allstate’s Chief Executive’s Compensation Cut by 10 Percent
Mar 28 2006 // A proxy statement issued by Allstate Corp. has shown that Chief Executive Edward Liddy’s compensation was cut by 10 percent in 2005, to $11.1 million, the second straight decrease. The Proxy statement is filed with...
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...
