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RAND, Risk Management Solutions Form Alliance to Study Terror Risk, Compensation
Dec 16 2002 // RAND and Risk Management Solutions (RMS) have formed a partnership to create a research center at RAND to study the risk of terrorism and how to compensate victims of terrorism. The center’s goal will be to support...
AMP to Cut 1900 Jobs at Pearl, Reduce U.K. Operations
Dec 4 2002 // The long anticipated job cuts at Peal Insurance, the loss making U.K. subsidiary of Australia’s AMP, have finally been announced. CEO Andrew Mohl said yesterday that the company plans on reducing its workforce by...
Workers’ Compensation
Dec 2 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: PMC Insurance Group is offering a program for workers’ compensation. Dollars: Policy limits are statutory. Minimum premiums of $5,000. Carrier: AIG, Kemper, Zurich, Crum & Forster, Hartford....
Workers’ Compensation
Dec 2 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Gaslamp Insurance Services Inc. is offering a program for workers’ compensation. Dollars: Policy limits of $1,000,000/$1,000,000/$1,000,000. No minimum premium. Carrier: PEO. Admitted...
Hartford Study Says Producer Compensation Tied to Agency Size, Profitability
Nov 19 2002 // Revenues and profitability largely determine the total compensation levels for insurance agency owners, executives and producers, according to the new Business Management Group (BMG) 2002 Owner, Executive & Producer...
Managing the Cycle
Nov 11 2002 // Much has been written in the insurance press lately about the cyclical nature of the insurance industry. Now the market is hard, or hardening. For most of the 1990s stock markets boomed, the insurance market softened and...
S&P’s Lowers American Compensation Co. Ratings
Nov 5 2002 // Standard & Poor’s has lowered its financial strength rating on American Compensation Insurance Co. (ACIC) to single-‘Bpi’ from triple-‘Bpi’ because for year-end 2001 and 2000, ACIC had a...
GAB Robins Names New Managing Director for Capital Partners Division
Nov 4 2002 // GAB Robins North America, Inc. named Dianne Parker, senior vice president and managing director of GAB Robins Capital Partners. GAB Robins Capital Partners is a division that designs runoff solutions, provides outsourcing...
Core Solutions Announces Workers’ Compensation Initiative
Oct 4 2002 // Core Solutions Inc. announced that it has developed a strategic initiative that will allow its clients to effectively manage the rising costs related to maintaining workers’ compensation coverage. President Christine...
Principals Can Use New Tool to Manage Producers
Sep 30 2002 // Agency principals and managers have a new tool available to assist in the process of hiring and managing producers. The product is entitled “Hiring and Managing Inexperienced ProducersTM,” written and produced...
S.C. Sees Decrease in Job Site Deaths
Sep 30 2002 // Studies show that fewer South Carolina workers are dying on the job and safety training is being attributed to the decline. According to the South Carolina newspaper The State, the increased emphasis by businesses and...
Attracting and Retaining Employees in a Competitive World
Sep 16 2002 // One consistent trend throughout the United States is the difficulty in finding people to fill job openings. No matter where I travel, I hear this lament from agency owners and managers. In some areas of the country, there...
Management More Crucial Than Ever
Sep 16 2002 // When I was a student in college and majoring in insurance, my professors used to tell us that there was a crying need for good, educated insurance agents. In their opinion, there were too many agents who were...
Management More Crucial Than Ever
Sep 16 2002 // When I was a student in college and majoring in insurance, my professors used to tell us that there was a crying need for good, educated insurance agents. In their opinion, there were too many agents who were...
Attracting and Retaining Employees in a Competitive World
Sep 16 2002 // One consistent trend throughout the United States is the difficulty in finding people to fill job openings. No matter where I travel, I hear this lament from agency owners and managers. In some areas of the country, there...
Aon Completes $1.450B Reinsurance Program for State Compensation Fund of Calif.
Sep 13 2002 // Aon Corporation announced that its global reinsurance intermediary, Aon Re Worldwide, has completed a major excess of loss reinsurance program for the State Compensation Insurance Fund of California. The transaction...
EPIX Links with AIG to Provide Workers’ Compensation Coverage
Aug 29 2002 // EPIX Holdings Corporation, a privately held Professional Employer Organizations (PEO) headquartered in Tampa, Fla., annouced it has established a relationship with American International Group Inc. (AIG) to provide...
GUY CARPENTER UPDATES MANAGING TERROR RISK
Aug 19 2002 // Success in managing terror risk will come only through unprecedented collaboration between the public and private sectors, and the insurance and reinsurance industries must play a leading role as the tools to assess,...
Crawford & Company Eliminates Position, Lowers Salaries
Aug 1 2002 // Crawford & Company of Atlanta, a provider of diversified services to the insurance industry, announced a number of cost-cutting efforts that include the elimination of certain positions and salary cuts to top...
Guy Carpenter Report Updates Roles in Managing Terror Risk
Jul 30 2002 // Success in managing terror risk will come only through unprecedented collatoration between the public and private sectors, and the insurance and reinsurance industries must play a leading role as the tools to assess,...
