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Workers’ Compensation Insurtech Pie Insurance Enters 5 Additional States
Jan 25 2019 // Online seller Pie Insurance has started offering its workers compensation insurance in five more states, bringing the total to 14. The Washington, D.C.-based managing general agent disclosed it has begun marketing its...
Progressive Embarks on Hiring Binge: 10,000 People in 2019
Jan 25 2019 // Insurer Progressive said it expects to hire more than 10,000 people in the coming year to support its growth. Positions will include IT and analyst roles, corporate functions, customer care and claims roles. The...
New York City’s Global Excess Partners Promotes Cook to VP, Managing Director
Jan 23 2019 // Global Excess Partners (GEP), a specialty insurance organization, has promoted Brendan Cook from vice president to vice president and managing director. He reports to Chris Zoidis, corporate executive vice president of...
What to Watch for in Workers’ Compensation in 2019
Jan 23 2019 // Value-based care, political party changes in several states, and a more holistic view of patient injuries will impact the workers’ compensation industry this year, according to two experts hosting a workers’...
BLS Survey Shows Louisiana Workplaces Among the Safest in 2017
Jan 22 2019 // According to a recent Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) survey, Louisiana remained one of the safest states in which to work, the Louisiana Workforce Commission reported. The state’s rate of non-fatal accidents and...
Corporate Culture, Cyber Risk Are Top of Mind for D&O Underwriters
Jan 21 2019 // Transparency and culture awareness were the key takeaways from a panel discussion on top directors and officers’ claims trends that took place at this year’s Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS)...
Fired Moody’s Executive Wins Back Paris Job, Gets $1.8 Million Payout
Jan 16 2019 // A Moody’s Corp. managing director fired for lashing out at a junior co-worker who criticized his team’s work won his Paris job back and a 1.6 million-euro ($1.8 million) payout. Moody’s France fired the...
HDI Global Taps McDonald from Allianz as UK and Ireland Managing Director
Jan 16 2019 // HDI Global SE (HDI) has appointed Claire McDonald as managing director of its UK and Ireland operations. She will assume the role on March 18, 2019. McDonald will join the company from Allianz Global & Corporate...
Robots Haven’t Eliminated Many Jobs – So Far: World Bank
Jan 3 2019 // The rise of automation has so far had a negligible impact on jobs at a global scale, the World Bank chief economist said, despite common gloomy predictions that humans are set to be replaced by machines. While advanced...
Louisiana Adds Jobs for 14 Straight Months
Dec 31 2018 // Over the course of 14 months, Louisiana has added tens of thousands of jobs, according to the Louisiana Workforce Commission. According to information released on Dec. 21 by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS),...
Insurance Journal East’s Top Stories for 2018: Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, Auto Insurance, Mass. Gas Explosions
Dec 31 2018 // As Insurance Journal looks back on the most popular stories of 2018, its readers in the East region showed interest in a variety of topics from auto insurance to the September gas explosions in Massachusetts to state...
Spain Supreme Court Orders $1.7B Compensation for 2002 Prestige Oil Spill
Dec 27 2018 // Spain’s Supreme Court has ruled that the captain and the insurer of the Prestige oil tanker must pay more than 1.5 billion euros ($1.7 billion) in compensation for Spain’s biggest environmental disaster, when...
Neon Underwriting Promotes Butt to CEO, Washington to Managing Director
Dec 21 2018 // Neon Underwriting Ltd. (NUL), Neon’s Lloyd’s managing agency, announced the promotions of Theo Butt to chief executive officer and Matthew Washington to managing director with immediate effect. The appointments...
Insurance Educator Shares BBQ Talent with Firefighters, Friends and Neighbors
Dec 17 2018 // When we think about giving, we think about people and organizations going all out and making big splashes around the world. Yet, many in the insurance world, do their giving quietly and in their neighborhood. That’s...
Should You Hire an Appointment Setter?
Dec 17 2018 // One of my mentors, Dan Sullivan, says: “All progress starts with telling the truth.” Is it true that you don’t spend enough time prospecting to have a pipeline of real opportunities that you can win? And...
Latest Edition of AMA Guides Lowers Impairment Ratings in Workers’ Compensation
Dec 14 2018 // For workers injured at work, the amount of compensation they receive depends on which edition of the medical guidelines on evaluating impairments is used. The American Medical Association (AMA) Guides to the Evaluation of...
New York Contractor Convicted of Hiring Hit Men for Killing
Dec 14 2018 // A Schenectady, N.Y., contractor has been convicted of first-degree murder in a scheme to kill a man for life insurance money. A jury convicted 54-year-old Tarchand Lall on Wednesday for hiring hit men from Delaware to kill...
Michigan Business Index Shows Hiring, Retaining Talent Still Challenging
Dec 13 2018 // Acquiring and retaining talent remains the top challenge for Michigan’s small- to mid-sized business leaders, according to a survey commissioned by Accident Fund Insurance Company of America and the Michigan Business...
A Guide to What Matters to Gen Zers, the Next Class of Insurance Recruits
Dec 11 2018 // Today’s insurance labor market is colored by the rapid graying of the workforce. The industry’s growing retirement rate and burgeoning skills and knowledge gap are creating a candidate-driven market. As many...
BHSI Withdraws from Hong Kong Employees’ Compensation Terrorism Pool
Dec 10 2018 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Co. (BHSI) announced that it has withdrawn from the Hong Kong Employees’ Compensation (EC) terrorism pool, effective Dec. 1, 2018. BHSI said it is now the first insurer in Hong...
