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How to Interest Millennials in Insurance Careers
May 1 2015 // Many property/casualty insurance professionals are worried about how the industry is going to replace the huge population of baby boomers retiring now and over the next decade. Almost half of insurance industry...
Report: 50 Massachusetts Workers Died on the Job in 2014
May 1 2015 // Fifty workers died from injuries on the job in Massachusetts last year. That’s according to a report released Tuesday by the Massachusetts AFL-CIO and the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupation Safety and...
RIMS Report: Insurance Gamechangers Include Cyber, Talent, Data
May 1 2015 // Protecting clients against growing and poorly understood risks associated with information technology system failures is a leading concern of the insurance industry today, a group of underwriters and brokers told risk...
Connecticut Labor, Advocates to Honor Workers Who Died on the Job
Apr 28 2015 // Organized labor is marking Workers Memorial Day by calling on the Connecticut legislature to pass bills intended to improve employee safety. One measure would require the state’s Department of Administrative Services...
Florida-Based The Villages Insurance Adds Cameron as Managing Advisor
Apr 28 2015 // The Villages Insurance has added Matt Cameron as managing advisor to its Pinellas Plaza, Fla., office. Cameron has over 23 years experience in the insurance industry, most recently as an agent at the local AAA...
Hub Names Jellen Managing Director of Entertainment Practice in California
Apr 27 2015 // Hub International Ltd. has named Robert Jellen as managing director of Hub’s Los Angeles, Calif.-based entertainment practice. Hub also added Seth Cohen, vice president, and Dany Rodriguez, account executive, to...
Cracking Under Pressure: Answers to the Workers’ Compensation Quiz
Apr 20 2015 // We gave you the questions on Friday; you have had all weekend to ponder your responses. Here are the answers for which you have been waiting. Good luck, we hope you do well. 1. What country was the first to implement a...
What Agencies Need to Know About Recruiting the Next Generation
Apr 20 2015 // Recruiting the next generation of talent is not a new challenge but a difficult one. At the recent NetVu15 conference in Indianapolis, a workshop titled “Generation XYZ in the Workplace” drew a large crowd,...
Revamp Your Current Millennial Retention Practices
Apr 20 2015 // The Millennial generation is making big waves in the business world. Already 77 million strong and accounting for 25 percent of the U.S. workforce, Millennials are redefining the workplace of the future. Unfortunately,...
Creating Performance-Based Compensation
Apr 20 2015 // For many businesses and employees, the standard business model is for the employer to pay the employee a fixed salary based on a basic understanding that the employee will perform certain tasks. Compensation might be...
Southeast Schools Hoping to Fill Need for Insurance Cybersecurity Experts
Apr 20 2015 // The insurance industry, like other businesses, has come to realize it needs to do more to protect its companies, customers, employees and portfolios from cyber threats. Cyber-savvy professionals are in high-demand and are...
Cracking Under the Pressure of Workers’ Compensation: Testing Your Workers’ Compensation Knowledge
Apr 17 2015 // Test your knowledge of workers’ compensation by answering 21 questions covering the most important workers’ compensation facts and concepts. A wide array of work comp-specific topics is tested in this article:...
Allied World Appoints Evans Non-Executive Chairman of Lloyd’s Managing Agency
Apr 15 2015 // Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG announced that Jonathan Evans will join the board of directors and become the Non-Executive Chairman of Allied World Managing Agency Limited, its Lloyd’s managing agency,...
How Media Portrayals Influence Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Apr 14 2015 // The depiction of workers’ compensation fraud by the media has affected the public’s perception of the crime, according to claims experts. While workers’ comp fraud is often depicted in a comedic way, that...
Workers’ Compensation Claims Skyrocket in North Carolina City
Apr 14 2015 // Gastonia may have to tap into its savings account to pay for skyrocketing workers’ compensation claims. The Gaston Gazette reports that the city has nearly spent all of its $538,000 for claims and may end up eating...
North Carolina Contractor Jailed for Taking Insurance Money for Fraudulent Jobs
Apr 10 2015 // Authorities are accusing a contractor of taking more than $9,000 from insurance companies for roofing jobs in Richmond County, N.C., that he didn’t do. The Richmond County Daily Journal reports 42-year-old David...
Liberty Mutual to Bring 5K Jobs to North Texas Campus
Apr 9 2015 // Liberty Mutual Insurance expects to have 5,000 employees working at its new campus in the Dallas suburb of Plano by the end of 2017. The nation’s third-largest insurer told employees Tuesday about the new campus, the...
New Hampshire Senate Delays Workers’ Compensation Reform Deal
Mar 27 2015 // New Hampshire state senators have pushed off a deal to reform New Hampshire’s workers’ compensation insurance laws. The chamber voted Thursday to send a tentative deal, which would’ve given providers...
Employees Exempt from Workers’ Compensation
Mar 27 2015 // Employee-employer relationships regarding workers’ compensation are complicated by the IRS, industrial commissions, the courts and state statute. Each has its own definition or applies a different test to define...
Humana to Exit Workers’ Compensation with Sale of Concentra
Mar 27 2015 // Humana Inc. has agreed to sell the stock of its subsidiary Concentra Inc., one of the largest occupational health services providers. The buyer will be MJ Acquisition Corp., a joint venture between Select Medical Holdings...
