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UK Report Highlights Role of Insurance in Managing, Mitigating Cyber Risk
Mar 24 2015 // Last year 81 percent of large UK businesses and 60 percent of small companies suffered a cyber security breach. In response to this increasing threat, a report published by the UK government and Marsh, one of the...
Benefits Provided Under Workers’ Compensation Laws
Mar 23 2015 // Injuries or illnesses established as compensable under applicable workers’ compensation law require prescribed benefits be paid to the injured employee. Benefit limits and duration vary by jurisdiction but each state...
N.H. Issues Guidance on Producer Compensation
Mar 23 2015 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department recently issued a bulletin on permissible forms of insurance producer compensation. “We had received inquiries from producers and wanted to provide helpful guidance for...
Tennessee Weighs Workers’ Compensation ‘Option’ Legislation
Mar 23 2015 // Tennessee may soon have its own alternative workers’ compensation insurance through new legislation by Republican lawmakers known as the Tennessee Employee Injury Benefit Alternative. State Sen. Mark Green and Rep....
Supreme Court Asked to Decide Standard for Vaccine Injury Compensation
Mar 20 2015 // The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether people who suffer harmful vaccine side effects should have an easier time winning compensation from the government. Congress created what’s known as the vaccine...
UK’s MGAA Launches Initiative to Support MGA Talent Development
Mar 20 2015 // The UK’s Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA), has announced a much needed initiative to find and promote “young talent” in the insurance industry. It’s specifically aimed at...
Workers’ Compensation History: The Great Tradeoff!
Mar 19 2015 // Eighteenth century pirates and a nineteenth century German “Iron” Chancellor preceded the United States in the creation of a social system for the protection of injured workers. The modern workers’...
The Norton Agency of Georgia Appoints Marks as VP Managing Partner
Mar 15 2015 // Todd Marks Georgia-based The Norton Agency’s Insurance Division has appointed Todd Marks as VP managing partner of its Norton Mountain Insurance Division. Marks joins Norton as an equity partner after a 25 year...
Kansas Hotel Owner Going to Prison for Hiring Illegal Workers
Mar 12 2015 // A suburban Kansas City hotel owner has been sentenced to 27 months in prison in a case that highlights the U.S. Justice Department’s shift to targeting employers who knowingly hire immigrants not authorized to work...
More States Eye Use of Drug Formularies in Workers’ Compensation
Mar 10 2015 // While workers’ compensation pharmacy benefit managers have been utilizing drug formularies to control prescription drugs costs and monitor medical treatments for a long time, states are now catching on. Drug...
Former Hylant Executive in Ohio Denies Trade Secret, Recruiting Charges
Mar 10 2015 // A former Hylant Group Inc. official denied that he misappropriated trade secrets and tried to recruit Hylant employees to Chicago-based Wells Fargo Insurance Services Inc. Todd J. Belden, in a March 4 court filing, opposed...
Connecticut Bill Would Help Firefighters Claim Cancer Compensation
Mar 9 2015 // Connecticut state lawmakers are considering legislation that would presume firefighters who have cancer most likely got it from their jobs, easing claims for insurance or workers’ compensation. The science supports...
Public Radio Report Puts Spotlight on Workers’ Compensation’s ‘Grand Bargain’
Mar 9 2015 // Last week’s ProPublica/National Public Radio report putting a spotlight on the workers’ compensation system caught the attention of experts who were meeting in Boston to share research on how the system is...
Tapping Into the Talent Pipeline
Mar 9 2015 // By 2020, the entire insurance industry will have 400,000 positions to fill. About 120 academic programs exist worldwide offering courses, concentrations and majors in risk management and insurance. About 80 are located in...
N.H. Issues Guidance on Permissible Forms of Producer Compensation
Mar 6 2015 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department recently issued a bulletin on permissible forms of insurance producer compensation. “We had received inquiries from producers and wanted to provide helpful guidance for...
Holding Multiple Jobs Increases Risk of Injury: Liberty Mutual
Mar 6 2015 // Researchers with the Liberty Mutual Research Institute’s Center for Injury Epidemiology have concluded that individuals who work multiple jobs — approximately 14 million U.S. residents – have a greater...
How Group Health Claims-Shifting Affects Workers’ Compensation: WCRI
Mar 5 2015 // Workers’ compensation insurers should expect more cost shifting from group health plans as a key provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) takes hold, according to new research from the Workers Compensation Research...
Insurance Carriers Plan Increased Hiring in 2015: Survey
Feb 27 2015 // About two-thirds of insurance carriers expect to hire more employees this year, a new survey finds. According to the semi-annual U.S. Insurance Labor Outlook Study conducted by The Jacobson Group and Ward Group, 66 percent...
2014 Workers’ Compensation Rates Ranked by State
Feb 23 2015 // The median index rate for workers’ compensation insurance fell to an all-time low in 2014 to $1.85 per $100 of payroll. Index rates in 2014 varied from a low of $0.88 in North Dakota to a high of $3.48 in California,...
Nationwide to Close Virginia Call Center; 340 Jobs to Leave Area
Feb 23 2015 // Nationwide Insurance says it will close its Lynchburg, Virginia, call center by the middle of 2016. The News & Advance reports that the move means 340 jobs will leave the area. Nationwide spokesman Eric Hardgrove says...
