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AIG Appoints McNamee as UK Managing Director
Jun 6 2014 // AIG in Europe announced the appointment of Jacqueline McNamee as Managing Director, UK Zone, reporting to Anthony Baldwin, Managing Director and Head of Distribution, EMEA. She is replacing Nicolas Aubert, who has become...
Willis Appoints Gunn Managing Partner in Cleveland, Ohio
Jun 5 2014 // Insurance broker Willis North America, a unit of Willis Group Holdings, appointed Andrew Gunnas managing partner of Willis’ Cleveland, Ohio, operations. Willis of Ohio Inc. serves over 3,000 national and local...
Insurance Regulators to Job-Switchers: Look Beyond Salary
Jun 4 2014 // Many Americans who leave their jobs to improve their financial situation fail to consider their total compensation package when making the decision, according to a consumer survey. The survey by the National Association of...
Allstate Recruiting Agency Owners in California
May 29 2014 // Allstate Insurance Co. plans to add additional agency owners in California in 2014, the company announced on Thursday. The Northbrook, Ill-based company is expanding its recruiting campaign for the sixth consecutive year....
Moving Jobs to Low Cost Cities Making AIG ‘Best’ in Efficiency: P/C CEO Hancock
May 29 2014 // American International Group Inc., the largest commercial insurer in the U.S. and Canada, is shifting workers to locations including the Philippines and Texas to reduce costs. “We’re talking several thousand...
Willis Names Walkiewicz Managing Director Insurance Investment Banking
May 22 2014 // Willis Group Holdings has appointed Rafal Walkiewicz as Managing Director of its insurance investment banking division, Willis Capital Markets & Advisory (WCMA). He will be based in New York “following the end of...
Gibbs Appointed Managing Director of Cooper Gay Marine
May 20 2014 // London-based broker Cooper Gay & Co Ltd has announced the appointment of Charles Gibbs as Managing Director, Marine, within the Marine and Aerospace Division, effective immediately. He will have overall responsibility...
Swiss Re Names Summerville Managing Director for Financial, Professional Services
May 19 2014 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has appointed Jeff Summerville to be head of Financial and Professional Services in North America. In this managing director role, he will lead underwriting teams for corresponding lines of...
Mass. AG Coakley Sues Drywall Company for Allegedly Misclassifying Workers
May 16 2014 // A New Hampshire drywall company and its owner have been sued for allegedly misclassifying employees as independent contractors, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley’s office announced today. The lawsuit,...
How IBM Handles Age Disclosure, Employee Privacy, Job Bias Claims
May 13 2014 // For at least a decade, International Business Machines Corp. gave fired employees information detailing a severance package that asked them to waive age- discrimination claims and also included a page listing the job...
Delaware Task Force Eyes Lower Workers’ Compensation Costs
May 12 2014 // Delaware’s state panel established to address recent rate increases for workers’ compensation insurance in the state is recommending that medical costs be trimmed by 33 percent over the next three years. The...
Good News for Workers’ Compensation Industry: NCCI
May 8 2014 // The fact that the workers compensation combined ratio was 101 in 2013, a seven-point decrease from 2012 and a 14-point decline since 2011, is a sign that the workers’ compensation market is returning to a state of...
Workers’ Compensation Fraud: The Insurance Producer’s Role
May 5 2014 // There are essentially two types of workers’ compensation fraud – premium fraud and claimant fraud – and insurance producers can play a role in the discovery and resolution of both, according to one investigator...
10 Challenges Ahead for Workers’ Compensation
May 5 2014 // Today’s challenges are also tomorrow’s opportunities depending on the viewpoint. Those same opportunities could also remain tomorrow’s challenges. This special report highlights 10 current workers’...
Why Some Young Agents Chose Insurance as a Career
May 1 2014 // The call to become an insurance agent is different for everyone. For Matthew Ostrow the call to become an independent agent came via social media. Thirty-year old Ostrow entered insurance just five months ago after a...
Construction Is Riskiest Job in Kentucky
Apr 30 2014 // Construction workers have the deadliest job in the state, according to the Kentucky Labor Cabinet. The cabinet said that since 2011, the construction industry had 21 deaths, followed by landscaping/tree services workers...
Owner of Florida Floating Home Still Fighting City Over Compensation
Apr 29 2014 // A Florida man won a precedent-setting victory last year when the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with him that his floating home was a house, not a vessel covered by maritime law. But so far the ruling hasn’t helped him...
Indiana Body Shops Sue Insurers over Compensation for Vehicle Repairs
Apr 22 2014 // Indiana body shops and auto insurers are on a collision course over repair compensation practices, a dispute that could cost millions of dollars to patch up. In a federal lawsuit, 14 Indiana shops accuse State Farm...
How Millennials View the Job Market
Apr 22 2014 // Briana Tony hasn’t graduated from college yet, and she’s already frustrated with the job market. She’s been through four jobs and said she moved on from each because of a lack of respect and poor upward...
Geico to Add 500 Jobs in Georgia
Apr 21 2014 // A national insurance company has announced plans to create new jobs in middle Georgia. The Telegraph of Macon reported that Geico is planning to add more than 500 new positions to its Macon office by the end of the...
