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Texas Workers’ Compensation Health Care Networks Show Improvements
Oct 3 2013 // Workers’ compensation networks certified by the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) continued to show improvements in medical costs, return-to-work outcomes, and health outcomes in the latest annual report card...
Florida Consumer Advocate Westcott Resigns for Job with Industry
Sep 27 2013 // Florida’s Consumer Advocate Robin Westcott has resigned to become the vice president of the American Association of Insurance Services, an Illinois-based industry organization that develops standardized forms and...
Willis North America Names Doyle Managing Partner in Tampa
Sep 24 2013 // Willis North America announced that James Doyle has been appointed managing partner of Willis’ Tampa operations. In this role, Doyle will oversee Willis’ Tampa operations and will focus on strategic planning,...
Delaware Workers’ Compensation Task Force Reconvenes
Sep 23 2013 // Delaware’s Workers’ Compensation Task Force reconvened earlier this month for its first meeting since Gov. Jack Markell signed the group’s recommendations into law on June 27, 2013. The task force will...
ANV in Strategic Deal with Ryan Specialty for Lloyd’s Managing Agency Jubilee
Sep 17 2013 // ANV Holdings BV, the Dutch-headquartered specialty insurance business founded by CEO R. Matthew Fairfield, and Ryan Specialty Group, LLC announced that they have entered into an agreement to combine their Lloyd’s...
Insurers Expect Increase in Personal Lines, Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Sep 13 2013 // One in three U.S. and Canadian insurers does not feel adequately protected against fraud and more than half expect personal lines and workers’ compensation fraud to increase this year. The survey by FICO, a...
Mississippi County Employee Charged with Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Sep 11 2013 // A Jasper County, Miss., man has been indicted on charges of workers’ compensation fraud. Attorney General Jim Hood said 55-year-old David Myrick Cox, of Louin, surrendered to investigators with his office’s...
PwC US Names Managing Director for Actuarial and Insurance Management in N.Y.
Sep 11 2013 // PricewaterhouseCoopers US (PwC US) announced that Henry Essert joined PwC’s Actuarial and Insurance Management Solutions (AIMS) practice as a managing director in its New York office. In his new role, Essert will...
Compensation Talks Start in Geneva for Bangladesh Factory Victims
Sep 11 2013 // Representatives of retailers, labor unions and non-governmental organizations began meeting today in Geneva to discuss compensation for those killed or injured in two factory disasters in Bangladesh. Today’s talks...
9/11 Responders Far From NYC Seek Compensation
Sep 9 2013 // They weren’t exposed to anywhere near the same level of ash, grit and fumes, but emergency workers who rushed to the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania countryside on 9/11 are signing up for the same compensation and...
Workers’ Compensation Loss Costs Going Down Again in Kentucky
Sep 9 2013 // Workers’ compensation loss costs used by insurers in figuring rates to charge employers are going down for the eighth straight year. The loss cost figures show an average reduction of 7.9 percent for the 590...
Delaware Workers’ Compensation Task Force Reconvenes
Sep 9 2013 // Delaware’s Workers’ Compensation Task Force reconvened last Friday for its first meeting since Gov. Jack Markell signed the group’s recommendations into law on June 27, 2013. The task force will now hold...
Workers’ Compensation Benefits, Employer Costs Rise: Study
Sep 9 2013 // Both workers’ compensation benefits paid to insureds and costs for employers increased in 2011, a new study revealed. Total workers’ comp costs to employers rose by 7.1 percent to $77.1 billion, while...
Workers’ Compensation Market: Challenges Remain Despite Recent Improvements
Sep 9 2013 // The market for workers’ compensation insurance is in a recovery phase of the underwriting cycle after several years of poor results. In particular, premium rates continued to increase meaningfully through the first...
Aviva’s Buyer Intends to Trim Des Moines-Area Jobs
Sep 5 2013 // The buyer of Aviva USA intends to trim about 90 Aviva jobs in the Des Moines, Iowa-area as it cuts about 10 percent of the insurer’s workforce. The Des Moines Register says Aviva employees were told about the...
Finch Named National Managing Director of Admitted Markets at MarketScout
Sep 4 2013 // MarketScout, the national electronic insurance exchange and specialty MGA headquartered in Dallas, Texas, has expanded its nationwide specialty high-net-worth underwriting and brokerage practice with the addition of...
Cooper Gay Re North America Appoints Managing Director in New York
Aug 26 2013 // Cooper Gay Re North America appointed Norman Gayle as managing director. He joins the executive team working from the head office in downtown New York. He and his team will focus on production and strategic planning and...
Insurance Processing Center Bringing 600 New Jobs to Missouri
Aug 22 2013 // President Barack Obama’s health care reform is unpopular in parts of Missouri, but it is bringing 600 new jobs to the state. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Virginia-based government contractor Serco Inc....
Drivers Over Age 55 Far More Likely to Die in Job Accidents Than Younger
Aug 22 2013 // Employees age 55 or older who drive as part of their jobs are more likely to be killed in accidents than younger colleagues because of declining cognition and greater susceptibility to injury, according to a U.S....
U.K. Banks to Pay $2 Billion for Card-Insurance Compensation
Aug 22 2013 // Britain’s biggest banks will pay as much as £1.3 billion ($2 billion) to compensate customers wrongly sold insurance to cover credit-card and identity theft. A group of 13 banks and credit-card issuers, including...
