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North Dakota Workers’ Compensation Agency Seeks Directors
Oct 8 2012 // North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency is looking for new members for its board of directors. The terms of six of the 11 directors are ending in December. The board oversees the operation of North...
Employees Staying Put Even If Unhappy: Talent Survey
Oct 8 2012 // As high unemployment persists and the global economic recovery remains halting and uneven, the “resume tsunami” seems to have subsided to a “resume riptide.” According to Deloitte’s latest...
BrickStreet Remains Biggest Workers’ Compensation Writer in West Virginia
Oct 2 2012 // BrickStreet Insurance is still the dominant workers’ compensation insurer in West Virginia, despite competition from more than 200 other companies. The Legislature created BrickStreet in 2005 to replace what had been...
South Carolina Erotic Dancer Not Covered by Workers’ Compensation
Sep 27 2012 // A South Carolina court has found that an erotic dancer who suffered a gunshot wound while performing is not eligible for workers’ compensation benefits since she didn’t meet the definition of being an employee...
Finding Superior Production Talent
Sep 26 2012 // Finding Superior Production Talent By David Connolly President iQ Consulting An excerpt from an interview with a successful agency owner DC: Historically, what has consistently been the biggest challenge you face as an...
Agency Jobs and Leadership
Sep 24 2012 // Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Best Agencies to Work For. The winners demonstrate that while salary and other tangible benefits are obviously important to employees, the intangibles may be more important. These...
Corpus Christi Leaders Approve Settlement in Police Hiring Case
Sep 20 2012 // Leader of a South Texas city have approved a $700,000 settlement for female police applicants who failed a physical ability test. The Corpus Christi City Council accepted terms of a federal consent decree. The Justice...
AmWINS Forms Managing General Underwriter with Former Rockhill Execs
Sep 19 2012 // North Carolina-based insurance wholesaler AmWINS Group Inc. said it has partnered with two insurance industry executives, Terry Younghanz and Richard Parks, to form a new managing general underwriter (MGU) focused on...
McClure Named Managing Director at Wells Fargo Insurance Southwest
Sep 18 2012 // Wells Fargo Insurance — part of Wells Fargo & Co. — named Howard McClure regional managing director for its Southwest operations. He is based in Dallas and reports to Kevin Kenny, head of Wells Fargo’s...
Top 5 Reasons Employees Leave and Stay
Sep 17 2012 // Who is leaving companies and why? And how do employers hold onto key employees? The incentives to get employees to stay are not exactly the same as the factors that would cause them to leave, according to the Talent 2020,...
Employees Staying Put Even If Unhappy: Talent Survey
Sep 17 2012 // As high unemployment persists and the global economic recovery remains halting and uneven, the “resume tsunami” appears to have been reduced to a “resume riptide.” According to Deloitte’s...
Feinberg Calls Indiana Stage Collapse Compensation Fair
Sep 12 2012 // The architect of compensation for victims of last year’s deadly Indiana State Fair stage collapse says he believes the state was “exceedingly fair” with victims. Victims’ compensation specialist...
Metrolink Victims in California Claim Inadequate Compensation
Sep 11 2012 // As the fourth anniversary of a deadly Metrolink crash approaches, many survivors of the incident in Southern California say a federal liability cap has left them inadequately compensated. Just a year after a judge rationed...
Court Rules Employers Must Reassign Disabled Workers to Vacant Jobs
Sep 10 2012 // A federal appeals court has revived an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit against United Airlines Inc., and said U.S. law generally requires employers to reassign disabled workers to vacant jobs for which they...
Asia’s Insurers Hiring While Bankers Face the Axe
Sep 10 2012 // Slowing economic growth across much of Asia has failed to crimp expansion plans by the region’s insurance companies, even as the rest of the financial industry slashes jobs. While banks and brokerages cut costs and...
Top 25 Workers’ Compensation Insurers Grow Premium 29.8% Based on June 30, 2012 Results Versus June 30, 2011
Sep 10 2012 // Demotech’s review of second quarter 2012 data, as reported by insurers to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, shows that industry workers’ compensation direct written premiums continued to...
Florida Workers’ Compensation Writers Seek Rate Hike Again
Sep 10 2012 // Florida workers’ compensation insurers are seeking a statewide average 6.1 percent rate hike. If approved, the filing by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) would mark the third consecutive...
Wisconsin’s Sentry Insurance Cuts Office Jobs, Home-Based Agents
Sep 9 2012 // Sentry Insurance, based in Stevens Point, Wis., says it’s cutting 27 office jobs in central Wisconsin and 144 home-based agents across 10 states as it restructures its strategy for selling personal line policies....
RBS Insurance Unit Plans Job Cuts
Sep 7 2012 // The insurance division of Royal Bank of Scotland says it plans to cut nearly 900 jobs as it prepares for a stock market flotation. The European Commission has set a deadline of 2014 for RBS to dispose of Direct Line Group...
Assembly Passes Workers’ Compensation Changes
Aug 31 2012 // The state Assembly approved a series of changes to California’s workers’ compensation system Friday, voting on a 170-page bill that arose in the final days of the legislative session. The changes were sought by...
