Latest Talent Headlines
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Florida OKs 6.1% Workers’ Compensation Rate Hike
Oct 29 2012 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said he will approve a 6.1 percent rate increase to become effective January 1, 2013 for workers’ compensation insurance rates in Florida. The decision was based the...
ADP Reworks Monthly Private Jobs Report
Oct 24 2012 // A monthly reading of U.S. private sector employment has been revamped to put it more in line with the closely watched government nonfarm payrolls report. Automatic Data Processing said on Wednesday it had made the changes...
Barclays Boosts Compensation Fund for Improper Insurance Sales
Oct 24 2012 // Barclays PLC has set aside another 700 million pounds ($1.1 billion) to compensate customers who bought payment protection insurance which they didn’t need. The bank’s announcement raised its total provision...
Express Scripts Tackles Physician-Dispensed Drug Costs Under Workers’ Compensation
Oct 18 2012 // Express Scripts, a nationwide prescription manager of more than a billion prescriptions each year, has created a new program to help workers’ compensation payers save money on medications. The new product is based on...
Oklahoma Lawmaker Examining Insurance Options for Career Tech Students
Oct 16 2012 // Oklahoma State Rep. Joe Dorman wants to find out what insurance options could be made available for career technology students in Oklahoma. In announcement released by the Oklahoma House of Representatives, Dorman, D-Rush...
Court Urges Change in Florida Workers’ Compensation Law
Oct 12 2012 // An appellate court is urging the Florida Legislature to reconsider a state law that makes injured employees pay employers’ legal costs if they lose good faith workers’ compensation appeals. A three-judge panel...
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...
