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Poms Adds Managing Director and Senior Account Manager
Jul 27 2012 // Walnut Creek, Calif.-based Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. named Emil McCulloch managing director and Karen Williamson-Gracey senior account manager in its Northern California office. McCulloch will lead Poms...
Report: 10,000 Construction Jobs Lost in Wisconsin
Jul 25 2012 // A new report says Wisconsin lost more than 10,000 construction jobs in the last year. The Associated General Contractors of America says the state’s construction employment dropped about 11 percent from June 2011 to...
Zurich Insurance to Add 150 Jobs in Chicago
Jul 24 2012 // Zurich Insurance plans to add 150 jobs to its workforce in Chicago. Zurich is a commercial property-casualty insurance provider that already has 350 employees in the city. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the...
Feds To Take Over Hawaii Job-Safety Regulation
Jul 23 2012 // The federal government will temporarily take control of parts of Hawaii’s authority to regulate workplace safety. In response to federal concern to staff reductions in the Hawaii Occupational Safety and Health...
Officials: June to June, Louisiana Private Sector Adds 50K Jobs
Jul 23 2012 // Louisiana’s private sector added 50,400 jobs from June 2011 to June 2012, the highest over-the-year growth in 22 consecutive months of private sector job gains, according to the state workforce officials. The...
Official: 250 Iowa Jobs Lost After Peregrine Financial Collapse
Jul 19 2012 // A state official says that up to 250 employees in northeastern Iowa lost their jobs following the collapse of a financial empire owned by a businessman arrested in connection with a $200 million fraud scheme. Iowa...
Why Workers’ Compensation Leads in E&O Claims
Jul 16 2012 // Every year, errors and omissions (E&O) claims arising out of the placement of workers’ compensation account for approximately 10 percent of all claims. Many of those workers’ comp claims are well in excess...
USG Adds Reilly in Workers’ Compensation Division
Jul 16 2012 // USG Insurance Services Inc., a national wholesaler and MGA, has expanded its Allied American Underwriters operations in Benton, Ark., and added Stephanie Reilly as a producer/broker specializing in workers’...
RSA Is Latest Insurer to Join Managing General Agents’ Association
Jul 13 2012 // Global insurer RSA has become the latest member of the London-based Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA), which now has 50 members with a combined underwriting capacity of £1.4 billion [$2.33 billion] in...
ABI Chides UK’s Riot Compensation Scheme for Shortchanging Londoners
Jul 11 2012 // A bulletin from the Association of British Insurers (ABI) indicates that “while insurers reacted quickly to help customers hit by last August’s riots, the riot compensation scheme has failed too many...
Hoppe Joins Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. as Chief Internal Auditor
Jul 11 2012 // Gerald “Jay” Hoppe has joined Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. (LWCC) as chief internal auditor. Hoppe is a Certified Internal Auditor with more than 30 years of experience in the insurance and...
The Future of Producer Compensation
Jul 5 2012 // It is a fact that many people with the title “producer” don’t produce. They service and they accept what comes to them, but they do not produce. It is also a fact that companies are going to find a way to...
N.J. Court Rules on Workers’ Compensation Occupational Stress Claim
Jul 2 2012 // A New Jersey court struck down last week a claim by a former bank employee who sought workers’ comp disability benefits for what the claimant described as a psychological illness caused by occupational stress. The...
Md. Regulator Offers Claims Tips, Says Hiring Public Adjuster May Help
Jul 2 2012 // Following this past weekend’s storms, Maryland Insurance Commissioner Therese Goldsmith is advising homeowners to take steps to protect themselves financially.Commissioner Goldsmith is advising homeowners to take...
Alternative Workers’ Compensation Risk Financing Options to Consider
Jul 2 2012 // Pennachio Details Two Financing Plans in Upcoming Webinars Beginning July 11, 2012, insurance professionals have the opportunity to gain insight into two alternative risk financing options for their workers’...
North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Outpatient Payments Growing: WCRI
Jun 19 2012 // Hospital charges for the treatment of injured workers in North Carolina are growing quickly in the wake of regulatory changes meant to reduce outpatient costs, according to a study by the Workers Compensation Research...
The Future of Producer Compensation
Jun 18 2012 // It is a fact that many people with the title “producer” don’t produce. They service and they accept what comes to them, but they do not produce. It is also a fact that companies are going to find a way to...
P/C Insurers, Brokers Added More Jobs, Data Shows
Jun 18 2012 // In early June, the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics released detailed employment statistics for the month of April. The data shows that P/C insurers added 800 jobs in April, for the total of 526,300...
What Do Millennials Want?
Jun 18 2012 // Flexibility, Balance, Respect and Accessibility Are Important, Studies Find There’s a lot of talk in property/casualty insurance circles these days about how the industry is going to replace the huge wave of baby...
Fitch: Workers’ Compensation Weakest Segment; Combined Ratio Worst in 10 Years
Jun 14 2012 // Workers’ compensation, the largest commercial lines segment representing approximately 18 percent of commercial lines net written premiums in 2011, posted a statutory combined ratio of 117 percent in 2011, according...
