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Japan Businesses Demand Compensation for Nuclear Evacutaion
Apr 14 2011 // Small business owners and laborers forced to leave their homes and jobs because of radiation leaking from Japan’s tsunami-flooded nuclear plant rode a bus all the way to Tokyo on Wednesday to demand compensation from...
North Carolina Lawmakers Urged to Preserve Workers’ Compensation Benefits
Apr 13 2011 // Injured workers’ groups, trial lawyers and others are sending a clear message to North Carolina lawmakers — leave the state’s workers’ compensation law alone. Hundreds of people descended on the...
Massachusetts Workers’ Compensation Rates Not Going Up
Apr 13 2011 // Massachusetts regulators and insurers have agreed that workers’ compensation rates will not rise. Last month, the industry filed for a 6.6 percent average increase effective Sept. 1 but insurers have agreed to hold...
Feds Probe Illinois Public Agencies’ Workers’ Compensation Payouts
Apr 5 2011 // Two federal prosecutors are investigating possible workers’ compensation abuses at Illinois government agencies after disclosures of millions of dollars in payouts and questionable practices by arbitrators. The...
Starr Aviation Develops Workers’ Compensation Small Business Unit
Apr 5 2011 // Starr Aviation Agency, Inc., a member of Starr Cos., has developed a Small Business Unit within their Workers’ Compensation division. The focus of the Workers’ Compensation Small Business Unit is to provide an...
Responsible for Hiring? How to Make Your Job Ads Work for YOU!
Apr 4 2011 // It’s not new news, but the United States Department of Labor reported at the end of February 2011, there were 13.7 million unemployed nationwide, with 6 million of those being unemployed long term, over 27 weeks. To...
Judge Limits NFL Offset for Players’ Workers’ Compensation Benefits
Mar 30 2011 // A New York judge says the NFL must be limited in how much money it can recover when injured NFL players receive state workers’ compensation awards. Judge Paul Crotty wrote in a decision that the NFL sometimes wants...
West Virginia Counties’ Program Expanding to Workers’ Compensation
Mar 29 2011 // A West Virginia risk pool created to provide property and liability coverage to counties around the state is looking to expand into workers’ compensation. The West Virginia Counties Group Self-Insurance Risk Pool...
Louisiana Sees Big Over-the-Year Increase in Nonfarm Jobs
Mar 28 2011 // A gain of 3,000 construction jobs from January to February contributed to the largest over-the-year gain in seasonally adjusted nonfarm jobs in Louisiana in more than two years, the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC)...
Happy 100th Birthday Workers’ Compensation: The Great Tradeoff!
Mar 23 2011 // Happy 100th Birthday Workers’ Compensation: Now What ? This year marks the 100th anniversary of the workers’ compensation system in the U.S. As Christopher Boggs, director of Education for Insurance...
Next for IBM’s Watson: Insurance Jobs in Jeopardy?
Mar 21 2011 // IBM wasted no time in parlaying the winning performance of its artificially intelligent Watson on the TV game show “Jeopardy!” into real business. The company recently announced a deal to commercialize...
Next for IBM’s Watson: Insurance Jobs in Jeopardy?
Mar 21 2011 // IBM wasted no time in parlaying the winning performance of its artificially intelligent Watson on the TV game show “Jeopardy!” into real business. The company recently announced a deal to commercialize...
SBA: Small Businesses Provide Nearly 55% of Private-Sector Jobs in Louisiana
Mar 15 2011 // The U.S. Small Business Administration reports that in 2008 nearly 400 thousand small businesses were operating in Louisiana, representing 97.4 percent of the state’s employers. A report released in February by the...
Hispanic Affiliates General Agency Expanding, Recruiting Agents in Texas
Mar 11 2011 // Dallas-based Hispanic Affiliates General Agency LLC (HAGA) announced it is actively recruiting Hispanic independent agents in Texas. According to the company’s announcement, HAGA provides independent agents marketing...
RSA Appoints East as New Managing Director of Al Ahlia Insurance
Mar 11 2011 // RSA has announced the appointment of Lloyd East as Managing Director for Al Ahlia Insurance SAOC, part of the RSA Group. He has “over 20 years experience in the financial services industry having led joint ventures,...
Washington Senate Passes Workers Compensation Change Opposed by Labor
Mar 7 2011 // The Washington state Senate approved a measure Saturday that would drastically change the state’s workers compensation system by establishing an option for lump sum settlements. The 34-15 vote was a significant win...
Mississippi Passes Bill to Speed Workers’ Compensation Appeals
Mar 4 2011 // The Mississippi Senate has passed a bill making it easier to appeal a decision of the state Workers’ Compensation Commission. Currently, an appeal of a commission decision or award is appealed to circuit court and...
Liberty Mutual Hiring 100 for Boston IT Center
Mar 4 2011 // Insurer Liberty Mutual says it will hire 100 new employees in connection with the launch of a new Information Technology Development Center in Boston The positions are a mixture of entry level and experienced roles for...
West Virginia Backs Workers’ Compensation for Volunteer Firefighters
Mar 4 2011 // West Virginia lawmakers appear willing to help the state’s volunteer fire departments with their workers’ compensation expenses. The House and Senate exchanged bills this week that would dedicate insurance...
Tennessee Bill Would Tighten Workers’ Compensation Eligibility
Mar 3 2011 // The Tennessee Legislature is considering a number of changes to its workers’ compensation law that are designed to tighten the standards injured workers must meet to qualify for workers’ compensation...
