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New York Agents Lose Court Battle over Compensation Disclosure

Dec 5 2010 // New York agents failed to make their case that insurance regulators cannot require agents and brokers to disclose their commissions, a Supreme Court judge has ruled. That decision by Supreme Court Justice Richard M....

New York Eases Some Workers’ Compensation Policy Rules

Dec 5 2010 // New York has eased some workers’ compensation insurance requirements for out-of-state businesses that do only occasional, non-construction work in the Empire State. The rule change comes after years of lobbying by...

Audit: South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Board Delayed Deposits

Dec 5 2010 // The South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission broke state law by not depositing fines because it worried legislators would use the money for something else, according to a state audit. The commission collected...

Employees Beware: Employers Monitor Twitter, Facebook, Internet Posts

Dec 5 2010 // Those photos on Facebook showing you palling around with drunks, the raunchy joke you posted on Twitter, and those links to politically incorrect groups on your personal web site -all of this information can now become...

Employers With Foreign Labor Face Increased Liability

Dec 5 2010 // Insurance Considerations for Agents Insuring Agricultural Employer Every state has been impacted by Arizona’s immigration law, as there is now a cry for immigration reform. Employers who hire a questionable workforce...

Why Top Performing Agencies Focus on Compensation Expenses

Dec 5 2010 // Performance Benchmarks Help Agencies Measure Success There are a lot of performance benchmarks to focus on to become a top performing insurance agency and to achieve high profitability. One of the areas agencies need to...

Retailers Casualty Insurance to Offer Workers’ Compensation in Texas

Dec 2 2010 // Baton Rouge, La.-based workers’ compensation insurer Retailers Casualty Insurance Co. announced it will begin offering workers’ compensation coverage in Texas. Retailers Casualty, which is managed by Summit...

New York Eases Some Workers’ Compensation Policy Rules

Nov 30 2010 // New York has eased some workers’ compensation insurance requirements for out-of-state businesses that do only occasional, non-construction work in the Empire State. The rule change comes after years of lobbying by...

Lawsuit Challenges UMiami Use of Credit History in Job Screenings

Nov 24 2010 // A federal lawsuit contends that University of Miami credit history checks of job candidates discriminate unfairly against minorities. The potential class-action lawsuit filed Monday claims that use of credit histories in...

UK MGAs Gather to Support New Managing General Agents’ Association

Nov 24 2010 // The UK’s insurance industry has spawned numerous professional and trade associations over the years, but, oddly enough, one of the most important sectors, the managing general agents, or MGA’s, who underwrite...

New York Agents Lose Court Battle over Compensation Disclosure

Nov 22 2010 // New York agents failed to make their case that insurance regulators cannot require agents and brokers to disclose their commissions, a Supreme Court judge has ruled. That just-released decision by Supreme Court Justice...

How an E&O Claim Could Affect Agency Employee’s Career

Nov 18 2010 // Today’s soft insurance market, reduced commissions and a tough economy for agency owners and their clients might be adding to agency errors and omissions (E&O) exposures. But agency owners are not the only ones...

Ohio Workers’ Compensation Bureau Manager Quit Amid Ethical Questions

Nov 15 2010 // A manager at Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers has resigned amid ethical questions about whether his private side business benefited from connections he made while on the state payroll. Documents provided to...

Washington Voters Reject Privatization of Workers’ Compensation System

Nov 14 2010 // Voters in the state of Washington have rejected a measure to inject private insurer competition into the state’s workers’ compensation system. The insurance industry hoped to open up the state’s...

Tillson Recruiting Launches in Boston Area

Nov 11 2010 // Tillson Recruiters, a new firm specializing in recruiting for insurance agencies, brokers and companies, has opened in Massachusetts. Husband and wife team Scot and Keri Tillson both serve was managing partners at the...

Mina Named Managing Partner for Willis of Maryland

Nov 10 2010 // John Mina has been appointed managing partner at Willis of Maryland, Inc. Mina will be responsible for business development for Willis’ Washington, D.C.-based insurance brokerage operations. He will be based in...

Workers’ Compensation Fees Would Cost New York Drivers, Insurers Warn

Nov 10 2010 // Proposed 30 percent increases in what medical providers in New York are paid for treating workers’ compensation injuries could have unintended consequences for the state’s motorists, an industry group has...

Fee Schedules Stabilized Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Costs

Nov 9 2010 // Average medical costs per workers’ compensation claim in Tennessee stabilized at pre-fee schedule levels after the state introduced medical fee schedules in 2005, according to a new study. According to the report by...

Washington Voters Reject Privatization of Workers’ Compensation System

Nov 3 2010 // Voters in the state of Washington have rejected a measure to inject private insurer competition into the state’s workers’ compensation system. The insurance industry hoped to open up the state’s...

Alabama Weighs 12.4% Drop in Workers’ Compensation Costs

Nov 2 2010 // Alabama insurance officials will consider an industry proposal to lower workers’ compensation loss costs in the state at a public hearing tomorrow in Montgomery. Citing reduced claims frequency, workers’...