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Florida Competitive in Workers’ Compensation Market Arena
Jan 24 2011 // Florida’s workers’ compensation market remains competitive with more than 250 private insurers writing coverage and only a fraction of business being funneled to the residual market. Also, availability does not...
MarketScout Names Blaser Managing VP of Affluent Personal Lines
Jan 20 2011 // MarketScout, a Dallas, Texas-based electronic insurance exchange, announced that Lesa Blaser has joined the company as managing vice president of Affluent Personal Lines. Blaser previously served as Central Region...
University of Kentucky, Professor Settle Religious Bias Job Claim
Jan 20 2011 // An astronomy professor who sued the University of Kentucky after claiming he lost out on a top job because of his Christian beliefs reached a settlement Tuesday with the school. The university agreed to pay $125,000 to...
Senator Targets Workers’ Compensation Pay to Elderly Federal Employees
Jan 18 2011 // More than 1,000 federal workers aged 80 and older are receiving workers’ compensation benefits even though they likely have no intention of returning to work, according to a U.S. senator who wants to reduce the waste...
Willis Appoints Holmes Managing Director for Middle East
Jan 18 2011 // Willis Group Holdings has appointed Paul Holmes as Managing Director of Al Futtaim Willis Middle East, effective February 9, 2011. He will be based in Dubai and will report to Scott Pickering, CEO, Willis Central &...
Job Bias Complaints Set Record in 2010
Jan 14 2011 // Workplace discrimination complaints against private sector firms hit an all time high in 2010. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) reported the filings with the federal agency nationwide totaled 99,922...
Small Businesses in Hiring Mood? It’s Hard to Figure
Jan 13 2011 // U.S. small businesses appear to be on the cusp of a mini hiring revival that may be a bit stronger than the Labor Department’s data suggests. Three sets of private sector surveys released this month showed a pick-up...
Atlas General Insurance Services Announces Addition of New Carrier for its Workers’ Compensation Program
Jan 11 2011 // San Diego, CA, 1/11/2011 – Atlas General Insurance Services is pleased to announce the addition of a new carrier to enhance its workers’ compensation portfolio. This new program, developed by Atlas and Republic...
What Happened in Workers’ Compensation in 2010
Jan 10 2011 // Soft market conditions with unabated price competition and a slow economy with reduced payrolls continued to affect commercial lines including the workers’ compensation industry in 2010, as they did in 2009. Robert...
Here’s to an Interesting, and Positive, New Year
Jan 10 2011 // The year 2011 should be interesting in the insurance world, what with Republicans in Congress aiming to take down the new health insurance reform laws and states trying to figure out how to deal with the new regulations...
Personal Internet Use Becoming Part of Employee Record
Jan 10 2011 // 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...
Okla. Official: Ex-lawmakers May Hold Insurance Department Jobs
Jan 10 2011 // A state law that bars legislators from working for a state agency within two years of leaving office doesn’t apply to two former state legislators hired by the incoming state insurance commissioner, an Oklahoma...
Florida Workers’ Compensation Market Remains Competitive: Report
Jan 5 2011 // Florida’s workers’ compensation market remains competitive with more than 250 private insurers writing coverage and only a fraction of business being funneled to the residual market. Also, availability does not...
Top Workers’ Compensation News in 2010
Jan 4 2011 // Soft market conditions with unabated price competition and a slow economy with reduced payrolls continued to affect commercial liens including the the workers’ compensation industry in 2010, as they did in...
North Carolina Principal Gets Workers’ Compensation After Shooting
Dec 29 2010 // A North Carolina middle school principal who blames his April 2009 shooting on his fight against gangs will receive workers’ compensation for his injuries. The Fayetteville Observer reported that the state Industrial...
AIG to Pay States $146 Million In Workers Compensation Settlement
Dec 23 2010 // American International Group Inc. (AIG) has agreed to pay $146.5 million in fines and additional taxes to state insurance regulators for alleged under-reporting of premiums to states more than a decade ago. The company...
Scientist Alleges Religious Bias Cost Him Job at U of Kentucky
Dec 21 2010 // An astronomer argues that his Christian faith and his peers’ belief that he is an evolution skeptic kept him from getting a prestigious job as the director of a new student observatory at the University of...
Kentucky Builders, Insurer Partner in Workers’ Compensation Program
Dec 20 2010 // A builders’ association is teaming with Kentucky’s largest workers’ compensation insurer to offer a new workers’ compensation program to its members in Kentucky and southern Indiana. Kentucky...
Why Top Performing Agencies Focus on Compensation Expenses
Dec 20 2010 // 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 focus on is compensation expenses. With a struggling...
The Agency Salary Blues
Dec 20 2010 // Independent agency salaries maintained or decreased slightly in 2009, but employee morale may be registering at an all time low. And agents don’t expect things to change, at least not anytime soon. Half of all...
