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Beecher Carlson Appoints Mehta Bermuda Executive Managing Director
Aug 24 2010 // Insurance brokerage and risk management consulting firm Beecher Carlson has appointed Robin Mehta as Executive Managing Director. He joins Beecher Carlson to lead the Bermuda office operations, including its Captive...
Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. Promotes 3
Aug 23 2010 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. (LWCC) has announced the promotions of three members of its management team. Glenn Audiffred is now assistant vice president of Information Technology Services, Pat Canning is...
BP Compensation Fund Opens for Business
Aug 23 2010 // A $20 billion compensation fund for economic victims of the BP Plc Gulf oil spill opens for business Monday amid accusations that the rules established by its administrator are unfair. Kenneth Feinberg who will run the...
How to Establish an Agency Growth Culture
Aug 18 2010 // Why is agency growth important? Agents and brokers are faced with a continued economic downturn combined with sustained soft market conditions; insurance companies continue to tier agents based on future growth;...
Connecticut Shooting Survivors, Families Told of Compensation
Aug 16 2010 // The head of Connecticut’s workers’ compensation program says the largest payouts in 12 years may eventually be made to survivors and family members of employees killed last week at a Manchester beer...
North Carolina Health Insurer Cuts Jobs
Aug 16 2010 // North Carolina’s largest health insurer says it plans to lay off about 90 people as part of cost-cutting moves to prepare for the new federal health care law. The News & Observer reports Friday that Blue Cross...
How To Use Compensation to Boost Sales
Aug 16 2010 // Al Diamond is one of the country’s best known agency management consultants. His firm, the Agency Consulting Group, is based in Cherry Hill, N.J. He deals with agencies across the country on issues ranging from...
3 Keys to Establishing a Total Agency Growth Culture
Aug 16 2010 // Why is agency growth important? Agents and brokers are faced with a continued economic downturn combined with sustained soft market conditions; insurance companies continue to tier agents based on future growth;...
3 Keys to Establishing a Total Agency Growth Culture
Aug 16 2010 // Agency Leadership Must Assure that Sales Force Does Not Shoulder New Business Production Alone Why is agency growth important? Agents and brokers are faced with a continued economic downturn combined with sustained soft...
How to Use Compensation to Boost Sales
Aug 16 2010 // Al Diamond is one of the country’s best known agency management consultants. His firm, the Agency Consulting Group, is based in Cherry Hill, N.J. He deals with agencies across the country on issues ranging from...
California Commissioner Asked to Raise Workers’ Compensation Rate
Aug 12 2010 // The California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s Governing Committee has approved the recommendation to allow the pure premium rate in the state to rise by 29.6 perent, as was expected and widely...
ACE European Group Names Dixon as Regional Managing Director
Aug 11 2010 // ACE European Group named Steve Dixon as regional managing director, ACE Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Dixon succeeds Giles Ward, who has led ACE MENA since 2006, now appointed to the position of CEO for ACE...
Judge Blocks FDNY Hiring, Says Test Invalid
Aug 6 2010 // The mostly white Fire Department of New York is temporarily barred from hiring more than 300 rookie firefighters because it used an entry exam that discriminates against blacks and Hispanics, a federal judge ruled. In a...
Midwest Economy: North Dakota Tops Region in Job Growth
Aug 3 2010 // The Institute for Supply Management, formerly the Purchasing Management Association, began formally surveying its membership in 1931 to gauge business conditions. The Creighton Economic Forecasting Group uses the same...
Marsh Names 59 Managing Directors in U.S., Canada
Aug 2 2010 // Marsh announced the appointment of 59 new managing directors in North America. The members of the Marsh 2010 Class of Managing Directors work within a number of different risk practice and industry groups and are located...
$264K Proposed as Compensation for New Louisiana Citizens CEO
Jul 28 2010 // A committee of the Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. board has recommended a compensation package of $264,000 annually for the insurer’s next chief executive. The full board of the property insurer of last...
Marsh Promotes Deguia to Managing Director
Jul 26 2010 // Marsh has appointed Etet Deguia as a managing director in the firm’s San Diego office. She currently acts as a global client executive, where she manages client relationships. Deguia has been an integral part of the...
Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. Promotes Buffone, White
Jul 23 2010 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. (LWCC) has promoted two key executives. Paul Buffone is now senior vice president of Risk Management Services, and David T. White is now vice president of Internal Audit. Buffone...
Jury Convicts South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Consultant
Jul 22 2010 // After a two day trial, a South Carolina workers’ compensation consultant and former state representative has been found guilty of mail fraud for fabricating payroll figures in order to obtain lower premiums for a...
Louisiana, Texas Gain Jobs in June; Arkansas, Oklahoma Post Losses
Jul 21 2010 // The South Central states of Louisiana and Texas posted job gains for the month of June, but Arkansas and Oklahoma saw slight losses in employment. The Louisiana Workforce Commission reported Louisiana’s seasonally...
