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Compensation Plans for Multi-Generational Employee Satisfaction
Apr 19 2010 // Keeping employees satisfied at work not only aids in retention, it also increases your organization’s overall productivity. In the current economy, it is vital to offer a benefits package that is desirable to your...
Salary Blues
Apr 19 2010 // Agency Salary Reveals Who’s Worth What, State of Stff Morals Independent agency salaries maintained or decreased slightly in 2009, but employee morale may be registering at an all time low. And agents don’t...
West Virginia Doctor Probed Over Workers’ Compensation Prescriptions
Apr 19 2010 // Investigators have seized a small fortune from a Mingo County, West Virginia doctor in a case that parallels a previous raid of a Williamson pain clinic, court filings show. The U.S. District Court papers disclose that...
New York City Agents Vow Suit over Compensation Rules
Apr 16 2010 // A trade group for New York City insurance agents says it is launching a legal challenge against the state’s insurance department over new rules that would require agents to disclose their pay to customers. Directors...
Louisiana Hurricane Researcher and Corps Critic Fails to Win Job Back
Apr 15 2010 // A federal judge refused to immediately reinstate Louisiana State University hurricane and coastal researcher Ivor van Heerden, who was stripped of most of his duties last year. Van Heerden claims he is losing his job...
ACE Tempest Re Names Roberts Managing Director for International
Apr 14 2010 // Bermuda-based ACE Tempest Re Group has appointed Steve Roberts as managing director of its international business, which includes operations in London, Zurich, Sao Paulo and Shanghai. Roberts is currently the deputy...
Wyoming Hiring Workplace Fatality Epidemiologist
Apr 14 2010 // Wyoming, which has the worst fatality workplace in the nation, is hiring a full-time epidemiologist, a position that could replace a state task force that has been studying the issue, officials said. Gov. Dave Freudenthal...
Johnston Re-Elected by California Workers’ Compensation Institute
Apr 13 2010 // T. Hale Johnston, senior vice president and regional manager, Pacific Region, for Reno, Nev.-based Employers, has been re-elected as chairman of the board of directors of the California Workers’ Compensation...
Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Reforms of 2004 Lowered Costs
Apr 12 2010 // Workers’ compensation reforms enacted in Tennessee in 2004 have helped reduce costs in certain specific areas of the workers’ compensation system. The reform provisions related to permanent partial disability...
Older Workers Sticking with Jobs; Employment for Youngest Falls
Apr 9 2010 // More adults over age 65 are staying in the work force, which could make it harder for younger workers to find jobs, a private report showed Friday. Older workers have delayed retirement because of a drop in household...
Arizona Aims to Privatize State Workers’ Compensation Insurer
Apr 8 2010 // The Arizona House Commerce Committee has unanimously endorsed newly proposed legislation to require State Compensation Fund of Arizona (SCF Arizona) to become a private mutual insurance company owned by its...
Lloyd’s Graduates First Student Group
Apr 2 2010 // Lloyd’s announced that it has graduated the first group of graduate students from its new Program, which features an 18 month rotation, after which the new graduates will continue to work in London’s insurance...
Eastern Alliance Enters Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Market
Apr 2 2010 // Eastern Insurance Holdings Inc. has established a satellite office in Nashville, Tennessee in support of its subsidiary Eastern Alliance Insurance Group (EAIG), which specializes in workers’ compensation...
Last Chance to Join IJ’s 2010 Agency Salary Survey
Mar 30 2010 // Insurance Journal is calling on all insurance agents and brokers nationwide to find out who’s worth what in the independent agency system. It’s the last chance for agents and brokers to participate in the 2010...
California Workers Compensation Institute Elects 2010 Board
Mar 30 2010 // T. Hale Johnston, senior vice president of Employers Compensation Insurance Co., has been re-elected chairman of the board of directors of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute for 2010 at the...
Knowledge-Sharing Technology Could Boost Insurance Underwriter Recruiting
Mar 30 2010 // The shortage of experienced property/casualty insurance underwriters is growing as senior underwriters retire and the issue is keeping carrier executives up at night, according to an industry software provider that thinks...
NIP-RCG Forms New Executive Compensation and Benefits Group
Mar 19 2010 // Austin, Texas-based NIP-RCG, a national professional advisory firm offering consulting services to directors and management of many of America’s public corporations, has merged its executive compensation and...
Bliss & Glennon Appoints Moran as Managing Director
Mar 19 2010 // Mike Moran has been named as managing director of national specialty brokerage business and eastern region executive for Bliss & Glennon Inc. (B&G), the wholesale property and casualty division of Fortegra...
Florida’s Market and How Surplus Lines Agents Are Faring
Mar 19 2010 // Hurricane Andrew, for all of the grief it delivered, gave wholesale broker Hull & Co. and Bruce Bowers a big opportunity. “Prior to ’92, there wasn’t much of a need for personal lines in the excess...
Michigan Legislator Seeks Workers’ Compensation for Illegal Immigrants
Mar 18 2010 // A Michigan state representative has filed a bill to give illegal aliens in the state access to workers compensation benefits if they are injured on the job. State Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Detroit, has introduced legislation...
