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Wells Fargo Insurance Services Names Samland Managing Director
Aug 27 2009 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services of Minnesota Inc. named Gina Samland managing director for its Nebraska, Iowa, and Kansas City, Kan. operations. She is based in the Omaha, Neb., office. In her new role, Samland is...
Farm Workers Sue New Mexico for Workers’ Compensation Coverage
Aug 27 2009 // Two organizations that provide services to farm workers and two injured farm workers want the New Mexico Workers’ Compensation Administration to stop excluding farm and ranch workers from coverage. HELP-New Mexico,...
Bailed Out Firms Making Compensation Subject to Government Approval
Aug 25 2009 // Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp. and AIG are forging new employment contracts that let them void compensation agreements if they are challenged by the U.S. government, according to a person familiar with some recent...
Workers’ Compensation Rate Hike Proposed for 2010 in Iowa
Aug 24 2009 // The Iowa Insurance Division reported that the National Council on Compensation Insurance has made a rate filing which affects the premium rates for workers’ compensation insurance. The rate filing proposes an overall...
$1 Billion Suit Against AIG Over Workers’ Compensation Dismissed
Aug 21 2009 // American International Group Inc. won dismissal of a federal lawsuit accusing the troubled insurer of fraudulently shortchanging state workers’ compensation pools out of more than $1 billion. However,...
Florida Workers’ Compensation Insurers Propose 6.8% Rate Cut
Aug 21 2009 // Florida workers’ compensation insurers are recommending an overall average rate decrease of 6.8 percent statewide, which state officials said would save employers more than $166 million. Florida Insurance...
Voltz Named Managing Director for Wells Fargo in Pennsylvania
Aug 20 2009 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services has named James Voltz managing director for its Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania office. In his new role, Voltz will oversee operations, carrier relationships, sales and placement of all...
Californian Held in State Workers’ Compensation Fund $1.4 Million Fraud
Aug 20 2009 // The California Department of Insurance has announced that Joseph Baiden, 56, of Diamond Bar, surrendered yesterday morning to the Los Angeles Superior Court pursuant to an arrest warrant issued for eight counts of...
Labor Dept.: Gerber Settles Hiring Case at Arkansas Plant
Aug 20 2009 // Gerber Products Co. in Fort Smith, Ark., will pay $900,000 to settle accusations of hiring practices that discriminated against women and minority-group applicants, the U.S. Department of Labor said. The agreement covers...
U.S. Pay Czar Weighs ‘Claw Backs’ over Executive Compensation
Aug 17 2009 // Kenneth Feinberg, the Obama administration’s pay czar, said on Sunday he has broad and “binding” authority over executive compensation, including the ability to “claw back” money already paid,...
Colorado Workers’ Compensation Insurer Pinnacol Defends Agent Perks
Aug 17 2009 // Colorado’s dominant workers compensation insurer last week defended its spending on travel and entertainment for its agents, telling Colorado lawmakers it’s good for morale and helps lower costs in the long...
Flocks, Pearson Named to California Workers’ Compensation Bureau
Aug 12 2009 // California Insurance Commissioner Poizner has appointed Sara Flocks, of San Francisco and Lee Pearson, of Rancho Murieta to the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau Governing Committee. Pearson, currently...
Colorado To Hold Workers’ Compensation Loss Cost Hearing
Aug 7 2009 // Colorado’s Division of Insurance announced it will be holding a public hearing on Sept. 17, 2009, to discuss the workers compensation loss cost filing submitted by the National Council on Compensation Insurance. NCCI...
West Virginia Approves Workers’ Compensation Rate Cut of 6%
Aug 6 2009 // West Virginia Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline has approved a loss cost filing by the state’s workers’ compensation insurance companies that will result in an overall six percent decrease. She said more...
Many UK Workers Would Trade Benefits for Higher Salary: Aon Survey
Aug 6 2009 // Nearly half of UK workers (47 percent) would welcome the opportunity to trade off benefits in order to increase their pay, according to a survey by Aon Consulting. Around 1,300 working adults across the UK were probed on...
Employees Taking Salary Cuts Look for Loyalty from the Boss
Aug 3 2009 // Many employees of small businesses are grateful to have a job, even as salaries are frozen or cut and they’re asked to take on more responsibility. Company owners shouldn’t take those good attitudes for granted...
Insights from Insurance Journal’s Top 100 Agency Leaders
Aug 3 2009 // Insurance Journal asked leaders of this year’s Top 100 Agencies about some of their best and worst management decisions ever made, sales ideas that worked, the biggest challenges facing their agencies today and how...
Health Insurance Mandate Will Kill Jobs
Aug 3 2009 // Congress is about to take up legislation that would have profound and long-lasting effects on 17 percent of our nation’s economy — our health care system. Most Americans agree that the system is broken and...
Louisiana Private Sector Sees Jobs Increases in June
Jul 29 2009 // The Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) has reported that the number of private sector jobs in Louisiana grew by 700 from May to June, led by increases in most major industry sectors. The job gains were offset largely by...
