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Apex Global Names Beck Managing Director – Business Development
Jan 12 2009 // Dallas-based Apex Global Partners (AGP) has appointed Jay Beck as managing director of Business Development for its Benefits and Consulting Division and senior vice president of the corporation. Beck has twenty years of...
Montana State Auditor Releases Office Staff Salaries
Jan 12 2009 // Montana State Auditor Monica Lindeen has released the salaries of her top staffers. Lindeen was recently sworn in as the state auditor. Her salary is $79,137. Deputy auditor Walter Schweitzer, who managed Lindeen’s...
California Workers’ Compensation Premiums Down in 2008
Jan 11 2009 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has completed its report summarizing insurer loss and premium experience through Sept. 30, 2008. WCIRB said: “California written premium (gross of...
California Workers’ Compensation Insurers File for Rate Increases
Jan 11 2009 // The California Department of Insurance has approved rate increases for several workers’ compensation insurers. California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner had recommended a 5 percent increase in his rate...
Willis Names Fyfe Managing Director – Latin American Reinsurance
Jan 8 2009 // Willis International, a unit of Willis Group Holdings, has announced the appointment of Edward Fyfe as Managing Director of its growing Latin American reinsurance operations, effective immediately. He is based in Lima,...
AIG Says Senior Executives Won’t Get $3 Million Deferred Compensation
Jan 8 2009 // American International Group Inc., the insurer getting a $152 billion federal bailout, said Wednesday that senior executives will not be given a $3 million payment that was to have been distributed by April. In a filing...
Florida Workers’ Compensation Market in Good Shape, Says State
Jan 8 2009 // Availability and affordability in Florida’s voluntary workers’ compensation market overall is good, although small firms, new firms and construction firms might face affordability issues due to unique...
South Carolina Governor Presses for Workers’ Compensation Data
Jan 5 2009 // A federal judge has ordered lawyers seeking to prevent the release of information to South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford on workers compensation awards and attorney fees to explain their stance. The State of Columbia reports...
Bell to Chair Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission
Jan 5 2009 // Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe will appoint Watson Bell of Searcy to chair the state’s Workers’ Compensation Commission, replacing Olan “Butch” Reeves of Bryant. Reeves will remain chairman of the WCC...
West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Writer BrickStreet Drops Policies
Jan 4 2009 // West Virginia’s BrickStreet Insurance is looking to trim costs in 2009 by dropping nearly 1,000 workers’ compensation policies its chief calls the worst of the worst. Greg Burton says the policies have brought...
Mississippi Police Station Closed Due to Lapsed Workers’ Compensation Policy
Dec 31 2008 // The Port Gibson, Mississippi Police Department was open Monday, three days after a payment lapse on an insurance policy forced its closure. Mayor Fred Reeves said the workers’ compensation insurance policy for Port...
U.S. Insurers Increasingly Outsourcing Actuarial Work to Overseas Talent
Dec 23 2008 // U.S. insurers and actuarial firms increasingly are outsourcing, offshoring, and importing actuarial talent from abroad, industry experts report. They are also learning that good management practices and an understanding of...
Oregon Doctors Win Workers Compensation Billing Dispute
Dec 22 2008 // Oregon doctors have won a major dispute with insurance companies over worker compensation billing. The state Workers Compensation Division has issued a permanent rule forbidding insurers from unilaterally taking discounts...
Former North Dakota Workers Compensation Director Convicted
Dec 22 2008 // North Dakota’s former workers compensation director has been convicted on the more serious of two felony charges that he misspent public funds. It carries a possible 10-year prison term. Sandy Blunt’s attorney,...
Ohio Senate Votes to Keep Workers’ Compensation Rating System
Dec 19 2008 // The Ohio Senate has signed off on preserving a workers’ compensation rate system that many businesses say is unfair and detrimental to the economy. The Senate voted 31-1 on Dec. 15 to preserve the current group...
Summit Releases Online Workers Compensation Tool for Southeast
Dec 18 2008 // Summit, a provider of workers’ compensation insurance services in the southeastern states, has released web-based WriteNow Risk Eligibility Tool, a complementary feature to the company’s WriteNow Online Quoting...
California Workers’ Compensation Premiums Down in 2008
Dec 16 2008 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has completed its report summarizing insurer loss and premium experience through Sept. 30, 2008. WCIRB said: “California written premium (gross of...
Principal Financial to Cut 550 Jobs at Des Moines Headquarters
Dec 11 2008 // Des Moines-based Principal Financial Group Inc. says it is cutting 300 jobs at its headquarters and around 250 in 45 other locations. The insurance, banking, retirement and asset management company on Dec.9 blamed the cuts...
AXIS Capital to Acquire Managing General Agent Dexta
Dec 10 2008 // Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings Limited announced that it has agreed to acquire the business and operations of Australian managing general agent Dexta Corporation Pty Ltd. from its shareholders, Ironbridge Capital,...
Job Injuries and Illnesses Requiring Days Off Decrease in Texas
Dec 10 2008 // Employers in private industry in Texas reported a total of 69,320 nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work for 2007, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
