Latest Talent Headlines
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Iroquois Expands Managing Partner’s Region to Kansas and Missouri
Nov 17 2008 // The Iroquois Group recently announced that Managing Partner Philip Dawson’s management responsibilities have been expanded to incorporate the states of Kansas and Missouri. He currently handles Iroquois’ Great...
Soft Market Challenges
Nov 16 2008 // Relationships, Recruiting, Training Key to Survival Soft market conditions could last for another nine months to five years, predict representatives from the agent, broker, carrier, reinsurance, and excess and surplus...
Soft Market Challenges
Nov 16 2008 // Relationships, Recruiting, Training Key to Survival Soft market conditions could last for another nine months to five years, predict representatives from the agent, broker, carrier, reinsurance, and excess and surplus...
Tough Economic Times Could Force Salary Freezes in Southern California
Nov 16 2008 // Given today’s tough economic times, most insurance agencies and carriers in the Southern California region are not planning to give their employees cost of living increases in 2009, although many companies have not...
AIG to Terminate Voluntary Deferred Compensation Plans
Nov 14 2008 // American International Group Inc. said on Friday that it is terminating 14 voluntary deferred compensation programs involving 5,600 employees and independent agents and representatives. Approximately $500 million in earned...
Hartford Insurance to Cut 500 Jobs
Nov 5 2008 // The Hartford says it will be cutting 500 jobs, citing losses in its investment portfolios and declining revenues. The Connecticut-based financial services company says the layoffs will include nearly 125 in the Hartford...
New York Appeals Court Upholds Workers’ Compensation Claim
Nov 3 2008 // A New York State appeals court has upheld workers’ compensation benefits for an illegal alien injured while working as a parking lot attendant despite falsely using another man’s identification. Benjamin Amoah,...
California State Compensation Insurance Fund Opens Green Campus
Oct 29 2008 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has opened a new green campus in Vacaville, Calif. The group said in a demonstration of its ongoing commitment to ensuring the health of California’s communities...
Storms Take Toll on Louisiana Nonfarm Jobs
Oct 29 2008 // Louisiana experienced a loss of 17,500 jobs in the seasonally adjusted number of nonfarm jobs from August to September 2008, the Louisiana Workforce Commission announced recently. However, the September nonfarm job total...
New York Hotel Worker Charged with Workers Compensation Fraud
Oct 28 2008 // A 49-year-old Nassau County, New York woman has been arrested on charges of fraudulently collecting $20,000 in workers’ compensation benefits, the New York State Insurance Department reported. Maria Escobar, of...
Survey: Insurance Agent Salaries Could Freeze in 2009
Oct 28 2008 // Given today’s tough economic times, most insurance agencies and carriers in the Southern California region are not planning to give their employees cost of living increases in 2009, although many companies have not...
Montpelier Re Forms Lloyd’s Managing Agent
Oct 24 2008 // Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd. announced that it has received approval from the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) and Lloyd’s to establish a wholly owned Lloyd’s Managing Agent subsidiary. The new unit...
Loucaides Joins Lloyd’s Jubilee Managing Agency
Oct 21 2008 // Jubilee Managing Agency, a specialist Lloyd’s insurer, has announced the appointment of Andreas Loucaides, the former CEO of Catlin UK, as Director of Underwriting “to expand its portfolio and diversify its...
Beecher Carlson Names Levene Managing Director, Opens Dallas Office
Oct 20 2008 // Commercial insurance brokerage and risk management consultancy Beecher Carlson has appointed Steve Levene as managing director. Levene will establish an office in Dallas to expand Beecher Carlson’s footprint in...
New York AG Goes After AIG Exec Compensation, Event Expenses
Oct 16 2008 // During recent Congressional hearings into the financial crisis at American International Group (AIG) and the resulting $85 billion federal bailout for the financial giant, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., asked former AIG CEO...
Soft Market Challenges
Oct 6 2008 // Relationships, Recruiting, Training Key to Survival Soft market conditions could last for another nine months to five years, predict representatives from the agent, broker, carrier, reinsurance, and excess and surplus...
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Says Booster Seats Not Doing Job
Oct 1 2008 // The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has found that booster seats are doing a poor job of improving the fit of lap and shoulder belts for children. Booster seats are meant to do one thing — elevate children so...
Pollock to Head New Workers’ Compensation Unit for Keating Group
Sep 26 2008 // The Keating Group (tKg), a new England excess and surplus lines wholesaler, has named Todd S. Pollock as president of tKg Comp, its newly formed workers’ compensation division. Pollock began his career in 1995 with...
Jones Named Managing Director for Film and TV at CMM Entertainment
Sep 19 2008 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based C.M. Meiers Co. Inc. has named Greg Jones managing director for the production insurance division of CMM Entertainment, a division of C.M. Meiers Co. Inc. A 28-year veteran of the insurance...
Oregon Workers’ Compensation Costs To Decrease About 6%
Sep 15 2008 // Employers in Oregon will pay nearly 6 percent less on average for workers’ compensation coverage in 2009, the Department of Consumer and Business Services announced. The reduction in the workers’ compensation...
