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Beecher Carlson Names Warren Managing Director
Aug 22 2006 // Beecher Carlson, an insurance brokerage and risk management consulting firm, has promoted Janet Warren to managing director and national claims leader. In this role, Warren will be responsible for the management and...
Bechtel Won’t Get San Jose Airport Job Because of Insurance Issues
Aug 22 2006 // The job of upgrading Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport won’t go to Bechtel Infrastructure Group, city officials announced. Negotiations between the city and the San Francisco-based contractor broke down...
Film exposures: managing the risk of making a movie
Aug 21 2006 // Creating a Hollywood movie is not always as glamorous as it sounds. The average cost for a Hollywood movie is tallied at $60 million, and the payoff is not realized until viewers show up to view the final product on the...
Ark. Work Comp Commission Updates Mileage and Compensation Rates
Aug 17 2006 // The Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission recently announced updates for mileage reimbursements for claimants, compensation rates for injured employees and forms for child support obligations. Claimant mileage...
London’s Web Connectivity Appoints Willison New Managing Director
Aug 15 2006 // London-based Web Connectivity, which provides solutions for data transformation and exchange, has appointed James Willison as Managing Director with a mandate “to drive its business offerings in the London Insurance...
Wis. Candidate Must Take Leave from State Insurance Department Job
Aug 14 2006 // A Wisconsin state worker running for the Legislature took an unpaid leave from his job Friday afternoon after learning he should have done so when he first declared his candidacy. Walter Fellows, 32, of Oregon, Wis., works...
Okla. Private Sector Job Deaths Decline During 2005
Aug 11 2006 // The Oklahoma Department of Labor reported that fatalities in private sector workplaces fell slightly in 2005. According to a report released by the DOL, Overall, 84 private sector job deaths were recorded in 2005, down two...
2007 Workers’ Compensation Rates Announced in Ark.
Aug 9 2006 // The Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission on Aug. 7, 2006, released an update of Advisory 2000-1 to report the amounts to be paid injured employees under the state workers’ compensation laws. The update...
Western Agents Blast Insurers for Settlements Restricting Compensation
Aug 2 2006 // The Western Insurance Agents Association has issued a statement saying the settlement that St. Paul Travelers has just reached with attorneys general from Connecticut, Illinois, and New York is the latest attempt by an...
St. Paul Settles with Conn,. Ill., N.Y. Attorneys General Over Broker Compensation
Aug 1 2006 // The St. Paul Travelers Companies Inc. has entered into a $77 million settlement with the attorneys general of New York, Connecticut and Illinois, as well as with the New York State Department of Insurance, resolving issues...
Ci Direct Facility Creates 75 Jobs in Taos, N.M.
Jul 31 2006 // A national bilingual insurance provider will provide 75 new jobs at its new facility in Taos, N.M. Gov. Bill Richardson said in a news release that the Iowa-based Ci Direct provides licensed agents for insurance and...
St. Paul Adding 600 Jobs in Conn.
Jul 26 2006 // St. Paul Travelers has announced plans to add about 600 jobs in Connecticut as it expands its operations. The property-casualty insurance company already has about 6,300 Connecticut employees, most of them in downtown...
Colorado Workers’ Compensation Premium To Remain Unchanged
Jul 26 2006 // Colorado employees are likely to see their workers’ compensation costs remain unchanged for 2007. State Insurance Commissioner David Rivera said the National Council on Compensation Insurance will not be filing for...
Agency compensation reflects organic growth, profitability and retention
Jul 24 2006 // With fewer large books of business changing hands recently, insurance agencies are relying on staff-driven, organic growth to expand their operations. Compensation packages and new recruitment and training strategies have...
Agency compensation reflects organic growth, profitability and retention
Jul 24 2006 // With fewer large books of business changing hands recently, insurance agencies are relying on staff-driven, organic growth to expand their operations. Compensation packages and new recruitment and training strategies have...
Division of Workers’ Compensation Cautions Community About Coercing Medical Evaluators
Jul 21 2006 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has issued a statement advising that it is “neither ethical nor proper to attempt to coerce medical providers.” According to William Zachry, vice president...
Florida Job Site Sweep Results in Three Workers’ Comp Arrests
Jul 20 2006 // Job site inspections in St. Lucie County, Fla. have resulted in the arrests of three individuals and the issuance of 15 Cease and Desist orders for unauthorized workers and two citations of $2,500 for unlicensed...
CorVel Certified as Texas Workers’ Compensation HCN
Jul 20 2006 // CorVel Corporation announced that its health care network (HCN) has been certified by the Texas Department of Insurance’s Division of Workers’ Compensation. In preparation for its certification, CorVel...
Swiss Re to Cut 2,000 Jobs in 2007 to Improve Efficiency
Jul 13 2006 // Swiss Reinsurance Co. said Tuesday it would cut up to 2,000 jobs by the end of 2007 in a bid to improve efficiency. Large offices in Zurich; London; Munich; Armonk, N.Y.; and Kansas City, Kan., will be primarily affected,...
GM to Close Portuguese Factory by End of 2006; 1,200 Lost Jobs Possible
Jul 12 2006 // GM is to close its factory in Portugal this year and move production of its Combo vehicle to its factory in Zaragoza, Spain, the company’s Europe vice president said July 11. The move means 1,200 lost jobs at the...
