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People Moves: Liberty Names Lopez Managing Partner in California; Montoya Made Strategic Partnership Advisor
Jul 25 2022 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers named Michael Lopez a managing partner in the firm’s Santa Rosa, California, office. Lopez has more than 20 years of leadership experience. The Liberty Company also added...
Amwins Program Underwriters Brings New Talent to Waste Haulers Underwriting Team
Jul 20 2022 // Amwins Program Underwriters (APU), an operating company within the Amwins Underwriting division, has been busy over the last 18 months bringing in new underwriting perspectives to the long-standing Waste Haulers...
Are MGAs Winning the Insurance Talent War?
Jul 20 2022 // With more than 1,000 managing general agents writing roughly $70 billion in direct premiums last year, researchers at Conning believe one growth driver is the fact that the MGA model attracts talent. Conning listed the...
Nearly Half of UK Black Professionals Plan to Leave Their Jobs
Jul 18 2022 // Almost half of Black employees are planning to leave their jobs in the near future, resenting the lack of fairness in their company’s management, according to new research. A total of 46% of Black employees at UK...
Applied Underwriters Bumps All Staff Salaries 10% to ‘Keep Up With Inflation’
Jul 11 2022 // Applied Underwriters on July 11 said it increased staff salaries across the board by 10% to keep up with inflation and its implications. The dramatic adjustment, far outpacing industry averages, came as predictions of...
Jobs Blowout Cements Case for Another Big Fed Rate Hike
Jul 8 2022 // Another blowout jobs number and continued wage growth will likely stiffen resolve at the Federal Reserve for another three-quarter point rate increase at the central bank’s July meeting, as the welcome news of a...
6 Conversation Starters About Recruiting for Your Next Executive Meeting
Jul 4 2022 // Now that we’re halfway through the year, I assume a big planning session is on the horizon. I want to arm you with ways to start meaningful discussions about hiring and recruiting. Ultimately, these conversation...
Supreme Court: Vet Who Lost Job as Texas Trooper Can Sue State
Jul 1 2022 // The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed a former state trooper to sue Texas over his claim that he was forced out of his job when he returned from Army service in Iraq. The justices ruled for Army veteran Le Roy Torres...
Alera Group Acquires Compensation Works in Washington
Jun 28 2022 // Alera Group acquired Compensation Works in Washington. The Compensation Works team will continue serving clients in their existing roles. Compensation Works is a national compensation company providing services that...
Deaf Job Applicant in Oregon Wins $225K Settlement for Discrimination
Jun 10 2022 // A Portland, Oregon, software company and its staffing agency will each pay $112,500 to a deaf job applicant who said they refused to hire him because he requested a sign-language interpreter at a group job...
Workers Compensation Catastrophes: Past, Present, and Future
Jun 9 2022 // This content originally appeared on NCCI’s Insights page. It is used here with permission. Catastrophes in insurance are generally associated with large losses that occur in the property lines of business, such as...
New Hampshire Allows Exception to Workers’ Compensation ‘Coming and Going’ Rule
Jun 9 2022 // A worker who was injured in a car accident when he was traveling home from his job site in the middle, rather than the end, of the workday at the direction of his employer is entitled to workers’ compensation...
Johnson & Johnson to Acquire Midlands Management Corporation’s Wholesale Brokerage & Binding and Managing General Underwriting Divisions
Jun 6 2022 // Charleston, SC., June 06, 2022 – Johnson & Johnson will expand its footprint into Texas and Oklahoma by acquiring the assets of the Wholesale Brokerage & Binding and Managing General Underwriting units of...
7 Questions Job Seekers Ask About Remote Jobs
Jun 6 2022 // For a long time, the burden to prove the concept of work-from-home fell on the job seeker with much of the interview process spent on questioning whether this individual could be successful. Today, remote jobs are so...
People Moves: NFP Appoints Markel’s Horsman as Head of Canadian National Broking; Insurer Openly Expands Reinsurance Division, Hiring Landi From Everest Re
Jun 3 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at the broker NFP and homeowners’ insurer, Openly. A summary of these new hires follows here. NFP Appoints Markel’s Horsman as Head of Canadian...
‘Pay-As-You-Go’ Workers’ Compensation MGA Hourly Raises $27 Million
Jun 2 2022 // Workers’ compensation insurtech Hourly has raised $27 million in a series A seed round. The platform lets employers with hourly workers run payroll, track time and attendance, and manage workers’ compensation...
Court Lets Connecticut Police Hiring Lawsuit Proceed
May 16 2022 // A former Bridgeport assistant police chief’s lawsuit claiming he was defrauded out of the police chief’s job can go forward, a state appeals court has ruled. James Nardozzi’s lawsuit stemmed from the...
Europe’s Top Court Rules Against Compensation for Banco Popular Investors
May 6 2022 // Europe’s top court said on Thursday that Banco Popular shareholders who took part in its capital increase in 2016 are not entitled to compensation for losses suffered after the Spanish bank was wound down and...
Help Wanted as New York City Implements Law Requiring Salary Ranges in Job Ads
May 2 2022 // Help wanted. The job: putting one of the nation’s most far-reaching salary disclosure laws into practice. Location: New York City. Just four months ago, city lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to require many ads for...
What It Takes to Hire Insurance Talent in Today’s Job Market
May 2 2022 // Dear Mary, Your team is in the thick of recruiting every day, not only for our open roles but for positions across the nation. I’m curious what you are seeing with: Candidate willingness (or not) to move to a new...
