Latest Talent Headlines
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Michigan Medical Marijuana Patient Loses Appeal over Rescinded Job Offer
Mar 4 2019 // Michigan’s Court of Appeals has ruled against a woman whose offer of conditional employment by a public entity was rescinded after she tested positive for marijuana even though she had a state-issued card allowing...
What Young Insurance Agents Earn, Think and Say
Feb 27 2019 // Young agents want change. They want more diversity in the agency sales ranks. They want better paths to grow in their careers. They want other agents to adhere to professional standards and ethics. They want faster and...
Michigan Court Rules Against Medical Marijuana User in Rescinded Job Offer Case
Feb 25 2019 // Michigan’s Court of Appeals has ruled against a woman whose offer of conditional employment by a public entity was rescinded after she tested positive for marijuana even though she had a state-issued card allowing...
Connecticut Governor Lamont Fills Top Public Health, Insurance Agency Jobs
Feb 25 2019 // Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has announced his choices to lead the departments of public health and insurance. The Democrat is nominating Renee D. Coleman-Mitchell, a health care executive, to oversee the health...
Berkshire Hathaway in Talks to Sell Workers’ Compensation Unit Applied Underwriters
Feb 22 2019 // Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is in advanced discussions to sell its Applied Underwriters workers compensation unit to a consortium of insurance firms, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. The...
Nationwide Insurance Cuts More Jobs in Iowa
Feb 22 2019 // Nationwide Insurance has more than doubled the number of Des Moines job cuts it announced last fall. Nationwide said in November that about 80 workers in Des Moines would lose their jobs as part of a company effort to...
As Health Plan Deductibles Rise, Expect More Workers’ Compensation Claims
Feb 20 2019 // Are employees injured at work more likely to file under workers’ compensation instead of group health insurance when their group health plan has a higher deductible? The Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI)...
Lloyd’s Managing Agency Antares Appoints Battle as Chief Executive Officer
Feb 19 2019 // Antares the Lloyd’s managing agency and member of the QIC Group announced the appointment of Jonathan (Joe) Battle, the current active underwriter, as chief executive officer (subject to necessary regulatory...
Employees Have Upper Hand in Today’s Agency Job Market
Feb 18 2019 // Owners Must Show Them the Money, Culture and Other Perks As the insurance industry unemployment rate continues to hover at 1.7 percent, which is lower than the national average of 3.9 percent, insurance agencies face stiff...
Total Compensation and Salaries Growing, But at a Slower Pace
Feb 18 2019 // Employee Satisfaction with Compensation on the Rise Total compensation and salary adjustments on average fell slightly in independent insurance agencies responding to the 2019 Agency Salary Survey, but that trend has had...
Age Bias Law Protects Current Employees But Not Job Applicants
Feb 18 2019 // Court Says Only Congress Can Extend the ADEA in Ruling Involving 58 Year Old Law Firm Job Seeker A divided U.S. appeals court has dealt a setback to older job applicants, saying they cannot invoke a federal law against age...
Show Them the Money
Feb 18 2019 // To Win the War for Talent In today’s passive, candidate-driven market, employers do not have the upper hand in the recruitment process. Despite the rising rate of retirement among experienced professionals, which is...
New Ventures, Driver Shortage Among Challenges in Trucking Insurance Market
Feb 15 2019 // The transportation industry is considered a barometer of the U.S. economy. If freight is trending up, so too is the U.S. economy. But capacity constraints for trucking – including a shortage of qualified drivers, low...
7 Different Insurance Career Options
Feb 13 2019 // This is Insurance Careers Month. I really enjoy when this comes around every year. It’s a chance for me to remind some (and educate others) that the insurance industry is a great career to work in. It has been good...
Cook Named Next Managing Director of Iowa’s Global Insurance Accelerator
Feb 13 2019 // The Global Insurance Accelerator (GIA), headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, has appointed Nicole Cook as the group’s managing director effective May 1. She joined the GIA full time on Feb. 11. During the GIA’s...
AXA XL Merges European Teams with Job Losses Expected
Feb 12 2019 // AXA XL announced another step in its post-merger integration which is expected to lead to job losses in Europe. AXA XL said it began transferring employees in Europe into a single employing company at the beginning of...
Once Known as the ‘Bond King,’ Gross Retires After 40-Year Career
Feb 5 2019 // Bill Gross, who transformed bond investing over a storied four-decade career, is leaving the stage after a tough final chapter. Gross, who announced his retirement Monday, struggled in the last four years as head of the...
Taking a Page from the Insurtech Playbook
Feb 4 2019 // How Insurtechs Can Help Attract Millennial Talent to Agencies, Carriers The rules of the game are changing for companies wishing to attract top, young, qualified talent. Millennials, Generation Y, Gen Next, Boomerang...
Agencies Promote Soft Benefits to Gain A Distinct Recruiting Advantage
Feb 4 2019 // It’s Part of Who We Are “When I first brought up some of these new ideas you would have thought I suggested we all go to the moon,” said Michelle Trueblood, chief human resources officer at The Horton...
The Claims Talent Evolution
Feb 4 2019 // It should not be a surprise that drones fly over disaster areas for property inspection, and some insurers use chatbots to answer policyholders’ claims questions. Claims applications and supporting documents are...
