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Aon Risk Solutions Hires Surette as Resident Managing Director in Boston
Aug 26 2015 // Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon plc, hired Joe Surette as resident managing director of Boston operations. Surette succeeds Peter Caine, who left Aon in May to become chief operating officer...
Target Corp. to Pay $2.8M to Settle Hiring Discrimination Case
Aug 25 2015 // Target Corp. has agreed to pay $2.8 million to settle a hiring discrimination claim filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The EEOC says three employment assessments formerly used by the...
Louisiana Jobless Rate Dips but Job Totals Shrink
Aug 24 2015 // Fewer people had jobs in Louisiana in July as employer payrolls shrank, but the unemployment rate fell again as even more people left the labor force. The state’s unemployment rate fell to 6.2 percent in July from...
Texas Adds 31,400 Jobs in July
Aug 21 2015 // Texas added jobs for the fourth consecutive month with the addition of 31,400 seasonally adjusted nonagricultural jobs in July, Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) announced. The state has added jobs in 57 of the last 58...
Crystal & Co. Names Drew Managing Director in California
Aug 20 2015 // Peggy Drew has joined Crystal & Co.’s commercial property/casualty department as managing director. Drew will also serve as the team leader for the firm’s Los Angeles, Calif. office. Her responsibilities...
The Villages Insurance Promotes Decker to Managing Advisor in Florida
Aug 11 2015 // Shannon Decker The Villages Insurance promoted Shannon Decker to managing advisor from personal lines advisor at its Colony Plaza office in The Villages, Florida. Decker, a former employee of the local AAA office, has been...
QBE Completes Sale of Argentine Workers’ Compensation Business
Aug 11 2015 // QBE announced it has completed of the sale of the group’s workers’ compensation business in Argentina to La Caja Aseguradora de Riesgos de Trabajo ART SA, a company wholly owned by the Werthein Group, which has...
Report: 20K Jobs May Be Lost in Oklahoma Due to Energy Prices
Aug 7 2015 // A new Oklahoma State University economic forecast says the state could lose more than 20,000 jobs due to energy price volatility through 2016. The Journal Record reports that the state’s mining sector, which is...
Whistleblower Lawsuit Accuses Kentucky 911 Dispatchers of Abuse, Sleeping on Job
Aug 7 2015 // Two Boone County, Kentucky, emergency dispatch workers have filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the county, accusing a supervisor and co-worker of using abusive language to minority callers and sleeping on duty. The...
Willis Appoints Norris Managing Partner in Alabama
Aug 5 2015 // Willis North America has appointed Ben Norris as managing partner, Willis of Alabama, effective immediately. In this role, he will be responsible for Willis’s operations across its offices in Birmingham, Huntsville,...
The Myth of the Tech-Savvy Millennial
Aug 3 2015 // The idea that Millennials have superior tech skills and knowledge is something that has been an oft-repeated fact, both in the insurance industry and in our national consciousness. It makes sense; Millennials are the first...
O’Shea Joins Korn Ferry as Leader in Global Insurance Practice
Jul 29 2015 // Talent recruiting organization Korn Ferry has hired Laurie O’Shea as co-head of its Global Insurance Practice. She will be based in the Chicago office. O’Shea has 25 years of experience in recruiting talent for...
Talbot Appoints Sonville Managing Director, Montero Underwriting for Latin Am.
Jul 21 2015 // Talbot Underwriting Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Validus Holdings, Ltd., announced the appointment of Luis Sonville as Managing Director of Talbot’s Latin American regional offices (Talbot LATAM). He will...
RKH Appoints Schlossmacher as Co-Managing Director of Financial Risks Division
Jul 20 2015 // RKH Specialty, part of the Hyperion Insurance Group, has appointed Gert Schlossmacher as co-managing director of its Financial Risks Division. Schlossmacher will join in January 2016, reporting to Barnaby Rugge-Price, CEO...
Risk Settlements Adds Schienvar as Managing Director in Dallas
Jul 14 2015 // Risk Settlements has added Steven Schienvar as a managing director in Dallas. Schienvar previously spent 13 years at AIG in various positions including president of AIG’s assumed reinsurance division (AIG Re), and...
N.J. Brothers Admit Recruiting Auto Accident Victims for Chiropractic Facilities
Jul 8 2015 // Two brothers in New Jersey have admitted organizing a scheme to recruit motor vehicle accident victims as patients for chiropractic facilities they controlled. State authorities say 52-year-old Anhuar Bandy and his...
Friday Afternoon Scam Cost Hedge Fund $1.2 Million – and CFO’s Job
Jul 7 2015 // The finance chief at Fortelus Capital Management LLP got an alarming phone call just as he was getting ready to leave work on a Friday. The caller said he was from Coutts, the London-based hedge fund’s bank, and...
JLT’s Thistle Insurance Appoints Williams as Managing Director, Robinson as COO
Jul 7 2015 // Thistle Insurance Services Limited, part of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc, the UK-based provider of insurance, reinsurance and employee benefits-related advice, brokerage and associated services, announced two key...
Elephant Auto to Add 1,173 Jobs in Va.
Jul 6 2015 // Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced that Elephant Auto Insurance, a subsidiary of U.K.-based Admiral Group plc, will invest $2 million to expand its U.S. headquarters operation in Henrico County, Virginia. The project...
Many Ignition Switch Claimants Excluded from GM Compensation Fund
Jul 1 2015 // Ben Pillars always wondered why his wife crashed her Pontiac Grand Am in 2005, sending her into a coma from which she never recovered. Then last year, General Motors Co. recalled the car for a faulty ignition switch and...
