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Japan Earmarks Additional $30B for Fukushima Clean-Up, Compensation
Nov 12 2013 // Japan’s government is finalising plans to borrow an additional 3 trillion yen ($30 billion) to pay for compensating Fukushima evacuees and cleaning up the area outside the wrecked nuclear plant, said people with...
Nationwide Insurance Recruiting New Agents in Texas
Nov 7 2013 // Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Insurance announced that the company is looking to add 100 new Advantage Program insurance agents in the Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio, Texas markets. Nationwide Insurance...
Talent War Continues: XL Hires AIG’s Miller to Oversee Global P/C Claims
Nov 4 2013 // XL Group Plc, the insurer led by Chief Executive Officer Mike McGavick, hired David Miller as senior vice president and head of claims for international property/casualty coverage. Miller joins from American International...
State Farm Likely to Move Some Bloomington, Illinois Jobs
Nov 4 2013 // State Farm Insurance Co. says it will likely move at least some of its claims services employees out of Bloomington, Ill. State Farm spokeswoman Holly Anderson said that the company told employees that the potential move...
Illinois Workers’ Compensation Medical Care Costs Declining: WCRI
Nov 4 2013 // The costs of medical care to treat injured workers in Illinois are declining, the result of regulatory change enacted in 2011, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The report,...
Illinois Workers’ Compensation Medical Care Costs Declining: WCRI
Oct 28 2013 // The costs of medical care to treat injured workers in Illinois are declining, the result of regulatory change enacted in 2011, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The report,...
Managing Nanotechnology and Other Emerging Risks
Oct 21 2013 // Insurers need to learn how to manage new risks, not just exclude them, and actuaries can help. Since the mid-1980s, casualty insurance has shrunk as a share of gross domestic product. Insurers have been able to push...
Hard Work Is Not the Only Key to Producer Success
Oct 21 2013 // Insurance sales success can be like a game of tennis. Many summers ago I fell in love with the game of tennis. For the next six years, I played every day possible. One of my limitations was that living in Colorado, winter...
Recruiting and Retention in the New Economy
Oct 21 2013 // We made it! We survived the economic instability of the past few years and have more than rebounded. The insurance industry is well ahead of the greater economy; and the picture painted by our labor market is much...
Florida Enters Era of Workers’ Compensation Market Stability
Oct 21 2013 // Florida’s workers’ compensation system has reached a rare state of rate stability, according to insurers and officials. The agency, the National Council on Compensation Insurance, filed for a one percent...
Report: Louisiana Could Have More Than 2M Jobs in 2015
Oct 18 2013 // Growth in the Lake Charles and Baton Rouge, La., areas is expected to help boost employment in Louisiana to an all-time high of more than 2 million jobs in 2015 in spite of plodding national growth, a new report...
Multimillion Dollar Workers’ Compensation Fraud Probe Leads to West Virginia Bank
Oct 17 2013 // A federal investigation into a multi-million-dollar workers’ compensation scheme extended to the Bank of Mingo in southern West Virginia, where authorities seized computer hard drives and documents. FBI Special Agent...
Hylant Names Dills Executive VP of Talent Management
Oct 11 2013 // Hylant, one of the nation’s largest privately owned insurance brokerage firms, appointed Matthew Dills as executive vice president of talent management. Dills is in charge of employee engagement, recruiting,...
MGAA Appoints Staddon as First Managing Director
Oct 11 2013 // The London-based Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA) announced the appointment of Peter Staddon as its first managing director, effective from the 1st of November 2013. “Staddon will drive the...
AIG Sued by Small Businesses Over Workers’ Compensation Reporting
Oct 10 2013 // Class action lawsuits in federal courts on both coasts have been initiated on behalf of small businesses in California, New York and New Jersey against American International Group (AIG) over workers’ compensation...
PwC Names Managing Director for Forensic Services Practice in Atlanta
Oct 10 2013 // Consulting firm PwC US announced that Alice V. Edwards has joined the firm as managing director for the Forensic Services practice in the Atlanta office. Edwards previously worked with forensic accounting services firm...
Florida Welcomes Era of Workers’ Compensation Market Stability
Oct 8 2013 // Florida’s workers’ compensation system has reached a rare state of rate stability, according to insurers and officials. The agency, the National Council on Compensation Insurance, filed for a one percent...
Health Insurance Contractor to Add 477 Jobs in Lawton, Oklahoma
Oct 7 2013 // A federal contractor said it will hire nearly 500 people in Lawton, Okla., to help support the new health insurance exchanges created under the federal health care law. Serco North America announced that it will lease a...
Missteps in Employee Hiring Costly for Agencies: MarshBerry
Oct 7 2013 // For most lines of insurance business, commission income is growing, and most insurance agents and brokers expect profits to be similar or better in 2013 compared to 2012. That’s according to the 28th Annual Market...
New York Second in Nation for Questionable Workers’ Compensation Claims
Oct 4 2013 // New York State is second in the nation, only behind California, for questionable workers’ compensation insurance claims. The Empire State jumped to the second place in 2012 from fifth in 2011, the New York Insurance...
