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Insurer Strategies for Managing Extreme Weather Risk
Mar 25 2013 // Common strategies for risk management include catastrophe modeling, reinsurance, higher deductibles or broader exclusions in risk-prone areas, particularly coastal zones, and a tight control of aggregate exposure,...
Transitioning Jobs at MetLife
Mar 25 2013 // Insurance giant MetLife Inc. recently announced a plan to move some 2,600 positions into newly created facilities in North Carolina by the end of 2015. And this means a lot of folks in the Northeast could be facing some...
Geico Expands in Indiana, Plans 1,200 Jobs in Carmel
Mar 21 2013 // Geico is announcing plans to bring 1,200 jobs to Indiana and pump millions of dollars into developing a campus just north of Indianapolis. The Washington, D.C.-based insurance company plans to equip a 109,000 square-foot...
Agency Compensation: Who’s Worth What in Your Independent Agency?
Mar 20 2013 // From top level managers to office and support staff — every person in an agency has a role to play in helping the agency win in the sales game. When one person fails, the whole agency suffers. And when an agency suffers,...
Tennessee Aims to Change How Workers’ Compensation Disputes Are Settled
Mar 20 2013 // Tennessee lawmakers have advanced a workers’ compensation reform bill that could change how injured workers’ claims disputes are handled. Governor Bill Haslam has been looking to reform the state’s...
Buffett’s Salary Unchanged After 25 Years
Mar 18 2013 // Warren Buffett’s total compensation declined 14 percent last year to $423,923 as Berkshire Hathaway spent less on his security, but his salary remained unchanged at $100,000. Buffett’s salary for leading...
Wells Fargo Names Haskell Managing Director for Pacific Northwest
Mar 18 2013 // Wells Fargo Insurance named John Haskell managing director for the Pacific Northwest. Haskell will lead business development, client service and sales, and cross-sell strategy for the company’s insurance operations...
Insurance Weighs in on Working from Home
Mar 13 2013 // Working from home has become a hot topic following Yahoo Inc. CEO Marissa Mayer’s announced plans in late February to bring telecommuters back into the office, and the issue is being taken up by some insurance firms,...
Britain’s Barclays, RBS Hit Over High Compensation Scheme
Mar 11 2013 // Britain’s Barclays and RBS paid more than 500 staff over 1 million pounds ($1.5 million) in 2012, a year when both were embroiled in rate rigging and mis-selling scandals. Both Barclays and RBS are paying out...
MetLife Moving 2,600 Jobs to North Carolina from Northeast, California
Mar 11 2013 // Insurance giant MetLife Inc. said last week that it will move 2,600 jobs from offices in four Northeast states and California to lower-cost locations in two North Carolina cities, while also getting tax breaks and other...
Haynes Becomes ANV Syndicate 1861 Managing Director
Mar 5 2013 // ANV Holdings BV, the Dutch headquartered specialty insurance business founded by R. Matthew Fairfield, and owner of ANV Syndicate 1861, announced the appointment of Peter Haynes as the Managing Director for the...
Passing of Torch at California Workers’ Compensation Institute
Mar 4 2013 // Workers’ compensation wonk Alex Swedlow will become the fourth president of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute in 50 years following the announced retirement on Monday of J. Michael Nolan as...
Reasonable Compensation
Feb 25 2013 // If you haven’t heard the news, the federal government is a little short of money after racking up multiple annual trillion-dollar deficits. A trillion here and there, and after a while, someone might figure out the...
Agency Compensation Playbook: Who’s Worth What?
Feb 25 2013 // 2013 Agency Salary Survey Managing sales in an independent agency is a team sport. From top level managers to office and support staff – every person in an agency has a role to play in helping the agency win the sales...
A University Health System Says It Will Stop Hiring Smokers in Pennsylvania
Feb 21 2013 // The University of Pennsylvania Health System says it plans to stop hiring smokers and tobacco users. The policy starts in July at a system that includes the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Applicants must be...
North Carolina Fails to Enforce Workers’ Compensation Mandate: Auditor
Feb 21 2013 // The state agency that decides how thousands of people are compensated for workplace injuries does a poor job of making sure companies obey a law requiring them to carry insurance, the state’s internal government...
Tomko Joins Amerisure as Director of Compensation, Benefits
Feb 20 2013 // Farmington Hills, Mich.-based Amerisure Mutual Insurance Co. has added Jennifer Tomko as director of compensation and benefits. Tomko will report to Angela McBride, vice president of human resources at Amerisure. Tomoko...
Esurance Hiring in San Antonio
Feb 19 2013 // Esurance, the direct-to-consumer personal car insurance company, is opening a new office in San Antonio and will hire up to 150 new associates during the next 18 months, the company announced. The company will be hiring...
Allstate Accelerates California Recruiting
Feb 19 2013 // Allstate Insurance Co. plans to add additional agency owners in California in 2013, expanding its recruiting campaign for the fifth consecutive year. Allstate said it signed 58 new exclusive agents in California last year...
Transactional Insurance on the Rise, Says Managing General Underwriter Ambridge
Feb 19 2013 // The global use of Transactional Insurance could rise by as much as 25 percent in 2013, according to Jeffrey Cowhey, President of Ambridge Partners LLC. The company’s announcement described the product as “a...
