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Mississippi Passes Workers’ Compensation Changes
May 21 2012 // Mississippi legislators offered different views of a bill they passed to change the compensation system for workers injured on the job. If Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signs the bill as is expected, it will become law July...
Do Safety Incentives Discourage Reporting of Job Injuries?
May 21 2012 // Many employers are in the dark over whether their safety incentive programs encourage or discourage the reporting of injuries by their employees, or if they have no effect. But a new report says employers, and the federal...
Mixed Messages in Midwest Workers’ Compensation
May 21 2012 // Workers’ compensation insurance carriers saw their premium levels rise in the United States in 2011, but they continued to struggle with combined ratios that are too high. Workers’ compensation insurance...
The Health Workers’ Compensation
May 21 2012 // Injured But Still Standing Like the economy, the workers’ compensation market has suffered in recent years. Results for 2011 were no better than 2010. The good news: results for the market were not worse either. The...
E&O Insights: Why Workers’ Compensation Leads in E&O Claims
May 21 2012 // Every year, errors and omissions (E&O) claims arising out of the placement of workers’ compensation account for approximately 10 percent of all claims. Many of those workers’ comp claims are well in excess...
N.Y. Compensation Insurance Rating Board Seeks 11.5% Rate Hike
May 18 2012 // The New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board (NYCIRB) has submitted to the Department of Financial Services on Thursday a loss-cost filing for an overall average loss cost change of +11.5 percent. The change in loss...
Aon Hewitt Says NYC Is World’s Lowest-Risk City for Recruiting, Hiring
May 17 2012 // New York maybe crowded and noisy, and the cost of living in the city is sky-high. But it’s also the best city in the entire world for recruiting, employing and relocating employees, according to a new study. Aon...
EEOC Updates Best Practices for Using Criminal Records in Hiring
May 17 2012 // Recognizing that technology has changed hiring procedures and also that more people are coming in contact with the criminal justice system, the federal government has updated its guidelines for employers who use arrest and...
Allstate Says It’s Ramping Up Agent Recruiting in Northeast
May 15 2012 // Allstate Insurance Company said on Tuesday that it is looking to appoint 140 new agency owners in Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont. Allstate said the move is part of its strategy to...
Report: Workers’ Compensation Premium Grows But Market Results Still ‘Conflicted’
May 14 2012 // Workers’ compensation premium grew by 7.4 percent in 2011, a positive sign for the state of the line. However, the combined ratio for the workers’ comp line remains at an unsustainable level, according to a new...
Colorado Wildfire Compensation Compromise Moving Along
May 9 2012 // A compromise proposal to allow Colorado wildfire victims to seek state compensation in excess of liability limits remains on track for approval in the Legislature. A Senate committee voted 5-0 Monday in favor of a bill to...
Two Dozen Agencies to Host Job Fairs Next Week Near Pittsburgh, Penn.
May 8 2012 // Some two dozen independent insurance agencies will host job fair events next week in the Pittsburgh, Penn., region. The agencies said they are looking to fill jobs in customer service and sales. The agencies are planning...
Probe Prompts Kansas Inflatables Company to Cancel Jobs
May 7 2012 // Several parents were caught off guard when two Wichita, Kan., companies that provide inflatable rides canceled reservations at the last minute. Last June, Moonwalks for Fun’s license to provide inflatable rides was...
O’Keefe Named Managing Director for Wells Fargo Insurance in Carolinas
May 7 2012 // Wells Fargo Insurance has named Suzanne O’Keefe senior vice president and managing director for its operations in the Carolinas. She will be based in the company’s Raleigh, N.C. office. She will also be...
Job Disability Rolls Rise During Recession
May 7 2012 // Monica Soltes was excited 10 years ago to leave Merrill Lynch and start her own business as an independent financial planner in San Diego. After she fell off a porch at her cousin’s cottage and broke her elbow, her...
West Insurance Employment: California Job Market to Stay Soft
May 7 2012 // The phrase “Go west young man,” may not apply so well to the insurance industry in the nation’s most populous state. An examination of Bureau of Labor Statistics and Economic Development Department data...
Insurance Jobs Outlook: Getting Better, Region by Region
May 7 2012 // The property/casualty insurance jobs outlook is slowly, gradually getting better – or at least not getting worse. A growing number of insurance businesses are hiring more workers this year. Meanwhile, many others are...
Oil, Economy Fuel Insurance Hiring in Texas
May 7 2012 // Job Outlook Across the nation, employment levels in insurance agencies and brokerages declined at a faster rate than the overall U.S. employment level since the recession began in 2007. The good news: Some independent...
Sales Agents, Good Talent Always Priorities in the Midwest
May 7 2012 // As in every other business sector, during the past few years organizations within the property/casualty insurance industry have sought to maximize efficiencies and take full advantage of the talent in their existing...
West Coast Farmers Brings New Jobs to East
May 7 2012 // Farmers Insurance is a household name on the West Coast. But on the East Coast? Not so much. The 85-year-old insurer wants to change that, with a big expansion plan east of the Mississippi. “We are the third-largest...
