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Maine OKs 15.7% Rate Cut for Its Biggest Workers’ Compensation Insurer, MEMIC
May 16 2024 // The Maine Bureau of Insurance has approved a 15.7% average rate reduction in workers’ compensation insurance premiums for Maine Employers’ Mutual Insurance Co. (MEMIC), the largest workers’ compensation...
PoloWorks Launches Managing General Agent Incubator
May 13 2024 // PoloWorks, a Lloyd’s and London Market insurance services business, announced the launch of Polo MGA – a managing general agent (MGA) incubator. This new offering provides services to both startup and established...
People Moves: Aon Names Allen as Executive Managing Director of Capital Advisory; BMS Re Hires 6 for MGA Business ProLink Solutions
May 10 2024 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Aon’s Capital Advisory function and BMS Re. A summary of these new hires follows here. Aon Names Allen as Executive Managing Director of Capital...
Texas Launches Compensation Program for Border Property Crime Damage
May 10 2024 // Texas landowners along the U.S.-Mexico border who have experienced damage caused by border property crime can now file for reimbursement of up to $75,000, attorney general Ken Paxton announced this week. Texas lawmakers...
US Financial Regulators Restart Work on Long-Delayed Dodd-Frank Compensation Rules
May 9 2024 // A trio of U.S. financial regulators have resumed work on a long-delayed rule-writing project to make executive compensation plans at financial firms more sensitive to risk. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office...
Oil Majors Offered Faster Nigerian Exit if They Pay for Cleanup, Compensation
May 6 2024 // Major oil companies, such as Exxon Mobil and Shell, that aim to exit Nigeria’s onshore oil can get quicker approval to do so if they take responsibility for spills rather than wait for authorities to apportion blame,...
Pennsylvania High Court to Decide If Workers’ Compensation Covers CBD Oil
May 3 2024 // A veteran Pennsylvania workers’ compensation attorney will soon have a chance to argue before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that his own use of cannabinoid oil (CBD oil) is covered by workers’...
Newark Wants Cargo Ship Firefighters’ Deaths Handled Under Workers’ Compensation
May 2 2024 // The city of Newark is asking a federal court to dismiss negligence and wrongful death claims against it by the families of two firefighters who died last July while battling a fire on a cargo ship, The city maintains that...
New York Court Officer Wins 9/11 Workers’ Compensation Benefits on Appeal
May 1 2024 // On the morning of September 11, 2001, Robert Liotta was at his job as a senior court officer at 100 Centre Street in New York City when not far away terrorists attacked the World Trade Center. Right away, he began...
‘It’s in the Mail’ Is Not Good Enough to Protest Workers’ Compensation Claim
Apr 25 2024 // A Connecticut employer lost its right to contest a workers’ compensation claim because although it mailed its notice to the workers’ compensation law judge within the 28 day statutory period, the judge did not...
One Novel Approach to Solving the Talent Crisis
Apr 25 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. It’s not a secret. Insurance has a talent crisis. Not that people who work in insurance aren’t talented – whooooo boy. But that there aren’t enough...
Property Owner Sued for Negligence in Hiring of Worker With Criminal Record
Apr 24 2024 // April Hurley’s attacker entered her apartment after identifying himself as the building maintenance man — a job he should never have obtained, according to a lawsuit filed Monday that accuses the property owner and...
Iowa Governor Signs Measure to Increase Compensation for Boy Scouts Abuse Victims
Apr 22 2024 // DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa men who were victims of child sexual molestation while they were in the Boy Scouts of America could get higher legal compensation under a measure lawmakers approved and the governor signed...
North Carolina Adjuster and Son Charged With Embezzlement in Roof Jobs
Apr 18 2024 // A North Carolina mother and son adjusting and contracting team are scheduled to appear in court next month on charges of scamming more than $20,600. Both have been charged with similar offenses in the last two years, the...
Supreme Court Makes It Easier to Sue for Job Discrimination
Apr 18 2024 // The US Supreme Court made it easier for employees to sue over discriminatory job transfers, siding with a St. Louis police officer who says she was shifted to a different role against her will because she is female. The...
5 Strategies for Managing Carrier & Client Relationships in a Hard Market
Apr 15 2024 // As hard-market conditions continue to drive rate increases, independent agents face two challenges: explaining policy changes to their clients while continuing to nurture relationships with their carrier...
What’s So Great About a Career in an Insurance Agency?
Apr 15 2024 // What’s so great about a career in an insurance agency? Lots, actually. Like opportunity, flexibility, training, challenges, good pay, helping others, and job security. What’s more, it’s an opportunity...
St. Louis Residents Seek Compensation for Illnesses Tied to Nuclear Contamination
Apr 8 2024 // Karen Nickel has been dealing with lupus and other illnesses for years, illnesses she blames on childhood exposure to a suburban St. Louis creek where Cold War-era nuclear waste was dumped decades ago. It’s time, she...
Private Credit Is Top Choice for Insurers Managing $13 Trillion
Apr 5 2024 // For the first time, a fixed-income sector — private credit — topped the list of favored assets in Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s annual survey of global insurance companies. Of the 359 executives polled, 53%...
People Moves: AXA XL Promotes Cole to Global Chief Underwriting Officer for Marine; DUAL’s Specialist Motor MGA KGM Names Astin as Managing Director
Mar 27 2024 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at AXA XL and DUAL’s specialist motor MGA KGM. A summary of these new hires follows here. AXA XL Promotes Cole to Global Chief Underwriting Officer for...
