Most Popular Talent Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Talent Topic Page over the last year.
#1 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...
#2 Insurance Executives Paid Millions in Compensation as Rates Skyrocket: CFA Findings
Oct 11 2023 // A new report from the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) says chief executives of insurance companies are “living high on the hog” as policyholders are forced to absorb increases in insurance rates. The...
#3 Liberty Mutual Announces Organizational Changes, Leading to 370 US Job Losses
Jul 17 2023 // Liberty Mutual Insurance announced major organizational changes and executive leadership appointments, which are aimed at enhancing its personal and small commercial lines business in long-term strategic markets....
#4 Corporate America Is Rethinking Diversity Hiring as Legal Challenges Rise
Nov 22 2023 // The same conservative activists who helped gut race-related college admissions at the US Supreme Court have now set their sights on corporate diversity programs, barraging airlines, tech giants and law firms with lawsuits...
#5 Pennsylvania’s 7.8% Workers’ Compensation Cut Takes Effect in April
Feb 5 2024 // Pennsylvania workers’ compensation rates will be going down for employers beginning April 1. Insurance Commissioner Mike Humphreys on January 23 approved an overall decrease in loss costs of -7.88%, more than...
#6 Allstate Loses $17M NC Job Incentive Plan Due to So Many Remote Workers
Jul 27 2023 // Allstate Insurance is no longer eligible for one of the largest incentive packages from the state of North Carolina, created when Allstate pledged to add more than 2,200 workers in Charlotte. The insurance carrier said too...
#7 Workers’ Compensation Undercuts Employer Liability Exclusion, U.S. Appeals Court Rules
Jul 11 2023 // Since workers’ compensation shields an employer from liability, an insurer may not be able to rely on an employer liability exclusion in a commercial general liability policy to avoid claims. That’s the...
#8 Medical Biller Charged With Stealing $1 Million in Workers’ Compensation Payments
Jan 4 2024 // New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the arrest and arraignment of a New Jersey man for allegedly stealing more than $1 million that was intended to be paid to doctors who provided medical care to injured...
#9 Jacobson: Survey Shows ‘A Significant Pause’ in Industry Job Growth
Feb 12 2024 // More than half of insurance companies expect to increase staff in the next year, according to the latest labor market study from Aon and the Jacobson Group. Meanwhile, 77% of carriers expect to increase revenue in the next...
#10 Why Insurance Professionals Will Change Jobs in 2024
Feb 19 2024 // February is Insurance Careers Month, a time often used to attract the attention of college graduates and professionals from other industries to the benefits of working in the insurance industry. While I’m all for...
#11 Workers’ Compensation Remains Profit Engine for U.S. P/C Insurers: AM Best
Jul 18 2023 // Workers’ compensation insurers’ underwriting results continued to outpace the rest of the U.S. property/casualty (P/C) commercial sector in 2022, as they benefited from the long-term decline in workplace...
#12 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...
#13 Employee Wins Workers’ Compensation Under Exception to ‘Coming-and-Going’ Bar
Feb 27 2024 // An exception to the workers’ compensation “coming-and-going” rule applies where the employer provides the transportation even if the employer says there was no explicit agreement that he would supply...
#14 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...
#15 Not Interviewing, Hiring Deaf Job Applicant Cost Distributor $1.6 Million
Feb 12 2024 // A seven-person jury in Syracuse, New York, returned a $1.675 million verdict last week in a disability discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of a job candidate who is deaf. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
#16 Massachusetts Couple Charged With $627K in Workers’ Compensation Fraud and More
Mar 15 2024 // A Hopkinton, Massachusetts couple has been arrested and charged in connection with separate schemes to defraud their workers’ compensation insurance carriers, the Small Business Administration (SBA) and their...
#17 Making a Great Place to Work: E&S Brokers Share Their View on Talent Strategies
Nov 20 2023 // With a staggering 50% of the current insurance workforce set to retire in less than 10 years, potentially leaving more than 400,000 positions unfilled, nearly every insurance organization is struggling to recruit new...
#18 Job Cuts, Fleeing Investors: How Anti-DEI Lawsuits Take a Toll on Targets
Mar 1 2024 // Elizabeth Gore is fighting for survival. Just six months ago, the founder of financial technology startup Hello Alice was getting ready to close an investment round to grow its business offering grants and networking...
#19 Agency Salary Survey: Find Out Compensation Trends in This Year’s Report
Jan 26 2024 // Be a part of the industry’s favorite salary survey while learning more about agency compensation trends nationwide. We would like to invite ALL retail agency owners, principals, producers, CSRs — the entire agency...
#20 Former Washington NFL Player Denied Workers’ Compensation for Hip
Oct 17 2023 // Stuart Anderson, who played linebacker for the National Football League’s Washington Redskins (now known as the Washington Commanders) in the mid-1980s, has lost his bid to collect workers’ compensation medical...
