Minneapolis, Minn.-based ING named Susan Anderson president and CEO of ING Trust USA. Anderson will report to ING Advisors Network President Valerie Brown. Anderson will lead the growth and development of personal trust and directed institutional trusts nationally. ING Trust …
Pay increases for most salaried workers will average only 3.5 percent this year and stay at that level through 2007, The Conference Board reports. Pay increases in insurance were slightly higher than projected; diversified service was slightly lower. For the …
The reality of today’s workplace is that a wide variety of employee grievances may escalate, almost without warning, into costly lawsuits. Any time an employee objects to a company employment practice that is perceived as unfair, an employment-related action may …
Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm vetoed a bill on June 23 that would have repealed the state of Michigan’s 37-year-old mandatory helmet law. The proposed law change pitted safety and insurance organizations against the major motorcycle group in the state in …
Someone once said “change is inevitable,” and in the health care arena that truism rings a bell. It wasn’t so long ago that the only place a person would go for immediate treatment was the emergency room of their local …
Workers’ Comp: Middle Market Nuts & Bolts: Workers’ compensation for middle market and loss-sensitive plans, with broad risk appetite, is being offered by PointSure Insurance Services. Premiums are in excess of $130,000 with guaranteed cost and loss-sensitive plans. Experience modification …
Say Hurricane Katrina and you immediately think of New Orleans; say Hurricane Katrina and insurance coverage, and the story is different. At the nine-month anniversary since the storm made landfall, of all the Mississippi coverage cases that have been filed, …
No one would argue that today’s society is possibly the most litigious in U.S. history. Large jury awards that make headlines only spur on many that otherwise may have backed away from action. The insurance industry, always perceived to have …
Say Hurricane Katrina and you immediately think of New Orleans; say Hurricane Katrina and insurance coverage, and the story is different. At the nine-month anniversary since the storm made landfall, of all the Mississippi coverage cases that have been filed, …
Insurance agents and executives have a lot to worry about as the fast-paced virtual economy takes hold. According to futurist Edie Weiner, they are right to be worried. She says there are a lot of unfamiliar risks ahead and given …
