Swett & Crawford, based in Atlanta, has made several changes to its senior management team. Shaun Hooper, who moved from Swett & Crawford’s parent company, CGSC (Cooper Gay and Swett & Crawford) where he was group chief commercial officer, will …
Consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) have surpassed health maintenance organizations to become the second most common plan design offered by U.S. employers, according to a survey from Aon Hewitt. Preferred provider organizations continue to be the most widely offered plans, with …
Who is leaving companies and why? And how do employers hold onto key employees? The incentives to get employees to stay are not exactly the same as the factors that would cause them to leave, according to the Talent 2020, …
As high unemployment persists and the global economic recovery remains halting and uneven, the “resume tsunami” appears to have been reduced to a “resume riptide.” According to Deloitte’s latest global talent survey, Talent 2020, four out of five (80 percent) …
A federal judge has set a trial date in a lawsuit over 2010 flooding at the Kmart in Corinth. The Daily Corinthian reported that the trial is scheduled for Feb. 24 in Aberdeen before U.S. District Glen H. Davidson. In …
A second man has pleaded guilty in connection with an insurance scheme that cost a mentally disabled man his left hand. U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles says 58-year-old David Player pleaded guilty in Columbia last week to mail fraud. Last month, …
Insurers and employers in Mississippi now have greater latitude to conduct alcohol and drug tests on employees following a workplace accident and reduce benefits for workers with pre-existing conditions. Those changes are among those under updated workers’ compensation laws that …
Joan Zerkovich has been named senior vice president of operations for the American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS), a national advisory organization that develops policy forms and manuals used by more than 700 property/casualty insurers in the U.S. Before coming …
A bulletin from Lloyd’s notes that “high potential employees from US broking firms will spend the coming week in London, standing in the shoes of the Lloyd’s underwriter and gaining a detailed understanding of how business is transacted in the …
The United States should reject Basel III bank capital standards if the international panel that drafted them does not make dramatic changes to the rules, a director at the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said on Friday. Speaking at the …
