Latest Human Resources Headlines
All the headlines from our Human Resources Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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Oct 6 2008 // National insurance program administrator Venture Insurance Programs named Michael DeMarco executive vice president for its Preferred Club Program. He will be responsible for the overall success of the insurance program for...
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Oct 6 2008 // National insurance program administrator Venture Insurance Programs named Michael DeMarco executive vice president for its Preferred Club Program. He will be responsible for the overall success of the insurance program for...
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Oct 6 2008 // Erie Insurance Group named Terrence W. Cavanaugh president and CEO, and an elected member of the firm’s board of directors. Cavanaugh joins Erie from Chubb Corp. where he most recently was senior vice president and...
McGrane Joins NIA Group to Direct Human Resources
Oct 1 2008 // Peggy McGrane has joined The NIA Group, LLC in Paramus, New Jersey, as the firm’s human resources director. In her new role, McGrane will direct the insurance broker’s professional recruitment, development and...
Lloyd’s Welcomes its New Graduates
Sep 23 2008 // Lloyd’s has welcomed the first group of candidates to be accepted in to its graduate program. The nine graduates have spent the past week learning about Lloyd’s and the London Insurance Market, meeting their...
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Sep 22 2008 // The Chubb Corp has named Richard G. Spiro executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective Oct. 1. Spiro, 44, succeeds the retiring Michael O’Reilly, who will remain at company until the end of 2008 to...
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Sep 22 2008 // Swiss Re appointed Walter A. Bell chairman of Swiss Re America Holding Corp. He will provide supervisory governance of the Americas businesses and also will oversee and direct regulatory and public affairs for all of Swiss...
Jones Named Managing Director for Film and TV at CMM Entertainment
Sep 19 2008 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based C.M. Meiers Co. Inc. has named Greg Jones managing director for the production insurance division of CMM Entertainment, a division of C.M. Meiers Co. Inc. A 28-year veteran of the insurance...
Commissioner Rod Bordelon will present a Keynote Address at The Texas Workers’ Comp Forum
Sep 16 2008 // Dallas, TX, September 16, 2008 – Council on Education in Management (Council) announced that Division of Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Rod Bordelon will present a Keynote Address at the upcoming Texas...
Francavilla to Direct Program Development for AmWins
Sep 15 2008 // Charlotte, N.C.-based national wholesale insurance broker AmWINS Group, Inc. has named Ben Francavilla its director of Program Development. In this role, Francavilla will be responsible for driving the overall marketing...
Hurricane Ike Threatens Bahamas; Hanna Death Toll Grows
Sep 5 2008 // Powerful Hurricane Ike weakened slightly as it moved across the Atlantic toward the Bahamas and the U.S. on Thursday, while Tropical Storm Hanna’s death toll from floods in Haiti grew to 136. Campgrounds were closed...
Marsh & McLennan Appoints Ashford
Sep 5 2008 // Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. appointed Orlando D. Ashford as senior vice president of human resources. Ashford, whose appointment is effective Sept. 22, will work closely with key executives of MMC’s...
Hanna Heading for U.S. – Ike Now a Category 4 Hurricane
Sep 4 2008 // Tropical storm Hanna is on the verge of regaining hurricane strength, as it slowly approaches the U.S. mainland. The latest update from Miami’s National Hurricane Center indicates that “maximum sustained winds...
Willis Appoints McGeehan Exec. VP – Managing Director for Bermuda
Sep 4 2008 // Willis Group Holdings has announced the appointment of Vince McGeehan as Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Willis Bermuda, effective immediately. He is responsible for the company’s insurance broking...
Wholesaler CRC Insurance Acquires Competitor Southern Risk of S.C.
Sep 3 2008 // CRC Insurance Services Inc., the wholesale insurance subsidiary of BB&T Corp., reports it has completed a purchase of Southern Risk Operations LLC. Sumter, S.C.-based Southern Risk is an excess and surplus (E&S)...
Hanna and Her Siblings Roil the Atlantic
Sep 2 2008 // Although Gustav is slowly blowing itself out over Oklahoma, Miami’s National Hurricane Center still has a lot of work to do. Its currently tracking a hurricane, a tropical storm, a tropical depression and two...
Managing and Using Information to Grow an Agency
Sep 1 2008 // Eight Good Reasons to Get Your Database Efforts Underway The word “marketing” may conjure up images of the fast-paced world of television advertising, a piece of direct mail that catches your attention, an...
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Sep 1 2008 // Community Financial Insurance Center, Monroe, La., hired Jeanette F. Credo as senior vice president for its new Financial Institutions Division for the states of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. Credo will establish and...
Will Baby Boomers Lead to Boost in Worker Woes?
Sep 1 2008 // Managing Risks With an Aging Workforce The aging and retirement of the Baby Boomer generation is creating a demographic transformation that will affect the staffs of insurance organizations, as well as their...
Managing and Using Information to Grow an Agency
Sep 1 2008 // Eight Good Reasons to Get Your Database Efforts Underway The word “marketing” may conjure up images of the fast-paced world of television advertising, a piece of direct mail that catches your attention, an...
