Latest Talent Headlines
All the headlines from our Talent Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Planning to Grow? Invest in These Three Areas to Compete for Talent
Jan 12 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. The insurance industry, known for being stable even during times of instability, is once again set to add jobs and grow in the next year. According to The Jacobson...
Five Non-Insurance Jobs for Millennials in the Insurance Industry
Jan 10 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. When you think of jobs in the insurance industry, what comes to mind? For most people, the first image is probably that of a licensed insurance agent (or broker,...
U.S. Targets Non-Compete Clauses That Block Workers From Better Jobs
Jan 6 2023 // The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which enforces antitrust law, proposed a rule that would ban companies from requiring workers to sign noncompete provisions as well as some training repayment agreements, which companies...
London Law Firms Face Reckoning in 2023 After Big Salary Hikes This Year
Dec 28 2022 // London’s biggest law firms paid generously to secure the brightest young recruits they could this year. Meeting those salary pledges next year will be a lot tougher with revenues from deal making expected to slow...
Polar Park Construction Manager Pays $1.9M Over Minority Hiring Pledge
Dec 28 2022 // The company that oversaw the construction of a minor league baseball park in Massachusetts has agreed to pay nearly $2 million to settle allegations that it failed to live up to its pledge of giving a certain portion of...
Talent Gap, Access to Healthcare for Transgender Patients, and Hurricane Ian Recovery
Dec 28 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. State by state variations of laws, compliance protocols, industry transparency, and general regulatory cultures can lend one the impression that keeping up with...
Buffalo Bus Driver Gets 5 Years Probation for Workers’ Compensation Claims Fraud
Dec 22 2022 // A former bus driver for the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) has been sentenced to five years of probation for fraudulently obtaining workers’ compensation benefits by misrepresenting her injuries....
Exxon Avoids Hiring Tankers That Previously Transported Russian Oil
Dec 21 2022 // Exxon Mobil Corp., is avoiding hiring oil tankers that previously carried cargoes from Russia, putting itself in the same camp as Shell Plc with a move that pressures owners to choose whether to serve Moscow’s...
Massachusetts Fines Benefit Manager Over Workers’ Compensation Drug Prices
Dec 20 2022 // Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced that a pharmacy benefits manager, Health E Systems, has agreed to pay $275,000 for allegedly failing to follow prescription pricing procedures that are designed to...
To Compete for IT Talent, Industry Must Embrace the Cloud
Dec 20 2022 // To compete for top IT talent, the insurance sector will need to evolve. Jay Rabinowitz, vice president of financial services and insurance at Workday, predicts that IT and data scientists at insurance companies will be...
Court Defines Insurance Broker’s Duty to Inform LLCs About Workers’ Compensation
Dec 15 2022 // What is the duty of an insurance broker in New Jersey to members of a limited liability corporation (LLC) when it comes to workers’ compensation coverage? The New Jersey Supreme Court this week ruled that a broker...
Career Certified Acquires Kansas-Based Licensing School A.D. Banker
Dec 13 2022 // Career Certified acquired A.D. Banker, a 43-year veteran provider of online education for Insurance (Pre-Licensing and Continuing Education) and Securities (Pre-Licensing). A.D. Banker provides a comprehensive offering for...
Massachusetts Settles With Walmart Over Workers’ Compensation Drug Prices
Dec 7 2022 // Retail pharmacy Walmart, Inc. has agreed to pay $500,000 to Massachusetts after allegedly failing to follow the state’s prescription pricing procedures designed to keep costs down in the workers’ compensation...
With Challenge Comes Opportunity: How Networking, Apprenticeship & Mentoring Can Help with Today’s Talent Crunch
Dec 5 2022 // Even before waves of people quit their jobs in the wake of COVID-19, brokers and agents struggled to find and retain good talent as the workforce continued aging out. Challenge has led to opportunity, however, with...
The Talent Crunch: Tough Competition for Agency Talent Continues
Dec 5 2022 // The struggle to fill vacant positions at Conrade Insurance Group is real. Two slots remain open after the Kansas-based agency spent more than six months trying to fill them. Underscoring the challenges, a new hire even...
Insurance Agencies Share Recruiting Lessons From 2022
Dec 5 2022 // December is the perfect time to reflect on lessons learned over the last 12 months, and how to apply them in the new year. Hiring and recruiting is universal. We can learn a lot from one another. For this column, I posed a...
Facebook Accused by Female Truckers of Skewing Job Ads
Dec 2 2022 // Meta Platforms Inc. unlawfully steered dozens of hiring ads from trucking companies and other advertisers to mostly one gender or age group, an advocacy group for female truckers alleged in a U.S. complaint on Thursday,...
Dutch Court Denies RWE and Uniper Compensation for Closure of Coal-Fired Plants
Dec 1 2022 // The Dutch state does not have to compensate German energy suppliers RWE and Uniper for the decision to close coal-fired energy plants in the Netherlands by 2030, a Dutch court ruled on Wednesday. RWE owns two of the...
Proposed Settlement Bars Financing Firm From Victim Compensation Funds
Nov 28 2022 // The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the New York attorney general have resolved years-long claims of deceptive practices in connection with cash advances offered to people on their settlement...
Renewable Energy Market Generating New Interest As Sector Grows, Need for New Talent, Funding and Industry Partners Emerges
Nov 21 2022 // As the renewable energy insurance market continues to grow, there are risk concerns including catastrophe exposures, inflation and supply chain challenges. The insurance industry is well aware of the risks and knows it...
