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More than 10K Jobs Lost in North Dakota’s Oil Patch Last Year
Mar 16 2021 // The coronavirus pandemic has had a significantly negative impact on North Dakota’s oil and gas industry, resulting in the shedding of thousands of jobs last year. The oil industry’s recovery has been slow. Job...
Insurance Industry Groups Join Forces to Help UK Career-Break Women Return to Work
Mar 16 2021 // Nine leading insurance industry businesses announced the creation of a program in the UK that will enable “career-break” professionals to return to work. The program will enable participating firms to tap into...
California Workers’ Compensation Institute Elects Board for 2021
Mar 16 2021 // Matthew Zender of AmTrust North America, who has served on the executive committee of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute since 2018, has been reelected to serve another one-year term as chairman of the...
Reuters: Feinberg to Oversee Boeing 737 $500M Victim Compensation Fund
Mar 10 2021 // Prominent attorneys Kenneth Feinberg and Camille Biros have been named to oversee a $500 million victim compensation fund for the relatives of 346 people killed in two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes, a spokeswoman for...
As States Ease Mask Rules, Essential Workers Worry About Safety and Jobs
Mar 10 2021 // Leo Carney worries that bigger crowds and mask-less diners could endanger workers at the Biloxi, Mississippi, seafood restaurant where he manages the kitchen. Maribel Cornejo, who earns $9.85 an hour as a McDonald’s...
Workers’ Compensation Remained Outlier as Commercial Prices Continued Rising in Q4
Mar 9 2021 // U.S. commercial insurance prices again grew significantly in the fourth quarter of 2020. Again, except for workers’ compensation. According to Willis Towers Watson’s Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey...
Managing COVID-19 Employment Practice-Related Exposure
Mar 1 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by The Hanover Insurance Group. As the pandemic continues, we’re seeing new COVID-19-related regulations, restrictions and advisories issued and adjusted by federal, state, and...
Insurance Employment Impresses With Insurers Adding 20K Jobs During Pandemic
Feb 26 2021 // Levels of employment for the insurance industry are “holding up much stronger than the overall economy,” the leader of an insurance search firm said recently, reporting that insurers have added almost 20,000...
Crawford & Company Appoints Pageau as VP, Managing Director in New England Region
Feb 25 2021 // Crawford & Company, a publicly listed independent provider of claims management and outsourcing solutions to carriers, brokers and corporations, has appointed Robert Pageau as vice president and managing director of...
Workers’ Compensation and COVID: More Data on Evolving Claims
Feb 25 2021 // Workers’ compensation insurers aren’t getting the large aggregate volumes of COVID-related claims projected during the early months of the pandemic, but different data sources give varying readouts on...
Minick Retiring from Texas Workplace Injury Benefit Risk Managing Firm, PartnerSource
Feb 24 2021 // Bill Minick, founder of Texas-based workers’ compensation/workplace injury benefit risk management firm, PartnerSource, will retire at the end of March. Jennifer Hurless, president of PartnerSource, will continue in...
Risk Strategies Promotes Hoffman, Smith to Managing Directors
Feb 22 2021 // Risk Strategies, a national specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has promoted Tracy Hoffman and Matthew Smith to managing directors as part of planned leadership successions in both its Managed Health...
Evolving Compensation Practices to Meet Changing Employee Needs
Feb 22 2021 // Hiring managers have had to transform many of their standard activities and procedures to accommodate today’s primarily virtual environment. From adapting interview processes to be effective and efficient over Zoom...
How Your Diversity & Inclusion Plan Can Positively Impact Recruiting
Feb 22 2021 // Here are the top two statements insurance agencies said to me in 2020: “We need to find top talent.” “I want to talk with you about Diversity & Inclusion in our hiring process.” The events of...
It Could Have Been Worse. COVID-19’s Impact on Workers’ Compensation
Feb 22 2021 // While it obviously presented challenges, 2020 is looking like it may not have been such a bad year for workers’ compensation insurers and insureds after all. Insurers took in less premium but paid fewer claims. They...
Agency Salary Survey: Satisfaction Rises, Compensation Falls, Agencies Kept Employees Happy Through Disruption
Feb 22 2021 // Independent insurance agencies not only managed to survive through the 2020 economic downturn and pandemic, but also managed to keep their employees happy through all of the year’s disruption. In Insurance...
Caribbean Agricultural Workers Keep Fighting for Compensation from Pesticide Exposure
Feb 19 2021 // SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Agricultural workers who have long sought compensation for contamination from a pesticide banned in France but used in the country’s Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe have...
Brown Reappointed as Texas Workers’ Compensation Commissioner
Feb 16 2021 // Cassie Brown has been reappointed by Gov. Greg Abbott as Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation at the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) for a term set to expire on Feb. 1, 2023. Brown has led the Division of...
It Could Have Been Worse. An Update on COVID-19 Impact on Workers’ Compensation.
Feb 9 2021 // While it obviously presented challenges, 2020 is looking like it may not have been such a bad year for workers’ compensation insurers and insureds after all. Insurers took in less premium but paid fewer claims. They...
Grow Big or Go Home; 5-Step Evidence-Based Hiring Process to Help Your Agency Grow
Feb 8 2021 // Each bad hire can easily cost you $100,000 to $200,000. However, quality producers can add $1 million of annual revenue to the agency (which nets most owners around $150,000 to $250,000 in profit.) There’s a lot of...
