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Summer Camp Hosted 1,000 Visitors While Successfully Managing Coronavirus
Aug 26 2020 // Four overnight camps in Maine successfully stemmed the spread of the novel coronavirus and conducted sessions with over 1,000 attendees from 41 states and international locations this summer, according to a new report...
Wells Fargo to Pay $7.8 Million to Workers to Settle Hiring Discrimination Charges
Aug 26 2020 // Wells Fargo Bank has agreed to pay $7.8 million in back wages and interest to resolve allegations of hiring discrimination. The U.S. Department of Labor’s said it has entered into an agreement with the financial...
Venture-backed Insurtech Foresight Poised to Shake Up Workers Compensation
Aug 25 2020 // Foresight offers an innovative workers’ compensation program for safety-critical verticals San Francisco, CA, August 18, 2020 – Foresight recently announced its technology-first workers’ compensation...
Lawyers Urge Use of ‘Vaccine Court’ Over U.S. Injury Compensation Fund for Coronavirus
Aug 24 2020 // A U.S. government program that compensates people who say they have been harmed by an emergency vaccine has paid out on fewer than 10% of claims, raising questions whether the process should be used to address any...
COVID-19 Gives Agencies Time to Evaluate Hiring Methods
Aug 24 2020 // The original title for this article was “Post-COVID Recruiting” but I don’t know what “post” means anymore. It seems we’ve reached a reality that will extend farther than most of us...
Mauritius Seeks Compensation from Owners of Cargo Vessel After Massive Oil Spill
Aug 12 2020 // Mauritius is seeking compensation from the owners of the cargo carrier that run aground and spilled oil off its coast, causing the island nation’s worst ever ecological disaster. More than half of about 1,000 tons of...
Teri Colburn Promoted to Regional Vice President, Managing Broker of Breckenridge Insurance Services
Aug 4 2020 // Atlanta, GA, August 4, 2020 — Breckenridge Insurance Services is pleased to announce the promotion of Teri Colburn to regional vice president, managing broker for wholesale brokerage and binding operations in the...
The Hartford Achieves Q2 Profit; Next Up Is Cutting Jobs, Investing in IT to Trim Expenses
Jul 31 2020 // The Hartford emerged from the second quarter’s COVID-19 related challenges with an overall profit and a plan to reduce expenses through “headcount reductions,” information technology investments and other...
Lloyd’s Launches Culture Dashboard, Sets Gender Target for Market
Jul 31 2020 // The Lloyd’s re/insurance market has launched a Culture Dashboard and has set a gender target for the market supported by a commitment to achieve parity between men and women over the next decade. These measures mark...
Guy Carpenter Names Piatti as Managing Director of Global Risk Solutions
Jul 28 2020 // Guy Carpenter announced today the appointment of Andrea Piatti as a managing director, Global Risk Solutions. Piatti will be responsible for serving clients in the customized reinsurance space across Europe and Middle East...
Workers Compensation Rates Could Start Rising in 2021, Says W.R. Berkley CEO
Jul 28 2020 // For W.R. Berkley Corp. and most other workers’ compensation carriers, rates have declined for some time. That trend could start reversing itself starting in 2021, CEO W. Robert Berkley Jr. predicted...
Workers’ Compensation Rates Won’t Be Adjusted for Coronavirus Experience This Year
Jul 27 2020 // The workers’ compensation line is unlikely to generate a profit this year and may not recover in 2021, an insurance industry economist said during a webcast Thursday. Steven N. Weisbart, senior vice president and...
Brit’s Digital Syndicate Ki Taps Hearsum from Marsh JLT Specialty as Managing Director
Jul 22 2020 // Ki, the first fully digital and algorithmically driven Lloyd’s of London syndicate, launched in collaboration with Brit Ltd. and Google Cloud, has announced the appointment of Dan Hearsum as managing director....
France Weighs Insurance Options to Protect Companies, Jobs from Future Pandemics
Jul 21 2020 // The French government is looking at ways to shield companies from the impact of future pandemics. The goal is to protect companies and jobs from the damage that major events such as pandemics can cause, Finance Minister...
People Analytics in the Age of COVID-19
Jul 20 2020 // Insurance organizations have recently been navigating a number of talent shifts in a short amount of time. Organizations that did not previously have remote work strategies in place have had to quickly implement programs...
Are You Really Interested in Learning to Do Your Job Better?
Jul 20 2020 // One of my favorite books and movies is The Milagro Beanfield War. It takes place in the ’70s in a small, poverty stricken, dirt street northern New Mexico village. It’s close to a third world village, and into...
Viewpoint: Changing How We Recruit – The Future of Insurance Post COVID-19
Jul 16 2020 // Typically each spring, a crop of fresh college graduates enters the workforce, making the critical first steps to determine personal and professional paths. Today, the job landscape differs greatly from what it was even a...
Insurance Agency and Brokerage M&A Trends to Watch Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Jul 16 2020 // The COVID-19 pandemic has created challenges for many businesses across the globe, including the insurance industry. But so far, the insurance broker merger and acquisition (M&A) market has remained active even as the...
Maryland Auto Executive Director McCurdy Retires, Reflects on 38-Year Career
Jul 15 2020 // When Mark McCurdy informed Maryland Auto Insurance’s Board of Trustees in July 2019 of his intention to retire this year, he never imagined that the few months ahead of his retirement would involve leading the...
Essential Workers With COVID-19 Face Workers’ Compensation Uncertainty
Jul 13 2020 // Lauded for their service and hailed as everyday heroes, essential workers who get the coronavirus on the job have no guarantee in most states they’ll qualify for workers’ compensation to cover lost wages and...
