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3 Steps to Help Close Workers’ Compensation Claims Performance Gap
Aug 13 2018 // An analysis of five years of benchmarking data from more than 1,700 claims identifies three practices that workers’ compensation claims organizations rated as low in quality should adopt to keep from falling further...
Study Finds Massachusetts Workers in Dangerous Jobs More Prone to Overdoses
Aug 10 2018 // A study has found that construction workers are six times more likely to die from opioid overdoses than all other occupations in Massachusetts. The state Department of Public Health reported Wednesday there were more than...
Workers’ Compensation Results Likely to Weaken Next Year: Fitch
Aug 9 2018 // After three banner years, the U.S. workers compensation market will face increasing pricing pressure and an erosion in results heading into next year. That means 2019 will be closer to a break-even combined ratio rather...
Nationwide Insurance to Provide Aid to Employees Losing Jobs in Nebraska
Aug 8 2018 // A Nationwide Insurance spokesman says the company intends to provide career management resources and other aid to employees who will be losing their jobs in Lincoln, Nebraska. Nationwide spokesman Eric Hardgrove said that...
West Virginia to Eliminate Workers’ Compensation Defense Division
Aug 8 2018 // The West Virginia Attorney General’s Office is eliminating its Division of Employment Programs and Workers’ Compensation Defense, resulting in the loss of 10 jobs. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the...
Nephila Gets In-Principle Approval From Lloyd’s to Form Managing Agency
Aug 7 2018 // Bermuda-based Nephila Capital announced that the Lloyd’s Board (previously called the Franchise Board) has given in principle approval to Nephila’s plan to form its own managing agency, subject to regulatory...
A Whole New Ballgame: Managing Risk for World Champion Houston Astros
Aug 6 2018 // Monica Rusch’s work was easier when the Houston Astros were losers. She was accustomed to worrying about fans being hit by balls, drunks getting too rowdy, players suffering injuries, thieves breaking into parked...
Q&A
Aug 6 2018 // Q: I’m the new vice president of talent acquisition for a large regional agency in California. Prior to my arrival, the organization had the ability to recruit, but it was largely by accident than intention. As I get...
‘A Pain Free Process’: Proactive Agency Recruiting
Aug 6 2018 // 1 Make Decisions Driven by Data To know where you’re going, you have to know where you’ve been. Historically, how long has the agency taken to hire, from start to finish, service (account managers, analysts and...
Worker Suffers Severe Electrical Burns on the Job in Connecticut
Aug 3 2018 // Fire officials say a worker making repairs to a building in Connecticut has suffered severe electrical burns. Fire Chief Paul Januszewski tells the New Haven Register the man was upgrading the North Haven building’s...
Fewer Than 5,000 UK Financial Services Jobs Expected to Move by ‘Day One’ of Brexit
Jul 25 2018 // Fewer than 5,000 financial jobs might move out of Britain by “Day One” of Brexit and future relocations will depend on new trading terms with the European Union, Bank of England Deputy Governor Sam Woods said...
Lindeboom Retires as Co-Managing Director of THB Europe, Succeeded by Borges
Jul 18 2018 // THB, the London-based specialist insurance and reinsurance broker, announced new leadership at THB European Division, based in Amsterdam. Paul Lindeboom, co-managing director of the division, will retire as planned from...
The Perfect Storm: As CAT Season Heats Up, Are You Prepared?
Jul 2 2018 // Anyone involved with disaster response knows to expect the unexpected, and that mantra has only intensified as 2018’s catastrophe (CAT) season heats up. Unexpected seems to be the theme. Oklahoma — which...
How Workers’ Compensation Outpatient Costs Compare Across States by Fee Regulation
Jun 29 2018 // Hospital outpatient payments were higher and growing faster in states with percent-of-charge-based fee regulations or no fee schedules, finds a study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) that compares 35...
Thousands of UK Jobs at Risk over Slow Brexit Negotiations, Business Groups Caution
Jun 25 2018 // Prime Minister Theresa May faces a new onslaught over her Brexit plans from corporate Britain, after the U.K.’s five main business lobbies urged her to make progress in the negotiations or risk losing jobs and...
Buffett’s Geico to Open Service Center in Lenexa, Kansas, Create 500 Jobs
Jun 20 2018 // Business icon Warren Buffett plans to open a new Geico Insurance service center that will bring 500 jobs to Lenexa, Kansas. The Kansas City Area Development Council said in a news release that the center will open in...
Texas Attorney Charged with Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Jun 20 2018 // Workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that a Travis County grand jury has indicted attorney Leslie Casaubon of Lewisville, Texas, on three counts of workers’ compensation...
Illinois’ Amsted Rail to Pay $4.4M for Discriminatory Hiring Practices
Jun 18 2018 // Amsted Rail Co. Inc., which manufactures steel castings for the rail industry, will pay $4.4 million and furnish other relief to settle a class disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment...
Texas Insurance Wholesalers Find Strength in Independence, Relationships
Jun 15 2018 // There’s no denying the robust mergers and acquisition trend among wholesale brokers in the property/casualty insurance industry nationwide, and Texas is no exception. But some Texas wholesale brokers and managing...
A Whole New Ballgame: Managing Risk for World Champion Houston Astros
Jun 15 2018 // Monica Rusch’s work was easier when the Houston Astros were losers. She was accustomed to worrying about fans being hit by balls, drunks getting too rowdy, players suffering injuries, thieves breaking into parked...
