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Glatfelter Adds Workers’ Compensation Coverage to Program Business Offerings
Sep 27 2017 // Glatfelter Program Managers (GPM) has added workers’ compensation to its program business offerings, effective Nov. 1. Educational institutions, independent school bus contractors, water/sewer entities, senior living...
Despite Low Unemployment Rates, Many Oklahoma Residents Without a Job
Sep 26 2017 // Many Oklahoma residents are out of the workforce despite the state’s low unemployment rates. The Tulsa World reports that about 25 percent of state residents between ages 25 and 54 don’t have a job. Shelley...
Generali Chief Underwriting Officer Sees His Job as Part Science, Part Art
Sep 22 2017 // Bill Skapof, chief underwriting officer and head of global corporate and commercial in North America for Generali, considers underwriting as much art as it is science. Skapof has more than 30 years of global insurance...
Britain to Lose Out on 10,000 Finance Jobs in First Wave of Brexit Reaction: Reuters Survey
Sep 18 2017 // Around 10,000 finance jobs will be shifted out of Britain or created overseas in the next few years if the UK is denied access to Europe’s single market, according to a Reuters survey of firms employing the bulk of...
CopperPoint Acquires Pacific Compensation Insurance in California for $150M
Sep 13 2017 // CopperPoint Mutual Insurance Co. announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire California-based workers’ compensation carrier Pacific Compensation Insurance Co. from Alleghany Insurance Holdings LLC...
Trust But Verify: New York Cyber Regs Mean Managing Third-Party Security
Sep 8 2017 // This year, the beginning of September marked a critical implementation deadline for some of the toughest new cybersecurity regulations in the country – the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) 23NYCRR...
New York’s BOLT Solutions Hires Temple as Managing Director
Sep 5 2017 // BOLT Solutions Inc., a New York-headquartered provider of an online distribution and customer support platform for the property and casualty insurance industry, has hired Tom Temple as managing director of business...
Zalewski Named Chair of California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board
Aug 29 2017 // California Gov. Jerry Brown has named Katherine Zalewski chair on the California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board. Zalewski served on the board since her appointment by Brown in 2014. Prior to her appointment, she...
West Virginia Miner Who Survived 2006 Sago Blast Dies on Job
Aug 28 2017 // A coal miner who died on the job in West Virginia was the brother of one of the 12 killed in the Sago Mine disaster of 2006. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that authorities identified the miner found dead Friday as...
Sioux Falls, S.D., Sees Drop in People Working Finance, Insurance Jobs
Aug 28 2017 // The finance industry has lost hundreds of workers in the past three years as health care and retail companies continue growing their workforce in the area. The Argus Leader reports that finance and insurance companies...
Allstate To Create 2,250 Jobs With North Carolina Expansion
Aug 21 2017 // Allstate Insurance Co. plans to more than double its North Carolina workforce by expanding in the Charlotte area, creating 2,250 new jobs by 2020. Gov. Roy Cooper and leaders of the nation’s largest publicly-traded...
Tailor Your Talent Brand to Fit Today’s Candidates
Aug 21 2017 // Outdated, behind-the-times, old-fashioned and boring — all of these terms have been used to describe the insurance industry at one point in time. It’s clear that the industry has an image problem. But what...
Liotta Named Chairman of Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission
Aug 18 2017 // Gov. Mary Fallin has named Mark Liotta as chairman of the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission. Liotta, a former state representative from Tulsa, succeeds Robert Gilliland, whose term on the commission expires...
$7M in BP Oil Spill Fines to Create 300 Conservation Jobs
Aug 11 2017 // About $7 million in BP oil spill penalties will create 300 conservation jobs in Gulf of Mexico states. Jeff DeQuattro of The Nature Conservancy said that employment will ramp up over three years: 10 people working in each...
Allstate To Create 2,250 Jobs With North Carolina Expansion
Aug 11 2017 // Allstate Insurance Co. plans to more than double its North Carolina workforce by expanding in the Charlotte area, creating 2,250 new jobs by 2020. On Wednesday, Gov. Roy Cooper and leaders of the nation’s largest...
Future of Job-Based Health Insurance Seems Secure
Aug 7 2017 // Are employees worried about losing their health insurance from their employer? The ongoing political turmoil around “Obamacare” all but guarantees they’ll still be able to do that. Ask Walt Rowen, whose...
Several States See Drop in Opioid-Related Workers’ Compensation Claims: WCRI
Aug 4 2017 // As states institute opioid policies to address the opioid epidemic, a new study has found considerable decreases in the prevalence of longer-term dispensing of opioids to injured workers in a number of states studied. The...
How to Protect Older Workers from Injuries on the Job
Aug 2 2017 // When managers at Bon Secours Virginia Health System started analyzing worker’s compensation cases, they noticed a bad combination: Lifting heavy and sicker patients was taking a toll on older nurses. “We saw an...
Transgender Chinese Man Wins Groundbreaking Job Discrimination Lawsuit
Aug 1 2017 // A Chinese court has ruled that a transgender man was unjustly dismissed by a former employer, the plaintiff said Thursday [July 27], in the country’s first such discrimination lawsuit. The 29-year-old man, who...
Bass Pro to Pay $10.5M to Settle Hiring Discrimination, Retaliation Suit
Jul 26 2017 // Federal employment officials say Springfield, Mo.-based Bass Pro Outdoor World LLC, a national retailer of fishing, camping, and hunting equipment and apparel, has agreed to pay $10.5 million to settle a hiring...
