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Trucking Through Cost, Talent, & Regulatory Roadblocks
Sep 6 2016 // It’s been a rough ride, full of twists, turns and a few roadblocks for truckers and their insurance specialists. Truckers today face a number of obstacles that have raised the cost of doing business, including tough...
Private Firms Added 177K Jobs in August; Economy Nears Full Employment
Aug 31 2016 // Private sector employment increased by 177,000 jobs from July to August, according to the August ADP National Employment Report. Small and medium-sized businesses were responsible for more than 100,000 of the new...
Lubbock, Texas Settles Federal Police Hiring Discrimination Lawsuit
Aug 30 2016 // A West Texas city has settled a 2015 federal lawsuit that alleged police discriminated against Hispanics and women in hiring entry-level officers. Lubbock agreed to pay affected individuals to settle the Department of...
Hospital Surgery Rates for Workers’ Compensation Vary Widely
Aug 30 2016 // Hospital rates for outpatient surgery paid by workers’ compensation vary significantly across states with states with fixed fee schedules having lower surgery costs for injured workers. Workers compensation costs for...
Experienced Workers’ Compensation Brokers Augie Christian and Jessica Lovinggood Join Breckenridge Insurance Services as Vice Presidents
Aug 30 2016 // Atlanta, GA, August 30, 2016 — Breckenridge Insurance Services welcomed two experienced wholesale insurance brokers to the organization recently. Augie Christian, CPCU, CIC and Jessica Lovinggood, CIC are new vice...
More Jobs in Economy Means More Bad Drivers on Roads
Aug 26 2016 // Who says recessions are all bad? About 5,000 fewer people die every year in auto accidents for each 1 percentage point increase in U.S. unemployment because downturns keep dangerous drivers off the road. “We have...
66% of Insurers Plan Increased Hiring Over Next Year: Study
Aug 22 2016 // More than 66 percent of insurance companies intend to increase staff during the next 12 months, according to a new midyear labor study. That rate is the highest in the history of the study, The U.S. Insurance Labor Outlook...
Is Education the Key to Unlocking the Next Generation of Talent?
Aug 22 2016 // The insurance talent crisis is here. Thanks to an aging workforce, an impending wave of retirements and an increasingly shallow talent pool, the industry is now coming face-to-face with a growing labor gap. The past 10...
GEICO Set to Expand Western New York Operations, Add 600 Jobs
Aug 11 2016 // GEICO is planning to expand its regional operations office in Western N.Y. in a move that it expects will bring more than 600 new jobs to the region, the company announced. The firm is set to open an additional facility in...
Ironshore’s Pembroke Managing Agency Forms Specie Consortium at Lloyd’s
Aug 11 2016 // Ironshore’s Pembroke Managing Agency Ltd. announced the formation of the Specie Consortium, a new venture supported by 21 Lloyd’s Syndicates offering up to US$635 million in capacity for any one risk...
Changing Employee Demographics Push Insurers to Focus on Strategic Recruitment
Aug 9 2016 // With nearly 400,000 employees expected to retire from the insurance industry workforce within the next few years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, its incumbent on carriers to consider the ways in which...
West Des Moines-Based GuideOne Insurance Cutting Jobs
Aug 8 2016 // Officials say a West Des Moines-based insurance company is cutting more than 70 jobs over the next 12 to 18 months. The Des Moines Register reports that GuideOne Insurance says it’s going to stop providing home and...
Florida-Based Jackson Appointed Managing Director of RFIB Americas
Aug 8 2016 // RFIB Group Limited, the international Lloyd’s insurance and reinsurance broker, has appointed Glenn Jackson as a managing director of RFIB Americas. He takes up his position with immediate effect reporting to Nick...
New York Workers’ Compensation Loss Costs Going Up 9.3%
Aug 8 2016 // New York has approved a 9.3 percent average hike in workers’ compensation loss costs effective Oct. 1. New York businesses, while not pleased, see the hike as necessary in order to keep the insurance market stable...
Atlas General Insurance Services Announces New Online Workers’ Compensation Platform, GoQuote
Aug 3 2016 // San Diego, CA, August 3, 2016 – Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC (‘Atlas’), a national multi-line program administrator, announced the launch of GoQuote, a new online quoting system for managed...
JLT Re Names Chandler EVP And Managing Broker in California
Jul 28 2016 // JLT Re has named Pete Chandler executive vice president and managing broker. He will be based in JLT Re’s San Francisco, Calif. office and report to Ed Hochberg, CEO of JLT Re in North America. Chandler comes from...
Dublin Looks to Lure Financial Services Jobs from UK After Brexit Vote
Jul 27 2016 // Irish recruiters are already filling jobs for financial services firms which are shifting some operations from the United Kingdom, with Dublin moving fast to steal a march on rivals just a month after Britons voted to...
Graduate of Disabled Veterans Insurance Careers Hired to Florida Insurance Agency
Jul 27 2016 // Disabled Veterans Insurance Careers (DVIC), the non-profit organization that helps train, educate and create employment opportunities within the insurance industry for disabled veterans, celebrated the graduation of Joanne...
Renaissance Alliance Names Christiansen as Managing Director, Business Development
Jul 25 2016 // The Massachusetts-based agency coalition and services network, Renaissance Alliance Insurance Services, has named Michael R. Christiansen to the position of managing director, Strategic Business Development. In this role,...
Administrator of Sept. 11 Victims’ Compensation Fund Leaving Post; Successor Named
Jul 25 2016 // The administrator of the federal compensation fund for Sept. 11 victims is stepping down after five years. Sheila Birnbaum will leave her post as special master of the fund that disburses compensation awards to first...
