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Wisconsin’s Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund
Jul 24 2017 // The Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund (Fund) was created in 1975 to provide medical malpractice insurance for Wisconsin healthcare providers in excess of the provider’s primary limits of coverage. The...
4 Ways to Help New Producers Beat the Odds
Jul 24 2017 // To say that most new producers don’t hit the ground running is an understatement. Between learning about the specific products and coverages the firm offers, beginning to prospect leads, and acclimating to a new job,...
MarshBerry Adds Barber as Talent Acquisition Manager
Jul 19 2017 // Woodmere, Ohio-based MarshBerry has hired Bob Barber as a talent acquisition manager. His responsibilities include overseeing a team of direct reports to source and screen high quality sales professionals for the role of...
AXIS Capital to Launch Lloyd’s Managing Agency
Jul 14 2017 // Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. announced it will launch a Lloyd’s managing agent after receiving authorization from Lloyd’s, the UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct...
Connecticut Firefighter Fired After Workers’ Compensation Investigation
Jul 13 2017 // A Connecticut fire chief says a firefighter has been fired following an investigation into alleged workers’ compensation fraud. In a statement issued Tuesday, Hartford Fire Chief Reginald Freeman says the...
Insurers Say Legal Malpractice Claims Hold Steady But Defense Costs Rise
Jul 11 2017 // Most leading legal malpractice insurers saw their claims level off in 2016 although their cost to defend claims continued to escalate. A study by insurance broker Ames & Gough finds that while the number of new...
London-Based Ed Taps Gallagher’s Blacker as Managing Director of P/C
Jun 28 2017 // Ed, the London-based reinsurance, wholesale and specialty broker, announced the appointment of James Blacker as managing director of property and casualty. Blacker will take up his role in December and report to Chris...
Massachusetts Worker Injured on the Job Wins $750K Jury Award
Jun 26 2017 // A Massachusetts jury has recently awarded $750,000 to a man who suffered severe leg injuries while working for a landscaping business that did not carry workers’ compensation insurance. A lawyer for 52-year-old Jose...
As Agents’ Needs Change and Startups Emerge, Big ‘I’ Looks to Remain Relevant
Jun 26 2017 // Spencer Houldin is chairman of the nation’s largest and oldest agents’ association, the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (Big “I”). He is also co-president of the family-run...
Career Crossing: RIMS Honoree Keaton Hopes to Get Back on Risk Management Track
Jun 22 2017 // Juliana Keaton had no idea when she started off as a lawyer litigating commercial insurance claims that her career path would someday lead her to be the risk manager of one of the largest railroad companies in the...
Louisiana Employment Picture Improves with Large Job Gains
Jun 20 2017 // Seasonally adjusted data for the month of May shows that total nonfarm employment gained 10,500 jobs over the month in Louisiana for a new figure of 1,983,200, according to the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC). This is...
California High Court to Address Occurrence Caused by Accident
Jun 19 2017 // The California Supreme Court is set to address the issue of whether there is an “occurrence” under an employer’s commercial general liability policy when an injured third party brings a claim against an...
New Jersey’s York Hires McMahan as Chief Human Resources Officer
Jun 16 2017 // York Risk Services Group (York), a Parsippany, N.J.-based provider of claims management, managed care, specialized loss adjusting, alternative risk programs, pool administration and other insurance services, has hired...
3 Named to Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council
Jun 14 2017 // Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has reappointed one and appointed two others to the three to the Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council. The council monitors and reports to the governor and the legislature on the...
Idaho Woman Wants Compensation from Insurer for Leveled Home
Jun 14 2017 // An Idaho woman rented her home to a man she thought had plans to buy it. He instead demolished it. Shammie Fisher is fighting in court to get compensation for her ruined Boise home. Idaho Supreme Court sided with Fisher in...
NAS Insurance Expands to New York City with Hiring of Hedberg
Jun 14 2017 // NAS Insurance, a full-service specialty insurance underwriting manager, has expanded to New York City with the addition of Peter Hedberg as the assistant vice president of its Tech and Cyber Underwriting...
Knight in California Names Ownbey Managing Director
Jun 13 2017 // Knight Insurance Group in California has named Vance Ownbey its managing director overseeing programs, underwriting, new business and product development. Ownbey previously was chief financial officer, chief technical...
Workers’ Compensation Income Benefits Fall Short for Injured Workers: WCRI
Jun 12 2017 // Adequacy of income benefits is one of the long-standing concerns about the performance of workers’ compensation systems. However, there is little known about whether income benefits (also called wage-loss or...
The Hartford Launches Nationally Registered Apprenticeship Program
Jun 8 2017 // The Hartford is working to educate college students about opportunities in the insurance industry while helping to make the transition from college to an insurance career an easier one. This initiative comes through its...
MarketScout Sells Workers’ Compensation Business to Specialty Program Group
Jun 7 2017 // Dallas-based insurance exchange MarketScout, which provides agents with access to specialty markets, has sold its workers’ compensation managing general agency business to Specialty Program Group. MarketScout said it...
