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The Competitive Advantage: Agency Owners of Yesterday and Today
Dec 5 2016 // When I began my career, many agency owners I met had founded their agencies in the Great Depression. To this day, I am amazed that anyone in the middle of a truly horrible economic depression would open a property/casualty...
Minding Your Business: Producer Compensation – What’s New Today?
Dec 5 2016 // Designing a good and motivating producer compensation model does not need to be a mystery. The bottom line is to pay what can you afford to pay, for what you are providing the producers, and be in line with the important...
What Executives Need to Know About Managing D&O Liabilities: Allianz Report
Dec 2 2016 // Company directors and senior managers across the globe are increasingly likely to face costly regulatory investigations, criminal prosecutions or civil litigation, which not only put their company’s assets, and their...
MJ Insurance Adds Miller in Indianapolis Office
Dec 1 2016 // Indianapolis-based MJ Insurance has hired Kylie Miller as a talent acquisition specialist on its Learning & Development team. Miller will partner with the hiring managers and business leaders to anticipate and meet...
NFL Players with CTE Sue to Force Teams to Pay Workers’ Compensation Benefits
Nov 30 2016 // A group of 38 former National Football League players have sued to force the NFL to pay them workers’ compensation benefits for the chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) they say they developed as a result of head...
Judge Halts Florida’s 14.5% Workers’ Compensation Hike Set for Dec. 1
Nov 27 2016 // A Florida circuit judge has blocked a 14.5 percent workers’ compensation rate increase due to go into effect Dec. 1 after finding that the insurers’ rating organization and state officials did not comply with...
Nevada Expected to See Jobs, Population Growth
Nov 23 2016 // Jobs are growing in Nevada, and more people are coming to fill them, according to the state demographer. State demographer Jeff Hardcastle said Nevada’s recovery was slow compared with the rest of the country, The...
Affordable Care Act Does Not Crowd Out Workers’ Compensation Claimants: NCCI Research
Nov 15 2016 // New industry research has found that while the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has dramatically increased the number of people who are medically insured, it has not hurt access to medical care for...
Talbot Underwriting Australia Taps Former Catlin Exec Case as Managing Director
Nov 11 2016 // Talbot Underwriting Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Validus Holdings Ltd., has appointed Andrew Case as managing director of Talbot Underwriting Australia. During his 30 years of experience in the insurance industry,...
Does Your Agency Need a ‘Coverage Consultant’
Nov 10 2016 // Google the phrase “business consultant” and more than 21 million hits pop up available for review. Granted some of these are links to descriptions of what a business consultant is, but the majority of possible...
Berkshire’s Workers’ Compensation Product Carries Risks of Innovation
Nov 4 2016 // David Miller is a stickler for safety at the Goodwill stores he runs in central California. So when Applied Underwriters offered his nonprofit a deal on insurance for workplace accidents if he could minimize injuries, he...
Workers’ Compensation Spending on Drugs Falls 8.7%: Study
Nov 2 2016 // An analysis of pharmacy cost data shows there was an 8.7 percent drop in spending on drugs in 2015 in workers’ compensation injury cases. The decline in 2015 is consistent with the overall downward drug cost trend...
What Latest U.S. Statistics on Nonfatal Workplace Injuries Reveal
Oct 31 2016 // Private employers reported approximately 2.9 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses in 2015, or about 48,000 fewer than in 2014, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That translates into a rate of...
New Jersey Transit Hiring Consultant to Address Safety Concerns
Oct 28 2016 // New Jersey Transit is hiring a former Metro-North president to help it meet federal rail safety requirements. The agency will pay Peter Cannito $350 per hour to review Federal Railroad Administration violations uncovered...
UK Employers Downbeat About Economy, Hiring After Brexit Vote: Poll
Oct 26 2016 // The number of British firms that are confident about the economy halved after the Brexit vote, with larger firms and those in regions which voted to stay in the EU more downbeat than those in areas that backed Leave, a...
Industry Needs to Address Gaps in Workers’ Compensation, AMCOMP Panelists Say
Oct 25 2016 // At the American Society of Workers’ Compensation Professionals (AMCOMP) Fall Meeting held recently in New York, Mark Walls, vice president of communications and strategic analysis at Safety National, and Kimberly...
Is Training the Key to Unlocking Analytics Talent?
Oct 24 2016 // Analytics and big data are here to stay. Already creating monumental shifts in the business world, today’s analytical advancements are leading an evolution on how people think about information, track data, shop for...
France to Hike Premium Tax to Bolster Compensation Fund for Attack Victims
Oct 19 2016 // France plans to increase a levy on property insurance policies to 5.90 euros [$6.30] from 4.30 euros [$4.59] per contract to bolster a fund that provides compensation to victims of attacks or other criminal acts. Following...
Delaware Approves Amended Workers’ Compensation Rate Filing
Oct 13 2016 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart approved the Delaware Compensation Rating Bureau (DCRB)’s workers’ compensation amended rate filing, which recommends no changes in the overall levels of...
OSHA: 36 Workers Have Died on the Job in Illinois This Year
Oct 7 2016 // Federal safety regulators say 36 Illinois workers have died on the job since Jan. 1, 2016. That number represents an average of one life lost each week in the state. Since 2013, Illinois worker deaths have increased 28...
