Most Popular Talent Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Talent Topic Page over the last year.
#1 Employee Who Was Trapped in Elevator Denied Workers’ Compensation Benefits
Jun 13 2024 // A health insurance company employee who was trapped in an elevator for about 30 minutes has been denied workers’ compensation benefits. The employee did not suffer any physical injury while she was trapped in the...
#2 Insurance Executives Paid Millions in Compensation as Rates Skyrocket: CFA Findings
Oct 11 2023 // A new report from the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) says chief executives of insurance companies are “living high on the hog” as policyholders are forced to absorb increases in insurance rates. The...
#3 North Carolina Adjuster and Son Charged With Embezzlement in Roof Jobs
Apr 18 2024 // A North Carolina mother and son adjusting and contracting team are scheduled to appear in court next month on charges of scamming more than $20,600. Both have been charged with similar offenses in the last two years, the...
#4 Corporate America Is Rethinking Diversity Hiring as Legal Challenges Rise
Nov 22 2023 // The same conservative activists who helped gut race-related college admissions at the US Supreme Court have now set their sights on corporate diversity programs, barraging airlines, tech giants and law firms with lawsuits...
#5 Pennsylvania’s 7.8% Workers’ Compensation Cut Takes Effect in April
Feb 5 2024 // Pennsylvania workers’ compensation rates will be going down for employers beginning April 1. Insurance Commissioner Mike Humphreys on January 23 approved an overall decrease in loss costs of -7.88%, more than...
#6 Medical Biller Charged With Stealing $1 Million in Workers’ Compensation Payments
Jan 4 2024 // New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the arrest and arraignment of a New Jersey man for allegedly stealing more than $1 million that was intended to be paid to doctors who provided medical care to injured...
#7 Jacobson: Survey Shows ‘A Significant Pause’ in Industry Job Growth
Feb 12 2024 // More than half of insurance companies expect to increase staff in the next year, according to the latest labor market study from Aon and the Jacobson Group. Meanwhile, 77% of carriers expect to increase revenue in the next...
#8 Clinic Sued for Allegedly Firing Employee for Not Disclosing Disability in Job Interview
May 31 2024 // The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is pursuing a case against an employer the agency says fired a new employee for not disclosing her low vision disability in her job interview. The Americans with...
#9 Missouri Trucking Company Sued for Refusing to Hire a Deaf Job Applicant
Aug 1 2024 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued Missouri- based trucking company Transportation Management Group, doing business as Wilson Logistics, for violating federal law when it refused to hire a deaf...
#10 Why Insurance Professionals Will Change Jobs in 2024
Feb 19 2024 // February is Insurance Careers Month, a time often used to attract the attention of college graduates and professionals from other industries to the benefits of working in the insurance industry. While I’m all for...
#11 Compensation for Injured Passengers on Singapore Airlines Could Vary Dramatically
May 22 2024 // Passengers injured by severe turbulence on a Singapore Airlines flight on Tuesday are likely eligible for compensation, but the amount each receives could differ dramatically even for identical injuries due to an...
#12 Wells Fargo Must Face Lawsuit Over Sham Job Interviews
Jul 30 2024 // A U.S. judge ordered Wells Fargo to face a lawsuit alleging it defrauded shareholders by proclaiming its commitment to hiring diversity, even as it conducted sham job interviews of non-white and female applicants it had no...
#13 Property Owner Sued for Negligence in Hiring of Worker With Criminal Record
Apr 24 2024 // April Hurley’s attacker entered her apartment after identifying himself as the building maintenance man — a job he should never have obtained, according to a lawsuit filed Monday that accuses the property owner and...
#14 What’s So Great About a Career in an Insurance Agency?
Apr 15 2024 // What’s so great about a career in an insurance agency? Lots, actually. Like opportunity, flexibility, training, challenges, good pay, helping others, and job security. What’s more, it’s an opportunity...
#15 That Insurance Talent Crisis? It’s a Global Knowledge Opportunity
Mar 4 2024 // Over the next 15 years, 50% of the current insurance workforce will retire. It’s a jarring number. This leaves more than 400,000 open positions unfilled, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. At the same time,...
#16 Employee Wins Workers’ Compensation Under Exception to ‘Coming-and-Going’ Bar
Feb 27 2024 // An exception to the workers’ compensation “coming-and-going” rule applies where the employer provides the transportation even if the employer says there was no explicit agreement that he would supply...
#17 Amazon Worker Injured Due to Repetitive Tasks Loses Workers’ Compensation Bid
Jul 17 2024 // An Amazon distribution center worker in Virginia whose job entailed repetitive lifting and stowing of items all day and who suffered rotator cuff tears has been denied workers’ compensation benefits because she...
#18 Not Interviewing, Hiring Deaf Job Applicant Cost Distributor $1.6 Million
Feb 12 2024 // A seven-person jury in Syracuse, New York, returned a $1.675 million verdict last week in a disability discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of a job candidate who is deaf. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
#19 Massachusetts Couple Charged With $627K in Workers’ Compensation Fraud and More
Mar 15 2024 // A Hopkinton, Massachusetts couple has been arrested and charged in connection with separate schemes to defraud their workers’ compensation insurance carriers, the Small Business Administration (SBA) and their...
#20 Job Cuts, Fleeing Investors: How Anti-DEI Lawsuits Take a Toll on Targets
Mar 1 2024 // Elizabeth Gore is fighting for survival. Just six months ago, the founder of financial technology startup Hello Alice was getting ready to close an investment round to grow its business offering grants and networking...
