February 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 that hype, dare I say that …
February 19, 2024
Insurance agency employees and producers on average made more money in 2023 but, overall, employees reported lower satisfaction with their compensation than in 2022, a year when overall satisfaction rose, according to the latest Agency Salary Survey, published annually by …
February 19, 2024
Shannon Ninio, 60, of North Hills was arraigned for insurance fraud after a California Department of Insurance investigation found she and her husband, Moshe Ninio, allegedly stole customers’ personal information and used that information to file more than 40 fraudulent …
February 19, 2024
The number of announced insurance distribution mergers and acquisitions boomed in 2021 and 2022. Last year, the count plummeted to levels seen at the beginning of the decade. Insurance Journal recently interviewed four M&A experts to share their analysis of …
February 19, 2024
HUB International launched a new program to address the need for enhanced wildfire coverage of high value homes that will be offered exclusively by HUB Private Client to address the insurance and risk management needs of affluent families and individuals …
February 19, 2024
In December 2023, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced updates to the federal crop insurance program to affirm USDA conservation practices as Good Farming Practices for crop insurance. USDA’s updated Risk Management Agency (RMA) handbook recognizes USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation …
February 19, 2024
For the second time in three months, Houston plaintiffs’ attorney Eric B. Dick has been ordered to reimburse an insurer more than $100,000 for filing a “frivolous, groundless” lawsuit made “solely for the purpose of harassment.” Galveston County District Court …
February 19, 2024
In December, a group of legislators, including Vermont U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, pitched the Withstanding Extreme Agricultural Threats by Harvesting Economic Resilience (WEATHER) Act, legislation calling for developing an …
February 19, 2024
U.S. Representatives Brad Finstad (MN-01) and Elissa Slotkin (MI-07) have introduced HR 7062, the Farm and Food Cybersecurity Act, designed to strengthen cybersecurity protections within the food and agriculture critical infrastructure sector by identifying vulnerabilities and improving protective measures against …
February 19, 2024
Despite a “significant slowdown” in job growth in 2023, a new National Council on Compensation Insurance briefing shared that “wage growth will likely continue to drive workers’ compensation payroll growth throughout 2024.” “Employment gains slowed in 2023 from 2022; however …