Talent management programs are geared toward attracting, recruiting and retaining top talent. Deloitte teamed with Forbes Insights for its fourth report in the Talent 2020 series, surveying employees across major industries and global regions, to explore the changing priorities and …
While changing fraud trends affect other lines of coverage, the opposite holds true in workers’ compensation. As organized crime rings become the norm in staged auto accidents and cargo thefts, the three main types of workers’ comp fraud remain unaffected …
One question often asked of women but not of men in the business world is: Can you have it “all”? Is it possible to have both a successful career as an insurance professional and a family? That’s something men never …
The Sioux Falls City Council is taking $8 million from the South Dakota city’s reserve fund to cover most of the cost of cleaning up from a three-day snow and ice storm in April, while officials debate whether to accept …
The American Fellowship Mutual Insurance Co. has been ordered into liquidation by Ingham County Circuit Judge William Collette at the request of the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) Director Kevin Clinton. The request was granted on June …
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance announced the appointment of Dan Fortin as senior vice president, executive and professional Lines. Fortin was previously senior vice president of CNA Specialty. Fortin was responsible for management and professional liability globally at CNA Specialty for …
XL Group’s Bermuda professional lines unit has launched a new insurance product to specifically address the needs of Fortune 500 companies and other large employers potentially exposed to employee compensation and classification disputes. As its name suggests, the wage & …
A new 16-state study from the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) says that in half of the study states, hospital outpatient payments for shoulder surgeries in workers’ compensation were at least $2,000 (or 43 percent) higher than group health, which …
A staged accident investigation in Roanoke, Va., led to an award for a Nationwide Insurance special investigator. Suzy Clingman-Taylor was named Investigator of the Year by the Virginia Chapter of the International Association of Special Investigation Units (VA IASIU) last …
Police in West Virginia say vandals caused an estimated $100,000 in damage to Braxton County’s school bus fleet. Thirty of the county’s 32 buses at a depot in Sutton were vandalized. The vandals broke windows and glass doors and discharged …