Weekly Reader Picks: Monday, September 24, 2012

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September 24, 2012 Top 10 for the Past Week 1. More Employers Offering Consumer-Driven Health Plans: Survey Sep 17, 2012 -- Consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) have surpassed health maintenance organizations to become the second most common plan design offered by U.S. employers, according to a survey from Aon Hewitt. Preferred provider ... 2. Top 5 Reasons Employees Leave and Stay Sep 17, 2012 -- Who is leaving companies and why? And how do employers hold onto key employees? The incentives to get employees to stay are not exactly the same as the factors that would cause them to leave, according to the Talent ... 3. Is Long-Term Care Insurance Dying? Sep 19, 2012 -- Poor results in the long-term care insurance sector have led many providers to exit the market, leaving its future uncertain, Moody's Investors Service says in a new report. The report, "Long-Term Care Insurance: Sector ... 4. How Agents and Carriers Can Find Gold in Personal Lines Sep 19, 2012 -- Independent agents and their companies have over the years been beaten in the personal lines market by direct response carriers and captive agents. But being down so long means there is plenty of room for independent ... 5. Employees Staying Put Even If Unhappy: Talent Survey Sep 17, 2012 -- As high unemployment persists and the global economic recovery remains halting and uneven, the "resume tsunami" appears to have been reduced to a "resume riptide." According to Deloitte's latest global talent ... 6. Insurance Agent is Face of Anti-Muslim Film Inflaming Middle East Sep 14, 2012 -- A California insurance agent and Vietnam War veteran is the public face for the anti-Muslim film inflaming the Middle East, several news sources are reporting. Film promoter and insurance agent Steve Klien, who ran in ... 7. Wisconsin's Sentry Insurance Cuts Office Jobs, Home-Based Agents Sep 9, 2012 -- Sentry Insurance, based in Stevens Point, Wis., says it's cutting 27 office jobs in central Wisconsin and 144 home-based agents across 10 states as it restructures its strategy for selling personal line policies. Those ... 8. Mass. Woman Charged With 46 Counts of Motor Vehicle Insurance Fraud Sep 17, 2012 -- A Rockland, Mass., woman has been indicted in connection with a scheme to fraudulently collect insurance payments of more than $28,000. The Massachusetts attorney general's office announced last Friday that Olga ... 9. Willis Launches Pizza Delivery Program Sep 19, 2012 -- Willis Programs, a unit of Willis Group Holdings, has introduced a customized insurance program for pizza delivery restaurants. PizzaGuard is an insurance program designed specifically to meet the needs of the pizza ... 10. Re/insurers Increasingly Less Relevant to Global Economy: XL CEO McGavick Sep 17, 2012 -- XL's CEO Mike McGavick doesn't mince words when it comes to looking at the big, and not very pretty, picture of the state of the re/insurance industry. Address emerging risks, innovate, create new products and provide ... Subscriber Tools Send this to a friend Subscribe Unsubscribe Submit News Contact Us More Newsletters Choose Newsletters Daily Headlines Weekly Reader Picks Magazine Update Insurance Journal TV Classifieds Breaking News MyNewMarkets Daily Claims Daily Enter Your E-mail Free Webcast: Adequately Evaluate & Price Risk Better Tuesday, October 16, 2012 Time: 11:00AM PT / 2:00PM ET

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Weekly Reader Picks: Monday, September 17, 2012

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September 17, 2012 Top 10 for the Past Week 1. Travelers’ CEO Fishman: Rate Increases Continuing Sep 11, 2012 -- Insurance rates continued to rise in the third quarter for both businesses and individual customers, extending the pricing power that developed late last year, insurer Travelers Cos. Inc. said on Tuesday. In a slide ... 2. Wisconsin's Sentry Insurance Cuts Office Jobs, Home-Based Agents Sep 9, 2012 -- Sentry Insurance, based in Stevens Point, Wis., says it's cutting 27 office jobs in central Wisconsin and 144 home-based agents across 10 states as it restructures its strategy for selling personal line policies. Those ... 3. Most Unusual Pet Insurance Claims of the Year Sep 6, 2012 -- A dog that got bitten by a turtle, a hound found literally hanging around the barbecue grill and a cat that went for a ride after getting stuck in a car engine are among the nominees announced by Veterinary Pet ... 4. Insurance Agent is Face of Anti-Muslim Film Inflaming Middle East Sep 14, 2012 -- A California insurance agent and Vietnam War veteran is the public face for the anti-Muslim film inflaming the Middle East, several news sources are reporting. Film promoter and insurance agent Steve Klien, who ran in ... 5. Length of Yellow Traffic Lights Could Prevent Accidents Sep 13, 2012 -- A couple of years ago, Hesham Rakha misjudged a yellow traffic light and entered an intersection just as the light turned red. A police officer handed him a ticket. "There are circumstances, as you approach a yellow ... 6. Status of World Trade Center Site, 11 Years Later Sep 11, 2012 -- Eleven years after terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, the new multibillion-dollar World Trade Center once again dominates the lower Manhattan skyline. Hundreds of construction workers are at the 16-acre site ... 7. IRS Says It Has No Role in Enforcing Health Insurance Mandate Sep 12, 2012 -- The Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday assured congressional lawmakers that agents would play no role in enforcing the controversial requirement that Americans buy insurance under President Barack Obama's healthcare ... 8. U.S. Treasury Sells $18 Billion of AIG Stock, Cuts Stake to 19% Sep 10, 2012 -- The U.S. government cut its stake in American International Group Inc. to 19 percent on Monday, making a profit of $12.4 billion on the insurer's crisis-era bailout and bringing the unpopular rescue closer to its end. ... 9. Court: Severance Pay Not Subject to Employment Tax Sep 10, 2012 -- In a tax decision that could have wide business implications, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that employment taxes should not have been imposed on severance pay in an involuntary layoff. The 6th Circuit Court of ... 10. In Penn. Lawsuit, ACE Accuses OneBeacon of Poaching Employees Sep 13, 2012 -- ACE American Insurance Company recently filed a lawsuit against OneBeacon U.S. Holdings Inc. In its lawsuit, filed in Pennsylvania, ACE alleges that OneBeacon poached the entire eight member-team that made up ACE's East ... Subscriber Tools Send this to a friend Subscribe Unsubscribe Submit News Contact Us More Newsletters Choose Newsletters Daily Headlines Weekly Reader Picks Magazine Update Insurance Journal TV Classifieds Breaking News MyNewMarkets Daily Claims Daily Enter Your E-mail

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