March 2018 Newsletter

Newsletter

March 2018 - Number 2018-4470-3

Insurance Careers

February marked the third annual Insurance Careers Month, a month-long campaign designed to generate awareness surrounding career opportunities in the insurance industry..

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Insurance Industry Employment Trends: 1990-2017

Employment in the general U.S. economy continues to be surprisingly strong, The U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) just published data as of December 2017 on detailed insurance industry employment, and the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.) website contains updated multi-decade trend data in chart form. The I.I.I. slides show employment trends for property/casualty (P/C), life/annuity, health (mainly medical expense) insurers, and reinsurers, agents and brokers, independent claims adjusters, and third-party administrators. Read more

Risk Tips

Know your rights when it comes to solicitation before answering the door

We’ve all been there. You’re watching television, busy cleaning, or about to sit down with the family for dinner and the doorbell rings.

You peer out the window, don’t recognize the person on the other side, and cautiously open the door. Read more

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Ohio's Top consumer insurance complaint reasons announced

The Ohio Department of Insurance helped more than 436,000 Ohio insurance consumers save or recover $30.4 million in 2017 through its toll-free hotlines, community outreach and counseling, Director Jillian Froment announced. Read more

Safeco to Take Up Mapfre’s Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana Business

MAPFRE Insurance, which last year decided to exit five states and focus on 11 , is turning over its personal lines business in three of the five states it is leaving to Safeco Insurance, a Liberty Mutual uni t. Text Link

Save Your Clients Money - OIA's Group WC Program

If you represent commercial clients or are interested in expanding into that market but don't know how to get your foot in the door, then OIA's Workers' Compensation Group Rating Program can provide you with one of the insurance industry's most powerful sales tools . Read More