We are really excited about this update, and wanted everyone to know about the new Facebook integration on hireinsurancepros.com! Go to http://hireinsurancepros.com/ to check it out - Don't forget to "Like Us" * Login with your Facebook account * Parse data from Facebook to fill out your profile * Like buttons placed on each ...
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Published by: Cathryn Vandewater | Vault.com Bad interviews feel awful. Sometimes they’re your fault: you were disorganized, poorly researched, or made a blunder you couldn’t recover from. But assuming you did everything right (or tried to), it’s likely that poor interviewers are the cause of awkward, hostile, or just plain bizarre ...
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By Reuters Zurich Financial Services Ltd. said catastrophe claims were unusually high this year and had weighed on its underwriting profitability. Net profit still rose 64% to $1.239 billion in the third quarter, compared with $756 million a year earlier, when the Zurich-based insurer booked some $400 million in exceptional charges. In general ...
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Most property/casualty insurance lines of business will experience fairly stable pricing into the new year, according to a report released Thursday by Willis Group Holdings P.L.C. Covering the operational and strategic concerns of brokers, insurers and reinsurers, including legislative and regulatory developments, business challenges, market conditions and competitive intelligence. The annual report, ...
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by Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters)—U.S. prosecutors charged 11 people Thursday in connection with an alleged $1 billion fraud involving hundreds of railroad workers filing false disability claims. News and analysis about the legislative, legal and insurance market issues that affect workers compensation managers, as well as strategies for reducing comp claims and ...
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By: The New York Times Insurance adjusters take to the field in Joplin, Missouri to help the storm victims reclaim their lives. [iframe src="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/19/business/joplin-tornado-insurance.html?ref=insurance" width="100%" height="480"]
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By Susan J. Campbell , TMCnet Contributing Editor Data mining can lend considerable value to the organization seeking to leverage key business intelligence or predictive analytics to nurture key customer relationships. At the same time, this practice can also be used to detect insurance fraud and protect the organization from loss A ...
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By:Insurance Journal The prolonged soft market and tough competition in the property/casualty insurance industry have opened the door for at least two surplus lines carriers to go direct to retail agents in the last year, bypassing the wholesale broker on some pieces of business. But will that trend continue?Thomas J. Curtin, ...
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By Thad Peterson, Monster Staff Writer While there are as many different possible interview questions as there are interviewers, it always helps to be ready for anything. So we've prepared a list of 100 potential interview questions. Will you face them all? We pray no interviewer would be that cruel. Will ...
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by Jeanne Knight Behavioral interviewing is an interviewing technique created in the 1970s by industrial psychologists that has become quite popular with employers. The premise behind behavioral interviewing is that the most accurate predictor of future performance is past performance in a similar situation. For those unfamiliar with this interviewing style, ...
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