Payrolls in the U.S. insuranceindustry dropped for the sixth consecutive month in April, losing4,000 jobs, nearly double the total jobs lost in March, accordingto the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. April insurance industrypayrolls were 2.275 million, down from a seasonally adjusted 2.279million in March. The number of insurance jobs has contracted in 8of the past 9 months. Year over year, insurance payrolls fell 1.5percent from the 2.309 million jobs the industry reported in April2008. The exception were payrolls for reinsurers and healthinsurers, which grew 6.2 percent and 3.5 percent respectively.Title insurers suffered the most losses, with total jobs plunging21 percent from March 2008. Also suffering were life insurancejobs, down 0.4 percent; claims adjusters, down 4.3 percent;third-party administrators, down 5.2 percent; agents and brokers,down 2.1 percent, and property-casualty insurers, down 1.9percent.
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