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A claims adjuster for Liberty Mutual gets more than she bargained for while committing auto insurance fraud in order to save a buck.

A claims adjuster for Liberty Mutual gets more than she bargained for while committing auto insurance fraud in order to save a buck.

A spike in the number of agent and broker jobs added in May drove an overall net gain of 900 jobs industry-wide for the month compared to April, according to an Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.) analysis of U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics figures.

A spike in the number of agent and broker jobs added in May drove an overall net gain of 900 jobs industry-wide for the month compared to April, according to an Insurance Information Institute analysis of U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics figures.

As director of risk management services for the Tucson Electric Power Co., Karl Zimmel has had his share of challenges, the latest being the massive wildfires in Arizona, which have charred hundreds of thousands of acres and come dangerously close to several of TEP’s facilities.

When adjusters make numerous small upward changes in workers’ compensation claim reserves, they are stair-stepping the reserves. If you draw a graph of the reserves, it looks like a set of steps—flat, up, flat, up, flat, up.

Employment in the property and casualty insurance industry decreased 1.8 percent in April compared to the same month a year ago, according to an Insurance Information Institute analysis of the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

The employment picture for the insurance industry reflects the same downward trends the U.S. economy has experienced, but the numbers are better than overall U.S. employment declines.