Property and Casualty carriers added 900 jobs in March — a month that saw employment shrink in most other sectors of the insurance industry, according to an analysis of the latest figures from the U.S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

In his review of the BLS figures, Insurance Information Institute President Robert Hartwig says, "P&C carrier employment has generally risen every month since February 2012 — the lone exception: -400 in August 2012 — and is now 7,100 above the February 2012 level." 

However, longer term, Hartwig notes that the picture is more of a mixed bag. "For example," he says in his analysis, "for the 12 months from March 2010 through February 2011, P&C carrier employment rose steadily by a cumulative 5,900. In contrast, for the 12 months preceding this period P&C carrier employment dropped by 28,600 and for the 12 months following it employment also fell, this time by 19,400."

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