The hiring emails started arriving in Allison Skager’s inbox the first week of her first job after graduating law school. Now, more than a year since she started as an associate in Crowell & Moring’s Los Angeles office, the inbox deluge still shapes her morning routine. When Skager logs on […]
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James Curbeam, CPCU, ARM, AIC, is the director of risk management for the Las Vegas Valley Water District. He holds a B.S. in finance from Creighton University and an executive MBA from the University of Nebraska Omaha. James has served in the following industry leadership roles: President, Nevada Chapter of […]
Identity theft and other sophisticated criminal schemes contributed to potentially $163 billion in waste, while inflicting harm on unwitting victims. Yesterday at 6:30 a.m. EDT Sareena Brown-Thomas, a victim of identity theft that caused her to be unable to collect unemployment benefits. The number of fraud cases in unemployment insurance […]
Mexico’s federal government will soon cease updating its COVID-19 pandemic monitoring system on a biweekly basis, Dr. Hugo López-Gatell, Mexico’s undersecretary of prevention and health promotion, said in a recent press conference. The announcement comes on the heels of the four-tiered system showing all thirty-two states in green status—the only status without […]
Approximately five million people in the U.S. are unemployed or have left the workforce since the pandemic began, and it is difficult to predict whether their decision was short term or permanent. According to S&P Global, even as extended unemployment benefits expired nationwide, and children returned to classrooms, job gains […]
Levels of employment for the insurance industry are “holding up much stronger than the overall economy,” the leader of an insurance search firm said recently, reporting that insurers have added almost 20,000 jobs since March 2020. The actual number, 19,700 jobs, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, represents a […]
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Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The Texas labor market appears to have rebounded from the pandemic, with rapid population growth driving a demand for jobs. The state ended 2021 with about 13.06 million nonagricultural jobs […]