Insurance Industry Hiring Is Up, Study Finds

A newly released labor market study for the U.S. insurance industry has found that 66.3% of companies plan to increase their staffing in the next 12 months. It’s the highest number in the history of the study, released twice a year since mid-2009 by the Jacobson Group and Ward Group, a division of Aon Hewitt. In the commercial lines category, an even higher percentage of companies — 73% — expect to increase staff in the next 12 months. Just 4.2% of companies in the study said they expected to decrease staffing in the next year. The figure is the third-lowest in the history ...