Insurance jobs may be easier to find with AgencyPoint

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Farmers has launched its first facility location in Baltimore. Farmers Insurance has just announced the opening of its new AgencyPoint facility, located in Owings Mills, near Baltimore, Maryland, which is designed to provide recruiting and training for individuals who want insurance jobs within the insurer by becoming independent owners. The center is a part of a larger effort to expand the insurer’s markets and boost the existing ones. Gregor Scott, the head of the field operations for AgencyPoint explained that Farmers is very excited about making its way into the…

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Farmers Insurance Inc. agrees to pay settlement of $1.5 million to almost 3,500 employees

Farmers Insurance Inc., from Los Angeles, will be paying $1.52 million in a settlement with 3,459 employees to cover the overtime back wages after having been investigated by the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor.  The investigation showed that there had been federal Fair Labor Standards Act violations of the provisions for overtime and recordkeeping that were both sizable and systemic.  According to the Department of Labor, these violations happened within eleven of the insurer’s call centers, which were located in Texas, Florida, Michigan, Kansas, Oregon,…

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