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Ohio Work Comp Bureau Awards More Than $258K to Support Workplace Safety
Sep 30 2013 // Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) has awarded more than $258,000 in safety intervention grants, split among nine employers. “We have more money available for safety-minded businesses this year, thanks...
Obamacare’s Small Business Health Markets Delayed a Month
Sep 26 2013 // Small businesses won’t be able to enroll in new online health insurance marketplaces until Nov. 1 in most U.S. states, the latest delay for the Obama administration’s signature health-care law. Small businesses...
Webinar: 75% of U.S. Workers Say Employer Unprepared for Disaster
Sep 25 2013 // Driving home the notion that most U.S. employees believe their employers aren’t prepared for a disaster or a major crisis may be one of the best way to get people to take notice that September is National...
Fireman’s Fund Launches New Commercial Property Form for Highly Protected Risks
Sep 24 2013 // Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. has launched Property-Gard Pinnacle, a new commercial property form that integrates new coverages and policy format with existing protection for highly protected risk (HPR)...
Employers Could Save Billions Swapping COBRA For Obamacare
Sep 24 2013 // By Jay Hancock, KHN Staff Writer Health-law provisions taking effect next year could save U.S. employers billions of dollars in expenses now paid for workers who continue medical coverage after they leave the company,...
After Suggested Workers’ Comp Rate Hike California Employers Hope Reform Kicks In
Sep 23 2013 // The reaction from an employers’ group to a suggested hike in California’s advisory workers’ compensation rates of nearly 7 percent was – surprisingly – cautiously optimistic. The insurer and public...
Utah Registers 39 Workplace Deaths in 2012
Sep 23 2013 // New figures from Bureau of Labor Statistics show there were 39 workplace deaths in 2012 in Utah – the same total as the year before. The preliminary data shows that transportation-related deaths were the most frequent in...
Louisiana Citizens Lowering Commercial Property Rates
Sep 23 2013 // The property insurer of last resort in Louisiana plans to lower rates for commercial policyholders. The 352 commercial policyholders Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. covers in coastal areas.would see rates drop...
Vermont Employers Wrestle With Health Insurance Change
Sep 19 2013 // Many Vermont employers are struggling with the decision whether to continue their workers on health insurance or allow them to buy it individually and take advantage of federal tax credits. At a forum Wednesday in...
Employers Making Benefit Changes Under Cover of Obamacare
Sep 19 2013 // Barack Obama wanted to change American health-care as we know it. And he is, in ways that go far beyond the goals of the Affordable Care Act. For weeks, headlines have cataloged the upheaval at private employers: UPS...
MarketScout Adds Bourret in Commercial Program Underwriting Practice
Sep 18 2013 // MarketScout, an insurance distribution and underwriting company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, has expanded its commercial insurance specialty program underwriting practice with the addition of Jackie Bourret as vice...
Employer-Based Health Insurance Continues to Decline
Sep 18 2013 // The share of Americans who get health insurance through their jobs fell for the fourth straight year as aging baby boomers piled into the U.S. government’s Medicare plan and other adults sought coverage on their...
MarketScout Plans Expansion of Commercial Program Underwriting Practice
Sep 17 2013 // MarketScout, the national electronic insurance exchange and specialty MGA headquartered in Dallas, Texas, has expanded its commercial specialty program underwriting practice with the addition of Jackie Bourret as vice...
Louisiana Citizens Lowering Commercial Property Rates
Sep 16 2013 // The state-run property insurer of last resort in Louisiana plans to lower commercial rates. The Advocate reports the bulk of those cuts would benefit the 352 commercial policyholders Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance...
After Suggested Workers’ Comp Rate Hike California Employers Hope Reform Kicks In
Sep 13 2013 // The reaction from an employers’ group to a suggested hike in California’s advisory workers’ compensation rates of nearly 7 percent was – surprisingly – cautiously optimistic. The insurer and public...
Start-Up Health Insurance Co-Ops Vow to Compete with Commercial Insurers
Sep 13 2013 // They have rented offices and zero customers. All their capital is borrowed. They’re trying to sign the kind of expensive, chronically ill individuals that insurers have avoided for decades. In three weeks they face...
No Penalty for Employers Not Telling Employees About Obamacare
Sep 13 2013 // Employers will not face a penalty if they fail to inform their workers by Oct 1 about changes under President Barack Obama’s healthcare law, the administration said, in what will likely come as a relief to many small...
Specialty Risk Associates Adds 3 Commercial Underwriters in Louisiana
Sep 12 2013 // Shreveport, La.-based Specialty Risk Associates Inc. announced the hiring of three new commercial lines underwriters – Ryan Gore, Laura Schlidt and Patti Haigler. Prior to joining Specialty Risk Associates, Gore...
Commercial Insurance Prices Continued Up in Q2: Towers Watson
Sep 10 2013 // Commercial insurance prices rose by six percent in aggregate during the second quarter of 2013, marking the 10th consecutive quarter of price increases, according to the latest Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey...
Main Street America Expands Commercial Products to Austin Mutual Agents in Oregon
Sep 10 2013 // The Main Street America Group has introduced its commercial product line, featuring its flagship main line business owners policy (Main Line BOP), to independent agents who represent the super-regional property/casualty...
