Latest Self Insured Headlines
All the headlines from our Self Insured Topic Page, ordered by recency.
CWCI’s Nolan Discusses Calif. Workers’ Comp Marketplace
Sep 8 2003 // Insurance Journal staff writer Cynthia Beisiegel recently met up with Michael Nolan, president of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) at the ACIC XIV Annual General Counsel Seminar in Las Vegas....
Alternative Markets Reach New Levels
Sep 8 2003 // “Client, insure thyself!” Well it hasn’t quite reached that point yet, but the hard market has caused insurance buyers to commence an unprecedented search for affordable risk management solutions. Pushed...
New Captive/RRG Forms in Kentucky
Aug 15 2003 // Frost Brown Todd LLC Insurance Industry Group and the Kentucky Hospital Association announced the formation of the Kentucky Hospital Insurance Company (KHIC). The captive insurer/risk retention group will offer medical...
American Forest Casualty Co. Licenses FormsPlus XP for the Internet
Jul 25 2003 // Allen Beggs, president and co-founder of QualCorp, Inc. (www.qualcorp.com) announced that American Forest Casualty Company of Olympia, Wash. will be licensing the Internet version FormsPlus XP for its office. American...
Fla. RRG Hopes to Address LTC Liability Crisis
Jul 21 2003 // With national and state efforts at altering medical liability rules once again failing to hurdle the predictable political roadblocks and the commercial insurance marketplace struggling to provide the coverages so many...
Florida RRG Hopes to Address LTC Liability Crisis
Jul 21 2003 // With national and state efforts at altering medical liability rules once again failing to hurdle the predictable political roadblocks and the commercial insurance marketplace struggling to provide the coverages so many...
Pa. Med-Mal Fund Gets New Guaranty Protection
Jul 2 2003 // An announcement by the law firm Buchanan Ingersoll gives details of the formation of a new medical malpractice insurer — the Professional Casualty Association, which “has closed on a deal in which it assumed...
NIP Forms Group Self-Insurance Management Division, Appoints Pair of Senior Executives
Jun 10 2003 // National Insurance Programs (NIP) has formed a new division to focus on the development and management of self-insurance vehicles for business groups. NIP has appointed Barry Barron, division president and Lyn Winters,...
Public Risk Managers Face Several Challenges in 2003
Jun 9 2003 // Public risk managers said that price, increased self-insured retentions and coverage were the biggest challenges they face over the next year, according to a survey conducted recently by Munich-American RiskPartners, a...
Price, Increased Self-Insured Retentions and Coverage, Top Challenges Facing Public Risk Managers
May 22 2003 //
S&P’s Cuts Attorneys Liability Protection Soc. RRG Ratings; Off Negative Watch
Apr 14 2003 // Standard & Poor’s has lowered its counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Attorneys Liability Protection Society Inc., A Risk Retention Group (ALPS) to ‘BBB’ from ‘A-‘ and...
CRC Insurance Services Forms CRC/ART
Feb 12 2003 // CRC Insurance Services Inc. of Birmingham, Ala., announced the formation of the CRC Alternative Risk Transfer Division. CRC Alternative Risk Transfer (CRC/ART) will provide alternative risk management services and transfer...
Reciprocals Placed into Receivership in Tenn.
Feb 4 2003 // A Tennessee court granted the petitions of Insurance Commissioner Paula A. Flowers to place three insurance reciprocals that write malpractice insurance into receivership. Receivership will allow the state Commerce and...
Risk Retention Groups Owning Up to Success
Jan 27 2003 // Due to the restricted coverages available in the market today, risk retention groups (RRGs) have experienced a significant amount of rapid growth over the past year. At a time when the industry is facing what is perhaps...
The Hartford’s “Complex Claim Advice” Offers Help to Self-Insured Employers
Jan 22 2003 // The Hartford Financial Services Group announced that it’s now offering a program called “Complex Claim Advice,” to employers who self-insure their short-term disability plans and face “a growing...
Security Fund Takes Over Eel River Workers Comp Payments
Dec 27 2002 // California Department of Industrial Relations (CDIR) Acting Director Chuck Cake has ordered the state’s Self Insurers’ Security Fund to take over payment of Eel River Sawmill’s workers’ compensation...
Airlines Look to Provide Their Own War and Terrorist Coverage
Nov 11 2002 // More than a year after Sept. 11, the U.S., the European Union (EU) and many other countries are still working on ways to provide adequate insurance coverage for their air carriers. While several plans have been suggested,...
Airlines Look to Provide Their Own War and Terrorist Coverage
Nov 11 2002 // More than a year after Sept. 11, the U.S., the European Union (EU) and many other countries are still working on ways to provide adequate insurance coverage for their air carriers. While several plans have been suggested,...
Pa. JUA Offers Med-Mal Discount to Physicians with No Claims
Nov 4 2002 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner M. Diane Koken announced that at the request of Gov. Mark Schweiker, the state insurance department has approved a filing by the Pennsylvania Professional Liability Joint Underwriting...
ManagedComp Distributes $5M in Workers’ Comp Surplus
Sep 6 2002 // ManagedComp Inc., a Woburn, Mass.-based national worker’s compensation underwriter and third party administrator, plans to distribute $5,432,000 in surplus to four self-insurance groups (SIGs) in...
