Latest Self Insured Headlines
All the headlines from our Self Insured Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Texas Approves 14 Companies to Self Insure for Workers’ Comp Claims
Jun 15 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation announced that 14 companies with approximately 47,600 employees in Texas recently were approved to self-insure for workers’ compensation...
Maine Close to Approving Dirigo Self-Insurance Venture
May 29 2007 // Despite arguments that the state should keep out of a business where only private enterprise belongs, the Maine Senate gave its blessing last week to a proposal to allow the state to venture further into health...
D.C. Places Risk Retention Group, Cabina-America, Under Restrictions
May 21 2007 // Risk retention group Cabina-America, whch was licensed in April 2006, has been placed under restrictive order by Commissioner Thomas E. Hampton of the District of Columbia Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking...
New Medical Malpractice Market Opens for Florida Nurses
Mar 23 2007 // Sophia Palmer Nurses Risk Retention Group, Inc. will offer malpractice insurance to Florida nurses in partnership with the Florida Nurses Association. The newly formed Risk Retention Group was capitalized by Ponce de Leon...
W. Va. court says doctors may self-insure
Mar 12 2007 // The West Virginia Supreme Court voted 5-0 to refuse to hear Charleston Area Medical Center’s appeal of a 2005 circuit court ruling that upheld a physician’s right to provide his own medical malpractice...
N.C. House Panel Advances High Risk Pool Measure
Mar 1 2007 // A bill that would create a special health insurance pool for chronically ill people who aren’t insured or can’t afford coverage is getting another airing in the North Carolina Legislature. The measure won...
W. Va. Court Rebukes Hospital, Upholds Doctor’s Right to Self-Insure
Mar 1 2007 // The West Virginia Supreme Court refused this week to hear Charleston Area Medical Center’s appeal of a 2005 circuit court ruling that upheld a physician’s right to provide his own medical malpractice...
Texas DWC Approves 11 Companies to Self-Insure
Feb 15 2007 // Eleven companies with approximately 27,500 employees in Texas recently were approved to self-insure for workers’ compensation claims for a one-year period under the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of...
Medical Malpractice Risk Retention Group Launched in N.Y.
Feb 7 2007 // J. M. Woodworth Risk Retention Group has registered with the New York Insurance Department to offer medical malpractice insurance to physicians and surgeons in the state. “The RRG provides New York doctors the first...
Del. Regulator Backs Health Pool; Cites New Risk Retention Group
Feb 7 2007 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn urged General Assembly budget writers to fund the creation of a health insurance pool that could cover 10,000 Delawareans. He also reported that a group of Kent County doctors has...
National Contractors Insurance Company, Inc., a Risk Retention Group
Feb 1 2007 // Making General Liability Insurance affordable for General and Artisan Contractors. National Contractors Insurance Company, Inc., a Risk Retention Group (NCIC) specializes in general liability insurance for the licensed...
Mass. Gov. Patrick Derails Romney’s High Risk Pool Changes
Jan 22 2007 // Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said he will comprehensively review the state auto insurance system after the acting insurance commissioner on Friday suspended rules changes made in the system during the final weeks of...
Marsh Unit Arranges Collateral Program for N.C. Workers’ Comp Fund
Dec 7 2006 // MMC Securities Corp., an affiliate of Marsh Inc., has completed a $510 million alternative collateral program on behalf of the North Carolina Self-Insurance Security Association for its security fund. The North Carolina...
N.Y. workers’ comp trusts: rising prices and broker concerns
Nov 20 2006 // N.Y. workers’ comp trusts: rising prices and broker concerns The inadequate rates that many of New York’s workers’ compensation self-insured trusts charge may increase effective Jan. 1, 2007 due to...
By Adam Friedlander
Nov 19 2006 // Some brokers have taken steps to protect themselves, asking clients to sign agreements to hold them harmless if they elect to obtain coverage from a trust. Their concern relates to the insolvency exclusion of self insured...
Flaherty to Succeed Keehfus as First Cardinal President, CEO
Nov 1 2006 // Latham, N.Y.-based First Cardinal LLC, a provider of third-party administrative services for workers’ compensation self-insurance groups, announced that co-founder and chief operating officer Richard S. Flaherty has...
RISK RETENTION GROUPS
Sep 25 2006 // N12 SPOTLIGHT: Premiums grow 11.5% in 2005 10 Mass. AG fights FAIR Plan 852 Interview with N.J. Commissioner Goldman
Risk retention group 2005 premium grows 11.5% to $2.4 billion
Sep 25 2006 // Despite the softening property/casualty market, commercial insureds who find liability insurance unavailable or unaffordable, as well as those who desire stability and control of their liability programs, continue to...
Risk retention group 2005 premium grows 11.5% to $2.4 billion
Sep 25 2006 // Despite the softening property/casualty market, commercial insureds who find liability insurance unavailable or unaffordable, as well as those who desire stability and control of their liability programs, continue to...
Texas Work Comp Commissioner Betts Approves 17 Companies to Self-Insure
Sep 20 2006 // Seventeen companies with approximately 82,000 employees in Texas recently were approved to self-insure for workers’ compensation claims for a one-year period under the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of...
