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Lawyers Claim Montana Workers’ Compensation Investigators Violate Privacy
Aug 30 2011 // Two Billings attorneys are asking the Montana Supreme Court to stop workers’ compensation investigators from practices that they say violate the privacy rights of workers’ comp claimants. The Billings Gazette...
Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Rates Continue to Drop
Aug 29 2011 // Kentucky regulators have approved the sixth straight reduction in workers’ compensation loss cost rates. Kentucky Insurance Commissioner Sharon Clark has approved a statewide average 7.5 percent decrease in loss...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau Proposes Job Creation Plan
Aug 29 2011 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation has proposed an economic development initiative with the goal of creating jobs in that state. Under the proposal, BWC could offer new employers in Ohio a 50 percent or higher...
Insurers Oppose Change in South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Medical Fees
Aug 22 2011 // A new South Carolina regulation for calculating medical fees in worker injury cases has set off opposition from insurers and business groups that claim it favors certain medical providers over others and will increase...
Florida Employers May Face Higher Workers’ Compensation Costs
Aug 19 2011 // Florida business owners could see their workers’ compensation premiums go up if regulators agree to raise rates by a recommended statewide average 8.9 percent. The National Council of Compensation Insurance (NCCI)...
Most Doctors Sued Sometime in Career
Aug 19 2011 // A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine this week says that one in 14 doctors faces a malpractice suit every year. Moreover, almost every physician will face a malpractice suit — or more than one...
NY’s Senator Schumer Calls for End to ‘Job-killing’ Insurance Fee
Aug 18 2011 // Sen. Charles Schumer is calling for an end to a new government surcharge that amounts to roughly $20 per worker for New York businesses. The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported that Schumer called the surcharge an...
Wright USA Creates Career Protector E&O Plan for Government Personnel
Aug 17 2011 // Wright USA has launched a professional liability product tailored to United States government personnel who are responsible for managing the activities of others. The product – branded as the Career Protector Plan – is...
Drop in Workers’ Compensation Costs Reflects Recession
Aug 16 2011 // The number of workers covered by workers’ compensation dropped by 4.4 percent in 2009, the biggest decrease in two decades. Also, according to a report by the nonprofit National Academy of Social Insurance, employer...
California Economy Impacts Workers’ Compensation Costs
Aug 16 2011 // Workers’ compensation benefits for workers injured on the job in California decreased 1.6 percent to $9.3 billion in 2009, according to a study released today by the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI). In...
Buechler Joins Florida’s Normandy Harbor Workers’ Compensation Team
Aug 15 2011 // Jayson Buechler has joined Normandy Harbor Insurance Co., a workers’ compensation insurance carrier based in Miami Beach, Fla., as vice president of underwriting. Prior to joining NHIC, Buechler was the vice...
3 Insurers Bid for West Virginia’s Workers’ Compensation Business
Aug 15 2011 // Three companies are vying to provide workers’ compensation coverage for state agencies. Acting Insurance Commissioner Michael Riley said that that BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co., Chartis, and Zurich Insurance Co....
Managing Agency, Company Relationships the Easy Way
Aug 15 2011 // Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Insurance Journal’s Satire Issue, August 15, 2011. The content in this issue is not real and is not to be taken seriously. It’s supposed to be humorous....
Missouri to Audit State-Created Workers’ Compensation Insurer
Aug 14 2011 // A state-created company intended to help small businesses get workers’ compensation insurance has agreed to a review by the Missouri auditor’s office. Missouri Employers Mutual Insurance Co. agreed to what it...
UK Insurers Welcome PM’s Pledge on Compensation Scheme
Aug 12 2011 // The UK’s insurance industry “has welcomed Prime Minister David Cameron’s announcement that the Riot Act police compensation schemes will operate as normal and has promised to use its expertise to help the...
Florida Court Rules Illegal Workers Entitled to Workers’ Compensation
Aug 11 2011 // Florida employers may be under more pressure to document the status of their workers after a panel of state judges ruled that illegal residents who are injured on the job are eligible for workers’ compensation...
Illinois Bars Workers’ Compensation for State Employees Involved in Crimes
Aug 11 2011 // A new law inspired by a former Illinois State Police trooper’s high-speed freeway wreck that killed two sisters bars state employees injured while committing crimes from getting workers’ compensation. The...
Alaska Tour Operator Fined $1.5 Million for Not Having Workers’ Compensation
Aug 10 2011 // An Alaska tour operator has been fined $1.5 million for allegedly failing to carry workers’ compensation insurance, violating stop work orders and misclassifying employees as independent contractors. Ultimate Tours...
California Workers’ Compensation Industry Taking Ogilvie Ruling in Stride
Aug 8 2011 // The most recent twist in the long-running Ogilvie case over the setting of disability payments for permanently injured workers may not be the big blow to the California workers’ compensation system some initially...
Aon Risk Solutions Appoints Ebanks as COO, Wineman as Sr. Managing Director
Aug 5 2011 // Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management and insurance brokerage business of Chicago-based Aon Corp., has appointed Clyde Ebanks as chief operating officer of the Aon Global Client Network and Bruce Wineman tas Aon...
