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New York Eases Some Workers’ Compensation Policy Rules
Nov 30 2010 // New York has eased some workers’ compensation insurance requirements for out-of-state businesses that do only occasional, non-construction work in the Empire State. The rule change comes after years of lobbying by...
Lawsuit Challenges UMiami Use of Credit History in Job Screenings
Nov 24 2010 // A federal lawsuit contends that University of Miami credit history checks of job candidates discriminate unfairly against minorities. The potential class-action lawsuit filed Monday claims that use of credit histories in...
UK MGAs Gather to Support New Managing General Agents’ Association
Nov 24 2010 // The UK’s insurance industry has spawned numerous professional and trade associations over the years, but, oddly enough, one of the most important sectors, the managing general agents, or MGA’s, who underwrite...
New York Agents Lose Court Battle over Compensation Disclosure
Nov 22 2010 // New York agents failed to make their case that insurance regulators cannot require agents and brokers to disclose their commissions, a Supreme Court judge has ruled. That just-released decision by Supreme Court Justice...
How an E&O Claim Could Affect Agency Employee’s Career
Nov 18 2010 // Today’s soft insurance market, reduced commissions and a tough economy for agency owners and their clients might be adding to agency errors and omissions (E&O) exposures. But agency owners are not the only ones...
Ohio Workers’ Compensation Bureau Manager Quit Amid Ethical Questions
Nov 15 2010 // A manager at Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers has resigned amid ethical questions about whether his private side business benefited from connections he made while on the state payroll. Documents provided to...
Washington Voters Reject Privatization of Workers’ Compensation System
Nov 14 2010 // Voters in the state of Washington have rejected a measure to inject private insurer competition into the state’s workers’ compensation system. The insurance industry hoped to open up the state’s...
Tillson Recruiting Launches in Boston Area
Nov 11 2010 // Tillson Recruiters, a new firm specializing in recruiting for insurance agencies, brokers and companies, has opened in Massachusetts. Husband and wife team Scot and Keri Tillson both serve was managing partners at the...
Mina Named Managing Partner for Willis of Maryland
Nov 10 2010 // John Mina has been appointed managing partner at Willis of Maryland, Inc. Mina will be responsible for business development for Willis’ Washington, D.C.-based insurance brokerage operations. He will be based in...
Workers’ Compensation Fees Would Cost New York Drivers, Insurers Warn
Nov 10 2010 // Proposed 30 percent increases in what medical providers in New York are paid for treating workers’ compensation injuries could have unintended consequences for the state’s motorists, an industry group has...
Fee Schedules Stabilized Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Costs
Nov 9 2010 // Average medical costs per workers’ compensation claim in Tennessee stabilized at pre-fee schedule levels after the state introduced medical fee schedules in 2005, according to a new study. According to the report by...
Washington Voters Reject Privatization of Workers’ Compensation System
Nov 3 2010 // Voters in the state of Washington have rejected a measure to inject private insurer competition into the state’s workers’ compensation system. The insurance industry hoped to open up the state’s...
Alabama Weighs 12.4% Drop in Workers’ Compensation Costs
Nov 2 2010 // Alabama insurance officials will consider an industry proposal to lower workers’ compensation loss costs in the state at a public hearing tomorrow in Montgomery. Citing reduced claims frequency, workers’...
North Carolina Has High Workers’ Compensation Medical Costs
Nov 1 2010 // North Carolina’s medical costs per workers’ compensation claim were among the highest in a study of 15 states, according to a new report. The study by the Cambridge, Mass.-based Workers Compensation Research...
How an E&O Claim Could Affect Agency Employee’s Career
Nov 1 2010 // Survey Finds Agencies Take a Second Look at Hiring Employees With Past E&O Histories Today’s soft insurance market, reduced commissions and a tough economy for agency owners and their clients might be adding to...
Alabama City Denies Workers’ Compensation for Injured Off-Duty Cop
Oct 29 2010 // Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange said the city is not able to grant workers’ compensation benefits to the family of injured police Cpl. David Brown. The family filed a lawsuit against the city seeking the benefits for...
North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Rates Given a Nudge
Oct 27 2010 // North Carolina employers’ costs for workers’ compensation will inch up next spring under an agreement reached between the state and insurers. The settlement ordered a 0.6 percent increase for voluntary market...
High Unemployment Rate a Drag on Workers’ Compensation Insurers
Oct 25 2010 // The weak outlook for U.S. employment could hurt insurers that cover work-related injuries. Persistently high unemployment translates to fewer workers to cover, which cuts into revenue. And workers compensation providers...
North Carolina’s Workers’ Compensation Medical Costs Among Highest
Oct 22 2010 // North Carolina’s medical costs per workers’ compensation claim were among the highest in a study of 15 states, according to a new report. The study by the Cambridge, Mass.-based Workers Compensation Research...
Judge Bars New York City From Hiring New Firefighters
Oct 21 2010 // A federal judge has barred New York City from hiring new firefighters after criticizing its handling of a discrimination lawsuit against the fire department. Judge Nicholas Garaufis (GEHR’-ah-fuhs) said Tuesday his...
