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Oregon Restaurants Get Rating Return from Workers’ Compensation Group
Sep 11 2009 // Liberty Northwest, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, announced strong return results for its Liberty Northwest/Oregon Restaurant Association (LNW/ORA) workers’ compensation insurance program. The...
Hawaii Workers’ Compensation Costs Drop Again
Sep 11 2009 // Workers’ compensation insurers in Hawaii have filed to reduce by 4.1 percent the loss cost factor that goes into the rates charged to employers. This marks the fifth year in a row that workers’ compensation...
Study Shows California Workers Compensation Drug Costs Up
Sep 10 2009 // Despite the adoption of California workers’ compensation medical reforms and a pharmacy fee schedule in 2004, a new study finds that both the average number of prescriptions and average prescription drug payments per...
Idaho Agent Knows Job Safety Training and Employee Communication Pay Off
Sep 7 2009 // Nielsen Teaches Employers How to ‘Close the Window’ On Rising Comp Costs The best way insurance agents can teach employers about workers’ compensation is to get to know their business. Idaho insurance...
Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Costs Drop for 4th Straight Year
Sep 7 2009 // Kentucky workers’ compensation costs are continuing to drop, with latest figures showing an average reduction of 6.4 percent. Insurance Commissioner Sharon P. Clark has approved the industry’s loss cost...
New Insurer Ascendant to Rescue First Commercial Insureds, Jobs in Florida
Sep 4 2009 // Florida officials announced that a new Miami-based insurance company will pick up the insurance for about 15,000 of the policyholders now with bankrupt First Commercial Insurance Co., which is in liquidation. Florida CFO...
Study: Workers’ Compensation System Failing Lower Wage Workers
Sep 3 2009 // Only eight percent of lower wage workers injured on the job receive workers’ compensation benefits, according to a new report. Also, lower wage workers — those earning just over $8 per hour on average —...
Daylight Saving Time Leads to More On-the-Job Injuries
Sep 2 2009 // Every March, most Americans welcome the switch to daylight saving time because of the longer days, but also dread losing an hour of sleep after they move their clocks forward. Now a new study shows that losing just an hour...
North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Rates Could Drop 9.6%
Sep 2 2009 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin said he has received industry rate filings for workers compensation requesting a 9.6 percent decrease in the voluntary market and a 1.3 percent increase in the assigned...
Economy Leaves Some U.S. Employees Stuck in Undesirable Jobs
Aug 28 2009 // With the U.S. economy mired in recession, workers are finding themselves stuck in bad jobs with such annoyances as managers who berate employees and bosses who hold meetings in bed. Unable to make a move when jobs are...
AmTrust to Buy Workers’ Compensation Unit CyberComp from Swiss Re
Aug 27 2009 // New York-based AmTrust Financial Services, Inc. has agreed to acquire CyberComp, the workers’ compensation business unit of Swiss Re, in a renewal rights transaction. Serving the workers’ compensation needs of...
Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Costs Drop for 4th Straight Year
Aug 27 2009 // Kentucky workers’ compensation costs are continuing to drop, with latest figures showing an average reduction of 6.4 percent. Insurance Commissioner Sharon P. Clark has approved the industry’s loss cost...
Wells Fargo Insurance Services Names Samland Managing Director
Aug 27 2009 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services of Minnesota Inc. named Gina Samland managing director for its Nebraska, Iowa, and Kansas City, Kan. operations. She is based in the Omaha, Neb., office. In her new role, Samland is...
Farm Workers Sue New Mexico for Workers’ Compensation Coverage
Aug 27 2009 // Two organizations that provide services to farm workers and two injured farm workers want the New Mexico Workers’ Compensation Administration to stop excluding farm and ranch workers from coverage. HELP-New Mexico,...
Bailed Out Firms Making Compensation Subject to Government Approval
Aug 25 2009 // Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp. and AIG are forging new employment contracts that let them void compensation agreements if they are challenged by the U.S. government, according to a person familiar with some recent...
Workers’ Compensation Rate Hike Proposed for 2010 in Iowa
Aug 24 2009 // The Iowa Insurance Division reported that the National Council on Compensation Insurance has made a rate filing which affects the premium rates for workers’ compensation insurance. The rate filing proposes an overall...
$1 Billion Suit Against AIG Over Workers’ Compensation Dismissed
Aug 21 2009 // American International Group Inc. won dismissal of a federal lawsuit accusing the troubled insurer of fraudulently shortchanging state workers’ compensation pools out of more than $1 billion. However,...
Florida Workers’ Compensation Insurers Propose 6.8% Rate Cut
Aug 21 2009 // Florida workers’ compensation insurers are recommending an overall average rate decrease of 6.8 percent statewide, which state officials said would save employers more than $166 million. Florida Insurance...
Voltz Named Managing Director for Wells Fargo in Pennsylvania
Aug 20 2009 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services has named James Voltz managing director for its Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania office. In his new role, Voltz will oversee operations, carrier relationships, sales and placement of all...
