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California Drop Lowers U.S. Workers’ Compensation Payments

Aug 26 2008 // U.S. workers’ compensation payments for medical care and cash benefits for workers disabled by workplace injuries or diseases declined in 2006, according to a study released by the National Academy of Social...

Labor Dept: Fewer Workers Killed on Job in 2007

Aug 21 2008 // The number of workers killed on the job annually dropped to a historic low in 2007, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Wednesday. The number of worker deaths dropped to 5,488 last year — the fewest since the...

Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Carrier Boosts Q2 Earnings

Aug 8 2008 // Louisiana-based Amerisafe Inc., which provides workers’ compensation insurance for small to mid-sized companies in hazardous industries, recorded a 13 percent increase in second-quarter profit despite a slight...

On a Roll, Oklahoma Expected to Add Jobs This Year

Aug 8 2008 // Oklahoma added 22,500 jobs last year as the energy sector fueled an employment growth rate of 1.4 percent, sixth highest among all states, according to a newly released report. “We’re growing 1 percent faster...

Speak Up if You Care …

Aug 4 2008 // The Case for Risk Management and Insurance Education If you’re like most insurance firms, your workforce is aging. Or, as a friend of mine recently put it, “There’s a lot of gray hair in the room.”...

Survival Skills

Aug 4 2008 // During a soft market, when businesses often are struggling to survive, it hardly seems like the appropriate time to scrutinize staffing. Yet Paul Hering, managing principal and CEO for San Diego-based B&B Co. says...

The Case for Risk Management and Insurance Education

Aug 1 2008 // If you’re like most insurance firms, your workforce is aging. Or, as a friend of mine recently put it, “There’s a lot of gray hair in the room.” Not that there’s anything wrong with that, mind...

Virginia Plans Hearing on Workers’ Compensation Premiums

Aug 1 2008 // The Virginia State Corporation Commission is setting an October 28 hearing to consider adjustments in premiums charged for workers’ compensation insurance. The National Council on Compensation Insurance has requested...

Kentucky Insurance Legislation Affects Compensation and Investments

Jul 31 2008 // Kentucky lawmakers adopted insurance legislation during the 2008 regular legislative session that will affect agents and carriers working in the state. The Insurance Producer Modernization bill (HB 334) allows an agent to...

Workers’ Compensation History: The Great Tradeoff!

Jul 29 2008 // Eighteenth century pirates and a nineteenth century German “Iron” Chancellor preceded the United States in the creation of a social system for the protection of injured workers. The modern workers’...

New York Law Aids Livery Drivers’ Access to Workers’ Compensation

Jul 28 2008 // New York livery drivers will now have better access to workers’ benefits. Gov. David A. Paterson announced Friday that he has signed a law to aid the drivers in New York City, and in Westchester and Nassau...

Venture Insurance Names Rogers Managing Director of Specialty Property

Jul 22 2008 // West Chester, Pa.-based Venture Insurance Programs, a national program administrator, recently named Michael Rogers as executive vice president and managing director of a new specialty property unit. Rogers will establish...

New York Hearings Pit Agents Against Compensation-Reformers

Jul 17 2008 // A top executive for a key insurance broker urged New York regulators to quash the practice of insurance agents taking contingent commissions, despite calls from agents that the practice would hurt their businesses, and do...

A.M. Best: Few Companies Excel at Managing Through Market Cycles

Jul 15 2008 // The findings from A.M. Best Co.’s cycle management study show just how difficult it is for property/casualty companies to surpass the performance of their peers on a consistent, long-term basis. Only 14 percent of...

Not All N.Y. Workers’ Compensation Self-Insurance Trusts are in Trouble

Jul 11 2008 // New York officials have closed 14 workers’ compensation self-insured trusts in the past few years and questioned the financial stability of 22 others. However, that still leaves 29 group trusts operating in the state...

New York To Webcast Agent-Compensation Hearing on Monday

Jul 11 2008 // The New York State Insurance Department and attorney general’s office will hold the first of three scheduled public hearings on insurance agents’ compensation arrangements on Monday in Buffalo. The meetings,...

Oklahoma Governor Appoints 4 to Workers’ Compensation Court

Jul 9 2008 // Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry has appointed four people to the state’s Workers’ Compensation Court. The three new members of the court are Robert Lake Grove of Oklahoma City, William R. Foster of Norman and Eric W....

Jul 7 2008 // People McQueary Henry Bowles Troy LLP (MHBT) added Jim Anderson as senior vice president in the Dallas-based firm’s property/casualty group. Anderson will oversee the production and account management of...

Republican Brady Quits Government Jobs for Delaware Insurance Race

Jul 3 2008 // Republican House attorney John Brady has resigned from his General Assembly position to prepare for his campaign for state insurance commissioner. Brady stepped down so to avoid any conflict of interest or concerns about...

West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Market Opens to Competition

Jun 30 2008 // All of West Virginia employers, other than governmental entities, can for the first time, shop their workers’ compensation coverage among carriers in a competitive market. Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline said...