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National Council on Compensation Insurance proposes increase for workers’ comp loss cost rates
Dec 24 2006 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance has submitted a filing for an average increase of 3.4 percent for workers’ compensation voluntary insurance loss costs in Nevada, according to state Insurance...
Seven Indicted for Workers’ Compensation Fraud in Texas
Dec 15 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that seven individuals were indicted, in separate cases, in Travis County on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The individuals allegedly collected a combined $31,358...
N.Y. Drywall Contractor Charged with Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Dec 15 2006 // A New York business owner faces charges of insurance fraud following his arrest by Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau’s office for allegedly defrauding the New York State Insurance Fund of more than...
NCCI Proposes Increase for Workers’ Compensation Loss Costs
Dec 15 2006 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance has submitted a filing for an average increase of 3.4 percent for workers’ compensation voluntary insurance loss costs, according to Nevada Insurance Commissioner Alice...
Study Shows Iowa with Significant Insurance Industry Job Growth
Dec 12 2006 // A recent 48-page study by the Connecticut Economic Resource Center Inc. said that Iowa now surpasses Connecticut for insurance company job growth. From 1995 to 2005, insurance jobs in insurance companies in Connecticut...
Conn. Gov. Rell Touts New Jobs, Campus Construction by The Hartford
Dec 7 2006 // Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell presented some good news today by announcing that The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., plans to construct a $146 million, 450,000-square-foot campus for its Hartford Life...
La. Adds More than 75,000 Nonfarm Jobs Since October 2005
Nov 28 2006 // Since October 2005, 75,700 new workers have joined Louisiana’s workforce, according to the October 2006 nonfarm employment estimates released recently by the Louisiana Department of Labor. “Louisiana’s...
German Insurer Allianz Foresees Future Job Cuts
Nov 28 2006 // German insurer Allianz SE said it had reached a new labor deal that avoids any near-term compulsory layoffs but still foresees some 5,700 jobs cut by the end of 2008. Under the agreement with the ver.di union, Allianz...
How Southeast insurance chiefs got their jobs
Nov 20 2006 // Southeast insurance commissioners seem happy about how they got where they are. During the recent Southeastern Regulators’ Association annual conference in South Carolina, moderator Michael Maloney asked: “What...
Washington employers to save $315 million in workers’ compensation
Nov 20 2006 // Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire announced that the state’s employers and workers could save an estimated $315 million in workers’ compensation premiums next year as the result of a six-month partial suspension...
People, partnerships lead to nearly a century of success
Nov 20 2006 // Good people can make or break a company. In San Diego-based Barney & Barney’s case, it’s clearly made it; the company has been in business for nearly a century, thanks to people who have invested their...
How Southeast insurance chiefs got their jobs
Nov 19 2006 // Southeast insurance commissioners seem happy about how they got where they are. During the recent Southeastern Regulators’ Association annual conference in South Carolina, moderator Michael Maloney asked: “What...
Washington employers to save $315 million in workers’ compensation
Nov 19 2006 // Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire announced that the state’s employers and workers could save an estimated $315 million in workers’ compensation premiums next year as the result of a six-month partial suspension...
People, partnerships lead to nearly a century of success
Nov 19 2006 // Good people can make or break a company. In San Diego-based Barney & Barney’s case, it’s clearly made it; the company has been in business for nearly a century, thanks to people who have invested their...
Appointed or Elected? State Insurance Chiefs Like How They Got Their Jobs
Nov 7 2006 // In a demonstration of how divergent political campaigns can be in terms of dollars invested, incumbent Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine revealed that he had spent $3 million by Halloween in his 2006 bid for...
Golden State Division of Workers’ Compensation proposes penalties against laggard insurers
Nov 6 2006 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation has issued a revised proposal of regulations that would penalize insurers and self-insurers that show a pattern of denying or delaying workers’ compensation...
New Mexico workers compensation rates are cut an average of 4.2 percent
Nov 6 2006 // Rates are being cut for New Mexico workers’ compensation insurance premiums. The state Insurance Department has approved overall workers’ compensation rate reductions of 4.2 percent for the voluntary market and...
New Mexico workers compensation rates are cut an average of 4.2 percent
Nov 5 2006 // Rates are being cut for New Mexico workers’ compensation insurance premiums. The state Insurance Department has approved overall workers’ compensation rate reductions of 4.2 percent for the voluntary market and...
Golden State Division of Workers’ Compensation proposes penalties against laggard insurers
Nov 5 2006 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation has issued a revised proposal of regulations that would penalize insurers and self-insurers that show a pattern of denying or delaying workers’ compensation...
Wellmark Commits $5 Million to Jobs Program in Rural Iowa
Oct 30 2006 // Des Moines, Iowa-based Wellmark Inc. has committed $5 million in venture capital to help encourage business development and expansion in rural Iowa communities. The effort is through the Iowa Farm Bureau’s Renew...
