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Insurance Paid $20 Billion, More Than Half of Total Compensation to 9/11 Victims, Rand Study Finds
Nov 9 2004 // Victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks — both individuals killed or seriously injured and individuals and businesses impacted by the strikes — have received at least $38.1 billion in compensation, with...
Workers’ Compensation
Nov 8 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Appleby & Sterling Inc. is now offering workers’ comp insurance. Dollars: Minimum premium of $3,000, 36 classifications. Carrier: Rated “B++” VIII, admitted. States...
New Study Details Arizona's Workers' Compensation System
Nov 8 2004 // According to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI), notable features of Arizona’s workers’ compensation system included a lifetime entitlement to medical and indemnity...
N.H. Comp Market Reflects Low Frequency, Slow Hiring, Workforce
Oct 25 2004 // Workers’ compensation writers in New Hampshire want an average 2.5 percent hike for voluntary market advisory loss costs and a 12.7 percent average increase in residual market premiums, according to the most recent...
Workers’ Compensation
Oct 25 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Workforce Safety and Insurance announced that North Dakota employers can now purchase a workers’ compensation policy to cover their employees who work temporarily outside the state. In partnership...
Workers’ Comp Loss Prevention, Going Beyond the Safety Dance
Oct 25 2004 // You work hard, yet you’re frustrated. Why is your client still suffering from employee injury problems and escalating workers’ compensation insurance cost regardless of your efforts? So, is the solution to do...
Workers’ Compensation
Oct 25 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Appleby & Sterling Inc. is now offering workers’ comp insurance. Dollars: Minimum premium of $3,000, 36 classifications. Carrier: Rated “B++” VIII, admitted. States Available:...
Ark. WCC Releases 2005 Compensation Rates
Oct 22 2004 // The Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission (AWCC) recently released its annual revision of Advisory 2000-1, which announces the amounts to be paid to injured workers under the state’s workers’...
Spitzer Invites Health Insurer into Expanding Broker Compensation Probe
Oct 19 2004 // After going after a number of big property/casualty and life insurers, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer appears to have UnumProvident Corporation on his radar screen too. UnumProvident Corporation (NYSE: UNM) today...
Guy Carpenter Appoints Mueller a Managing Director
Sep 30 2004 // Guy Carpenter & Company, Inc., Marsh Mac’s global risk and reinsurance specialist division, announced the appointment of Wilfried Mueller as a Managing Director, effective January 1, 2005. He will lead the...
Aviva to Outsource an Additional 950 Jobs
Sep 24 2004 // Aviva Plc., the U.K.’s largest insurer, announced that it plans to increase its offshoring capacity by moving some 950 jobs offshore “to service its existing Norwich Union businesses.” The group has...
Sen. Schumer Seeks N.Y. Nuke Workers’ Compensation
Sep 23 2004 // Standing with former nuclear workers from western New York, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) took the federal government to task for not processing claims of 525 former nuclear workers or their survivors, and...
Growth Determines Retail, Wholesale Broker’s Value
Sep 20 2004 // Sustaining Progress in a Changing Rate Environment The wind has been at the back of insurance agents and brokers for the past several years and has resulted in smooth sailing. Organic growth rates have been in double...
Allianz to Disclose Individual Executives’ Salaries
Sep 17 2004 // Germany’s Allianz AG announced that its Board of Management has agreed by mutual consent with the Supervisory Board to provide individual disclosure of remuneration for the members of the Board of Management...
Workers’ Compensation Reform Regulations Move Forward On Schedule
Sep 14 2004 // The California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is on track to meet its Nov. 1 deadline for adopting emergency regulations that will allow medical provider networks to begin...
Kaiser Joins Insurance Journal Staff as New Southeast Managing Editor
Sep 14 2004 // Dave Kaiser Dave Kaiser has joined the Insurance Journal staff as managing editor of Insurance Journal Southeast based in Crystal River, Florida, north of Tampa and northwest of Orlando. Kaiser replaces Dave Thomas, who...
GEICO Expansion Creates Jobs in Buffalo
Sep 14 2004 // Last month, New Jersey state officials announced that GEICO is now selling private passenger automobile insurance in the state through the company’s Web site, geico.com. This was good news not only for New Jersey...
Converium Appoints Clarke Managing Director
Sep 10 2004 // The Board of Directors of Swiss-based Converium Holding Ltd. announced that Terry G. Clarke, F.I.A., 62, has been appointed to the position of Managing Director with immediate effect. Clarke, a British citizen, already...
California Still Vulnerable in Workers’ Compensation Market
Sep 6 2004 // Just when it seemed California might overcome its perennial workers’ compensation crisis, renewed downward pricing pressure threatens to send the market into another tailspin, according to analysts at Standard &...
S&P Report Warns on California Workers’ Compensation
Aug 16 2004 // Downward pricing pressures threaten to send the California workers’ compensation market into another tailspin, according to a new report from Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services. “The industry has...
