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More Workers Claiming Job Discrimination Over Language, Accents
Dec 4 2012 // More people in the workforce are claiming discrimination over their English-speaking ability or foreign accents, according to federal officials. Workplace discrimination complaints based on national origin — which often...
Pacific Compensation Taps Frank as President and CEO In California
Dec 3 2012 // Janet D. Frank has joined Pacific Compensation Corp., a California workers’ compensation specialist and wholly-owned subsidiary of Alleghany Corp., as president and chief executive officer Frank will also be named...
Indiana Court: Compensation Fund May Not Dispute Liability in Med Mal Case
Dec 3 2012 // Indiana’s high court has ruled that the state’s fund established to cover excess damages in medical malpractice cases may not dispute the existence or cause of a plaintiff’s injury in a case in which the...
Ohio Insurance Institute Launches Insurance Careers Website
Nov 28 2012 // The Ohio Insurance Institute (OII) announced it has launched www.InsuranceCareers.org, a new website dedicated to providing information on the variety of career opportunities within the insurance industry. The OII, a...
ProWriters Acquired; Opens as Independent Managing General Underwriter
Nov 28 2012 // West Chester, Pa.-based ProWriters (www.prowritersins.com), formerly a professional liability division of Venture Insurance Programs, has become an independent managing general underwriter (MGU). Brian Thornton, the new...
Georgia Physicans Mull Workers’ Compensation-Like Plan for Medical Malpractice
Nov 20 2012 // Georgia physicians are debating whether to push for a state constitutional amendment to reinstate a $350,000 cap on medical malpractice non-economic damages or scrap the current tort driven system in favor of a scheme...
West Virginia Court Supports Lesbian’s Bias Claim in Lost Job Offer
Nov 19 2012 // A jury in West Virginia’s Kanawha County has concluded that members of a Charleston after school program rescinded a job offer to a woman after they discovered she is a lesbian. The jurors reached their verdict...
Colorado Springs Wildfire Expected to Create Jobs
Nov 19 2012 // Economists say a wildfire that burned 346 homes and scorched 28 square miles in the Colorado Springs area over the summer could provide an economic boost over the next five years. Claims for the contents and homes damaged...
Indiana Court: Compensation Fund May not Dispute Liability in Med Mal Case
Nov 14 2012 // Indiana’s high court has ruled that the state’s fund established to cover excess damages in medical malpractice cases may not dispute the existence or cause of a plaintiff’s injury in a case in which the...
Pricing Improved in 2011 But Workers’ Compensation Still Challenged: A.M. Best
Nov 13 2012 // The troubled workers’ compensation line of business got a break in 2011 as employment and payrolls stabilized and overall net premiums written increased by 10 percent, according to an A.M. Best report. However, A.M....
UK Business Group Calls for Limit to PPI Compensation – Report
Nov 12 2012 // Britain’s government needs to limit compensation paid to customers mis-sold loan insurance, John Cridland, director-general of the Confederation of British Industry, wrote in the Times on Monday. The head of...
Colorado Springs Wildfire Expected To Create Jobs
Nov 7 2012 // Economists say a wildfire that burned 346 homes and scorched 28 square miles in the Colorado Springs area over the summer could provide an economic boost over the next five years. Insurance claims for the contents and...
Georgia Govenor Names Gobeil to Workers’ Compensation Board
Nov 5 2012 // Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has appointed the wife of a high-ranking state official to the Board of Workers’ Compensation. Deal released an executive order Friday naming Elizabeth Gobeil to replace former GOP state Rep....
BrickStreet Still No. 1 in West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Market
Nov 5 2012 // BrickStreet Insurance is still the dominant workers’ compensation insurer in West Virginia, despite competition from more than 200 other companies. The Legislature created BrickStreet in 2005 to replace what had been...
Florida OKs 6.1% Workers’ Compensation Rate Hike
Oct 29 2012 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said he will approve a 6.1 percent rate increase to become effective January 1, 2013 for workers’ compensation insurance rates in Florida. The decision was based the...
ADP Reworks Monthly Private Jobs Report
Oct 24 2012 // A monthly reading of U.S. private sector employment has been revamped to put it more in line with the closely watched government nonfarm payrolls report. Automatic Data Processing said on Wednesday it had made the changes...
Barclays Boosts Compensation Fund for Improper Insurance Sales
Oct 24 2012 // Barclays PLC has set aside another 700 million pounds ($1.1 billion) to compensate customers who bought payment protection insurance which they didn’t need. The bank’s announcement raised its total provision...
Express Scripts Tackles Physician-Dispensed Drug Costs Under Workers’ Compensation
Oct 18 2012 // Express Scripts, a nationwide prescription manager of more than a billion prescriptions each year, has created a new program to help workers’ compensation payers save money on medications. The new product is based on...
Oklahoma Lawmaker Examining Insurance Options for Career Tech Students
Oct 16 2012 // Oklahoma State Rep. Joe Dorman wants to find out what insurance options could be made available for career technology students in Oklahoma. In announcement released by the Oklahoma House of Representatives, Dorman, D-Rush...
Court Urges Change in Florida Workers’ Compensation Law
Oct 12 2012 // An appellate court is urging the Florida Legislature to reconsider a state law that makes injured employees pay employers’ legal costs if they lose good faith workers’ compensation appeals. A three-judge panel...
