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Florida 6.8% Workers’ Compensation Rate Cut Officially Approved
Oct 27 2009 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has issued a final order approving the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s (NCCI) amended rate filing for workers’ compensation insurance rates that will...
Louisiana Alone in Construction Jobs Gains
Oct 23 2009 // Louisiana was the only state in the country where more people were working in the construction industry last month than in September 2008. That’s according to a state-by state analysis by the Associated General...
Study: Workers’ Compensation Public Options Outperform Private Industry
Oct 21 2009 // An insurance industry think tank has concluded that 25 public and quasi-public workers’ compensation insurance plans perform better financially than the private market in a number of performance categories and at...
West Virginia Insurer Brickstreet Plans to Trim 24 Jobs
Oct 21 2009 // BrickStreet Insurance is looking to shed about 24 jobs as it continues adjusting to a market in which it’s no longer the sole provider of workers’ compensation insurance in West Virginia. President and CEO Greg...
Nurse Assistant Denied Workers’ Compensation, Attorney Says
Oct 21 2009 // A nurse assistant who is in a vegetative state after being attacked at a Pasadena hospital has been unfairly denied care by workers’ compensation and her health insurance, her attorney alleges. Amelia Mendoza, 52,...
New Mexico Drops Workers’ Compensation Rate
Oct 21 2009 // The New Mexico Department of Insurance has approved rate reductions in workers’ compensation premiums for the fourth year in a row. Workers’ Compensation Administration director Glenn Smith says such rate...
How to Keep Workplace Friendships from Jeopardizing Your Job
Oct 20 2009 // When it comes to workplace relationships, the general advice is to keep your distance. After all, friendships can be tested by a number of different issues in the workplace. But the people we see every day at work often...
Bayeux Joins Aon Risk Services as Managing Director
Oct 20 2009 // Aon Corp has named John Bayeux as managing director of Aon Risk Services. Bayeux has 22 years of experience as a risk manager and insurance broker in the financial institutions sector. He will work with clients, the...
Q&A with Ironshore’s Kelley: Why He Left AIG and His Plans for Ironshore
Oct 19 2009 // In December, 2008, Kevin Kelley left Lexington Insurance Co., the largest excess and surplus lines insurance company, after more than 30 years during which he helped the company become one of parent American International...
Supreme Court Notebook: Judges as Umpires of Lawyers’ Compensation
Oct 16 2009 // Chief Justice John Roberts once famously and controversially described a judge’s role as akin to an umpire who merely calls balls and strikes. This past Wednesday, Roberts offered a new take on that argument in a...
Chimp Owner Claims Connecticut Woman was Mauled on the Job
Oct 16 2009 // An attorney representing the owner of a chimpanzee that mauled and blinded a woman is calling the attack a work-related incident and said her family’s case should be treated like a workers’ compensation...
Risk Services Expands Workers’ Compensation Program Unit Nationally
Oct 15 2009 // Florida-based Risk Services, a provider of traditional and alternative commercial insurance programs, has expanded its workers’ compensation program administrator division nationally. Risk Services said it will...
Florida Approves 6.8% Workers’ Compensation Rate Cut
Oct 15 2009 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has given the green light to an overall statewide average workers’ compensation rate decrease of 6.8 percent. The decrease, which was proposed by the industry’s...
P/C Insurance Company Salaries Holding Steady
Oct 15 2009 // Despite tough economic times, salary budgets within the property/casualty insurance industry appear to be holding steady, according to a new study from an insurer trade group. According to the Property Casualty Insurers...
Risk Managers Call for Insurance Broker Compensation Disclosure
Oct 14 2009 // In a report released today, The Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc. (RIMS) is calling for complete disclosure of revenue streams from placing insurance products. The push for transparency outlined in the report is...
Texas-based Firm Named PIA’s Managing General Agency of the Year
Oct 13 2009 // The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents has named Empower Insurance Group MGA Inc., headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, as recipient of its 2009 Managing General Agency of the Year Award. “Empower...
London: International Insurance Center
Oct 5 2009 // Systems Changes, Technology, Talent Pool Position London Market for the Future London’s insurance market comprises general carriers, specialty carriers, reinsurers, brokers, underwriters, claims handlers, lawyers,...
Ironman Kevin Kelley: Strength Through Multiple Platforms
Oct 5 2009 // Ironshore’s CEO on Why He Left AIG and How He’s Building His Young Company In December 2008, Kevin Kelley left Lexington Insurance Co., the largest excess and surplus lines insurance company, after more than 30...
London: International Insurance Center
Oct 5 2009 // Systems Changes, Technology, Talent Pool Position London Market for the Future London’s insurance market comprises general carriers, specialty carriers, reinsurers, brokers, underwriters, claims handlers, lawyers,...
Florida Hearing on 6.8% Workers Compensation Rate Drop Set for Oct. 6
Oct 2 2009 // There will be a public hearing in Tallahassee on Oct. 6 for the insurance industry’s proposed 6.8 percent workers’ compensation rate decrease for Florida employers. The National Council on Compensation...
