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South Carolina Debates Workers’ Compensation for Illegal Immigants
Mar 9 2009 // South Carolina legislators are pushing a bill to cut workers’ compensation benefits for illegal immigrants in an effort to strengthen what’s already one of the nation’s toughest laws aimed at keeping...
Finding a Niche
Mar 9 2009 // A Young Company With a Nontraditional Management Style, Heffernan Insurance Brokers Has Shown How an Agency Can Be Young and Successful at the Same Time Top 100 Agency Profile RANKING: No. 11 Agency Name: Heffernan...
AIG Restructuring Chief Reynolds Has Tough Job in Tough Market
Mar 3 2009 // Paula Rosput Reynolds has a job that would daunt some of the most experienced Wall Street veterans — restructuring American International Group Inc. by selling assets in the midst of a severe credit crunch. Reynolds,...
Marsh Issues Study on Managing Risk to Survive Current Recession
Mar 3 2009 // Marsh has launched a report highlighting the key risks companies face as the global economy slows and advice about how to tackle them. Entitled “Managing Through the Downturn,” the report highlights issues...
Gov. Hoeven to Name North Dakota Workers’ Compensation Director Soon
Mar 3 2009 // Gov. John Hoeven’s staff attorney says the governor will soon name a a permanent executive director for the state workers’ compensation agency. Ryan Bernstein, Hoeven’s staff attorney, says the governor...
British Insurer RSA to Cut 1,200 Jobs
Feb 27 2009 // RSA Insurance Group PLC said that it plans to cut 1,200 jobs as it reported a 7 percent fall in its full-year profit. For the year ending Dec. 31, RSA reported a profit of 586 million pounds ($831 million), down from 628...
Audit Hits Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Claims Handling
Feb 27 2009 // An audit of Minnesota’s worker’s compensation system has found that insurers are mishandling a growing number of claims, including by paying injured workers less than they deserve. The report from the...
Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Rates on Downswing
Feb 27 2009 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon says rates for workers’ compensation insurance continue to decrease in his state, based on a recent report from the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI)...
Missouri Court Rejects Labor Challenge to Workers’ Compensation Law
Feb 26 2009 // The state Supreme Court rejected labor union challenges Tuesday to a 2005 law that limited the ability of some injured Missourians to get benefits under the state’s workers’ compensation system. Business groups...
Ohio Approves New Workers’ Compensation Deductible Program
Feb 23 2009 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation has created a new deductible program, the first-ever for BWC, it says will give employers better control of their workers’ compensation insurance spending and provide an...
Vermont Weighs Expansion of Workers’ Compensation Benefits
Feb 22 2009 // Vermont lawmakers will consider a bill that would extend workers’ compensation to cover mental and emotional problems suffered on the job. But the proposal is getting a cool reception from the insurance...
New York Proposes Compensation Disclosure Rules for Agents
Feb 22 2009 // Despite earning praise from major insurance brokerages, a proposed new regimen of compensation disclosure rules for insurance producers has New York agents on edge. The draft regulations issued earlier this month include...
Michigan Blue Cross Wins Workers’ Compensation Battle
Feb 22 2009 // Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox said he is not giving up in his battle and will appeal a judge’s ruling in support of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan’s ownership of workers’ compensation insurance...
Who’s Worth What?
Feb 22 2009 // Agency Salary Survey: Agencies Trim Payrolls and Raises Independent insurance agencies remain reliable employers even in these rocky economic times, but even they have to cut back occasionally. Whether due to efficiencies...
Ohio Therapist to Repay Workers’ Compensation Board $2.1M
Feb 20 2009 // An Ohio man convicted of performing physical therapy on injured workers without a license has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison. U.S. District Court Judge Herman Weber sentenced Michael Stinson in federal court...
Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Insurer to Pay $7.5M Dividend
Feb 18 2009 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) announced it will pay a $7.5 million dividend to qualifying policyholders in February. The pay out will bring LWCC’s cumulative total dividend paid to...
North Dakota Sticks With State Monopoly of Workers’ Compensation Insurance
Feb 13 2009 // North Dakota’s workers compensation insurance monopoly still has strong support in the state House. Representatives voted 86-7 this week to defeat a bill that would have allowed North Dakota employers to buy...
Florida Approves 6.4% Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rate Hike
Feb 11 2009 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has approved a 6.4 percent increase in workers’ compensation insurance rates. The increase applies to new and renewal business and will become effective April 1. The...
New York Proposes Compensation Disclosure Rules for Agents
Feb 6 2009 // Despite earning praise from major insurance brokerages, a proposed new regimen of compensation disclosure rules for insurance producers has New York agents on edge. The draft regulations issued earlier this week include...
North Dakota Bills Respond to Firings of Workers Compensation Whistleblowers
Feb 5 2009 // The dismissals of four employees who questioned how North Dakota’s workers compensation agency was being run showed a state law intended to guard against such firings is almost useless, a state senator believes. Sen....
