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Michigan Blue Cross Wins Battle Over Workers’ Compensation Business
Feb 4 2009 // Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox 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...
Louisiana Only State to Add Nonfarm Jobs in December 2008
Jan 29 2009 // Louisiana was the only state in the country with an increase in nonfarm jobs from November to December 2008, the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) announced. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Louisiana...
Supreme Court: Job Bias Law Protects Workers Cooperating in Probes
Jan 28 2009 // The Supreme Court has ruled that workers who cooperate with internal investigations of retaliation by their employers are sheltered by federal laws prohibiting job discrimination. In an opinion this week, the justices held...
Ohio Moves to Limit Swings in Workers’ Compensation Premiums
Jan 27 2009 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) board of directors has approved a rule that is expected to prevent spikes in workers’ compensation insurance costs for many employers. The cap on an...
Congressman Seeks National Review of State Workers’ Compensation Laws
Jan 27 2009 // Congressman Joe Baca, D-Calif., has introduced legislation that would authorize the creation of a National Commission on State Workers’ Compensation Laws. Baca’s National Commission on State Workers’...
Labor, Trial Lawyers Criticize Kansas Workers’ Compensation System
Jan 25 2009 // Every day thousands of Kansans, such as Delbert Young of Wichita, go to work and perform tasks that require physical labor. For Young, it was riding a bicycle from building to building at the vast Boeing Co. facility to...
Kicking Off a Good Team
Jan 25 2009 // 7 Management Lessons Insurance Agencies Can Learn from the Football Field Whether he’s leading football players or insurance agents, Bill Redell knows how to make his teams perform their best. He has more than a...
Florida Workers’ Compensation Market in Good Shape, Says State
Jan 25 2009 // Availability and affordability in Florida’s voluntary workers’ compensation market overall is good, although small firms, new firms and construction firms might face affordability issues due to unique...
Insurers Propose Decrease for Nevada Workers’ Compensation Rates
Jan 22 2009 // Nevada Insurance Commissioner Scott Kipper announced that the industry’s National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. (NCCI) has submitted a filing for an average decrease of 4.9 percent for Nevada workers’...
North Dakota Weighs Letting Firms Self-Insure for Workers’ Compensation
Jan 20 2009 // A North Dakota state agency is the only entity that can legally sell workers compensation insurance to businesses in the state. But Minot state Rep. Dan Ruby says it’s about time the Workforce Safety and Insurance...
The Hartford Hiring 150 Workers for Reno Call Center
Jan 13 2009 // The Hartford Financial Services Group plans to hire 150 full-time workers by spring for a Reno, Nev., call center. The Connecticut-based company says the workers will take service calls from members of AARP, the...
Colorado Casualty Introduces Workers’ Compensation to Product Line
Jan 13 2009 // Englewood, Colo.-based Colorado Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, announced that it is adding workers’ compensation coverage to its commercial insurance product line. Workers’...
Labor, Trial Lawyers Criticize Kansas Workers’ Compensation System
Jan 12 2009 // Every day thousands of Kansans, such as Delbert Young of Wichita, go to work and perform tasks that require physical labor. For Young, it was riding a bicycle from building to building at the vast Boeing Co. facility to...
Apex Global Names Beck Managing Director – Business Development
Jan 12 2009 // Dallas-based Apex Global Partners (AGP) has appointed Jay Beck as managing director of Business Development for its Benefits and Consulting Division and senior vice president of the corporation. Beck has twenty years of...
Montana State Auditor Releases Office Staff Salaries
Jan 12 2009 // Montana State Auditor Monica Lindeen has released the salaries of her top staffers. Lindeen was recently sworn in as the state auditor. Her salary is $79,137. Deputy auditor Walter Schweitzer, who managed Lindeen’s...
California Workers’ Compensation Premiums Down in 2008
Jan 11 2009 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has completed its report summarizing insurer loss and premium experience through Sept. 30, 2008. WCIRB said: “California written premium (gross of...
California Workers’ Compensation Insurers File for Rate Increases
Jan 11 2009 // The California Department of Insurance has approved rate increases for several workers’ compensation insurers. California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner had recommended a 5 percent increase in his rate...
Willis Names Fyfe Managing Director – Latin American Reinsurance
Jan 8 2009 // Willis International, a unit of Willis Group Holdings, has announced the appointment of Edward Fyfe as Managing Director of its growing Latin American reinsurance operations, effective immediately. He is based in Lima,...
AIG Says Senior Executives Won’t Get $3 Million Deferred Compensation
Jan 8 2009 // American International Group Inc., the insurer getting a $152 billion federal bailout, said Wednesday that senior executives will not be given a $3 million payment that was to have been distributed by April. In a filing...
Florida Workers’ Compensation Market in Good Shape, Says State
Jan 8 2009 // Availability and affordability in Florida’s voluntary workers’ compensation market overall is good, although small firms, new firms and construction firms might face affordability issues due to unique...
