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NCCI Proposes Reduction for Workers Compensation Rates in Florida
Aug 29 2007 // Driven by significant declines in claim frequency and improvement in loss development (i.e., claims are developing to a lower ultimate value) the National Council on Compensation Insurance is proposing that Florida...
NCCI: Workers’ Compensation Claims Frequency Continues to Fall
Aug 27 2007 // The decline in claim frequency for workers’ compensation injuries has continued into 2006, and the decline continues to be widespread, according to the National Council on Compensation Insurance. NCCI’s latest...
Court Rules Workers’ Comp Costs Can Be Tallied in Incentive Compensation
Aug 24 2007 // The California Supreme Court has ruled that incentive compensation plans, calculated on profits, can subtract out costs for workers’ compensation costs from profits, even if it discourages employees from reporting...
On-the-job fatalities rise in W.Va.
Aug 20 2007 // On-the-job fatalities in West Virginia rose nearly 72 percent last year. Seventy-nine workers were killed on the job in 2006, up from 46 in 2005. It was the highest total for the state since the U.S. Bureau of Labor...
Lawmakers: Former Hurricane Center Head Should Get Old Job
Aug 9 2007 // If the ousted director of the National Hurricane Center is not allowed to return to his job, he should at least be assigned to his previous weather-related position, two lawmakers said Monday. U.S. Reps. Brad Miller,...
Workers’ Compensation Compliance Sweep Nabs 23 Fla. Employers
Aug 8 2007 // Florida workers’ compensation compliance investigators conducted a recent sweep of 177 businesses in two Panhandle counties that resulted in 23 Stop Work Orders against employers found to be operating without the...
Managing energy industry risk in a volatile world
Aug 6 2007 // The world has experienced rapid and profound changes in recent years, and the energy industry has been no exception. Climate changes (including global warming), market fluctuations, ever-increasing business mergers and...
Former National Hurricane Center Director Asks for Job Back
Aug 3 2007 // The ousted director of the National Hurricane Center has asked for his job back, saying his removal was improper. Lawyers for Bill Proenza wrote in an 11-page letter that the manner and timing of his removal in July was...
Two in N.H. Accused of Workers’ Compensation Benefit Fraud
Aug 1 2007 // Two New Hampshire residents have been indicted on fraud charges involving workers’ compensation insurance. Attorney General Kelly Ayotte says indictments were returned against Phillip Rice, 52, of Derry and Dorothy...
New Web Site Seeks to Attract N.J. College Students to Insurance Careers
Jul 25 2007 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. and the New Jersey Young Insurance Professionals have teamed up to create Project Y, a Web site (http://www.projectynj.org) dedicated to generating greater interest in...
N.D. Workers’ Compensation Program Selects Aon’s Valley Oak Systems
Jul 23 2007 // Valley Oak Systems, Inc., an Aon company and provider of insurance solutions, today announced that Workforce Safety & Insurance (WSI), North Dakota’s exclusive workers’ compensation carrier, has selected...
Reeling in the new recruits
Jul 23 2007 // The surplus lines market is not unlike any other segment of the industry. Recruiting and hiring talented young professionals is a top priority. But attracting young college graduates to a small, yet important segment of...
Managing energy industry risk in a volatile world
Jul 23 2007 // Taking the time to qualify a responsive and capable carrier with energy industry-specific expertise, upfront, before scrambling to line up quotes or compare policy parameters, is worth the investment. The world has...
Managing energy industry risk in a volatile world
Jul 23 2007 // Taking the time to qualify a responsive and capable carrier with energy industry-specific expertise, upfront, before scrambling to line up quotes or compare policy parameters, is worth the investment. The world has...
Managing energy industry risk in a volatile world
Jul 23 2007 // The world has experienced rapid and profound changes in recent years, and the energy industry has been no exception. Climate changes (including global warming), market fluctuations, ever-increasing business mergers and...
Reeling in the new recruits
Jul 23 2007 // The surplus lines market is not unlike any other segment of the industry. Recruiting and hiring talented young professionals is a top priority. But attracting young college graduates to a small, yet important segment of...
AWCC Outlines 2007 Workers’ Compensation Bills
Jul 9 2007 // On its Web site, www.awcc.state.ar.us/news.html, the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission summarized workers’ compensation acts passed by the state’s 2007, 86th General Assembly. The full text of...
Survey: N.D. Workers’ Comp Staff Distrust Top Managers; Like Their Jobs
Jun 29 2007 // Most employees at North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency distrust senior managers and believe department policies often are applied unfairly, a new survey says. However, most workers said they enjoyed...
N.C. Man Arrested in Workers Compensation Scheme
Jun 27 2007 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long announced the arrest of Eric Stanley Stokes, charged with one count of obtaining property by false pretense. Stokes, 43, of 5914 Hidden Meadow Ln., Charlotte was processed at...
Fla. extends police, firefighter workers’ compensation benefits
Jun 18 2007 // Florida police, firefighters, paramedics and other first responders would have an easier time becoming eligible for workers’ compensation benefits, and would get a better package of benefits under legislation signed...
