Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
NCCI Requests Review of Disapproved Florida Rate Filing
Nov 10 2015 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) has submitted a request to the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) to consider supplemental information in regards to its recent workers compensation rate...
Investigation Launched into Workers’ Comp Services Provider BBSI
Nov 10 2015 // A financial investigation is underway into Barrett Business Services Inc. (BBSI), a giant professional employer organization that deals with many workers’ compensation carriers. The independent investigation focuses...
WCIRB: Los Angeles Workers’ Comp Claims Outlier in California
Nov 6 2015 // California’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau released a study on Friday showing significant differences in the costs of claims among the state’s regions – particularly Los Angeles. The...
CPro Associates Adds Archer as National Marketing Director
Nov 6 2015 // Texas-based CPro Associates, a wholesaler specializing workers’ compensation and occupation injury insurance products and services, has hired Jon Archer as national marketing director for alternatives to...
Connecticut Approves Workers’ Comp Loss Cost Decrease of 3.9%
Nov 6 2015 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Katharine L. Wade said Connecticut employers can expect to pay less next year for their workers’ compensation insurance as a result of the Insurance Department’s approval this...
Virginia Med Payments Per Workers’ Comp Claim Among Highest of Study States
Nov 4 2015 // Driven primarily by prices, medical payments per workers’ compensation claim with more than seven days of lost time in Virginia were among the highest of the study states, according to a recent study issued by the...
MarketScout Hires McGee as Workers’ Compensation Broker in Philadelphia
Nov 4 2015 // MarketScout, a national electronic insurance exchange and specialty MGA based in Dallas, has hired John McGee as broker in the Workers’ Compensation Brokerage division. He is based in Philadelphia. In his new role,...
Maryland’s Chesapeake Employers Promotes 3 to Vice President
Nov 4 2015 // Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance Company, Maryland’s largest writer of workers’ compensation insurance, announced the following promotions: Carmine D’Alessandro was promoted to vice president of...
McCarty Orders NCCI to Further Lower Florida’s Workers’ Comp Rates
Nov 4 2015 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin M. McCarty has ordered the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) to lower workers’ compensation rates for Florida employers by 5.1 percent. The Order signed Nov. 3 is...
Top 25 Workers’ Compensation Insurers
Nov 2 2015 // The U.S. workers’ compensation market saw solid gains in 2014, thanks in part to premium increases and favorable claims frequency. This was the fourth consecutive year in which the industry reported improved results,...
Ace Names North American Claims Team with Chubb’s Miller, Ace’s Poetzsch as Executive VPs
Nov 2 2015 // Ace Ltd. has named the future claims leadership team it intends to appoint for the company’s North America Insurance division upon completion of its acquisition of Chubb, which is expected in the first quarter of...
Kansas to See Lower Workers’ Comp Insurance Rates
Nov 2 2015 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Ken Selzer says about 65,000 businesses in the state will pay less for workers’ compensation coverage next year. Selzer said he has approved lower rates proposed by the National Council...
A.M. Best: Outlook Stable for Midwest Builders’ Casualty Mutual, Subs
Oct 29 2015 // A.M. Best has revised the outlook to stable from negative and affirmed the financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating of “a-” for Midwest Builders’ Casualty Mutual Insurance...
Commercial Insurance Rates, Except Auto and Flood, Still Falling: CIAB
Oct 29 2015 // Commercial property/casualty insurance prices continued to decline moderately — an average of 3.1 percent— during the third quarter, according to a survey by The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers. The CIAB...
New Hampshire Approves Workers’ Comp Loss Cost Decrease of 5.9%
Oct 28 2015 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department announced that it has approved the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s advisory loss cost and rating values filling to be effective Jan. 1, 2016. The approved voluntary...
Louisiana Workers’ Comp Insurance Rates Set to Decline Again
Oct 26 2015 // Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon reports that Louisiana businesses are expected to see a decrease in their workers’ compensation rates in 2016. The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) recently...
Kansas to See Lower Workers’ Comp Insurance Rates
Oct 26 2015 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Ken Selzer says about 65,000 businesses in the state will pay less for their workers’ compensation coverage next year. Selzer announced that he approved lower rates proposed by the...
HM Insurance Group Announces 2 New Hires in Pennsylvania
Oct 23 2015 // HM Insurance Group in Pittsburgh announced the hiring of Alex Fickes as marketing underwriter, Workers’ Compensation, for HM Insurance’s central and eastern Pennsylvania territories. Fickes previously worked as...
Florida’s Normandy Insurance Promotes Cook to Underwriting Manager
Oct 21 2015 // Florida-based Normandy Insurance has promoted Greta Cook to the position of underwriting manager. Formerly a senior underwriter with Normandy, Cook’s new role will include managing the underwriting team and focusing...
Wisconsin’s Ashley Furniture Again Cited for Alleged Safety Hazards
Oct 21 2015 // A federal safety agency has again cited Ashley Furniture Industries Inc. for alleged safety violations at one of its Wisconsin factories. The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration alleged that Arcadia-based...
