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From Seed to Supermarket

Oct 20 2008 // Agricultural Risks Require the Knowledge and Skill of Specialty Agents Agribusiness insurance has grown significantly as food production has become a global commodity. Since World War II there has been a dramatic reduction...

Florida Regulator Orders Further Reduction in Workers’ Comp Rates

Oct 16 2008 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty disapproved a worker’s compensation rate filing that the National Council on Compensation Insurance submitted on Aug. 27. McCarty ordered NCCI to make an amended filing to...

Colorado Orders 16% Decrease in Workers Comp Loss Costs

Oct 13 2008 // Colorado employers may be paying lower premiums for workers compensation insurance in 2009, due to the announcement that a significant component of workers’ compensation premiums, known as loss costs, will drop 16...

New Ohio Workers’ Comp Law to Help 40,000 Employers

Oct 13 2008 // A new law has gone into effect that erases a competitive disadvantage for roughly 40,000 Ohio employers paying workers compensation premiums. For years, about 40,000 of the roughly 280,000 Ohio employers paying...

Small Business Owners Unfamiliar With Risks in Self-Insured Groups’ Workers’ Comp Insurance

Oct 10 2008 // Small business owners are not fully aware of the financial risks involved in obtaining workers’ compensation insurance through self-insured groups, according to the results of the most recent Small Business Opinion...

Medical Group Earns First Texas Mutual Workers’ Comp Dividend

Oct 10 2008 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $282,592 dividend to the Texas Medical Group (TMG) workers’ compensation discount program. This marks the group’s first dividend. The group dividend was based largely...

New Jersey Governor Signs Workers’ Comp Reform Package

Oct 9 2008 // New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine has signed a package of five bills lawmakers hope fill strengthen the state’s workers’ compensation system to better protect workers injured on the job. The package of bills...

OSHA Fines Oklahoma Refinery $91K

Oct 8 2008 // The government is proposing $91,000 in penalties against Oklahoma’s Wynnewood Refining Co. for allegedly failing to protect employees from hazardous working conditions. The Occupational Safety and Health...

Texas Company Cited in Fatal I-430 Bridge Accident in Arkansas

Oct 7 2008 // A Texas contractor faces almost $31,000 in penalties after federal safety officials found that undersized bolts and overloaded scaffolding contributed to accident in Arkansas in April that resulted in the deaths of three...

Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Lowers Workers’ Comp Rates

Oct 7 2008 // Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance, a workers’ compensation insurance provider, lowered its rates for numerous industries throughout the state. The rate reduction amounts to 6.7 percent overall and will...

Arkansas Court to Consider Workers’ Comp Fairness Issue

Oct 6 2008 // The Arkansas Supreme Court has agreed to consider an injured man’s argument that the state Workers’ Compensation Commission operates unfairly in violation of the constitution. Arkansas Chief Justice Jim Hannah...

Crane Safety Guidelines Needed

Oct 6 2008 // In March 2008 a construction crane collapsed into a neighborhood bar and nearby apartments in New York City, killing seven people. In Bellevue, Wash., in June 2006, a large crane fell into an apartment building killing a...

Crane Safety Guidelines Needed

Oct 6 2008 // In March 2008 a construction crane collapsed into a neighborhood bar and nearby apartments in New York City, killing seven people. In Bellevue, Wash., in June 2006, a large crane fell into an apartment building killing a...

Crane Safety Guidelines Needed

Oct 6 2008 // In March 2008 a construction crane collapsed into a neighborhood bar and nearby apartments in New York City, killing seven people. In Bellevue, Wash., in June 2006, a large crane fell into an apartment building killing a...

Texas Workers’ Comp Commissioner: We’ve Come a Long Way

Oct 6 2008 // The Texas workers’ compensation system is not working perfectly, but “it has come a long way,” says the state’s new Commission-er of Workers’ Compensation Rod Bordelon. In a speech before an...

Crane Safety Guidelines Needed

Oct 6 2008 // In March 2008 a construction crane collapsed into a neighborhood bar and nearby apartments in New York City, killing seven people. In Bellevue, Wash., in June 2006, a large crane fell into an apartment building killing a...

Oct 6 2008 // Albert Betts, former Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation, joined Thompson Coe Cousins & Irons LLP as a partner in the Insurance Law and Governmental and Legislative Advocacy Sections, effective Oct. 1,...

Crane Safety Guidelines Needed

Oct 6 2008 // In March 2008 a construction crane collapsed into a neighborhood bar and nearby apartments in New York City, killing seven people. In Bellevue, Wash., in June 2006, a large crane fell into an apartment building killing a...

Hawaii Files for 11.6 Percent Workers’ Comp Decrease

Oct 6 2008 // Hawaii’s Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs’ (DCCA) Insurance Division announced that the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) filed a request for a decrease of 11.6 percent in the...

Washington Proposes 3% Increase in Workers’ Comp Rates

Oct 6 2008 // Washington’s Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) has proposed a 3 percent increase in 2009 workers’ compensation rates. Average premiums would go up by under 2 cents per hour worked. “We are...