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Washington Hearings on Workers’ Comp Rate Holiday Begin This Week

Dec 12 2006 // The Washington Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) will begin its hearings on a proposal to reduce to zero for six months the premiums employers and workers pay into one of the funds that supports the...

Deceased employee’s estate not entitled to workers’ comp benefits, appeals court rules

Dec 11 2006 // The Second Applegate Court of California has ruled in Six Flags Inc. vs. Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, et. al. that it is unconstitutional to award a $250,000 worker’s compensation death benefit to the...

Declarations

Dec 11 2006 // Award not warranted “Awarding workers’ compensation death benefits to an estate conflicts with the underlying policy of the workers’ compensation scheme, which is to provide financial support to a worker...

Study ranks states on workers’ comp premiums; Alaska highest

Dec 11 2006 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) has issued its biennial study on national workers’ compensation premiums, and noted that Alaska has the highest rates of all 50 states and the District...

CA State Fund files rate decrease

Dec 11 2006 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund is calling for a 9 percent average decrease in collectible premium in its latest filing of workers’ compensation rates for 2007. The new rate will affect new and...

Neb. insurers argue against benefits for state trooper in suicide case

Dec 11 2006 // Family members of a state trooper who killed himself after the 2002 Norfolk bank slayings face another court battle in their fight for workers’ compensation benefits they say they are owed. Several large insurers and...

It Figures

Dec 11 2006 // $1.07 million The fine imposed against the owners of Rhode Island’s The Station nightclub for failing to carry workers’ compensation insurance at the club, the site of a 2003 fire that killed 100 people. Owners...

Dec 10 2006 // People The Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. announced the election of the following officers and directors: President Len Kaplan, executive vice president and CFO, Delta General Agency, Houston; Vice President Lana...

Study ranks states on workers’ comp premiums; Alaska highest

Dec 10 2006 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) has issued its biennial study on national workers’ compensation premiums, and noted that Alaska has the highest rates of all 50 states and the District...

News Currents

Dec 10 2006 // Deceased employee’s estate not entitled to workers’ comp benefits, appeals court rules The Second Appellate Court of California has ruled in Six Flags Inc. vs. Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, et. al....

Declarations

Dec 10 2006 // Award not warranted “Awarding workers’ compensation death benefits to an estate conflicts with the underlying policy of the workers’ compensation scheme, which is to provide financial support to a worker...

Marsh Unit Arranges Collateral Program for N.C. Workers’ Comp Fund

Dec 7 2006 // MMC Securities Corp., an affiliate of Marsh Inc., has completed a $510 million alternative collateral program on behalf of the North Carolina Self-Insurance Security Association for its security fund. The North Carolina...

Cambridge Offers Workers’ Comp Program in California

Dec 7 2006 // Cambridge General Agency is now offering a workers’ compensation program through ACE Casualty Risk, a division of ACE USA. The program is called ACE Complete. There are more than 125 classes in California for small...

N.D. Senators Ask for Dismissal of Workers’ Comp Director

Dec 6 2006 // More than a dozen Democratic state legislators have signed a letter asking for the dismissal of North Dakota’s workers’ compensation director. The director, Sandy Blunt, said he will not resign, and the...

In Delaware, No Hike in Workers Comp; 2.7% for Assigned Risk

Dec 5 2006 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn said he would approve no increase in costs for voluntary market workers compensation rates and a 2.7 percent hike in residual market or assigned risk rates. In so doing, he...

OSHA Catches Fall River, Mass. Contractor with Unprotected Trench

Dec 5 2006 // A Fall River, Mass., contractor faces $25,950 in fines from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) after a spot inspection found two employees working in an unprotected...

Judge Upholds $1 Million Workers Comp Fine in The Station Case

Dec 4 2006 // A judge last week upheld a $1.07 million fine imposed against the owners of The Station nightclub for failing to carry workers’ compensation insurance at the club, the site of a 2003 fire that killed 100 people,...

Court Rules Estate Not Entitled to Workers’ Comp Benefits

Nov 29 2006 // The Second Appellate Court of California has ruled in Six Flags Inc. vs. Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, et. al. that it is unconstitutional to award a $250,000 worker’s compensation death benefit to the...

Virginia Approves Workers’ Comp Price Changes

Nov 29 2006 //

Calif. State Fund Files Average 9 Percent Premium Decrease

Nov 28 2006 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund is calling for a 9 percent average decrease in collectible premium its latest filing of workers’ compensation rates for 2007. The new rate will affect new and...