Latest Self Insured Headlines

All the headlines from our Self Insured Topic Page, ordered by recency.

W. Va. court says doctors may self-insure

Mar 12 2007 // The West Virginia Supreme Court voted 5-0 to refuse to hear Charleston Area Medical Center’s appeal of a 2005 circuit court ruling that upheld a physician’s right to provide his own medical malpractice...

N.C. House Panel Advances High Risk Pool Measure

Mar 1 2007 // A bill that would create a special health insurance pool for chronically ill people who aren’t insured or can’t afford coverage is getting another airing in the North Carolina Legislature.The measure won...

W. Va. Court Rebukes Hospital, Upholds Doctor’s Right to Self-Insure

Mar 1 2007 // The West Virginia Supreme Court refused this week to hear Charleston Area Medical Center’s appeal of a 2005 circuit court ruling that upheld a physician’s right to provide his own medical malpractice...

Texas DWC Approves 11 Companies to Self-Insure

Feb 15 2007 // Eleven companies with approximately 27,500 employees in Texas recently were approved to self-insure for workers’ compensation claims for a one-year period under the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of...

Medical Malpractice Risk Retention Group Launched in N.Y.

Feb 7 2007 // J. M. Woodworth Risk Retention Group has registered with the New York Insurance Department to offer medical malpractice insurance to physicians and surgeons in the state.“The RRG provides New York doctors the first...

Del. Regulator Backs Health Pool; Cites New Risk Retention Group

Feb 7 2007 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn urged General Assembly budget writers to fund the creation of a health insurance pool that could cover 10,000 Delawareans.He also reported that a group of Kent County doctors has...

National Contractors Insurance Company, Inc., a Risk Retention Group

Feb 1 2007 // Making General Liability Insurance affordable for General and Artisan Contractors.National Contractors Insurance Company, Inc., a Risk Retention Group (NCIC) specializes in general liability insurance for the licensed...

Mass. Gov. Patrick Derails Romney’s High Risk Pool Changes

Jan 22 2007 // Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said he will comprehensively review the state auto insurance system after the acting insurance commissioner on Friday suspended rules changes made in the system during the final weeks of...

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...

N.Y. workers’ comp trusts: rising prices and broker concerns

Nov 20 2006 // N.Y. workers’ comp trusts: rising prices and broker concernsThe inadequate rates that many of New York’s workers’ compensation self-insured trusts charge may increase effective Jan. 1, 2007 due to...

By Adam Friedlander

Nov 19 2006 // Some brokers have taken steps to protect themselves, asking clients to sign agreements to hold them harmless if they elect to obtain coverage from a trust. Their concern relates to the insolvency exclusion of self insured...

Flaherty to Succeed Keehfus as First Cardinal President, CEO

Nov 1 2006 // Latham, N.Y.-based First Cardinal LLC, a provider of third-party administrative services for workers’ compensation self-insurance groups, announced that co-founder and chief operating officer Richard S. Flaherty has...

RISK RETENTION GROUPS

Sep 25 2006 // N12SPOTLIGHT: Premiums grow 11.5% in 200510Mass. AG fights FAIR Plan852Interview with N.J. Commissioner Goldman

Risk retention group 2005 premium grows 11.5% to $2.4 billion

Sep 25 2006 // Despite the softening property/casualty market, commercial insureds who find liability insurance unavailable or unaffordable, as well as those who desire stability and control of their liability programs, continue to...

Risk retention group 2005 premium grows 11.5% to $2.4 billion

Sep 25 2006 // Despite the softening property/casualty market, commercial insureds who find liability insurance unavailable or unaffordable, as well as those who desire stability and control of their liability programs, continue to...

Texas Work Comp Commissioner Betts Approves 17 Companies to Self-Insure

Sep 20 2006 // Seventeen companies with approximately 82,000 employees in Texas recently were approved to self-insure for workers’ compensation claims for a one-year period under the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of...

Glenn

Sep 4 2006 // Former Executive DirectorA ‘spirited’ Kentucky wants make up ground in the race for captives Glenn Jennings replaced Martin J. Koetters as Executive Director of the Kentucky Office of Insurance in April 2005....

Risk retention groups sustaining profitability

Aug 7 2006 // Since the implementation of the Liability Risk Retention Act of 1986, a number of risk retention groups (RRGs) have met the requirements to obtain A.M. Best’s Financial Strength Rating (FSR). Since then, RRGs have...

Risk retention groups sustaining profitability

Aug 7 2006 // Since the implementation of the Liability Risk Retention Act of 1986, a number of risk retention groups (RRGs) have met the requirements to obtain A.M. Best’s Financial Strength Rating (FSR). Since then, RRGs have...

Risk Retention Groups Sustaining Profitability

Aug 1 2006 // Since the implementation of the Liability Risk Retention Act of 1986, a number of risk retention groups (RRG) have met the requirements to obtain a Best’s Financial Strength Rating (FSR). Since then, RRGs have...