All the headlines from our Self Insured Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 11 2007 // Lindsay Contreras has been named vice president of Dallas-based National Construction Insurance Services, a member of Texans Insurance Group. NCIS is the MGA for the SIA Insurance Company RRG Ltd., a Bermuda-based risk...
Aug 7 2007 // Regulations designed to provide guidance to insurers, providers, attorneys and claimants on complying with Washington’s new Health Care Liability Reform Law have been implemented, according to the Office of the...
Jun 29 2007 // Gov. John Baldacci this week signed into law a bill that authorizes Maine’s Dirigo Health program to self-insure. But it doesn’t mean that will happen overnight, or even anytime soon.For now, the...
Jun 15 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation announced that 14 companies with approximately 47,600 employees in Texas recently were approved to self-insure for workers’ compensation...
May 29 2007 // Despite arguments that the state should keep out of a business where only private enterprise belongs, the Maine Senate gave its blessing last week to a proposal to allow the state to venture further into health insurance.A...
May 21 2007 // Risk retention group Cabina-America, whch was licensed in April 2006, has been placed under restrictive order by Commissioner Thomas E. Hampton of the District of Columbia Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking...
Mar 23 2007 // Sophia Palmer Nurses Risk Retention Group, Inc. will offer malpractice insurance to Florida nurses in partnership with the Florida Nurses Association.The newly formed Risk Retention Group was capitalized by Ponce de Leon...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sep 25 2006 // N12SPOTLIGHT: Premiums grow 11.5% in 200510Mass. AG fights FAIR Plan852Interview with N.J. Commissioner Goldman