All the headlines from our Self Insured Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 11 2002 // More than a year after Sept. 11, the U.S., the European Union (EU) and many other countries are still working on ways to provide adequate insurance coverage for their air carriers. While several plans have been suggested,...
Nov 4 2002 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner M. Diane Koken announced that at the request of Gov. Mark Schweiker, the state insurance department has approved a filing by the Pennsylvania Professional Liability Joint Underwriting...
Sep 6 2002 // ManagedComp Inc., a Woburn, Mass.-based national worker’s compensation underwriter and third party administrator, plans to distribute $5,432,000 in surplus to four self-insurance groups (SIGs) in...
Aug 15 2002 // The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) and its Office of Self Insurance Plans (SIP) is reportedly opposing the bankrupt Henry Mayo Hospital’s reported attempt to force injured workers to resolve...
Aug 5 2002 // How do I insure thee? Let me count the ways.” With apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, that question’s become increasingly meaningful for risk managers, insurers, agents, brokers, consultants and...
Aug 5 2002 // How do I insure thee? Let me count the ways.” With apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, that question’s become increasingly meaningful for risk managers, insurers, agents, brokers, consultants and...
Jul 1 2002 // Minnesota-based RTW Inc., a provider of workers’ compensation management systems, will launch a new business unit on July 15, to provide its proven core product-case and claims management services-to self-insured...
Jun 10 2002 // From mold to construction defects, contractors and those who insure them can run into a mound of claims when building.One company who has stepped in to construct a program for contractors is Nevada-based National Builders...
Apr 15 2002 // The impact of the terrorist attacks of September 11th on the property/casualty insurance industry can hardly be overstated—the largest catastrophe loss ever; an unprecedented convergence of coverages, creating a...
Jan 21 2002 // The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) announced that it had recently approved a plan allowing some private sector groups to self-insure workers’ compensation liabilities.California Motor Car Dealers...
Dec 14 2001 // California Department of Industrial Relations Director Stephen Smith has ordered the state’s Self Insurers’ Security Fund to take charge of payment of HomeBase Inc. and San Francisco French Bread Company...
Nov 12 2001 // During the last hard market, much of corporate America wasted little time in stepping up the search for risk transfer alternatives to traditional commercial insurance. The current hard market appears to be no different if...
Oct 10 2001 // The idea of creating a federally backed insurance pool to guard against future acts of terrorism is gathering steam on Capitol Hill. The Wall Street Journal reported on Oct. 9 that top-level insurance executives and...
Aug 20 2001 // During the last hard market, much of corporate America wasted little time in stepping up the search for risk transfer alternatives to traditional commercial insurance. The current hard market appears to be no different if...
Aug 13 2001 // A.M. Best Co. assigned an “A-” financial strength rating (FSR) to Nonprofits’ Insurance Alliance of California (NIAC) and “B++” ratings to Alliance of Nonprofits for Insurance, Risk Retention...
Jul 26 2001 // A.M. Best Co. assigned an “A-” (Excellent) financial strength rating to Nonprofits’ Insurance Alliance of California (NIAC) and “B++” (Very Good) ratings to Alliance of Nonprofits for...
Mar 19 2001 // The nonstandard auto market enjoyed above-average growth and profitability across the country through much of the 1990s. In fact, by the late ’90s, low entry barriers, including modest surplus levels required to...
Mar 12 2001 // The NONSTANDARD AUTO MARKET gets ready for action that will include increased RATES, risking LOSSES and overall market VOLATILITY.The nonstandard auto market enjoyed above-average growth and profitability across the...
Feb 6 2001 // Charitable nonprofit organizations will soon have access to a new risk retention group called Alliance of Nonprofits for Insurance Risk Retention Group. The alliance was recently licensed in Vermont and offers charitable...
Jan 25 2001 // Illinois Insurance Director Nat Shapo received approval this week to place the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council Risk Management Association Workers Compensation Trust into liquidation. The company, referred to as...