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Oct 8 2013 // Florida’s workers’ compensation system has reached a rare state of rate stability, according to insurers and officials.The agency, the National Council on Compensation Insurance, filed for a one percent...
Oct 7 2013 // A federal contractor said it will hire nearly 500 people in Lawton, Okla., to help support the new health insurance exchanges created under the federal health care law.Serco North America announced that it will lease a...
Oct 7 2013 // For most lines of insurance business, commission income is growing, and most insurance agents and brokers expect profits to be similar or better in 2013 compared to 2012. That’s according to the 28th Annual Market...
Oct 4 2013 // New York State is second in the nation, only behind California, for questionable workers’ compensation insurance claims. The Empire State jumped to the second place in 2012 from fifth in 2011, the New York Insurance...
Oct 3 2013 // Workers’ compensation networks certified by the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) continued to show improvements in medical costs, return-to-work outcomes, and health outcomes in the latest annual report card...
Sep 27 2013 // Florida’s Consumer Advocate Robin Westcott has resigned to become the vice president of the American Association of Insurance Services, an Illinois-based industry organization that develops standardized forms and...
Sep 24 2013 // Willis North America announced that James Doyle has been appointed managing partner of Willis’ Tampa operations.In this role, Doyle will oversee Willis’ Tampa operations and will focus on strategic planning,...
Sep 23 2013 // Delaware’s Workers’ Compensation Task Force reconvened earlier this month for its first meeting since Gov. Jack Markell signed the group’s recommendations into law on June 27, 2013.The task force will now...
Sep 17 2013 // ANV Holdings BV, the Dutch-headquartered specialty insurance business founded by CEO R. Matthew Fairfield, and Ryan Specialty Group, LLC announced that they have entered into an agreement to combine their Lloyd’s...
Sep 13 2013 // One in three U.S. and Canadian insurers does not feel adequately protected against fraud and more than half expect personal lines and workers’ compensation fraud to increase this year.The survey by FICO, a predictive...
Sep 11 2013 // A Jasper County, Miss., man has been indicted on charges of workers’ compensation fraud.Attorney General Jim Hood said 55-year-old David Myrick Cox, of Louin, surrendered to investigators with his office’s...
Sep 11 2013 // PricewaterhouseCoopers US (PwC US) announced that Henry Essert joined PwC’s Actuarial and Insurance Management Solutions (AIMS) practice as a managing director in its New York office. In his new role, Essert will...
Sep 11 2013 // Representatives of retailers, labor unions and non-governmental organizations began meeting today in Geneva to discuss compensation for those killed or injured in two factory disasters in Bangladesh.Today’s talks are...
Sep 9 2013 // They weren’t exposed to anywhere near the same level of ash, grit and fumes, but emergency workers who rushed to the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania countryside on 9/11 are signing up for the same compensation and...
Sep 9 2013 // Workers’ compensation loss costs used by insurers in figuring rates to charge employers are going down for the eighth straight year.The loss cost figures show an average reduction of 7.9 percent for the 590...
Sep 9 2013 // Delaware’s Workers’ Compensation Task Force reconvened last Friday for its first meeting since Gov. Jack Markell signed the group’s recommendations into law on June 27, 2013.The task force will now hold a...
Sep 9 2013 // Both workers’ compensation benefits paid to insureds and costs for employers increased in 2011, a new study revealed.Total workers’ comp costs to employers rose by 7.1 percent to $77.1 billion, while...
Sep 9 2013 // The market for workers’ compensation insurance is in a recovery phase of the underwriting cycle after several years of poor results. In particular, premium rates continued to increase meaningfully through the first...
Sep 5 2013 // The buyer of Aviva USA intends to trim about 90 Aviva jobs in the Des Moines, Iowa-area as it cuts about 10 percent of the insurer’s workforce. The Des Moines Register says Aviva employees were told about the...
Sep 4 2013 // MarketScout, the national electronic insurance exchange and specialty MGA headquartered in Dallas, Texas, has expanded its nationwide specialty high-net-worth underwriting and brokerage practice with the addition of...