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Workers’ Comp Medical Costs Climb in California

California’s insured employers paid some $5.2 billion in medical costs during 2013 for injured workers. So says California’s private Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (Bureau) in its upcoming annual report. It will contend the largest increases were made to physicians and payments directly to injured workers for future medical care as part of settlement agreements. Unlike … Read More »

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Bureau Eyes Earlier Rate Filings, X-Mod Updates

The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau is considering changing up the process for making its annual workers’ comp rate filing and updating the experience rating plan used to establish X-Mods for employers. The Bureau is considering returning to its former practice of making its annual rate filing in July every year instead of its current … Read More »

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Experience Rating Plan Changes To Hit X-Mods

Employers with one or more claims in their experience better get ready for sticker shock when they get their 2013 workers’ comp policy renewal quotes. Not only are rates on the increase, the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB or Bureau) is increasing the charges in its credibility tables for the experience rating system and … Read More »

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Dave Jones Did Approve A 37% Rate Increase

In our flash report yesterday about the Bureau’s proposed mid-year rate increase, of 9.1%, we included the fact that California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones approved a 37% average rate increase for last January – 2012. The California Department of Insurance in the person of Byron Tucker, Deputy Commissioner of Communications and Press Relations contacted us angrily demanding … Read More »

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Bureau Sees Prices Up, Costs Moderate

Through the first quarter of the year, California’s workers’ comp carriers have raised the average rate they charge the state’s employers by 3% as they gained ground on the system’s underlying costs. The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) estimates that the industry’s loss ratio through the period is 71% — a two-point decline from … Read More »

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Bureau To Seek 22.8% Increase In Pure Premium Rate

Unfazed by last month’s rejection of its recommendation to increase the workers’ comp claims cost benchmark, the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau is going to come back with a recommendation for a 22.8% boost for policies incepting or renewing on or after January 1, 2010 — a difference of just a point from its mid-year … Read More »

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FLASH: Bureau Lowers Rate Request

Citing revised data from Zurich, the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau has lowered its pure premium rate recommendation to a 23.7% increase, down from 24.4. The change came after a data call in which Zurich US Group submitted revised aggregate financial data that pushed the curve for the claims cost benchmark. The lower filing won’t … Read More »

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Bureau Disciplines but Doesn’t Disclose

The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) hauled two carriers in front of its classification and ratings committee recently to answer for ongoing problems with their data reporting processes and procedures. And it’s not the first time either carrier had been informed of the deficiencies, hence the stepped-up enforcement action involving an in-person meeting and … Read More »

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