News Digest 9/6/2007

N.C. Rate Bureau Asks for 5.9 Percent Boost In North Carolina, insurers are seeking an average increase of 5.9 percent in workers’ compensation insurance rates. The N.C. Rate Bureau’s request … Read More »

News Digest 8/21/2007

A.M. Best Rates Employers Direct Ratings bureau A.M. Best Co. assigns a financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) and an issuer credit rating of “a-” to Employers Direct Insurance Company … Read More »

A.M. Best Rates Employers Direct

Ratings bureau A.M. Best Co. assigns a financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) and an issuer credit rating of “a-” to specialty workers’ compensation carrier Employers Direct Insurance Company of Agoura Hills. The outlook for both ratings is stable. Employers Direct is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alleghany Corp., a Delaware-domiciled publicly traded holding corporation that … Read More »

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News Digest 8/17/2007

Some Might Lie, but Numbers Don’t Data Problems with American International Group’s reporting to the California Bureau are only the tip of what could turn out to be a much … Read More »

Fresno County Farm Bureau And State Compensation Insurance Fund Host Annual Cotton Harvest Safety Program

As harvest season approaches, Fresno County Farm Bureau and State Compensation Insurance Fund will host their annual Cotton Harvest Safety Program on Tuesday, Sept. 25 at the Westside Field Station, located at Lassen and Oakland avenues near Five Points. The free program begins with registration at 7:30 a.m. and concludes with lunch at noon. The … Read More »

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News Digest 6/28/2007

Methodology Disagreements: Bureau Audit to Start California’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau is feeling the heat for more than a decade of allegedly inaccurate rate forecasting. Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner … Read More »

News Digest 6/26/2007

Ohio BWC: Computer with Workers’ Personal Data Stolen A laptop computer, which nearly a month ago was stolen from the garage of an Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation auditor who … Read More »

News Digest 5/4/2007

WCIRB Study: Reform Keeps Employers’ Costs Down The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California, in its review of workers’ comp insurers’ for 2006, finds that California employers are continuing … Read More »