News Digest 8/28/2008
New York Gov: Rates Will Go Down Again Next Year Workers’ compensation insurance rates will decline again in 2009, according to N.Y. Gov. David Paterson. The rates will drop 5 …
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California-Based Carriers’ 2007 NAIC IRIS Ratio Results
State regulators use the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ IRIS ratios as early-warning indicators of insurers’ financial health. With the exception of carriers that have entered the market in the past two years, this list contains only companies that have written at least $6 million in premium. For the full charts, see our resources section …
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It’s Good When The Truth Gets Out
More details about the terms and conditions of Janet Frank’s contract with the State Compensation Insurance Fund are slowly coming out, but as is typical for State Fund the information is being revealed in a circuitous and piecemeal fashion that fails to give the public the whole picture. As we reported a week ago, …
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LXXVIII Another Inconvenient Truth
It doesn’t appear that much of a stir was created by the recent announcement that the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau is seeking a 16% increase in California workers’ comp …
News Digest 8/20/2008
Upstate N.Y. Tannery Owner Charged with Failing to Cover Workers The 35-year-old owner of a Gloversville, N.Y. tannery is charged with failing to provide workers’ compensation insurance for more than …
News Digest 8/13/2008
A New Computation for LAE? Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner rejected the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s methodology last year for computing loss adjustment expense projections. What parts of the data …
News Digest 7/23/2008
Publius LXXVII: Steve Poizner Is No John Garamendi It must be getting awfully cold in Purgatory these days as Publius compares former Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi’s handling of the issues …
Poizner Delivers Campaign-Style Stump Speech On Workers’ Comp
LONG BEACH—In a presentation that had a distinct campaign trail air to it, Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner promised a roomful of employers and workers’ comp professionals that he is not only working to protect workers’ comp reforms but also to make them more effective for employers and injured workers alike. “That’s why I ordered a …
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