News Digest 1/24/2008
Employers Direct Launches New Benefits Brokerage This Month Plenary Insurance Services is now in business. Find out about Employers Direct’s foray into benefits brokering. Can it find efficiencies where so …
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Employers Direct New Benefits Brokerage Launched This Month
Employers Direct Insurance Company this month threw open the doors to its new employee benefits brokerage, Plenary Insurance Services. Employers Direct executives say that, to their knowledge, it’s the first offering of an efficient group health program that can work closely with the workers’ comp carrier if the client buys both coverages from the two …
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News Digest 1/15/2008
Florida Regulators Order Some Insurers to Repay Excess Profits According to the Florida Department of Insurance, at least 26 workers’ compensation insurers made too much money between 2003 and 2005 …
News Digest 1/14/2008
Arizona High Court Rules Against State Farm in Underinsured Motorist Case A ruling last week by the Arizona Supreme Court will block insurance companies from lowering underinsured motorist payments to …
News Digest 12/13/2007
Department Questions Bureau LAE Calcs The California Department of Insurance made some unusual moves when rejecting the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s recommendation that pure premiums be raised 5.2 percent. …
LXVII 10Q Or Not 10Q?
The din surrounding the operations of State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) this past summer has diminished in public to a barely audible whimper. But deep inside we know the tumult …
News Digest 11/28/2007
Monterey County Prosecutors Add Charges in Workers’ Comp Case Three new insurance fraud charges are part of the case against managers of the Smurfit-Stone cardboard box manufacturing plant in Salinas. …
News Roundup
TRIA Bill Clears Senate The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed S. 2285, otherwise known as the extension to the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) program. The bill, if signed, would extend the terrorism risk backstop arrangement to 2014, which the industry supports. The extension is of vital importance to the workers’ comp industry in all …
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