News Digest 11/15/2007
Oregon Insurance Division Has New Administrator The Department of Consumer and Business Services names Scott Kipper, currently the deputy commissioner of the Office of Health Insurance for the Louisiana Department …
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News Digest 11/13/2007
N.D. Governor Wants Power to Hire WSI Director North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven, who recently urged Workforce Safety and Insurance to hire a consultant to advise on personnel issues and …
News Digest 11/12/2007
Granite State Bill is Insurance Industry’s ‘Biggest Issue by Far’ A recent New Hampshire law ends a workers’ compensation exemption for all corporations and LLCs with no employees and no …
WCAB Rejects SCIF’s Bullying Ploy
A California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board panel has rejected State Compensation Insurance Fund’s attempt to bully a hospital into accepting deeply discounted payments based on a contract between the hospital and Blue Cross, even though State Fund was not party to that contract. According to the decision, State Fund’s assertion that Blue Cross discounts applied …
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News Digest 11/2/2007
Computers Seized from Monterey County Firms in Fraud Probe Investigators from the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office and the Department of Insurance search a Salinas packaging materials plant and a …
News Digest 10/30/2007
N.C. to See Lowest Rate Boost in Four Years After a compromise between the North Carolina Rate Bureau and state insurance officials, workers’ comp rates for North Carolina employers will …
News Digest 10/24/2007
Florida Insurance Chief Rejects NCCI Filing Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty disapproves the most recent workers’ compensation rate filing by the National Council on Compensation Insurance, which had requested a …
News Digest 10/23/2007
Prosecutors Drop Felony Charges Against WSI Officials North Dakota prosecutors dismiss felony conspiracy charges against two Workforce, Safety and Insurance executives due to new information. Sandy Blunt, executive director, and …