News Digest 12/4/2007
New York Biz Groups: Labor’s Demand Hoses Employers An obscure, eleventh hour provision in New York’s workers’ compensation reform bill threatens to cut savings for employers, contend insurance and business …
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News Digest 11/27/2007
Plaintiff Lawyers Blast Post-Tort Reform System in Lone Star State At a Dallas Bar Association event, lawyers pepper two Texas Supreme Court justices with questions about their impartiality in the …
News Digest 10/5/2007
Reform a ‘Disaster’ Contend Some Injured Workers Workers’ compensation patients and their advocates visit the state capitol to urge Gov. Schwarzenegger to sign Senate Bill 936, which would increase benefits …
News Digest 8/28/2007
Opinion: Workers’ Comp Reform a Model for California Health Care California’s workers’ compensation system could stand improvement in several respects, but the governor and the state legislature did well in …
News Digest 8/22/2007
Louisiana Reform Group Attacks System A group of hospital and corporate employers, Louisianans for Workers’ Compensation Reform, say they want to change how injured workers are treated via a package …
News Digest 6/5/2007
Reform Treating Some Better Than Others The disparity between workers’ compensation insurance premiums and payouts to injured workers has resulted in record profits to insurers, and the situation has drawn …
Poizner Announces Rate Decrease & Reforms
Minutes ago in a news conference California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced four major initiatives to reform the workers comp system, and ordered a 14.2% pure premium decrease. The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau called only for an 11.3% decrease. The Commissioner said that carrier loss ratios are averaging 37%. As one of his reform …
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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 …