ORLANDO, Fla. – The National Council on Compensation Insurance Holdings, Inc. (NCCI) released its annual State of the Line report yesterday during its conference at the Portofino Bay Hotel at Universal Orlando, showing continuing improvements in the national workers' compensation market. Although the NCCI had good news to report in terms of national benchmark averages, it is evident that without California's results mixed into the pot, the numbers would be worse. For example, the 2006 average workers' comp calendar year combined ratio of 96.5 percent — the best underwriting result in at least 30 years – would actually be more than 105 percent sans California's stellar results.
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