News Digest 8/15/2008
Minnesota Labor Commissioner Pushes Workers’ Comp Reform In Minnesota, workplace injuries are down, but the cost per injury is rising, and that widening gap carries perilous consequences for the state’s …
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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 …
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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LXXVI Watchdog. Here, Watchdog. Oh, Watchdog?
It seems like an eon ago, when then-Insurance Commissioner and now-Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi went to war with State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF). This celebrity death match was ultimately resolved …
LXX ULAE, ILAE, We All LAE
It was only a matter of time. The insurance commissioner, having served up his sugarplum vision of how workers’ comp insurers should be able to reap a wonderful rate of …
Advisory On SCIF Audit
So many readers have communicated with us asking if or where our coverage of the Commissioner’s Audit of SCIF was or what we would be doing that we feel obligated to let our readers know. Workers’ Comp Executive is actively working on its coverage but does not want to ride on the same bandwagon – …
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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 …
Rate Are In
The rates are in, and this year most workers’ compensation insurance carriers chose to stick close to Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner’s recommendation for a 14.2 percent decrease in the pure premium rate. For those who strayed from the commissioner’s counsel, most opted for a smaller decrease.
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