Latest Self Insured Headlines
All the headlines from our Self Insured Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Georgia Mennonite Community May Be Able to Self-Insure
Apr 23 2010 // A small community of Mennonites in south Georgia is close to winning the right to insure itself rather than using auto plans required by the state. A bill allowing the 100-member community to self-insure rather than buy...
Kentucky Contractors Self Insure Fund Pays $8.6 Million Dividend
Apr 20 2010 // The Kentucky Associated General Contractors Self Insurers Fund recently returned $8.6 million in dividends to its qualifying members. This dividend return marked the 16th consecutive year in which the Kentucky AGC/SIF has...
Georgia Opts Out of Temporary Health Insurance High Risk Pool
Apr 13 2010 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine said that he will not participate in the first phase of recently enacted federal health care legislation that calls for the implementation of a temporary high risk insurance...
Texas Approves 9 Companies to Self-Insure for Workers’ Comp
Mar 25 2010 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) approved the renewal of the Certificates of Authority for nine companies to self-insure for workers’ compensation claims for a...
Premier Physicians Insurance Co. RRG Earns “A” Rating
Mar 23 2010 // Las Vegas-based Premier Physicians Insurance Co. risk retention group announced it has earned a Financial Stability Rating (FSR) of “A Exceptional” from Demotech Inc., a financial analysis firm located in...
ProBuilders RRG to Stop Accepting New Business
Feb 7 2010 // The ProBuilders risk retention group offering general liability insurance for builders and contractors will stop accepting new business and not renew most of its 1,800 policies as of March 1. The group program has not been...
ProBuilders RRG to Stop Accepting New Business
Feb 7 2010 // The ProBuilders risk retention group offering general liability insurance for builders and contractors will stop accepting new business and not renew most of its 1,800 policies as of March 1. According to Bill Tepe, chief...
Ohio: Average Payout Per Medical Professional Liability Claim Is $252.5K
Feb 3 2010 // In its fourth annual Ohio Medical Professional Liability Closed Claim Report the Ohio Insurance Department shows a total of 3,080 medical professional liability claims were closed in 2008. The amount of compensation paid...
ProBuilders Risk Retention Group for Contractors to Close
Jan 19 2010 // The ProBuilders risk retention group offering general liability insurance for builders and contractors will stop accepting new business and not renew most of its 1,800 policies as of March 1. According to Bill Tepe, chief...
Companies Offer Aid for Haitians; Caribbean Risk Pool Pays $8M
Jan 13 2010 // Companies pledged millions of dollars in aid Wednesday to help victims of a powerful earthquake in Haiti that devastated much of the impoverished country’s capital and killed thousands. Digicel Group, a top mobile...
Nurses, Long-Term Care Facility Risk Retention Groups Merge, Expand
Jan 12 2010 // Atlanta-based Lewis & Clark LTC RRG, Inc., a nationwide provider of liability insurance to long-term care facilities, has merged with Sophia Palmer Nurses RRG, Inc. of Florida. Sophia Palmer RRG was established in 2006...
New York Officials Sue Workers’ Compensation Trust Manager CRM
Dec 11 2009 // Insurance administrator CRM Holdings is being sued for $405 million by New York’s workers compensation board and faces a separate $150 million lawsuit by the state attorney general over its alleged fraud in the...
Texas Approves 13 Companies to Self-Insure for Workers’ Comp
Dec 2 2009 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) approved the renewal of the Certificates of Authority for 13 companies to self-insure for workers’ compensation claims for a...
American Empire Surplus Unveils E&O Cover for Medicare Compliance
Nov 6 2009 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based American Empire Surplus Lines Insurance Company, a member of the Great American Insurance Group, has launched an errors and omissions liability insurance product for Medicare Statutory...
New York Med Mal Insurer Reducing Buy-in for New Policyholders
Oct 8 2009 // J. M. Woodworth RRG, Inc., a medical malpractice Risk Retention Group that insures physicians and surgeons in New York, is reducing the capital new policyholders are required to pay by 83 percent through the end of this...
Fargo, North Dakota, to Cease Self-Insuring for Liability
Oct 6 2009 // Fargo’s finance director says the city likely will switch from its self-insured liability plan to the North Dakota Insurance Reserve Fund by next year. Finance Director Kent Costin said moving away from the...
Text: Senate Finance Committee’s America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009
Sep 16 2009 // Chairman’s Mark America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009 Scheduled for Markup By the Senate Committee on Finance On September 22, 2009 America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009 TITLE I—HEALTH CARE...
North Carolina Recovers Self-Insurer’s Comp Funds
Sep 7 2009 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin said that $6.5 million will be returned to 661 employers who formerly were members of the Phoenix Fund Inc., a self-insured workers’ compensation fund that was put...
Texas Approves 8 Companies to Self-Insure for Workers’ Comp
Jun 24 2009 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) approved the renewal of the Certificates of Authority for eight companies to self-insure for workers’ compensation claims for a...
Ohio High Court: Employer not Eligible for Work Comp Benefits Refund
Jun 17 2009 // The Supreme Court of Ohio has ruled that a double dismissal of a workers’ compensation appeal does not entitle an employer to a refund of compensation benefits from the state. Specifically, according to the Ohio high...
