Latest Self Insured Headlines
All the headlines from our Self Insured Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Self Insured Solutions Adds Groups
Jan 24 2006 // Self Insured Solutions (http://www.calsig.com/), a California developer and administrator of private self insured workers’ compensation groups, reported the formation of three new agriculturally oriented Self Insured...
13 Companies Approved to Self-Insure Workers’ Comp in Texas
Jan 19 2006 // Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Albert Betts recently approved the reapplications for Certificates of Authority to Self-Insure covering a one-year period for 13 private employers in Texas. Commissioner...
Virginia Authorizes Partial Payments on Reciprocal of America Claims
Dec 13 2005 // Policyholders with a covered claim against insolvent Reciprocal of America can expect a partial payment soon. The Virginia State Corporation Commission is authorizing the deputy receiver of the liquidated reciprocal...
Best Upgrades Alliance of Nonprofits for Insurance, ANI-RRG to A-
Nov 15 2005 // The Alliance of Nonprofits for Insurance, Risk Retention Group (ANI-RRG) has been upgraded from a B++ (Very Good) to an A- (Excellent) rating from A.M. Best. The rating applies to ANI-RRG and the National Alliance of...
NIAC & ANI-RRG Offering New Prior Acts Coverage
Oct 25 2005 // To assist nonprofits locked into claims-made forms the Nonprofits’ Insurance Alliance of California (NIAC) and Alliance of Nonprofits for Insurance, Risk Retention Group (ANI-RRG) is now offering prior acts...
Natural Disasters Are Just Part of Commissioners’ Concerns
Oct 17 2005 // In addition to natural disasters, health care coverage, federal oversight, uniformity and fraud were among issues of concern to the insurance commissioners of three states who comprised the Commis-sioners’ Panel at...
News Briefs
Oct 3 2005 // N.Y. AG Indicts Former Marsh Execs: New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Insurance Superintendent Howard Mills announced the indictment of eight former executives of insurance brokerage giant Marsh Inc. for their...
Pierson Appointed at AGA
Sep 20 2005 // Affinity Group Administrators announced the appointment of Phil Pierson to its Southern California operations. Based in Folsom, Affinity’s growth has caused the need to establish a greater Southern California...
RRGs Need Uniform Rules, Better Member Safeguards, Argues Federal Report
Sep 14 2005 // State insurance regulators should adopt consistent standards for risk retention groups and Congress should consider continuing the RRG exemption from state insurance laws only in states that adopt the new standards....
TWCC Approves COAs to Self-Insure for 13 Companies
Aug 22 2005 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission approved reapplications for Certificates of Authority to Self-Insure from 12 private employers during a public meeting on August 17. The Commission also approved the...
Auto-Liability
Aug 22 2005 // This recurring feature examines insurance coverage decisions in the Midwest’s appellate courts, as compiled by the New York-based law firm of Goldberg Segalla LLC and edited by insurance lawyer Kevin T. Merriman...
NAMIC Opposes N.C. Changes to Self-Insurance Guaranty Association
Aug 10 2005 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies sent a letter to the North Carolina House Insurance Committee opposing Senate Bill 319, a bill that would amend provisions of the state’s self-insurance guaranty...
CAS Attendees Hear of Positive Trends in California Workers’ Comp
Aug 8 2005 // Insurers, and especially self-insurers, are seeing positive trends as a result of the workers’ compensation reforms in California, experts on the subject told attendees at the recent Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS)...
CAS Attendees Hear of Positive Trends in California Workers’ Comp
Aug 8 2005 // Insurers, and especially self-insurers, are seeing positive trends as a result of the workers’ compensation reforms in California, experts on the subject told attendees at the recent Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS)...
OAHU Applauds Department of Insurance’s High Risk Pool Study
Jul 19 2005 // The Ohio Association of Health Underwriters (OAHU) announced that efforts to establish a High Risk Pool in Ohio have been supported by a study recently released by the Ohio Department of Insurance (ODI). A High Risk Pool...
Montlake Holdings, Texas Alliance of Energy Producers Form Self-Insured Group for Workers’ Comp
Jul 7 2005 // The Texas Alliance of Energy Producers and Montlake Holdings announced they have established a self-insured group for workers’ compensation insurance, the only one of its kind in Texas for business owners in the oil...
CAS Attendees Hear of Positive Trends from Calif. Workers’ Comp Reforms
Jul 4 2005 // Insurers, and especially self-insurers, are seeing positive trends as a result of the workers’ compensation reforms in California, experts on the subject told attendees at the recent Casualty Actuarial Society Spring...
RISK RETENTION GROUP PREMIUM SOARS ABOVE $2B:
Jul 4 2005 // As the number of risk retention groups has skyrocketed in the past three years, so has the premium generated by these member-owned insurers enabled by the 1986 Liability Risk Retention Act. Since year-end 2001, the number...
News Briefs
Jul 4 2005 // ACIC OPPOSES CREDIT BILL: The Association of California Insurance Companies is opposing legislation which would eliminate rather than regulate credit-based insurance scoring, according to ACIC President Sam Sorich. The...
News Briefs
Jul 4 2005 // ACIC OPPOSES CREDIT BILL: The Association of California Insurance Companies is opposing legislation which would eliminate rather than regulate credit-based insurance scoring, according to ACIC President Sam Sorich. The...
