Latest Self Insured Headlines
All the headlines from our Self Insured Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Medicare Set Asides in Workers’ Compensation
Jan 24 2011 // What Agents & Brokers Need to Know One of the most important services a broker provides its customers is workers’ compensation claims review. Successful resolution and prompt closure of workers’...
Medical Costs Drive Up Calif. Municipalities’ Workers’ Comp
Jan 20 2011 // Despite a decline in the number of job injury claims reported by California public self-insured employers last year, rising claim severity drove up total workers’ compensation costs for cities, counties and other...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division Approves 12 Companies to Self-Insure
Jan 10 2011 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) approved the renewals of the Certificates of Authority for 12 companies to self-insure their workers’ compensation claims for a...
California Self-Insured Group Declared in Default
Dec 5 2010 // The Contractors Access Program of California (CAP), a self insured group, has been declared in default due to insufficient funding required for continued operation, California’s Department of Industrial Relations...
California Self-Insured Group Defaults
Nov 19 2010 // The Contractors Access Program of California (CAP), a self insured group, has been declared in default due to insufficient funding required for continued operation, California’s Department of Industrial Relations...
EPIC RRG Names Billingham CEO
Nov 15 2010 // The Board of Governors of Emergency Physicians Insurance Company (EPIC), a California-based medical professional liability insurance provider, has elected Graham Billingham president and CEO. Billingham is a 25-year...
Ohio Workers’ Compensation Bureau Manager Quit Amid Ethical Questions
Nov 15 2010 // A manager at Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers has resigned amid ethical questions about whether his private side business benefited from connections he made while on the state payroll. Documents provided to...
Kentucky Contractors’ Self-Insurer to Return $11 Million Dividend
Nov 4 2010 // The Kentucky Associated General Contractors Self Insurers’ Fund, a provider of workers’ compensation insurance, said it will return $11.3 million in dividends to its qualifying membership in March of 2011. The...
Risk Retention Groups Call for Changes to Federal Liability Act
Nov 1 2010 // RRGs Seek Dispute Mechanism, Ability to Write Commercial Property, Uniform Regulation The Liability Risk Retention Act of 1986 (LRRA) was enacted to help solve the crisis of the 1980s created by the unavailability of...
10 Things to Know About Commercial Property Insurance
Oct 18 2010 // 1. Flood Coverage Flood coverage is NOT included in the Commercial Property Package (CPP). 2. Vacant v. Unoccupied “Vacant” and “unoccupied” are not synonymous in the CPP. A building or unit can be...
Medical Benefits Biggest Cost in Calif. Workers’ Comp System
Sep 28 2010 // The sagging economy took a toll on California’s covered work force and payroll in 2008, but the California workers’ compensation system remains the largest in the United States, accounting for more than 1 out...
Texas Approves 16 Companies to Self-Insure for Workers’ Comp Claims
Sep 8 2010 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) approved one initial application and 15 renewals of the Certificates of Authority for companies to self-insure their workers’...
Emergency Physicians Insurance RRG Hires VP of Underwriting
Jul 19 2010 // Emergency Physicians Insurance Co. (EPIC), a Roseville, Calif.-based medical professional liability insurance provider, has added Colleen Elkin as vice president of underwriting. Elkin will direct EPIC’s underwriting...
Premiums for New High Risk Pool to Average $400-$600 Per Month
Jul 2 2010 // President Barack Obama’s new health coverage for uninsured people with health problems won’t be cheap — monthly premiums as high as $900, administration officials said. Prices will vary by state and type...
New York Looking to Clamp Down on Self-Insured Trusts
Jun 30 2010 // New York Gov. David Paterson wants to rein in the use of self-insured trusts in the Empire State, following the recommendation of task force formed in the wake of several high-profile trust collapses over the last several...
Ohio Selects Medical Mutual to Operate Temporary High Risk Pool
Jun 25 2010 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson announced that a non profit entity, Medical Mutual of Ohio, has been selected to operate the state’s temporary high risk pool program, created through the federal...
Texas Approves 10 Companies to Self-Insure for Workers’ Comp
Jun 11 2010 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) approved the renewal of the Certificates of Authority for 10 companies to self-insure for workers’ compensation claims for a...
Data Shows Med Mal Indemnity Payments in Connecticut Fell
Jun 10 2010 // Fewer than half of the medical malpractice claims settled by Connecticut insurers over the last four years resulted in payments to patients, and the average size of those payments fell last year, according a new report by...
Conservator Appointed to Manage Contractor’s Access Program of Calif.
May 4 2010 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) has appointed Bickmore Risk Services and Consulting as conservator for the Contractor’s Access Program of California (CAP), which is a self-insured group...
California Contractors Self-Insured Group Closes
Apr 30 2010 // The California Office of Self-Insured Plans is revoking the certificate of the Contractors Access Program of California (CAP), a self-insured group of contractors, as requested by the group. According to OSIP spokeswoman...
