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Workers’ Compensation Claims Skyrocket in North Carolina City
Apr 14 2015 // Gastonia may have to tap into its savings account to pay for skyrocketing workers’ compensation claims. The Gaston Gazette reports that the city has nearly spent all of its $538,000 for claims and may end up eating...
North Carolina Contractor Jailed for Taking Insurance Money for Fraudulent Jobs
Apr 10 2015 // Authorities are accusing a contractor of taking more than $9,000 from insurance companies for roofing jobs in Richmond County, N.C., that he didn’t do. The Richmond County Daily Journal reports 42-year-old David...
Liberty Mutual to Bring 5K Jobs to North Texas Campus
Apr 9 2015 // Liberty Mutual Insurance expects to have 5,000 employees working at its new campus in the Dallas suburb of Plano by the end of 2017. The nation’s third-largest insurer told employees Tuesday about the new campus, the...
New Hampshire Senate Delays Workers’ Compensation Reform Deal
Mar 27 2015 // New Hampshire state senators have pushed off a deal to reform New Hampshire’s workers’ compensation insurance laws. The chamber voted Thursday to send a tentative deal, which would’ve given providers...
Employees Exempt from Workers’ Compensation
Mar 27 2015 // Employee-employer relationships regarding workers’ compensation are complicated by the IRS, industrial commissions, the courts and state statute. Each has its own definition or applies a different test to define...
Humana to Exit Workers’ Compensation with Sale of Concentra
Mar 27 2015 // Humana Inc. has agreed to sell the stock of its subsidiary Concentra Inc., one of the largest occupational health services providers. The buyer will be MJ Acquisition Corp., a joint venture between Select Medical Holdings...
UK Report Highlights Role of Insurance in Managing, Mitigating Cyber Risk
Mar 24 2015 // Last year 81 percent of large UK businesses and 60 percent of small companies suffered a cyber security breach. In response to this increasing threat, a report published by the UK government and Marsh, one of the...
Benefits Provided Under Workers’ Compensation Laws
Mar 23 2015 // Injuries or illnesses established as compensable under applicable workers’ compensation law require prescribed benefits be paid to the injured employee. Benefit limits and duration vary by jurisdiction but each state...
N.H. Issues Guidance on Producer Compensation
Mar 23 2015 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department recently issued a bulletin on permissible forms of insurance producer compensation. “We had received inquiries from producers and wanted to provide helpful guidance for...
Tennessee Weighs Workers’ Compensation ‘Option’ Legislation
Mar 23 2015 // Tennessee may soon have its own alternative workers’ compensation insurance through new legislation by Republican lawmakers known as the Tennessee Employee Injury Benefit Alternative. State Sen. Mark Green and Rep....
Supreme Court Asked to Decide Standard for Vaccine Injury Compensation
Mar 20 2015 // The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether people who suffer harmful vaccine side effects should have an easier time winning compensation from the government. Congress created what’s known as the vaccine...
UK’s MGAA Launches Initiative to Support MGA Talent Development
Mar 20 2015 // The UK’s Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA), has announced a much needed initiative to find and promote “young talent” in the insurance industry. It’s specifically aimed at...
Workers’ Compensation History: The Great Tradeoff!
Mar 19 2015 // Eighteenth century pirates and a nineteenth century German “Iron” Chancellor preceded the United States in the creation of a social system for the protection of injured workers. The modern workers’...
The Norton Agency of Georgia Appoints Marks as VP Managing Partner
Mar 15 2015 // Todd Marks Georgia-based The Norton Agency’s Insurance Division has appointed Todd Marks as VP managing partner of its Norton Mountain Insurance Division. Marks joins Norton as an equity partner after a 25 year...
Kansas Hotel Owner Going to Prison for Hiring Illegal Workers
Mar 12 2015 // A suburban Kansas City hotel owner has been sentenced to 27 months in prison in a case that highlights the U.S. Justice Department’s shift to targeting employers who knowingly hire immigrants not authorized to work...
More States Eye Use of Drug Formularies in Workers’ Compensation
Mar 10 2015 // While workers’ compensation pharmacy benefit managers have been utilizing drug formularies to control prescription drugs costs and monitor medical treatments for a long time, states are now catching on. Drug...
Former Hylant Executive in Ohio Denies Trade Secret, Recruiting Charges
Mar 10 2015 // A former Hylant Group Inc. official denied that he misappropriated trade secrets and tried to recruit Hylant employees to Chicago-based Wells Fargo Insurance Services Inc. Todd J. Belden, in a March 4 court filing, opposed...
Connecticut Bill Would Help Firefighters Claim Cancer Compensation
Mar 9 2015 // Connecticut state lawmakers are considering legislation that would presume firefighters who have cancer most likely got it from their jobs, easing claims for insurance or workers’ compensation. The science supports...
Public Radio Report Puts Spotlight on Workers’ Compensation’s ‘Grand Bargain’
Mar 9 2015 // Last week’s ProPublica/National Public Radio report putting a spotlight on the workers’ compensation system caught the attention of experts who were meeting in Boston to share research on how the system is...
Tapping Into the Talent Pipeline
Mar 9 2015 // By 2020, the entire insurance industry will have 400,000 positions to fill. About 120 academic programs exist worldwide offering courses, concentrations and majors in risk management and insurance. About 80 are located in...
