California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is seeking more participants for its e-forms trial, which allows filers to electronically submit forms and documents directly into its Electronic Adjudication Management System (EAMS). Using a logon and password to access EAMS, e-form …
President Barack Obama, seeking to demonstrate strong leadership on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, will demand today that BP set aside billions of dollars to pay damages from the catastrophe. A day after he vowed to fight the spill …
The current recession has reduced Oregon revenues, and has forced the Legislature to make deep cuts. Coping with these cuts includes closing the Department of Consumer and Business Services and most other state agencies on 10 Fridays that fall throughout …
Latta Insurance Services Inc. of Henderson, Ky., has become Keystone Insurers Group’s seventeenth franchise partner in Kentucky. Latta Insurance Services President Williams S. Latta announced the new arrangement jointly today with Keystone President David Boedker. Latta Insurance has served western …
The Senate today voted against legislation that included a provision to reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Along with short term extensions for numerous other federal programs, the NFIP extension was passed by the House just prior to the …
iPipeline, which supplies on-demand software to insurance carriers and producers, reports it has been granted a U.S. patent for its computerized method for preparing insurance applications. Under the method covered by patent, the completion of an insurance pre-application can be …
BP Plc Wednesday agreed to a demand by U.S. President Barack Obama to pay $20 billion into a special fund to handle claims from its huge Gulf of Mexico oil spill and said it was suspending payment of dividends this …
A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A+’ (Superior) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “aa-” of Intact Insurance Group and its members: Belair Insurance Company Inc. (Montreal, Quebec), Intact Insurance Company, Novex Insurance Company, The Nordic …
West Virginia insurance regulators have put black lung premium increases on hold. The National Council on Compensation Insurance asked Insurance Commissioner Jane Cline’s office in May to increase rates for black lung losses incurred by insurers. The council requested a …
Here’s an unappetizing thought: A review of restaurant food safety practices found that a typical kitchen worker cross-contaminates food with potentially dangerous pathogens about once per hour. Among the risky behaviors cited were workers using aprons and other garments to …
