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Montanans Pay Highest Workers’ Comp Insurance Rates

Montana has the highest workers’ compensation premium rates in the nation, at $3.33 per $100 of payroll, followed next by Alaska, which has a rate of $3.10 per $100 of payroll, according to a new study. In the “2010 Workers’ …

Montana Has Highest Workers’ Comp Insurance Rates

Montana has the highest workers’ compensation premium rates in the nation, at $3.33 per $100 of payroll, followed next by Alaska, which has a rate of $3.10 per $100 of payroll, according to a new study. In the 2010 workers’ …

Florida Approves 7.8% Workers’ Compensation Rate Increase

Florida workers’ compensation insurers have been given the green light to raise rates an average 7.8 percent starting Jan. 1, 2011. Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has told the insurers’ rating organization, the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI), that …

Florida Weighs 8.3% Workers’ Compensation Rate Increase Today

Workers’ compensation insurers in Florida will be asked to explain their request for an average 8.3 percent rate hike today before the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR). The OIR is holding a public hearing on a filing made by …

Eligibility for Preferred Risk Flood Insurance Pricing to Be Extended

Since 2008, many homes and businesses in the United States have been re-zoned on Federal Emergency Management Administration flood hazard maps from low to moderate flood risk areas into higher risk areas, and vice versa. Because of their reassignment into …

Florida Approves 10.3% Average Rate Hike for State-Backed Citizens

Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has approved a statewide average homeowners insurance rate increase of 10.3 percent for policies written by state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. The actual rate increases vary by territory. Citizens had filed for a 9.7 average …

It Figures

7.5% Arkansas’ unemployment rate rose by one-tenth of a percentage point in August to 7.5 percent, the first increase since March. The state Department of Workforce Services said the state’s nonfarm payroll jobs decreased by 3,400. The biggest drop came …

Eligibility for Preferred Risk Flood Insurance Pricing to Be Extended

Since 2008, many homes and businesses in the United States have been re-zoned on Federal Emergency Management Administration flood hazard maps from low-to-moderate flood risk areas into higher risk areas, and vice versa. Because of their reassignment into a zone …

Eligibility for Preferred Risk Flood Insurance Pricing to Be Extended

Since 2008, many homes and businesses in the United States have been re-zoned on Federal Emergency Management Administration flood hazard maps from low to moderate flood risk areas into higher risk areas, and vice versa. Because of their reassignment into …

Eligibility for Preferred Risk Flood Insurance Pricing to Be Extended

Since 2008, many homes and businesses in the United States have been rezoned on Federal Emergency Management Administration flood hazard maps from low-to-moderate flood risk areas into higher risk areas, and vice versa. Because of their reassignment into a zone …