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Report: California Self-Insured Workers’ Comp Claim Frequency Rose Last Year

Workers’ compensation claim frequency reported by California’s private self-insured employers rose last year, the first increase in a decade, according to the California Workers’ Compensation Institut... read more

Pain drug abuse fuels competition, legal battles for companies

The market for drug screenings — for patient monitoring as well as other purposes such as employee vetting — grew to $2 billion last year ... and Millennium. In California, a study using data from tha... read more

Blue Cross profits surging

The financial reports only cover Health Care Service's insurance operation. Not included is its low-margin, fee-based work administering health plans for self-insured clients ... Ms. Hall's pay fell 8 ... read more

Everest Re Group Ltd. (RE) CEO Dom Addesso on Q2 2018 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Ceding companies were trying to settle claims quickly conceivably to mitigate the AOB issue. The loss reports we received ... second quarter of 2012, a 6-year high. Further, this continues an upward t... read more

US new jobless claims unexpectedly drop to 639K

Analysts expected 5.15 million continuing claims. But an additional 1.4 million people were receiving benefits under an extended unemployment compensation program approved by Congress last year ... la... read more

New jobless claims fall more than expected

New jobless claims ... percent last month, the highest in more than 25 years. Many economists expect the rate could reach 10 percent by the end of this year. On Wall Street, where the market has advan... read more

Don't Blame the Minimum Wage for Those Self-Service Kiosks at McDonald's

Several websites were quick to pounce on this as another example of minimum wage increases displacing the workers they are supposed to help ... thing to the trade publication Kiosk Marketplace last ye... read more

Old Republic Reports Results For The First Quarter 2018

Pretax operating income dropped across most segments in this year's first quarter. On the other hand, post-tax operating income rose as it ... in dividend income. Claim costs were affected by better p... read more

ProAssurance's (PRA) CEO Stan Starnes on Q2 2017 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

The Workers' Compensation ... last five years, our compounded renewal rates on the book of business is up – has been up about 13.7%. We gave back a point 2016 with three points this year and I think t... read more

There’s No Such Thing As a Spill-Proof Way to Transport Oil

To a historian of pipelines, last ... rose rapidly and the pumps had to be stopped. A crew opened the pipeline and discovered some pieces of wood and rope stuck inside the line. Company officials susp... read more

Note on VA Loans in Super Lien States; More on Oil's Impact on the Economy

Our approach allows originators to identify HOAs and gather contact info, as well as assessment amount and frequency ... concentration of oil and gas workers than Texas. When employment data is releas... read more

Pain drug abuse fuels competition, legal battles for companies

In California, a study using data from that state's workers' compensation program found ... and I think most of my patients do, too." As competition in the drug screening industry has intensified, so ... read more