After property insurers got long-sought legal changes in a December special legislative session, business groups see an opportunity to curb litigation in other areas such as auto insurance.
According to a report by the National Council on Compensation Insurance, physical medicine expenses have been the primary contributor to the increase in annual physician costs in workers’ compensation over the past decade.
In the shadow of Lee McCall’s crumbled home sits an old RV and two tents that are now housing her family. The house, located in St. James City, is still rotting after Hurricane Ian pounded Southwest Florida in September, flooding thousands of homes, including theirs.
Triple-I fields a lot of questions from consumers and the media as to exactly how inflation affects insurance premium rates. As we explain in a new Issues Brief, the relationship between inflation and rates is, in one sense, straightforward -- and yet the outcomes are not necessarily what you might expect.
In the full realm of digital retail, where even groceries can be ordered and delivered online, Trader Joe’s stands out as a unique business. There is no web ordering, no shipping, no delivery and no plans to change to be like other grocery stores.
Former Eagles linebacker turned media personality, Emmanuel Acho, has won a lengthy workers’ compensation battle. Acho’s career with the Eagles ended in 2015 due to a thumb injury, after playing in 20 regular season games.
A federal appeals court on Thursday reinstated litigation filed against an emergency physician practice by a former worker who charged the company with violating federal law for perusing her personal emails.<br /><br />Amanda Carson, a physician’s assistant, worked at Greenville, South Carolina-based EmergencyMD LLC as an independent contractor from February 2014 until May 2017, according to the ruling by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, in Amanda Carson v. EmergencyMD LLC et. al.<br /><br />In accepting the position, she agreed to be bound by company policies, including its electronic communications policy, the ruling said.
Wild and wacky weather events like atmospheric rivers, derechos and bomb cyclones may seem new because of recent media coverage, but they’ve been known and named phenomena for quite some time in the history of meteorology and atmospheric science, speakers said Tuesday at the CatIQ Connect conference.
A huge segment of America’s service economy involves flexible, temporary, part-time, or freelance jobs -- frequently involving professional employer organizations (PEO’s) or employee leasing companies.
A federal appeals court on Thursday reinstated litigation filed against an emergency physician practice by a former worker who charged the company with violating federal law for perusing her personal emails.<br /><br />Amanda Carson, a physician’s assistant, worked at Greenville, South Carolina-based EmergencyMD LLC as an independent contractor from February 2014 until May 2017, according to the ruling by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, in Amanda Carson v. EmergencyMD LLC et. al.<br /><br />In accepting the position, she agreed to be bound by company policies, including its electronic communications policy, the ruling said.
One insurance company -- State Farm -- has referred to dog bites as a ‘serious public health problem.’ In 2018 alone, one carrier paid $90 million in claims on roughly 3,500 dog bite incidents
Primary workers’ compensation, general liability, and no-fault claims payers should be on alert for civil monetary penalties of up to $1,000 per day, per claim, which will be issued against noncompliant claims payers beginning spring 2023.
The American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA), the Illinois Insurance Association (IIA), and National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) have together issued a statement decrying a newly announced Illinois bill which would limit the number of non-driving factors auto insurance companies can use in setting the rates of consumers.
The expansion of the insurance value chain to include risk mitigation has been underway for decades. But in recent years, it’s been rapidly progressing toward a tipping point where the ‘insurance’ sector brand will be reinvented as ‘risk management and insurance.’
