Insurance Journal

JANUARY 2, 2025

Three firefighters and a dozen passengers were injured in Florida last week when a fire truck with its lights flashing drove around rail crossing arms and into the path of a high-speed passenger train after waiting for another train to …

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Zywave

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

But beyond just the employee benefits, the workers’ compensation and general liability markets are also feeling the pinch of increased medical costs. Social Inflation & Nuclear Verdicts Jury verdicts exceeding $10 million, also known as nuclear verdicts, have been plaguing several industries including the commercial auto market.

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Jackson & Jackson

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Workers’ Compensation Insurance California law requires businesses with employees to have workers’ compensation insurance. Why it’s critical in California : Failing to carry workers’ comp can lead to fines and penalties. Additionally, it demonstrates you care about the well-being of your team.

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Insurance Journal

DECEMBER 4, 2024

(Bloomberg) — JPMorgan Chase & Co. plans to hire 300 people in the Orlando area over the next two years, part of the largest US bank’s expansion in the South. The firm will renovate its 250,000-square-foot (23,226-square-meter) campus in central …

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Insurance Journal

DECEMBER 17, 2024

It’s a question that has cropped up in state courts only on rare occasions: If the owner or officer of a subcontractor firm opts out of workers’ compensation coverage for himself, can he then sue the general contractor for negligence …

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Insurance Journal

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) AP) — The president of a Kentucky plant that exploded earlier this week said the company is accountable for the accident and will pay damages to residents affected by the blast. “First and foremost, we are devastated by …

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Insurance Journal

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Cleveland Clinic, a health care system with hospitals and clinics around the world, said it plans to build a 150-bed hospital in the Palm Beach area and will quadruple the size of an outpatient clinic there. Cleveland has operated …

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Insurance Journal

JANUARY 9, 2025

If insurance carriers want to have dibs on a company’s assets as premium security or collateral, they had better specify that those assets include potential tort-claim settlements, a federal appeals court said Wednesday. In a case that involved a Florida …

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Insurance Journal

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

AP) — Rescue workers in Tennessee have recovered the body of the final person still missing after massive flooding from Hurricane Helene hit a plastics factory there. ERWIN, Tenn. (AP) Rosa Andrade, 29, was one of six employees killed after they …

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Insurance Journal

APRIL 2, 2025

A huge natural gas-powered data center that will serve the growing demands of artificial intelligence is being planned for the site of a former coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania. The 3,200-acre (1,295-hectare) data center campus, located about 50 miles east …

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CDC: Workers Compensation

AUGUST 22, 2024

Women have been working in various capacities above ground in coal mining since coal was first commercially used in the U.S. This is because most miners are men, and many depictions of coal miners are of men wearing hardhats and dusty reflective coveralls. in the early 1700s.

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American Agents Alliance

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Work with the best in the business of commercial towing and garage insurance. Shield Commercial Insurance Services : Shield has delivered superior commercial and residential contractors insurance products for over 20 years. AllComp also offers upfront commissions to agents.

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Triple-I: Workers Compensation

MARCH 21, 2023

“The lines of coverage written typically are those with more predictable losses, such as workers compensation, general liability, and automobile liability and physical damage.” With these benefits, the group captive model can help to control spiraling litigation costs.

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Triple-I: Workers Compensation

APRIL 20, 2021

While market capacity for property, commercial general liability, product liability and workers’ compensation coverage has expanded – these policies remain more expensive than the same coverage purchased by similar companies in other industries.

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Triple-I: Business Insurance

AUGUST 11, 2022

Kurtz , a principal and consulting actuary at Milliman, said another year of underwriting losses is likely for the commercial multi-peril line. Kurtz said the workers’ compensation line’s multi-year run of underwriting profits is expected to continue, although margins are likely to shrink further through 2024.

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Word & Brown

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

2: Partner with others offering complementary services If your niche is employee benefits, you may be able to build a professional relationship with firms engaged in accounting, payroll services, human resources, legal services, and other insurance professionals with a different focus (P&C, workers’ compensation, commercial umbrella, etc.).

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Insurance Journal

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

ATLANTA (AP) A clean energy company is abandoning a plan to build a giant electric battery factory in Atlanta’s suburbs after it shifted to buy a solar panel plant in Texas. Freyr Battery told officials in Newnan last week …

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Protect Commercial Insurance

OCTOBER 25, 2024

– Workers’ Compensation Insurance : Provides for employees’ medical expenses and wage replacement in the event of work-related injuries. – Business Interruption Insurance : Compensates for lost income if your business operations halt due to a covered event. first appeared on Protect Commercial Insurance.

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LexisNexis

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Rassp, Presiding Judge, WCAB Los Angeles, California Division of Workers’ Compensation Disclaimer: The material and any opinions contained in this article are solely those of the authors and are not the opinions of the Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Workers’ Compensation, or the WCAB, or any other entity or individual.

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LexisNexis

OCTOBER 22, 2024

By Julius Young, Richard Jacobsmeyer, Barry Bloom, Editors-in-Chief for Herlick, California Workers’ Compensation Handbook [Note: This article is excerpted from the upcoming 2025 edition of Herlick, California Workers’ Compensation Handbook. The AI revolution is starting to come to workers’ compensation.

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Frankenmuth Insurance

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Get a workers compensation policy. Should a team member be injured or killed on the job, workers compensation can help protect you financially and legally. Keep a pulse on laws and regulations in your industry and conduct regular audits to ensure you’re compliant with them. Maintain your website and social channels.

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Mark Jackson Insurance Agency

APRIL 15, 2024

They should also protect their employees with workers’ comp insurance. What Is Workers’ Comp? Workers’ comp” is short for “workers’ compensation” and can help pay for medical care and other expenses if one of your employees becomes sick or is hurt on the job from hazards like exposure to chemicals or a fall.

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Bankers Insurance

JULY 8, 2024

These policies can also cover areas such as foreign business auto rental, foreign commercial general liability, foreign voluntary workers’ compensation, foreign travel accident/sickness, marine ocean cargo, foreign commercial crime and political risk. Additionally, the U.S.

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Insurance Journal

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) AP) — Police in Mississippi’s capital said a man died Monday when he was trying to repair a dump truck and asphalt poured onto him. Darrell Sheriff, 41, was underneath the truck working on a hydraulic line when …

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Insurance Journal

DECEMBER 30, 2024

ATLANTA (AP) A woman died and two other people were hospitalized with injuries after a fire at a Tyson Foods plant in southwest Georgia, state officials said Friday. A wall fell on the cab of an 18-wheel truck parked …

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LexisNexis

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Appeals Board Panel Decisions CAUTION: These WCAB panel decisions have not been designated a “significant panel decision” by the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board. However, WCAB panel decisions are not binding precedent, as are en banc decisions, on all other Appeals Board panels and workers’ compensation judges.

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