Posted on 07/22/2004 9:29:24 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Reversing a trend that has been cutting costs for many small employers, a key workers' compensation bureau said Wednesday that it plans to recommend that insurers increase premium rates by 3.5 percent next year.
The recommendation comes just months after state lawmakers enacted reforms in the workers' compensation insurance system that they promised would cut costs for employers complaining of sky-high premiums.
The bureau and others said employers may still get relief in their insurance bills in January, if a state agency charged with setting new disability-rating rules can do so by year end. The new rules are expected to save insurers money.
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They voted to lower costs before they actually voted to raise them.
If you think the Worker's Comp Insurers are going to reduce rates and pass along savings to corporations as a result of these new laws, you are crazy.
I have never had a work comp case in my companies 10 year history and we have be hit with 15 and 20% annual rate increases in the past few years.
Not to mention business liablity insurance increase. The rationale was terrorism. However, the policies specifically exclude terrorism related claims.
You can't expect much different from such a regulated market. It's reduced the number of players to an oligopoly with the State as the price leader.
About time for him to float another bond just before he lets the illegal have drivers licenses. But ya have to give it to him. He looks good doing the work that seems to be designated for actors.
Maybe Ahnuld was busy blowing up boxes. But I haven't heard of any blown up.
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My workers comp just went down a small faction this month and now they're going to raise it.They're just too funny!Ahnold should have been a comedian.Thanks Ahnold!Great work rino man!
Yes there was a small dip in rates recently, due to a single reform initiated by Gray Davis in 2003, but there have been no reforms since, just feelgood tweaking, and the rates will continue to rise until someone says "no more soft tissue injury claims".
Until and unless the governor and the legislature are willing to reform the system (remember McClintock's "Arizona solution") rates will continue to rise with each coda and cola.
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