For the second time in six weeks, the Florida Supreme Court has held part of Florida’s workers’ compensation law to be unconstitutional. In Westphal v. City of St. Petersburg, the Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of section 440.15(2)(a), Florida Statutes, which cuts off disability benefits at 104 weeks for a worker who is totally disabled […]
Since a Florida Supreme Court ruling last month, the Florida workers’ compensation market has been the subject of considerable speculation regarding the potential rate impact. That question was answered last week when the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) submitted a filing to the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) providing for a 17.1 percent […]
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has issued an order approving an overall rate reduction of 4.7% in the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s (NCCI’s) recent workers’ compensation insurance rate filing. NCCI originally filed for an overall rate reduction of 1.9%. However, upon review, the OIR disapproved the filing as initially filed and stated that […]
Last week the Office of Insurance Regulation rejected a proposed 1.9% workers compensation rate decrease filed by the National Council on Compensation Insurance and indicated that the OIR instead would approve a revised filing providing for a 5.1% rate decrease. The OIR gave NCCI until November 9 to submit the revisions. NCCI responded before the […]
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (Office) has scheduled a public hearing in connection with its evaluation of the annual NCCI rate filing. The filing proposes an overall average rate decrease of 1.9% for the workers’ compensation line of insurance. NCCI is a licensed rating organization authorized to make rate filings on behalf of approximately 260 workers’ […]
The Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) recently commented on the rate filing it received from the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) proposing a statewide average premium decrease of 2.2%. The OIR pointed out that the filing includes a statewide average rate decrease of 1.9% and a reduction of the fixed expense cost applicable to […]
The Office of Insurance Regulation has approved a statewide average rate decrease of 5.2% for workers’ compensation insurance effective as of January 1, 2015. The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) initially filed for a 2.5% decrease in August but later amended the filing to provide for a 3.3% decrease. The OIR reviewed the filing and […]
The Office of Insurance Regulation issued an Order disapproving a statewide average rate decrease of 3.3% for workers compensation insurance filed by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI). However, in doing so, the OIR specified revisions NCCI can make that will result in approval of a filing with a statewide average decrease of 5.2%. […]