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NCCI Submits Workers’ Compensation Filing

NCCI Submits Workers’ Compensation Filing

The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) has filed a proposed 8.3% workers’ compensation rate increase with the Office of Insurance Regulation with an effective date of January 1, 2011.  The proposed change change consists of a 3.4% increase due to a change in experience, a 3.9% increase due to a change in trend, and a […]

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Court Approves $6.2 Million Dollar Settlement Between EEOC and Sears

Court Approves $6.2 Million Dollar Settlement Between EEOC and Sears

Earlier this month, the EEOC announced that the agency had secured its largest Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) settlement in history. The case against Sears Roebuck & Co was brought in the Northern District of Illinois in 2004 and just this month resulted in a court approved settlement.  In the lawsuit, the EEOC claimed that Sears implemented […]

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NCCI Rate Decrease Approved

NCCI Rate Decrease Approved

Insurance Commissioner, Kevin McCarty, accepted the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s (NCCI) revised rate filing and issued an order approving a rate decrease of 6.8% on October 26, 2009.  The Office and NCCI had previously reached an agreement on the amount of the decrease, 6.8%, but the Office took issue with some of the NCCI’s methodology, […]

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