Wading through the paper bog: when it comes to managing workers' compensation claims, timeliness is crucial. New technology is helping to reduce time spent on claims, drive down costs and improve outcomes.
For years, claims adjusters in the workers' compensation industry have been bogged down with excessive paperwork, hours of manual data entry, fragmented communication among all parties involved in a claim and compliance with numerous state reporting laws and regulations. Today, new technology is helping adjusters automate and...

Maryland passes insurance rate stabilization fund.
As physicians push for professional liability reform at the national level, the Maryland legislature signed off on a bill aimed at halting rising malpractice premiums. The centerpiece of the legislation is a rate stabilization fund for medical professional liability insurance that will be funded through a tax...

Cambridge Integrated Services Group, Inc.
Cambridge Integrated Services Group, a Scandent Group company, is the largest independently owned property and casualty claims and business process outsourcing provider in the United States and Australia. Claim services span workers' comp; general, auto, Inc. professional and product liability; as well as property, personal lines, assumed/ceded reinsurance and...

Maryland to create insurance rate stabilization fund: aimed at curbing malpractice premiums.
As physicians push for professional liability reform at the national level, the Maryland legislature signed off on a bill aimed at halting rising malpractice premiums. The centerpiece of the legislation is a rate stabilization fund for medical professional liability insurance that will be financed through a tax...

Maryland makes progress on malpractice reform.
As physicians push for professional liability reform at the national level, the Maryland legislature signed off on a bill aimed at halting rising malpractice premiums. The centerpiece of the legislation is a rate stabilization fund for medical professional liability insurance that will be funded through a tax...

Temp workers and benefits. (Benefits).
Demographers call them the working poor, but employers know them as just another class of line employees: seasonal or temporary employees, beginning service or industrial hourly workers, retail stock or sales employees. Some of these workers may have medical coverage with former employers, but lost their insurance...

A blind, dull pain: despite an unstable stock market and low interest rates, Bermuda companies are trying to make the most of their investment options. (Special Report: Bermuda).
Interest rates are at their lowest level in 40 years. Given the impact on earnings, a hard market, which is always welcome in the property and casualty sector, could not have come at a better time. On the life side, however, U.S. dollar rates below two percent make product...

Insurance and financial products exclusively for MTNA members. (National Association News).
Professional Liability Insurance Included MTNA is proud to offer its members new insurance and financial products in conjunction with Robert H. Clarkson Insurance Agency and Financial Services, Inc. (RHC) and Raymond James Financial Services. "MTNA is committed to its members' personal well-being in addition to...

Expert medical witnesses: medical community targets false testimony.
The role of physicians as expert witnesses, particularly in medical malpractice cases, has caused some professional medical societies to set ethical guidelines for providing testimony. Over the last 2 years, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has developed "affirmation" and "qualifications" documents that spell out the...

Getting it done: in the current hard market--which isn't expected to end anytime soon--the excess and surplus lines industry believes it's doing some of its "best work". (Excess & Surplus).
Insurance market prospects looked rosy for risk managers in January 2001. A panel of insurance industry analysts and chief executive officers at the Property and Casualty Joint Industry Forum predicted an abbreviated cycle. The hard market, they forecasted, would not last beyond the second quarter of 2001. The consensus...