Recognizing the efforts of its local members in promoting a safe workplace and local community, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) recently presented the ASSE Chapter of the Year award to the Bakersfield, California-based Bakersfield Chapter; the Anaheim, California-based …
InsureWorx, a provider software solutions to the workers’ compensation carrier market, announced that Pennsylvania’s State Workers’ Insurance Fund (SWIF) is in production with InsureWorx’ PowerComp Enterprise (claims and policy administration) solution to address the State Fund’s workers’ comp processing requirements. …
The National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) has proclaimed this September as Child Passenger Safety Month. New car dealers across the country will host child safety seat inspections at their dealerships to help save lives, as part of NADA’s national “Boost …
As part of its commitment to fight workers’ compensation insurance fraud, California’s State Fund will host a free fraud prevention seminar for employers at its Riverside District Office. The seminar will take place from 1 – 4 p.m. on Thursday …
Almost $3 billion is available to pay for claims from Hurricane Dennis and any other storms that may hit the state according to Mike McCauley, a spokesman for the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund. Risk assessment groups put initial estimates for …
Seattle-based Safeco’s National Catastrophe Team has deployed additional claims professionals to Alabama, Florida and Georgia to aid customers recovering from Hurricane Dennis. Safeco’s claims personnel are moving into impacted areas to assist customers, issuing emergency funds to policyholders and expediting …
North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven has sent a state response team from the N.D. Department of Emergency Services, Department of Transportation and State Water Commission to conduct an aerial and ground tour with local officials of Bottineau County. The team …
Officials from the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Regional Response Coordination Center (RRCC) continue to monitor the response effort and coordinate the recovery operations for Hurricane Dennis as thousands of disaster victims begin to call and …
Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a provider of products and services for the management of catastrophe risk, announced that Lloyd’s has licensed the RiskLink catastrophe modeling software which will be used by the Loss Modeling team. RMS has relationships with 18 …
Lt. Colonel Jim Champagne, chair of the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), responded on Tuesday to a new report from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) regarding drivers and cell phone usage. “Today, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety …