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NCCI Holdings, Inc.: Insurer Boosts Network Reliability and Security, Cuts Cost of Manual Updates: NCCI Holdings, Inc., based in Boca Raton, Florida, manages the nation's largest database of workers compensation insurance information. NCCI was implementing server updates by hand?an error-prone, costly, and time-consuming process. The Enterprise Configuration Manager from Configuresoft Inc., enables NCCI to automatically deploy updates to its 150 Windows-based servers. This led...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc., network reliability, workers compensation, server, database, security, network; Case studies
Obtaining Insurance Coverage for a Business: Every business needs insurance against risks that might threaten its profitability, including theft and work-related injuries. A small business is more vulnerable to the consequences of these incidents, since it rarely has the resources to cover sudden and unexpected expenditures.This article explains what insurance your business is legally required to...; Tags: Financial Planning, BNET Editorial, insurance, insurance company, workers compensation, agent, motorcycle, health care, risk, SUV, hiring, small business, vision, agreement, Web site, Web; Articles 2007-10-23
workers compensation and Employers Liability in Italy: The laws in Italy with respect to Workers Compensation coverage continue to cause some confusion regarding the placement of Workers Compensation cover vs. the need for Employers Liability policies. This paper is a guide to understanding the differences in Italy between Workers Compensation and Employers Liability, and selecting the appropriate...; Tags: Benefits, Aon Corp., workers compensation, Italy; White papers 2005-12-01
Unraveling the Workers Comp Crisis: Bionomics a New Injury Prevention Strategy Makes the Workplace Safer - Lowers Claims Costs and Lost Workdays: Workers compensation costs have been a growing problem for years. Back injuries, carpal tunnel and other very prevalent and expensive injuries cost corporate America over a billion dollars per week. Companies have gone out of business; laid off employees; moved out of costly states such as California; curtailed growth; and...; Tags: Benefits, workers compensation, adjustment, workplace, training, strategy, environment; White papers 2005-07-20
Innovating the workers compensation Marketplace: Given unabated increases in health care costs, the workers compensation industry finds itself increasingly challenged to develop and execute innovative cost management strategies for medical networks and other forms of health care. For many employers, workers compensation costs typically represent a significant portion of an organization's total cost of risk....; Tags: Benefits, Vertical industries, workers compensation, financial performance, health care, cost management, cost reduction, financial, industry, network; White papers 2005-06-15

workers compensation Solutions Aimed at the Wrong Target: Corporations and government agencies alike have been diligently trying to control workers compensation losses. This exercise has continued for decades only to witness one crisis after another and new versions of government reform. There have been many that, despite their efforts to rein in costs, have felt the defeat of...; Tags: Benefits, workers compensation; White papers 2005-04-28
Modeling the Solvency Impact of TRIA on the workers compensation Insurance Industry: The enterprise in a rating bureau risk model is the insurance industry. This paper describes how statewide or national loss exceedance curve output from a catastrophe model for workers compensation losses from terrorist attacks can be combined with insurance industry financial data in a basic model to estimate the financial...; Tags: Benefits, Regulations, Homeland security, Casualty Actuarial Society, workers compensation, Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, terrorism, terrorist attack, industry, financial, modeling; White papers 2005-04-15
Fiserv workers compensation Solution Helps First Cardinal Deliver Topflight Claims Handling: First Cardinal Corporation was formed in April 1994, by Gary Keehfus and Richard Flaherty, with seven employees dedicated to introducing newer and better Workers Compensation coverage to insurance brokers and business owners in Massachusetts and New York. When the company launched a search in 2002 for updated systems, the goal...; Tags: Fiserv Inc., workers compensation, insurance, customer service; Case studies 2004-10-01
Reserving in a Changing Environment: Responding to the Impact of Layoffs, Plant Closures and Downsizing in Reserving for workers compensation Liabilities: In some instances, the impacts of layoffs and plant closures on workers compensation costs have resulted in a doubling of the pure premiums whereas, in other instances there were no appreciable effects on workers compensation pure premiums. This paper discusses some of the issues surrounding estimating workers compensation losses during...; Tags: Benefits, Workforce management, Casualty Actuarial Society, workers compensation, closure, layoff, downsizing, environment; White papers 2004-08-12
workers compensation Managed System Claims Administration: Fiserv Insurance Solutions' Workers Compensation Management System WCMS is a complete Workers Compensation administration application that integrates WCMS Policy Administration and WCMS Claims Administration. WCMS Claims Administration effectively meets the demands of the changing insurance and regulatory environment. Due to its unique design, WCMS Claims Administration can be implemented individually...; Tags: Benefits, Fiserv Inc., workers compensation, insurance, environment; White papers 2004-07-01
workers compensation Managed Care: Workers Compensation claims require advanced medical case management capabilities. Our Workers Compensation Managed Care WCMC system is a series of tools designed to ensure that medical care is appropriate to the needs of the patient, and is provided efficiently as well as at a reasonable cost. The result is that...; Tags: Benefits, Fiserv Inc., workers compensation, case management, patient, tool; White papers 2004-07-01
workers compensation Managed System (WCMS) Policy Administration: The Workers Compensation Management System WCMS is a comprehensive, full-featured product for complete mono-line administration of Workers Compensation policies and claims, including all administrative responsibilities. Developed by industry specialists who concentrate solely on Workers Compensation issues and software, the system is the industry's most comprehensive and reliable Workers Compensation administration...; Tags: Benefits, Fiserv Inc., workers compensation, industry, software; White papers 2004-07-01
Strategically Mining the Opportunities: The long workers compensation insurance crisis in California could at last be subsiding, thanks to legislation passed in September 2003 and April 2004. These new laws brought change to a system that had become nearly unworkable in the last few years for the state, for insurers, for employers and even...; Tags: Insurance, Benefits, Towers Perrin, insurance company, workers compensation, benefit, environment; White papers 2004-03-01
Beat the Spread: The sea of challenges to workers' compensation profitability seems to stretch endlessly to the horizon: insurer insolvencies and withdrawals from markets, accelerating medical inflation, lengthening claim durations, terrorism exposure, regulatory concern with increasing rates, swelling residual markets and waves of loss reserve hits. Is there any hope for the insurer...; Tags: Insurance, Benefits, A.M. Best Co., workers compensation, insurance company, compensation, inflation, terrorism, worker, industry; White papers 2004-03-01
Obesity, Liability & Insurance: Obesity is a growing international problem that is imposing immense additional costs on the economy and society as a whole, and becoming an increasingly important cost driver and exposure issue for insurers. This report summarizes various areas of insurance industry exposure, including increased claim frequency and severity in health, disability...; Tags: Benefits, Insurance Information Institute, casualty insurance, workers compensation, insurance, health care; White papers 2004-01-08
What's Happening With Costs and What to Do About Them: Workers compensation has been receiving considerable media attention, particularly in California and Florida. For many California employers, average rates have increased more than 50 percent in the last two years. The article provides a perspective on how people have got where they are and what employers can do to respond...; Tags: Benefits, Towers Perrin, workers compensation, financing; White papers 2003-11-01
Operating in a State of Disrepair: This paper details California's broken workers comp system is making companies consider pulling up stakes. In California, thousands of employers are wrestling with a system that has forced their total costs for workers comp up from $9 billion in 1995 to more than $30 billion today. The average cost of...; Tags: Benefits, Treasury & Risk Management, workers compensation, California, worker, job; White papers 2003-10-01
workers compensation & Rehabilitation: Workers & Employers Rights & Responsibilities: Every year, about 42,000 South Australians suffer a workplace injury or illness. Across Australia it is estimated that more people die as a result of workplace injuries or illnesses than as a result of road accidents. The best way to reduce this toll is to prevent injury and illness in...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, workplace, hazard, safety equipment, worker, workers compensation, health care; White papers 2003-10-01
Whither Go Workers Comp Costs?: As prices continue to climb, the best defense over the long haul is a good offense -- creating programs to keep employees healthy. After several years in which companies have seen falling or stable prices, the cost of workers' compensation insurance is once again on the rise. Medical inflation, which...; Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Penton Media Inc., workers compensation, worker, health insurance, inflation, compensation, insurance, health care; White papers 2003-09-01
workers compensation: Workers compensation insurance provides for the cost of medical care and rehabilitation for injured employees. It also provides for lost wages and death benefits for the dependents of persons killed in work-related accidents. Workers compensation systems vary from state to state. State statutes and court decisions control many aspects of...; Tags: Benefits, Insurance Information Institute, workers compensation, accident, compensation, worker, strategy, benefit; White papers 2003-07-01