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Calif. Comp
Rating Bureau Seeks 16% Hike
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 SAN FRANCISCO
- The Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of
California on Wednesday recommended a 16.0% pure premium
rate increase that would be effective Jan. 1 if
approved.
The WCIRB said it would recommend an
additional 3.7% rate increase for January should
California adopt a current proposal by the Division of
Workers' Compensation change the state's disability
rating schedule.
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Double-Digit Rise in Health Plan Costs
Projected
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 Employers' health care costs are
expected to increase by more than 10% in 2009, according
to research from Aon Consulting Worldwide.
The
survey of more than 70 leading health care insurers,
representing more than 100 million insured individuals,
forecasts an average 10.6% increase in health care costs
for the 12-month periods beginning this year between
April and September.
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| Court Upholds Ruling In Favor Of Bipolar Employee
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OTTAWA - The Ontario Superior Court of Justice's
Ottawa Divisional Court has upheld an $80,000 judgment
in favor of an information technology specialist
dismissed from his job just days after disclosing to his
employer that he suffered from bipolar disorder.
Information
technology specialist Paul Lane was fired from his
position at ADGA Group Consultants Inc. in October 2001,
four days after informing his manager he had Bipolar 1
Disorder and asking the manager to speak with him or
contact his wife if she ever noticed any symptoms of a
manic or depressive phase. According to the
divisional court's judgment he had been with the company
a total of 10 days.
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State High Court Rules On Permanent Disability
Benefits
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. - A coal miner is entitled to
permanent total disability benefits under Wyoming's "odd
lot doctrine," which considers the educational level of
claimants limited to performing physical labor, the
state's supreme court ruled.
Tuesday's decision in Robert Nagle Jr. vs. State of
Wyoming overturns a state medical commission finding
that was upheld by a district court and denied Mr. Nagle
permanent total disability benefits for a 1987 foot
injury and a related second injury in 2001 because he
could not prove he was incapable of certain
work.
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