10/19/2016
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Oregon employers on average paid 1.28 per 100 of payroll the study found. The average cost for comp coverage in Oregon was 69 of the median rate of 1.85 set by Alabama.
California topped the list again in 2016 with an average rate of 3.24. Average premiums in the Golden State were 176 of the
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10/17/2016
interview. California is the anchor on the rate fixture and preventing that decline in premiums from being 3 or 4 or even 5.
The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services produces its premium rankings summary every two years and its latest report shows that California remained the most
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10/14/2016
Illinois dropped to eighth from seventh nationally in workers compensation premiums but its costs remain more than double that of neighboring Indiana according to a study released this week by the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services.
Gov. Bruce Rauner
That modest
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10/10/2016
higher percentage than in most other states.
According to a study by the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services Indiana had the second-lowest workers compensation rates in 2012 and again in 2014 among the 50 states and District of Columbia. North Dakota had the lowest rates. California
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09/20/2016
bill to create a drug formulary but the states Workers Compensation Advisory Committee which Kellar chairs shot it down pending more study by a committee whose deliberations have been slowed by massive flooding across the state.
Kellar said the House Labor and Industrial Relations Committee
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08/31/2016
going to be different" said Alex Swedlow president of the California Workers' Compensation Institute.
The 33 states in the study represent 87 of the workers' compensation benefits paid in the country WCRI said.
The states are Alabama Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Florida
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08/19/2016
treatments.
For each of those claims medical costs averaged 21659 the highest of all the study states which included Illinois Louisiana Wisconsin Indiana Iowa New Jersey North Carolina Pennsylvania Georgia Florida Minnesota California Arizona Texas Michigan and Massachusetts.
Scott
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08/09/2016
California will likely have the highest workers compensation premiums in the closely watched Oregon rate-ranking study to be released later this year according to the chief actuary for the Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau.
Dave Bellusci
But charged rates have been falling
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06/17/2016
than 3 per 100 of payroll for workers compensation insurance according to the 2014 rate ranking study published by the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services. While charged rates in California are down Bellusci said that when DCBS released its latest study this fall our expectation
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05/11/2016
Institute has pointed out one possible reason the 2011 reforms arent generating the kind of savings envisioned by lawmakers and expected by employers.
Earlier this month WCRI published a second study finding that doctors in states including California and Illinois have been dispensing unique
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