Data, Analytics and Management Archives

Entrepreneurial Insurance Symposium 2014 – Network. Learn. Be Inspired.

Paul Hughes
July 27, 2014

The Entrepreneurial Insurance Symposium was created by MarketScout as a medium to profile innovation and entrepreneurialism in the insurance industry. Each year over 400 forward thinking insurers, intermediaries and agents…

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Risk Transfer Named to Orlando Business Journal’s Golden 100 List of Privately-Held Companies

Paul Hughes
July 23, 2014

Risk Transfer is honored to be a member of Orlando Business Journal’s Golden 100 List of Privately-Held Companies. Each year, Central Florida companies are ranked by the gross revenue for…

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California Workers’ Comp Officials Continue to Praise Reforms

Paul Hughes
July 18, 2014

Touting California’s still-young workers’ compensation reform law as a “pragmatic middle” compromise that seems to be working, two of the top officials responsible for the system talked up some of…

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Risk Management Now a C-Suite Priority

Paul Hughes
July 9, 2014

Corporate executives are increasingly focusing attention on their organizations’ risk management functions, reaching out to risk managers for guidance on everything from strategic direction to day-to-day business decisions, as risk…

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South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Loss Costs Cut

Paul Hughes
July 9, 2014

South Carolina employers should see their workers’ compensation premiums go down this year since regulators have approved an average 7.4 percent decrease in the state’s loss costs. Director of Insurance…

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Workers comp rates increasing less than in 2013:

Paul Hughes
July 7, 2014

Workers compensation rates are continuing to increase this year, but at a slower rate than 2013, according to an analysis released this week by Moody’s Investors Service Inc. Rate firming…

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Painkiller Prescribing Varies By State, Highest in South; Florida Reverses Trend:

Paul Hughes
July 7, 2014

Health care providers in some states prescribe far more painkillers than those in other states, according to a new government report. Health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for opioid…

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Texas-style drug formulary could help other states reduce comp costs: Study |

Paul Hughes
June 30, 2014

State workers compensation systems could benefit from following Texas and adopting a closed drug formulary, according to a benchmarking report released Wednesday by the Workers Compensation Research Institute. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based…

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