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 is expected to slow to 5.5% this year, down from 8% in 2013, Moody’s said in Monday’s report. Still, this year’s rate increases are expected to remain “sufficiently above loss-ratio inflation” of about 2%, allowing an underwriting profit for 2014.