NCCI files suit to force R.I. to implement WC rate hikes. (National Council on Compensation Insurance, Rhode Island workers compensation)

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, December, 1991 by Calise, Angela K.

In an attempt to force Rhode Island's insurance commissioner to implement workers' compensation rate increases that were nullified by the governor in October, the National Council on Compensation Insurance has asked a Superior Court in Providence to intervene. Besides filing its writ of mandamus, the Boca Raton, Fla.-based NCCI has also asked for an additional 17.4 percent cost of living adjustment rate increase.

That request is pending. Rhode Island's director of the Department of Business Regulation and commissioner of insurance, Maurice C. Paradis, was ordered by Gov. Bruce Sundlum in October to ignore the recommendation of hearing officers to increase workers' compensation rates by 54.9 percent in the assigned risk pools and 44.5 percent in the...

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