Broker Regulation

Workers compensation costs per claim in Florida, which fell after 2003s system reforms, appear to have grown from 2005 to 2009, according to the CompScope Benchmarks for Floridasurvey by the Workers Compensation Research Institute.

The leader of the Mississippi Hospital Association says his group won't fight renewal of a tax his members pay to help fund Medicaid.

White House officials say President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is on track in many states but they're preparing a federal backstop anyway.

Obama administration officials never improperly interfered with the deliberations regarding standards it recommended for implementing the healthcare reform law, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) said in response to a congressional inquiry.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration is ordering AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of Dallas, Texas-based Southwest Airlines Co., to reinstate a former pilot who was fired after reporting multiple mechanical problems.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs announces that government contractor JacintoPort International LLC is planning to settle allegations of discriminatory hiring that affected 48 African-American and 21 Caucasian job applicants who were rejected for longshoreman positions at the company's cargo facility in Houston.