Insurers Hope They've Derailed Assigned Risk Pool Bill

By Peter Mantius, Northern Bureau ChiefLarge insurers and their industry trade groups have won key amendments to a bill that would have weakened the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s long-time hold on the role of administrator of the Kansas workers’ compensation assigned risk pool. But House Bill 2615 has passed the House and is still alive, and it could rise again from a Senate committee during the “veto session” of the Legislature that begins April 30, according to Fred Bosse, regional vice president of the American Insurance Association.The ...