Coal Mine Rate Bureau Asks for 10% Increase

Workers' compensation costs may be dropping across the country, but not for coal mining companies in Pennsylvania. The Coal Mine Compensation Rating Bureau of Pennsylvania has filed a request for an overall 10.3% increase in loss costs, effective April 1, 2019. The increase is in stark contrast to the 14.74% decrease that the Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau recommended last month for all other occupations in the state. In its 286-page filing with the state Insurance Commissioner, the coal mine bureau said that a 13.4% increase was needed for traumatic injury coverage; an increase...