Department of Insurance Schedules Public Information Sessions on Workers’ Compensation Rates

 

Department of Insurance Schedules Public Information Sessions on Workers’ Compensation Rates

DOVER, DE – Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart announced today that the Department of Insurance will hold three public information sessions regarding Delaware Compensation Rating Bureau Filing No. 1502, which proposes workers’ compensation insurance rates for the upcoming year:

 

Tuesday, October 20, 2015, at 2:00 p.m.

Insurance Department

841 Silver Lake Blvd., Dover, DE 19904

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Tuesday, October, 20, 2015, at 7:00 p.m.

Delaware Technical Community College – Owens Campus

Theater Auditorium – Arts & Science Center

21179 College Drive, Georgetown, DE 19947

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Wednesday, October 21, 2015, at 6:00 p.m.

Carvel State Office Building, 2nd Floor Auditorium

820 North French Street, Wilmington, DE 19801

 

The purpose of the three public information sessions is to provide information to the public on the process followed by the Delaware Compensation Rating Bureau (DCRB) in the preparation and filing of Filing No. 1502, and the process followed by the Department of Insurance in reviewing Filing No. 1502.  The public information sessions are not the forum to discuss or debate the merits of the DCRB rate filing, or whether it should be approved or disapproved.  Those topics will be the subject of a future public administrative hearing.

 

The docket number assigned to this matter is 2916-2015. A copy of Filing No. 1502 can be located online:

http://www.dcrb.com/dcrb/filings/1502/d_filing_1502.htm

 

The public is invited to make comments in writing or orally at the public information sessions.  Written comments must be received no later than Monday, October 19, 2015, by 4:00 p.m., and should be addressed to the attention of Rhonda West, Regulatory Specialist, Delaware Department of Insurance, 841 Silver Lake Boulevard, Dover, DE 19904; or can be sent via email to mailto: DOI_WorkersComp@delaware.gov  Any public comment submitted, along with the names and addresses of those submitting public comments, will be published on the Delaware Department of Insurance website and is subject to release under 29 Del. C. §§ 10001 – 10006.

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For Immediate Release
For more information contact
 Jerry Grant at 302-674-7303