Workers Compensation Insurance Rates in Oklahoma Remain High.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: September 9, 2001 | Copyright information

By Melissa Davis, The Daily Oklahoman Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 9--Late last month, when state leaders celebrated the reduction of a key component in workers' compensation insurance rates, Kevin Moore marveled in disbelief.

Then he picked up the telephone and called his insurance carrier. He wanted to know when his own workers' compensation rates -- which had just spiked 22 percent -- would be going down.

"I was told, 'There will be no rate decrease,'" said Moore, owner of a professional employer organization called Corporate Assistant & Resource ...

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