Insurance Commissioner Orders Excess Workers' Compensation Insurance Profits Returned
Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has ordered 6 workers' compensation insurance carriers to refund $4.2 million in excess profits to their employer policyholders. "Excess profits" result when the workers' compensation insurance carrier's "underwriting gain" for workers' compensation insurance exceeds its "anticipated underwriting profit" by a factor of 5%. See §627.215(7)(a), Fla. Stat.
You can read the story from the Insurance Journal here and the official press release from the Office of Insurance Regulation here.