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Senior icare managers axed in shake-up of troubled insurer
A review of the NSW workers’ compensation insurer, icare, has led to an exodus of senior staff as the Minns government tightens spending at the agency.
- by Michael McGowan
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Second CEO quits state’s embattled public insurance system
The head of the state’s insurance regulator has quit his post after being “absent from duty” for several months.
- by Alexandra Smith
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State’s highest paid public servant quits troubled insurer
The chief executive of icare, Richard Harding, will leave his $1 million-plus role as the agency has been ordered to rein in its ballooning expenses.
- by Alexandra Smith
Police suffering mental health injuries drive compensation spike
The compensation payments for all frontline NSW workers topped $1 billion last year, as claim numbers soared on the back of the COVID pandemic.
- by Alexandra Smith
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Spending, salaries to be slashed at troubled state insurer
NSW Labor has ordered a sweeping review into icare, the state’s big spending state insurer.
- by Alexandra Smith
Corporate veteran Graeme Samuel has no time for management consultants
The former ACCC chair, sport administrator and investment banker spoke dismissively of the sector in his submission into a parliamentary inquiry on consulting.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
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Some employers hit with icare premiums above 16 per cent
The state’s scandal-plagued insurer will slug some businesses with premium increases well above its 8 per cent average target.
- by Alexandra Smith
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Embattled NSW insurer needs extra $660 million as work, property claims rise
The embattled workers’ compensation insurer icare will need a top-up of more than $660 million this financial year to ensure it can continue to pay injured public servants.
- by Alexandra Smith
Minister rejects icare premium plea, caps rises at 8%
The parlous financial state of embattled workers’ compensation insurer icare is so severe it has been slapped with a formal ministerial directive to cap urgently needed premium increases.
- by Lucy Cormack
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Icare’s plea to new government: 22 per cent premium increase needed to break even
The scandal-plagued state insurer has made a plea to slug 330,000 employers with a premium increase of 22 per cent, equivalent to hundreds of millions of dollars.
- by Lucy Cormack
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Albo calls time on festive media booze-up
The prime minister’s office is playing grinch. Won’t someone think of the poor press gallery?
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
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