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NSW Industrial Relations Minister Sophie Cotsis.

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.

  • Michael McGowan

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SIRA chief executive officer Adam Dent.

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.

  • Alexandra Smith
Richard Harding has quit as CEO of icare.

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. 

  • Alexandra Smith
Police swarm Broadway near Sydney’s CBD to arrest anti-lockdown protesters at a rally in August.

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. 

  • Alexandra Smith
NSW Industrial Relations Minister Sophie Cotsis says her state will help lead the way on a nationally consistent ban.

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. 

  • Alexandra Smith
Industrial Relations Minister Sophie Cotsis demanded that scandal-plagued icare cap its premium rises at 8 per cent.

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.

  • Alexandra Smith
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NSW treasurer Daniel Mookhey has hailed a 4 per cent pay offer plus 0.5 per cent superannuation as the best wages deal for public sector workers in a decade

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.

  • Alexandra Smith
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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.

  • Lucy Cormack
NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey, who led the opposition charge against icare, now has the troubled scheme under his watch.

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.

  • Lucy Cormack
Greg Dayman at his unit in Woolooware. He was thrown off workers' compensation in 2017 when the rules changed.

Injured worker Greg Dayman cut off from benefits on Christmas Day

The icare crisis deepens as a document reveals the workers’ compensation scheme has deteriorated to the point where it is “under threat”.

  • Adele Ferguson

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