Florida news
According to news report from the Associated Press and also reported in an article by Forbes magazine, Florida's Workers' Compensation rates are due to be cut.
Small and home business owners in this state might still be struggling to cope with high property insurance premiums, but another major business expense will go down next year: workers' compensation assessment rates are set to be cut by some fisty percent.
This rate cut could possibly result in nearly twenty million dollars in savings that can be passed on to state employers as lower premiums for workers' comp insurance. Apparently a vibrant local economy, and touph efforts to curb workers' compensation fraud are helping to make fund strong enough to further reduce these particular rates.
In addition, home business and general business owners who don't comply with workers' comp laws now are penalized with far steeper fines than they did just several years ago. This has also added to the fund and made more money available.
This is good news for a state with a large economy, comparitively speaking.
Insurance companies pay into the fund to pay for the state office that administers and enforces workers' compensation programs.
Since a few years ago, workers' comp rates have dropped about some forty percent altogether...... Regulatory officials state that since a state law changed in 2003, the frequency of injured workers' claims has in fact sharply declined, primarily due to fewer cases of fraud, mismanagement and abuse of the system in general.
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Employment news
In news out of the state capital, New York State Workers Comp. Board Chair Donna Ferrara as well as Fraud Inspector General John Burgher recently announced the arrests of more than thirty Westchester County business owners on charges of workers compensation fraud.
This was in fact the biggest single sweep of its kind since the formation of this office about ten years ago or so.
More data at
Workers Comp News The accused were reported to have falsely affirmed in affidavits submitted to the Workers Comp. Board that they did not have any workers. Under NY State law, business owners who have workers have to secure workers’ compensation insurance to cover workers injured on the job. This is clearly mandated in the law.
The arrests by the NY State Police in Hawthorne followed a ninety day Workers’ Compensation Board investigation which featured various record reviewss, on-site visits, interviews as well as video surveillance.
Meanwhile, in other workers comp related legal news, reported by the AP in New mexico,
a Workers compensation judge has resigned there following a sexual advance claim by an injured worker in a case he was ruling on.
Although the judge, one Chris Berkheimer, stated to the Albuquerque Journal in an article posted several days ago that the accusations are “not true and ridiculous” ,
one has to wonder why an innocent man would not fight such a horrendous charge.
Agreement was reached Tuesday in advance of a report by a P.I. into the claims, according to Van Cravens, a spokesperson for the Workers’ Compensation Administration.
“The best way for me to fight them (the allegations) and protect my family was to resign,” he was quoted as saying at that time.
The lawyer representing the injured worker said he considered Berkheimer’s resignation to be the appropriate thing to do in this particular situation.
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Network marketing and Home Business
If you have decided that your home business is a multi-level marketing organization,
there are a few things that you should know to keep you aligned with current trends.
I was recently told these tips by a guy who has worked with the likes of Seth Godin and other top marketers.
He has worked with the best, and done his research.
As you build your home business mlm opportunity, remember to refer to your downline as your
organization or better yet, as your 'community'. Some of the individuals in your personal sales group may personally object
to being referred to as a 'downline' because of it's subliminal heirarchical implications. They probably won't quit just because
you called them a member of your downline, buy why get off on the wrong foot with someone new?
......and talking about semantics, another tip is to call lead prospects 'prospective partners' or perhaps better yet, 'potential partners'.
Again, some people, especially those that are very individualistic, may secretly resent being called a mere 'lead' or 'prospect'.
That label may reduce them to an object in their mind, whereas they see themselves a living, breathing, unique individual.
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I thought that was a really good network marketing article. Of course, network marketing is only one of many home business methods ou there. There is also franchising, webmastering and a few others.
Is there a Social Stigma attached to Network Marketing?
Here is a brand new original article about Network Marketing. It may be reprinted anywhere freely as long as their is alive link back to home-business-match.com somewhere on the page. Editing it is o.k.
If you do decide to join an MLM as your choice for a home business, realize that there are still certain individuals you will run into who still have a negative perception regarding Network Marketing companies. Unfortunately, when Network marketing was still relatively new, some of the first forms had obsolete business models that basically required new distributors to stock a lot of products in their garage or basement or drag all of their friends and neighbors to meetings.
It wasn't long before the new distributor joined the NFL club (No Friends Left). Fortunately, however, perceptions are slowly changing, thanks in part to technology. PC Power has been especially important,
as it has allowed individuals to enter this industry whe never would have in the past. The industry has certainly changed and transformed a great deal in the last decade or so. The new MLM firms are what is known as Wave 3 (Or 4?) and some of the larger firms like AT&T are taking notice of it and giving the the Industry much more respect. Actually it may very well be the wave of the future. Now, instead of dragging everyone you know to a meeting that they may not wish to attend, you could simply give them a CD or even a DVD provided by
the company. Or perhaps you will give them literature like a brochures about the Opportunity and/or Products. A 3-way call with your sponser could close the deal and just like that you have a new downline member. The form will often handle training. You can check your statistics online in your site's "back office" to see how much you are earning and how your group is doing as well. It is easier than ever before to make a sizeable passive income by utilizing the Multilevel system. It is
really one of the easiest ways to grow a home business since the business system itself is superb and much cheaper to launch than a Franchise operation, perhaps under five hundred dollars.
There is the misconception among some individuals that an MLM company is similiar to a pyramid scheme. But this is simply not the case. Actually, the corporate world may the real pyramid scheme when you consider the odds of earning more money than any of your superiors is virtually zero. They just will not allow it to happen. But to earn more than your sponser is a common occurence in a Network marketing Company. By some estimates, more millionares are created through network marketing
than any other business system. Some may remember an interview on the "Late Night with David Letterman" show when Letterman asked Donald Trump what he would do if he lost all his money and had to start over. He replied that he would find a good Network marketing company and get to work.
