IWIF, Maryland’s largest provider of workers’ compensation insurance with a 23 percent market share, will cease to be an independent state agency on Oct. 1, and will be renamed Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance Co.

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Lewis C. Powell has been appointed chairman of the board of IWIF Workers' Compensation Insurance and Charles Dankmeyer vice chairman.

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Julio C. Shaik, CFA, has joined the Board of Directors for Kids’ Chance of Maryland, Inc., a nonprofit scholarship organization.

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Thomas Phelan, president and CEO of IWIF Workers' Compensation Insurance, has been appointed president of the American Association of State Compensation Insurance Funds.

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Casey Robison has been promoted to director of premium audit at IWIF ...

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Katherine Piunti has been promoted to claims director at IWIF.  In this role, she will oversee the day-to-day functions of IWIF’s private claims units. Previously, Piunti was a claims supervisor. She joined IWIF as a senior claims adjuster in 2002.

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Smith leads board of transit system Chris Smith, vice president of sales & marketing for The Barbour Group, has been appointed chairman of the Carroll Area Transit System’s board of directors. The transit system is a private 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation providing ...

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Gregg Iskra has been named a supervising engineer in the Baltimore office of Parsons Brinckerhoff, a global infrastructure strategic consulting, planning, engineering and program/construction management organization. Iskra is a water resources engineer with expertise in stormwater management design; erosion and ...

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ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland Senate voted down an attempt to extend the quasi-public Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund’s exemption from the insurance premium tax Tuesday evening during a wide-ranging debate on budget issues. That move leaves the two chambers of the ...

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ANNAPOLIS — The Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund would bolster the state’s bottom line in the spending plan under consideration by the General Assembly, a budget-balancing move that would ultimately be passed along to the company’s ratepayers. The proposal, part of ...

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