MD | The Maryland Insurance Administration has issued Bulletin 24-3.
It has come to the attention of the Maryland Insurance Administration (the “Administration”) that certain employers have expressed the concern that hiring younger workers through apprenticeship programs will automatically increase their workers’ compensation rates because of the age of such workers. The purpose of this Bulletin is to clarify that age is not a factor used to set workers compensation rates under any rating plan approved in the State. Hence, the age of an individual who is engaged in paid or unpaid apprenticeship programs, school work programs, and cooperative vocational education programs will not impact the employer’s workers compensation insurance rates.