Kansas Commissioner of Insurance Ken Selzer has approved the National Council on Compensation Insurance's workers' compensation rate filing for 2018.

The 2018 filing shows a decrease of 7.6% in the voluntary base rate and a decrease of 5.8% for assigned risk workers' compensation rates. The filing applies to all insurance carriers writing workers' comp policies for businesses in the state and was approved for a Jan. 1, 2018, effective date.