The board of Rhode Island's state-sponsored workers' compensation insurer, after a marathon meeting, agreed early this morning to fire two top executives who had been under suspension.

But when the Beacon Mutual Insurance Company board session ended at 2:15 a.m. the group had still not decided whether to yield to a request to turn over employee computer hard drives, a spokesperson said.

The State Department of Business Regulation has sought computer data in an audit of the company. The insurer has been under increasing scrutiny following revelations that certain companies with cozy links to Beacon management were charged improperly low rates.

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