Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
2014 State Specialist P/C Insurers Revealed
Dec 1 2014 // The Demotech Company Classification System categorizes insurers into one of 11 categories based on an analysis of data reported by the companies to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The 11...
Largest Dividend Paid by Montana Workers’ Comp Fund
Dec 1 2014 // Many Montana businesses will share a $20 million windfall from the state workers’ compensation fund. The Montana State Fund’s board in November approved its largest dividend ever for most of its 27,000 business...
Overdue Work Comp Premiums Add to Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame Woes
Nov 26 2014 // The lawyer for an insurance company says the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame is behind on its premiums and that his client has the right to seize the nonprofit group’s assets. Rick White says State Farm Insurance is owed...
Texas to Hold Hearings on Workers’ Comp Rates and Relativities
Nov 25 2014 // The Texas Department of Insurance has scheduled public hearings to review rates charged by insurers for workers’ compensation insurance in this state, and to consider revised Texas workers’ compensation...
Missouri Seeking Administrator/Insurer for Workers’ Comp Residual Market
Nov 25 2014 // The Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions & Professional Registration is seeking to contract with one or more entities to administer and provide workers’ compensation insurance for the...
Connecticut Approves NCCI’s Workers’ Comp Loss Cost Decrease Filing
Nov 21 2014 // The Connecticut Insurance Department recently approved the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s (NCCI) workers’ compensation filing for an overall -0.6 percent change for pure premium loss costs and an...
North Carolina Approves Workers’ Compensation Rates for 2015
Nov 20 2014 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin said new workers’ compensation rates have been approved as filed and will go into effect April 1, 2015. There will be a 3.4 percent average decrease to loss costs...
Michigan Court: Agents May Not Be ‘Professionals’ Under Malpractice Definition
Nov 19 2014 // Is an insurance agent a “professional” when it comes to whether or not he or she may be charged with malpractice? Not necessarily, a Michigan state appeals court has said. The Michigan Court of Appeals made...
New Jersey Approves 2.9% Increase in Workers’ Comp Rates, Rating Values
Nov 18 2014 // New Jersey’s Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau announced that the commissioner of banking and insurance has approved a 2.9 percent increase in rates and rating values applicable to New Jersey workers’...
Louisiana Workers’ Comp Medical Costs Stable but High in 2012
Nov 18 2014 // The cost of medical care to treat injured workers in Louisiana changed little in 2012. But, Louisiana workers’ compensation medical costs per claim remained higher than similar costs in many states, according to a...
Utah Workers’ Comp Fund Distributes Second Dividend in 2014
Nov 18 2014 // Workers Compensation Fund in Utah has declared a second dividend in 2014. The $9 million dividend represents 5 percent of premium collected from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014. With this second dividend, WCF will have paid...
Largest Dividend Paid by Montana Workers’ Comp Fund
Nov 17 2014 // Many Montana businesses will share a $20 million windfall from the state workers’ compensation fund. The Montana State Fund’s board on Friday approved its largest dividend ever for most of its 27,000 business...
Creating Alternatives to Workers’ Comp One State at a Time
Nov 17 2014 // Formed in late 2013, the Austin, Texas-based Association for Responsible Alternatives to Workers’ Compensation — or ARAWC — would like to see an expansion of alternatives to state workers’...
Oklahoma AG: Workers’ Comp Panel Sessions Must Be Public
Nov 17 2014 // Oklahoma’s attorney general says state law requires the Workers’ Compensation Commission to open its meetings to the public. Two commissioners had wanted to discuss appeals involving injured workers’...
Workers’ Compensation and the Affordable Care Act
Nov 17 2014 // The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been the law of the land for less than a year and the buzz is far from beginning to quiet. The overall impact of the ACA on those citizens who did not have healthcare seems to be obvious:...
Millions Unclaimed in Ohio Workers’ Comp Case
Nov 17 2014 // The law firm handling a $420 million state settlement over Ohio employers being overcharged for workers’ compensation premiums says millions of dollars weren’t claimed by the deadline. The Bricker & Eckler...
Workers’ Comp Medical Payment Costs Fall in Illinois: Study
Nov 17 2014 // Reforms enacted in 2011 continue to drive down the cost of medical care for injured workers in Illinois, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). According to the report, CompScope...
Michigan Appeals Court: Insurance Agents May Not Be ‘Professionals’ Under Malpractice Definition
Nov 17 2014 // Is an insurance agent a “professional” when it comes to whether or not he or she may be charged with malpractice? Not necessarily, a Michigan state appeals court has said. The Michigan Court of Appeals made...
Insurers: 1/3 of Work Comp Claims in Midwest Were from Slips, Falls
Nov 17 2014 // Workers’ compensation carriers, Accident Fund Insurance Company of America and United Heartland, report that during last year’s difficult Midwest winter, slips and falls on ice and snow accounted for nearly...
California Commissioner Wants Lower Workers’ Comp Rate Than Board
Nov 14 2014 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Friday adopted an advisory average pure premium rate of $2.74 per $100 of employer payroll for workers’ compensation rates effective Jan. 1, 2015. The adopted amount is...
