Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Everest National Insurance Company Awards American Claims Management with Personal Auto Program
Feb 13 2013 // San Diego, CA, 02/13/13 – American Claims Management, Inc. (ACM), a national third party administrator, has been awarded the claims handling for the Personal Auto Program from Everest National Insurance Company...
Doctors Defend Physician-Dispensed Drugs for Workers’ Comp
Feb 11 2013 // Florida physician groups are claiming that the cost of physician-dispensed prescription drugs in workers’ compensation claims is far less than has been reported and that physicians are being unfairly singled out...
Florida’s Workers’ Comp Market Outlook Remains Positive
Feb 11 2013 // The outlook for Florida’s workers’ compensation market continues to be strong as a competitive market offers affordable rates, although costs could be reduced further if the state addressed prescription drug...
People
Feb 11 2013 // San Diego, Calif.-based Barney & Barney LLC named David Freeman director of property/casualty sales. Freeman, who will be based in San Diego, will oversee a team of client executives in San Diego, Orange County,...
How Agents Help Nonprofits in Hard Times
Feb 11 2013 // Still struggling through the recession, the last thing the nonprofit sector needed is the negative publicity generated by Jerry Sandusky and Lance Armstrong. The recession was hard on just about everyone, particularly the...
Oklahoma Agents Group on Workers’ Comp Reform: Wait-and-See
Feb 8 2013 // Workers’ compensation reform is certain to be an issue during the 2013 legislative session in Oklahoma and it is a major concern for the state’s independent insurance agents. The board of the Independent...
Washington Senate Passes Workers’ Comp Bills
Feb 7 2013 // The Republican-controlled Washington state Senate passed three contentious measures intended to save businesses money by changing workers’ compensation rules. Senate Bill 5128 would overhaul the...
Report Suggests Compounders Adapted to California Price Controls
Feb 6 2013 // Think California’s new workers’ compensation reform law addressed just about every aspect of an unwieldy system which, few would argue, desperately needs fixing? Think again. A report on compounding drugs...
Workers’ Compensation Insurer MEMIC Expanding to Florida
Feb 6 2013 // Portland, Maine-based workers’ compensation insurer The MEMIC Group said it will open its first office in Florida in the second quarter of 2013. MEMIC President and CEO John T. Leonard said the company’s plan...
Insurance Prices ‘More of Same’ in 4th Quarter, Say Commercial Brokers
Feb 5 2013 // Insurance brokers across the country reported price increases in the commercial lines market in the fourth quarter of 2012. According to The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers’ quarterly Commercial P/C Market...
Tax Cuts, Workers’ Comp Top Oklahoma GOP Agenda
Feb 4 2013 // Republicans enjoying a tighter grip on the Oklahoma Legislature say they hope to cut taxes, overhaul the workers’ compensation system and increase school funding when the 2013 session opens today. Doing so, they say,...
Ohio Employers Want $860M from Work Comp Bureau After Ruling
Feb 4 2013 // Attorneys for employers who won a ruling against the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation are asking the state to pay $860 million. The lawyers say there are 270,000 Ohio employers who are due restitution after a...
Washington Senate Delays Vote On Workers’ Compensation Bills
Feb 1 2013 // The Washington state Senate on Wednesday passed its first bills of the 2013 legislative session, but put off a vote on a set of contentious measures intended to save businesses money by changing workers’ compensation...
Rhode Island Nightclub Owners Still Owe $1M Workers’ Comp Penalty
Jan 31 2013 // A Rhode Island judge is questioning why the owners of a nightclub where 100 people died in a fire in 2003 still haven’t paid a $1 million penalty for failing to carry workers’ compensation insurance. The...
How Agents Survived a Falling Housing Market
Jan 31 2013 // It has not been easy being an insurance agent specializing in the homebuilders insurance market during one of the worst economic recessions in U.S. history. Survival in the recession meant change and a lot of hard...
Crum & Forster Taps Burr as VP of California Workers’ Comp Claims
Jan 31 2013 // Crum & Forster hired George Burr as vice president of California workers’ compensation claims. Burr will manage C&F’s West Coast workers’ compensation claims office located in Orange County,...
Nevada Workers’ Comp Loss Costs: Small Increase in 2013
Jan 30 2013 // Thanks to rising medical costs many Nevada employers will see a small increase in the premiums they pay for workers’ compensation insurance this year, according to the Nevada Division of Insurance. The average...
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Business Moves – Midwest
Jan 28 2013 // Willis North America Willis North America, a unit of global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings, has relocated its Cleveland, Ohio office to 1001 Lakeside Ave., Suite 1600. Willis established a presence in Ohio more...
Virginia OKs Changes to Workers’ Comp Premium Levels
Jan 28 2013 // Virginia’s State Corporation Commission (SCC) announced on Jan. 8 that the commission approved revisions to the premium levels charged for the state’s workers’ comp insurance. The National Council on...
