Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
North Carolina Gov. Perdue Signs Workers’ Comp Scofflaw Bill
Jul 2 2012 // North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue has signed a bill designed to crack down on employers without workers’ compensation coverage despite opposition from media groups that objected to the fact the employer information will...
P/C Industry Should Not Expect Traditional Hard Market Soon: Hartwig
Jul 2 2012 // Although insurance rates have been drifting upward in recent months, the property/casualty industry is unlikely to see a return to the traditional hard market this year or next, an insurance expert told reinsurance...
Fitch: WC Combined Ratio Worst in 10 Years
Jul 2 2012 // Workers’ compensation, the largest commercial-lines segment representing 18 percent of commercial lines net written premiums in 2011, posted a statutory combined ratio of 117 percent in 2011, according to a new...
North Carolina Targets Workers’ Comp Scofflaws
Jul 2 2012 // North Carolina business owners may find it harder to escape having workers’ compensation coverage after state lawmakers approval of a bill closing a loophole that had resulted in tens of thousands of employers going...
Alternative Workers’ Compensation Risk Financing Options to Consider
Jul 2 2012 // Pennachio Details Two Financing Plans in Upcoming Webinars Beginning July 11, 2012, insurance professionals have the opportunity to gain insight into two alternative risk financing options for their workers’...
Academy of Insurance Third Quarter Schedule (2012)
Jul 2 2012 // July 11 Work Comp Retrospective Rating Plans Frank Pennachio, co-founder, The WorkComp Advisory Group July 12 Property Valuation Chris Amrhein, president, Amrhein & Associates and Insurance is Fun July 18 Managing...
R.I. Proposes 6.75% Assessment for WC Insurers
Jul 2 2012 // The R.I. Department of Labor and Training proposed last month an assessment rate for workers’ comp insurers of 6.75 percent for the coming year, effective July 15, 2012. This rate has remained level every year since...
Tennessee Court Rules on Workers’ Statute of Limitations
Jul 2 2012 // A worker who witnessed the deaths of two co-workers but did not file a post-traumatic stress disorder claim until more than a year after the second death is still entitled to workers’ compensation benefits, the...
Island Insurance Names Ohata Assistant Vice President
Jun 29 2012 // Honolulu, Hawaii-based Island Insurance Company Ltd. named Sharon K. Ohata assistant vice president, claims supervisor for workers’ compensation. Ohata will continue to be responsible for the management of the...
OSHA Targets West Virginia Construction Worksites
Jun 29 2012 // The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration is launching what it calls a “no-notice” campaign in West Virginia this summer in hopes of reducing construction injuries and deaths. The...
OSHA Taking Aim at W.Va. Construction Worksites This Summer
Jun 27 2012 // The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration is launching what it calls a “no-notice” campaign in West Virginia this summer in hopes of reducing construction injuries and deaths. The...
Rep. Cummings Wants Federal Workers Comp Insurer for Overseas Contractors
Jun 26 2012 // U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md. – the former chairman and current ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee – has some issues with American International Group. And generally speaking, we...
Report: Texas Reforms Reduced Costs of Medical Care for Injured Workers
Jun 26 2012 // A new study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI), an independent, not-for-profit research organization based in Cambridge, Mass., says that costs of medical care for injured workers in Texas have...
P/C Industry Should Not Expect Traditional Hard Market Soon: Hartwig
Jun 26 2012 // Although insurance rates have been drifting upward in recent months, the property/casualty industry is unlikely to see a return to the traditional hard market this year or next, an insurance expert told reinsurance...
Texas Supreme Court: Bad Faith Tort Inconsistent with Workers’ Comp System
Jun 25 2012 // In what has been called a landmark decision, the Supreme Court of Texas has found that a bad faith cause of action is inconsistent with the current workers’ compensation system. The Court’s decision strengthens...
North Carolina Passes Law Targeting Employers Without Workers’ Comp
Jun 25 2012 // North Carolina business owners may find it harder to escape having workers’ compensation coverage after state lawmakers approved a bill closing a legal loophole that had resulted in tens of thousands of employers...
Ex-N.Y. Postal Worker Pleads Guilty to $18K Workers’ Comp Scam
Jun 22 2012 // Authorities said a former U.S. Postal Service employee has pleaded guilty to receiving over $18,000 in fraudulent workers’ comp benefits. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Northern District of New York said Thomas...
AIG Pays Massachusetts $3.4M in Multi-State Workers’ Comp Settlement
Jun 22 2012 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Joseph Murphy announced Thursday that the state received more than $3.44 million as its share of a 50-state settlement with the American Insurance Group. Commissioner Murphy stated that...
CDI Gives $32 Million to Fight Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jun 21 2012 // The California Department of Insurance will distribute $32 million in grants to district attorneys in California to support efforts to investigate and prosecute workers’ compensation insurance fraud. Every year, the...
Best Affirms Ratings of Eastern Insurance Holdings and Subs
Jun 21 2012 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a” of the property/casualty subsidiaries of Eastern Insurance Holdings, Inc....
