Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Agents Urge Caution on Changes to Missouri Work Comp Insurer
Apr 16 2012 // Some insurance agents are urging caution as Missouri lawmakers consider changes to a state-created workers’ compensation firm that has been criticized by the state auditor for taking advantage of a federal tax...
California State Fund Reports Drop in Net Premiums
Apr 12 2012 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund released its annual report on Thursday showing just over $1 billion dollars in net premiums earned, a drop from 2010’s figures. State Fund reported adjusted actual...
States’ Group Considers Model Workers’ Compensation Drug Bill
Apr 12 2012 // In the wake of the Florida Legislature’s failure to cut physician reimbursements for prescribing repackaged drugs to workers’ compensation patients, a national group of state legislators is looking to create a...
Martial Arts Fighter-Fireman Charged With Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 11 2012 // Los Angeles City firefighter Raphael “Noodle” Davis was arrested for allegedly filing false workers’ compensation insurance claims, the Los Angeles Times is reporting. The Los Angeles County District...
California Workers’ Comp Reform Taking Shape – Again
Apr 10 2012 // At a recent joint hearing in Sacramento on workers’ compensation in California with the Assembly and Senate, statistic after statistic flew out of the mouths of speaker after speaker during the nearly four-hour...
Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Bill Goes Back to Senate
Apr 9 2012 // The Mississippi House last Thursday advanced a bill to make changes that manufacturers and business groups are seeking in the workers’ compensation system. Senate Bill 2576 passed the House 59-58 and returns to the...
Survey: Oklahoma Businesses Confident About Future
Apr 6 2012 // Most Oklahoma business executives are confident their businesses will grow and about a third plan to hire workers this year, according to the findings of an online survey of company owners and officials released on April...
Missouri Senate Backs Study of State-Created Workers’ Compensation Insurer
Apr 6 2012 // The Missouri Senate has endorsed the establishment of a special committee to study whether to change a state-created workers’ compensation insurer. Senators gave initial approval on April 4 to a bill creating a...
California Workers’ Compensation Bureau to Make Midyear Filing
Apr 6 2012 // California workers’ compensation insurers will be seeking a midyear correction — a 7.7 percent increase — in pure premium rates. The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California reported that...
Workers’ Comp Insurer BrickStreet Acquires PennCommonwealth
Apr 5 2012 // Workers’ compensation insurance provider BrickStreet Insurance has acquired a Pennsylvania workers’ compensation company. Charleston, W.Va.-based BrickStreet announced its acquisition of Canonsburg, Penn.-based...
Workers’ Compensation Upheld for North Carolina School Principal Shot in Face
Apr 5 2012 // The state Court of Appeals has upheld a decision awarding workers’ compensation to a middle school principal shot in the face in 2009. The court ruled that former Fairmont Middle School Principal James Hunt’s...
Agents Urge Caution on Changes to Missouri Work Comp Insurer
Apr 4 2012 // Some insurance agents are urging caution as Missouri lawmakers considered changes to a state-created workers’ compensation firm that has been criticized by the state auditor for taking advantage of a federal tax...
Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Bill Hits Snag in House
Apr 4 2012 // A bill that would revise Mississippi’s workers’ compensation system survived attempts to kill it this week, but ended up further away from passage. After earlier rejecting proposed changes to the system of...
North Carolina Vows Crackdown on Workers’ Compensation Scofflaws
Apr 4 2012 // Officials in North Carolina said they will review their efforts to ensure that employers are purchasing workers’ compensation coverage after facing criticism they have done little to make sure that employers comply...
Missouri Senate Votes to Override Veto on Workers’ Comp
Apr 2 2012 // The Missouri Senate has voted to override Gov. Jay Nixon’s earlier veto of a bill that would change workers’ compensation laws by barring some lawsuits over workplace injuries. The Republican-controlled...
Mississippi House Sends Workers’ Comp Bill to Senate
Apr 2 2012 // Mississippi House members now favor changes to the state’s workers’ compensation system after previously voting against them. House members voted 60-56 last Thursday to pass Senate Bill 2576, which proponents...
California’s Workers’ Comp Underwriting Results Erode
Apr 2 2012 // For the second consecutive year, California workers’ compensation premiums levels rose in 2011, but continually growing costs of claims has eroded statewide underwriting results, according to an annual report from...
Missouri Discrimination, Workers’ Comp Bills Vetoed
Apr 2 2012 // Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has vetoed for the second consecutive year legislation that would have changed rules for lawsuits alleging workplace discrimination (HB 1219) and blocked changes to the workers’ compensation...
Florida Passes Workers’ Comp Changes
Apr 2 2012 // While debates over property insurance and no-fault auto insurance consumed the attention of state officials and the media, Florida lawmakers quietly dealt with several other insurance issues, including workers’...
2012 Second Quarter Schedule
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