Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jay-Z Cleared of N.Y. Workers’ Comp Board Charge, Judgment Vacated
Jan 23 2012 // Jay-Z may have 99 problems, but missing workers’ comp insurance payments isn’t one of them. The previous judgment against the popular rapper and the court-ordered $18,000 fine have been reversed, according to...
How Workers’ Comp Is Handling Aging Workforce
Jan 23 2012 // The aging workforce may not have the negative impact on loss costs that workers’ compensation insurers have feared. New research from the industry’s National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) also...
Cal/OSHA Issues $256K in Citations to Warehouse Operators
Jan 20 2012 // Cal/OSHA has issued $256,445 in fines to two companies in Chino, Calif. for over 60 safety violations discovered during warehouse inspections that found unsafe working conditions. The California Department of Industrial...
Jones: California Workers’ Comp Filings Show Companies Using Advisory Rates
Jan 19 2012 // A majority of companies are using California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones’ approved advisory pure premium rates in their rate filings for 2012, and the result is a combined increase of 2.8 percent for companies,...
Texas-Based Tile Manufacturer Fined $318K for Safety Violations
Jan 19 2012 // Federal officials have cited a Sunnyvale, Texas-based tile manufacturer for safety violations and proposed $318,000 in penalties. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited...
Houston Man Pleads Guilty to Hiding Payroll from Texas Mutual
Jan 19 2012 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported Marvin Solano of Houston has pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. A Travis County district court ordered Solano to pay $140,038 to Texas Mutual, pay a...
Key Risk Expands to Pennsylvania, Opens Harrisburg Office
Jan 19 2012 // Key Risk, a workers’ comp insurer and a member company of W. R. Berkley Corp., said it is expanding operations to Pennsylvania and is opening a new office in Harrisburg. Key Risk focuses solely on providing...
Carlson Appointed Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau Chief Actuarial Officer
Jan 19 2012 // Christopher Carlson has been appointed as chief actuarial officer of the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC). Carlson will be responsible for directing the activities of BWC’s actuarial division, setting...
Dada-Olley Is New Deputy Counsel at Illinois Workers’ Comp Commission
Jan 18 2012 // Lola Dada-Olley has joined the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission as deputy counsel. Dada-Olley prior work history includes a mixture of policy, communications, and law, both in the private and public sector....
Florida Workers’ Compensation Costs Per Claim Growing: WCRI Study
Jan 17 2012 // Workers’ compensation costs per claim in Florida, which dropped in the year following system reforms in 2003, showed signs of growth from 2005 to 2009, according to a new study. The WCRI study found that the average...
Bollinger to Head Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. Board
Jan 16 2012 // The board of directors of Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) has elected its officers for 2012. They are: Donald T. “Boysie” Bollinger, chairman; Murphy J. “Mike” Foster, Jr.,...
Florida Workers’ Compensation Rate Hike Irks Businesses
Jan 16 2012 // Florida small businesses seeing their second workers’ compensation rate increase in as many years are calling on the state to reduce the increase because they fear it will harm the economy. A small business group is...
Workers’ Comp Official Claims Iowa Governor Illegally Cut His Pay
Jan 13 2012 // A state workers’ compensation commissioner has filed a lawsuit accusing Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad of discrimination because the governor cut his salary by more than $30,000 after he declined to resign. Iowa...
Tennessee to Study Workers’ Compensation System
Jan 13 2012 // Tennessee state officials, business groups, labor leaders and legal experts are lining up to study the state’s workers’ compensation system, although it may be 2013 before any legislative deals are...
Court: Workers’ Comp Bars Iraq Convoy Drivers’ Suit Against KBR, Halliburton
Jan 12 2012 // A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit brought against KBR Inc. and Halliburton Co. by the families of two convoy drivers killed in a 2004 insurgent attack in Iraq. The U.S. Court of Appeal for the 5th...
Some Work Comp Claims in Michigan Must First Go to Mediation
Jan 12 2012 // Michigan workers’ compensation insurance regulators report that due to recent statutory changes some contested workers’ compensation claims will be assigned to mediation. Michigan Workers’ Compensation...
N.Y. Court: Worker Injured on Break Entitled to Workers’ Comp Benefits
Jan 11 2012 // A New York court has ruled that a worker taking a short break does not constitute an interruption of employment, thus a worker injured during such a break is still entitled to workers’ comp benefits. The Appellate...
LIG Marine Managers Opens Philadelphia Office
Jan 11 2012 // St. Petersburg, Fla.-based LIG Marine Managers is opening a new office in Philadelphia. The office will cover businesses from the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. Richard...
Outpatient Costs Higher in States Without Fee Schedules: Workers’ Comp Study
Jan 11 2012 // States without fee schedules have higher hospital outpatient costs for common surgeries compared to states with fee schedules, according to a workers’ compensation study. The study found that significant variations...
Oklahoma Court Strikes Down Part of Workers’ Comp Law
Jan 9 2012 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down on Dec. 20, 2011, part of a new law that prevents chiropractors and some other medical professionals from serving as independent medical examiners in the state’s Workers’...
