Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Report: California Workers’ Comp Insurers Returns Improved in 2010
Jan 31 2012 // After declining for four consecutive years, California workers’ compensation insurers’ return on net worth showed signs of improvement in 2010. That’s according to the data from the National Association...
3 New Workers’ Comp Arbitrators Appointed in Illinois
Jan 27 2012 // Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has appointed three more arbitrators for workers’ compensation system disputes. William Gallagher has 35 years of experience as an attorney concentrating on workers’ compensation in...
Oklahoma Company Sued Over Accident That Hurt Teens
Jan 27 2012 // The parents of two teenagers who were severely injured in a grain elevator accident in Oklahoma have filed negligence lawsuits against the business where the boys worked. Cherie Gannon, Lee Zander and Rhonda Zander filed...
Study: Recession Impacts California Workers’ Compensation
Jan 25 2012 // More people in California stayed on disability longer because a fewer “light duty” jobs are available in the down economy, authors of a study on worker’s compensation said. The impact of the recession on...
January P/C Reinsurance Renewals Flat or Up Slightly: Towers Watson
Jan 25 2012 // January 1 renewal rates for U.S. property/casualty reinsurance premiums showed firming with changes from -5 percent to +5 percent on an overall basis, with loss-affected property catastrophe business up considerably...
Texas Approves 13 Companies to Self-Insure for Workers’ Comp
Jan 24 2012 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) approved 13 renewals of the Certificates of Authority for companies to self-insure their workers’ compensation claims for a...
Workers’ Compensation Turn a Profit? Fahgettaboudit!
Jan 23 2012 // Workers’ compensation carriers with visions of profits over the next few years are dreaming. It ain’t goin’ to happen, according to insurance analysts at Standard & Poors Ratings Services. “All...
Outpatient Costs Higher in States Without Fee Schedules
Jan 23 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...
N.Y. Says Worker Injured on Break Entitled to WC Benefit
Jan 23 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 entitled to workers’ comp benefits. The Appellate Division...
Court: Workers’ Comp Bars Iraq Convoy Drivers’ Suit Against KBR, Halliburton
Jan 23 2012 // A federal appeals court has 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 Circuit,...
Florida Workers’ Comp Rate Hike Irks Businesses
Jan 23 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...
Iowa Work Comp Commissioner Lawsuit
Jan 23 2012 // Iowa Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Chris Godfrey filed a lawsuit accusing Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad of discrimination because the governor cut his salary by more than $30,000 after Godfrey declined to resign. He...
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...
