Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Florida to Investigate Role of Check Cashing Firms in Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Aug 4 2011 // Florida officials are calling for an investigation into the role of check cashing services in helping construction subcontractors avoid paying their fair share of workers’ compensation premiums. Florida Chief...
Workers’ Compensation Costs Continue to Drop in West Virginia
Aug 3 2011 // West Virginia employers would continue to benefit from lower workers’ compensation rates if the state agrees with an industry filing that loss costs be cut by 8.1 percent. Since the state privatized its...
October Hearing Set on Va. Workers’ Comp Premiums
Aug 3 2011 // Virginia regulators are planning to hold a hearing in October on proposed adjustments in premiums charged for workers’ compensation insurance. The State Corporation Commission said it set an Oct. 27 hearing in...
Colorado Issues Workers’ Comp Audit Guidelines
Aug 1 2011 // The Colorado Division of Insurance this week issued a bulletin directed at insurers that conduct workers’ compensation audits. Bulletin B-5.30 provides guidelines for insurers regarding the fees they charge when an...
Alabama City Reaches Settlement with Injured Off-Duty Cop
Aug 1 2011 // A workers’ compensation case between an off-duty police officer and the city of Montgomery, Alabama has been dismissed after the officer agreed to receive full retirement benefits in lieu of workers’...
Insurer Wants to Sign 100 Agents in 100 Days
Aug 1 2011 // A commercial lines insurer is on a mission to sign a number of independent agents – as many as 100 of them – within 100 days. From July 12 through October 12, South Carolina-based Accident Insurance Co. (AIC)...
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Aug 1 2011 // Tim Brady, chairman and former CEO of Brady, Chapman, Holland and Associates in Houston, was named the 2011 Drex Foreman Award winner at the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas 114th Annual Conference & Trade Show...
NFL Case Draws Attention to Unique Calif. Workers’ Comp Law
Aug 1 2011 // A California statute that affords protections to employees on temporary work assignment in the state has attracted attention after St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance sued the Denver Broncos of the National Football League...
New York Workers’ Comp Hike
Aug 1 2011 // New York regulators have approved an average 9.1 percent hike in loss costs used by insurers, which is less than the 10.4 percent increase sought by the industry. The New York State Insurance Department approved the...
Study: Workers’ Comp Drug Costs Higher in Texas, Louisiana
Jul 29 2011 // A new study indicates that Louisiana had the highest workers’ compensation prescription costs among the 17 states studied and that Texas also was among the states with the highest cost of prescription drugs per...
P/C Commercial Prices Showed Modest Increases in Q2: Brokers’ Survey
Jul 28 2011 // Pricing in the U.S. commercial property/casualty market showed modest increases in the second quarter of this year, compared with the first quarter. That’s according to The Council of Insurance Agents &...
BrickStreet Bids to Keep West Virginia Workers’ Comp Accounts
Jul 27 2011 // BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. has decided it wants to continue providing workers’ compensation insurance to state agencies. BrickStreet had said earlier this year that it wasn’t interested in continuing the...
Oregon Class held on Workers’ Comp for Harbor Workers
Jul 26 2011 // The Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters Society Oregon Chapter in partnership with SAIF Corporation is hosting a Four Hour Continuing Class on United States Long Shore and Harbor Workers Compensation, on July 27,...
California Updates Pure Premium Rates Filing Process
Jul 26 2011 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones today announced that the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) has proceeded with his directive to revise its filing of pure premium rates in order to...
California WC Appeals Board Takes Back Physician Ruling
Jul 26 2011 // Just a few months after the California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board ruled that a non-approved physician’s report cannot be used to support workers’ compensation eligibility, it is reconsidering...
Oklahoma Governor Touts Tort, Work Comp Reforms to Chicago Businesses
Jul 25 2011 // Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin said she is pitching her state’s business climate and work force in an attempt to lure some Illinois-based companies to the Sooner State. Fallin visited Chicago on July 21, meeting with...
Louisiana Workers’ Comp Medical Guidelines Now in Effect
Jul 22 2011 // Medical treatment guidelines have gone into effect for the treatment of workers’ compensation injuries in Louisiana. The guidelines are being instituted by the Louisiana Workforce Commission’s Office of...
Zurich North America Commercial Offers Alternative to Texas Nonsubscribers
Jul 21 2011 // Property and casualty insurance Zurich announced its North America Commercial’s Accident & Health unit is now providing an alternative to Texas workers’ compensation coverage for employers who opt out of...
Illinois Governor Appoints 12 to Workers’ Comp Advisory Board
Jul 20 2011 // Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has appointed 12 new members to the state’s Workers’ Compensation Advisory Board as part of the implementation of recently passed workers’ compensation reform legislation. The...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Administrator Cites Successes, Areas for Improvement
Jul 20 2011 // In an overview of his first six months on the job, Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Administrator/CEO Stephen Buehrer said he has identified three primary areas improvement: reducing medical and indemnity costs...
