Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Wash. Governor Signs Workers’ Comp Reform Measure
Jun 16 2011 // Washington employers who provide temporary work that allows an injured worker to “Stay at Work” while recovering from an injury will be eligible to be reimbursed for half of the worker’s wages. This new...
Ohio BWC: 7 Workers’ Compensation Fraud Convictions in May
Jun 16 2011 // Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Administrator/CEO Stephen Buehrer announced that seven individuals were convicted or pleaded guilty to charges related to defrauding Ohio’s workers’ compensation...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau Caught in Pensions’ Currency Dispute
Jun 16 2011 // Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel has asked for a state investigation into whether banks may have manipulated foreign exchange rates charged to Ohio pension funds and the state’s injured worker insurance, potentially...
Alabama Lumber Company Faces $2 Million in OSHA Fines
Jun 16 2011 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is issuing 13 citations and $1,939,000 in fines to a Phenix City, Alabama lumber yard for 24 safety violations, including exposing employees to amputation and fall...
U.S. Industry Reserve Redundancy at $22 Billion: Aon Benfield
Jun 16 2011 // The overall U.S. insurance industry reserve redundancy is $22.0 billion versus $21.9 billion at year-end 2009, after the industry released $10.5 billion of reserves during 2010, a new study of year-end 2010 data shows. The...
Texas Workers’ Comp May Enforcements Bring More than $70K in Fines
Jun 15 2011 // Final disciplinary actions taken by the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) for May 2011 resulted in more than $70,000 in fines. Division of Workers’ Compensation final...
Texas Woman Sentenced in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Jun 15 2011 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Travis County district court sentenced Ellynn A. Ogilvie of Houston to five years of probation, 450 community service hours and a $2,000 fine for workers’ compensation...
OSHA Proposes $243K Fine for Maine Contractor
Jun 15 2011 // Federal workplace safety officials are proposing that a Lewiston, Maine roofing contractor be fined $243,000 for alleged safety violations at its work sites. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced the...
Florida Alleges $2.7 Million Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Jun 14 2011 // Florida regulators have announced the arrest of a North Carolina man who allegedly collected more than $2.7 million in workers’ compensation premiums from a company by providing a fake policy. Florida Chief Financial...
Report: More Illinois Prison Workers’ Comp Cases Pile Up
Jun 14 2011 // New workers’ compensation claims have continued to pile up this year at Menard Correctional Center in Illinois despite ongoing probes by federal authorities, a newspaper reported on June 12. According to the...
Commercial Insurance Prices Still Flat But Workers’ Comp Moving Up
Jun 13 2011 // Commercial insurance prices were relatively flat for the ninth consecutive quarter, and new data confirm the deterioration of loss ratios in accident-year 2010. Price reductions continued for commercial property and...
North Carolina Lawmakers Agree on Workers’ Compensation Benefit Change
Jun 13 2011 // Consensus legislation to change limits on benefits for workers injured on the job in North Carolina has swept through the General Assembly and is moving to Gov. Beverly Perdue for her signature. The Senate agreed...
St. Paul Fire & Marine Sues Denver Broncos
Jun 10 2011 // St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance has filed a lawsuit against the Denver Broncos and nine of its former players, saying its policies only covered claims in New Mexico for a “class of employee that did not include...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Total Temporary Disability Rates to Increase
Jun 8 2011 // New U.S. Department of Labor data shows California’s State Average Weekly Wage (SAWW) rose more than 2.4% from $979.90 to $1003.55 in the 12 months ending March 31, 2011, which the California Workers’...
Report: Locking Prison Cells Didn’t Injure Guards in Illinois
Jun 8 2011 // A newspaper’s ongoing investigation has found an expert report, commissioned by the state of Illinois, showed that locking and unlocking prison cells didn’t cause repetitive trauma injuries in guards. The...
Ohio: More than 2,000 Agents, Agencies Face $21.7 Million in Tax Liens
Jun 8 2011 // The Ohio Department of Insurance Fraud, Enforcement and License Division, with help from Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine’s office, has identified nearly 2,230 agents and agencies that owe the state of Ohio $21.7...
RMIS Picks Tobin To Lead Workers’ Comp Division
Jun 7 2011 // Fullerton, Calif.-based RMIS has added a new worker’s compensation insurance market through Tower Select, and has added Monica Tobin to its staff as the head worker’s comp underwriter. Tobin’s previous 17...
Missouri Fund for Injured Workers Stops Paying Claims
Jun 7 2011 // Fifty-five people permanently disabled from workplace injuries are owed money from a Missouri fund but are not getting paid because of the fund’s financial troubles. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the...
Revival of Illinois Workers’ Comp Bill a Tale of Persuasion
Jun 7 2011 // Everyone on the Illinois House floor was watching the vote climb. 56…57… In the waning hours of the legislative session, lawmakers were considering a huge overhaul of the state’s unwieldy workers’...
Court Approves Majestic Insurance Rehabilitation Plan
Jun 6 2011 // A San Francisco Superior Court has approved California Insurance Commissioner’s rehabilitation plan for Majestic Insurance Co., a failed workers’ compensation insurance carrier. Under the plan, Majestic’s...
