Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Workers’ Comp TV Show Begins Filming in Florida
May 16 2011 // Hollywood thinks workers’ compensation can be funny. Workers’ Comp, a half-hour TV comedy about crazy employees handling absurd and often-fraudulent insurance claims from injured workers, begins filming pilot...
Wash. Governor Proposes Workers’ Comp Settlement Option
May 13 2011 // In hopes of settling a stalemate in Washington’s special legislative session, Gov. Chris Gregoire has submitted a proposal that includes a claims settlement option for workers’ compensation claims. As part of...
Workers’ Compensation Injury Hotline Expands in Texas
May 11 2011 // Company Nurse, a nurse hotline for workplace injuries, has expanded its presence in Texas, adding account management staff to serve the Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and surrounding areas. Company Nurse was developed to help...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Information Filing Being Reviewed
May 11 2011 // At its April 6, 2011 meeting, the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California’s Governing Committee directed the WCIRB to submit to the California Department of Insurance (CDI) an informational...
North Carolina Subsidy for Firefighters’ Workers’ Comp in Jeopardy
May 11 2011 // Facing a tight state budget, North Carolina’s lawmakers are reconsidering the state’s financial commitment to a workers’ compensation fund that covers voluntary first responders in local communities. The...
Best Affirms No. Am. Casualty Financial Ratings; Upgrades Debt
May 10 2011 // A.M. Best Co. has upgraded the issuer credit ratings (ICR) to “a+” from “a” of North American Casualty Group (NAC) and its members, California Insurance Company, and Continental Indemnity Company,...
Pennsylvania House OKs Workers’ Comp Changes
May 10 2011 // Pennsylvania House lawmakers have approved new legislation that would allow insurers to write workers’ comp coverage to owners and principals of businesses. Agents in the state had sought the change to correct a...
Name Reversal Used as Evidence in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
May 9 2011 // Ondrej Marga faces a potential prison sentence after claiming he was Marga Ondrej. The operator of a Putnam County construction company, Ondrej Marga was arrested for fraudulently attempting to obtain workers’...
Stalemate Over Workers’ Comp Stalls Wash. Lawmakers
May 9 2011 // Washington state lawmakers grappling over how to fill a projected budget shortfall of $5 billion in a special legislative session may first have to end a stalemate on a more contentious issue: workers’...
Calif. Bill Targets State Workers’ Comp Insurer’s Commission Policy
May 6 2011 // California Assembly Member Anthony Portantino, 44th District, has proposed a bill aimed to level the playing field for brokers who help to secure workers’ compensation insurance from the State Compensation Insurance...
Mont. Governor Vetoes Workers’ Comp Tax
May 6 2011 // Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer has used his line item veto power to strike a a 2.75 percent workers’ compensation premium tax on insurance sold by the Montana State Fund to pay for continuing claims for workers...
Report: Workers’ Comp Line Deteriorates Further in 2010
May 5 2011 // Workers’ compensation continued to worsen in 2010 as the combined ratio jumped five points to 115 in 2010 from 2009. In its State of the Line workers compensation market analysis, NCCI Holdings Inc. described the...
Montana Lawmakers Add Tax to Workers’ Comp Bill
May 5 2011 // On the last day of the Montana legislative session, lawmakers added a 2.75 percent premium tax on insurance sold by the Montana State Fund to pay for continuing claims for workers injured before July 1990. The new fee...
Montana Reducing Workers’ Comp Costs 22.4%
May 4 2011 // Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance Monica Lindeen has approved a 22.4 percent reduction in workers’ compensation insurance loss costs, which will translate to lower premiums for employers. The lower...
Calif. Agents: Tread Carefully When Providing Workplace Safety Advice
May 4 2011 // Woe to the employer who is not attentive and actively engaged in health and safety.” That’s the warning the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) is giving employers in the Golden...
Survey: Commercial Lines Prices Fall 3% in Q1
May 4 2011 // Commercial property/casualty pricing declined again with an average decline 3 percent in the first quarter of 2011. But according to a new industry survey, the pace of pricing declines may be slowing down. The market...
Texas Supreme Court: Public Entities Immune from Retaliatory Discharge Claims
May 3 2011 // A ruling by the Texas Supreme Court will make it more difficult for former employees of public entities to pursue retaliatory discharge claims against those employers. The Court has held that a political subdivision has...
Calif. Attempts to Rein in Workers’ Comp Compound Drug Costs
May 3 2011 // California legislators are considering a bill aimed at reigning in the use of compound drugs in workers’ compensation claims. According to Assembly Bill 378, existing law provides that it is unlawful for a physician...
Ohio Governor Wants Lower Workers’ Comp Rates
May 2 2011 // Ohio’s governor wants the state to lower the premiums employers pay for workers’ compensation by 4 percent for a total cut of about $65 million a year. Gov. John Kasich’s office says the goal is to reduce...
Declarations
May 2 2011 // Single Digit Growth “Assuming the economic recovery continues at a modest pace, expected small increases in premium exposures in personal auto and in most commercial lines are the principal drivers of the premium...
