Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Kansas Governor Signs Workers’ Comp Reform Bill
May 2 2011 // Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a workers’ compensation reform bill backed by both business and labor groups. Among other things, House Bill 2134: ends payment of unwarranted claims by raising the threshold...
North Carolina Employers, Workers Square Off Over Benefits
May 2 2011 // Business groups are praising proposed legislation that changes North Carolina’s workers’ compensation laws in ways that lower employer costs, while workers and the lawyers who represent them complained the...
Workers’ Comp TV Show Begins Filming in Florida
May 2 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...
Carefully Eye the 1BY
May 2 2011 // Before issuing a serious workplace citation, Cal/OSHA must meet and informally discuss its inspector’s findings and proposed citations no later than 15 days before they are issued, and allow employers to present...
Direct Premiums Written Drop for Top 50 Workers’ Comp Insurers
May 2 2011 // As of March 2011, the unemployment rate in the United States was reported to be 8.8 percent, a marked improvement from the 10.1 percent rate reported in October 2009. The gross domestic product (GDP) has increased for six...
Agents: Tread Carefully When Providing Workplace Safety Advice
May 2 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...
Bragging About an Agent’s Book of Business May Create a Greater Legal Duty of Care
May 2 2011 // It has often been said that every attorney has a little larceny in his heart. In similar fashion, it could be said that every insurance agent has a little puffery in his heart regarding his book of business, background and...
Fentanyl Often Prescribed in Calif. Workers’ Comp
Apr 29 2011 // A CWCI Research Spotlight Report on the use of fentanyl – the most potent Schedule II opioid – in California workers’ comp finds that More than 1 out of every 5 injured workers in California who are...
NFIB, EMPLOYERS Expand Work Comp Program to Additional States
Apr 26 2011 // The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) has extended discounted workers’ compensation coverage benefits to its members in Indiana, North Carolina, Virginia and Missouri through EMPLOYERS. EMPLOYERS...
Washington Special Legislative Session to Address Workers’ Comp
Apr 26 2011 // Washington’s Legislature is being called into a special session that starts today at 9 a.m., with workers’ compensation insurance among the topics to be discussed, according to Gov. Chris Gregoire. “This...
2nd Wash. House Workers Comp Floor Motion Fails
Apr 25 2011 // Washington Republicans attempted again a procedural motion on the House floor that would have allowed a vote on a Senate bill establishing the option of settlements to workers compensation, but failed to get the votes...
North Carolina Businesses, Injured Workers Square Off Over Benefits
Apr 25 2011 // Business groups last Thursday praised proposed legislation that changes workers’ compensation laws in ways that lower employer costs, while workers and the lawyers who represent them complained the victims of...
Arizona Court: OK to Use Bill Reveiwer to Determine Workers’ Comp Award
Apr 22 2011 // The Arizona Court Supreme Court has declined to review a petition challenging a lower court ruling that SCF Arizona paid a “reasonable amount” to two ambulatory surgery centers. In so doing, the court rejected...
Calif. Places Majestic Insurance into Conservatorship
Apr 21 2011 // Workers’ compensation insurer Majestic Insurance Co. has been placed into conservation by order of the San Francisco Superior Court. California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has simultaneously filed a motion...
Ohio Work Comp Bureau Offering Safety Grants to Wholesale, Retail Employers
Apr 21 2011 // Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Administrator/CEO Stephen Buehrer has announced a grant program to reduce or eliminate occupational injuries and illnesses in the wholesale/retail trade sector. As part of...
Calif. To Provide Workers’ Comp E-Billing
Apr 20 2011 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has adopted new regulations for standardized paper billing forms and electronic billing standards, making it one of the first states in the country to...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Insurers’ Net Worth Declining
Apr 20 2011 // California workers’ compensation insurer returns continue to dwindle, with recent National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) data showing their return on net worth falling from 7 percent in 2008 to 4.6...
8 Experts: Happy Birthday Workers’ Compensation – Now What?
Apr 19 2011 // This year marks the 100th anniversary of the workers’ compensation system in the U.S., as explained by Christopher J. Boggs, director of education for Insurance Journal’s Academy of Insurance, in Workers’...
Kansas Governor Signs Workers’ Comp Reform Bill
Apr 19 2011 // Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a workers’ compensation reform bill backed by both business and labor groups. Leaders from business and labor groups worked nearly a year to reach an agreement on House bill 2134,...
Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Insurers Must File Safety Plans
Apr 19 2011 // All carriers licensed to offer workers’ compensation in Mississippi must file a summary or copy of any safety plans they offer their policyholders with state regulators under a new regulation. The Mississippi...
