Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Louisiana to Receive $6.1M from AIG Settlement
Mar 30 2011 // Louisiana has signed on to a multistate settlement over American International Group’s (AIG) admitted practice of under reporting workers’ compensation insurance premiums. Louisiana is slated to receive...
New York Sting Nets 13 Arrests for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Mar 30 2011 // New York police arrested 13 people in a series of investigations targeting workers’ compensation fraud around the Empire State. In several cases, the arrests targeted individuals accused of improperly collecting...
Judge Limits NFL Offset for Players’ Workers’ Compensation Benefits
Mar 30 2011 // A New York judge says the NFL must be limited in how much money it can recover when injured NFL players receive state workers’ compensation awards. Judge Paul Crotty wrote in a decision that the NFL sometimes wants...
American Claims Management Appointed TPA for Large Self-Insured Group
Mar 30 2011 // San Diego, CA, 3/30/11 – American Claims Management, Inc. (ACM) has been appointed as the third party claims administrator for the California Restaurant Mutual Benefit Corporation (CRMBC), the largest self-insured...
Montana Senate Passes Workers’ Comp Reform Bill
Mar 29 2011 // The Montana Senate has passed a workers’ compensation reform bill that supporters claim will bring nearly $100 million in savings its first year. The Senate passed HB 334 by a 45-5 vote in its third reading on March...
Study: Calif. Workers’ Comp Reforms Eroded
Mar 29 2011 // California’s workers’ compensation reforms in 2002-2004 have been eroded, a new study has confirmed. According to a report by the California Workers’ Compensation Institute, state workers’...
Baker Appointed to Lead California Department of Industrial Relations
Mar 29 2011 // California Gov. Jerry Brown has appointed Christine Baker as chief deputy director of the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). Baker has served as the executive officer of the Commission on Health Safety and...
Texas Business Owner Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud, Tax Evasion
Mar 29 2011 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that a Travis County district court sentenced Gary C. Quintinsky of Houston to a two-year prison term for workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. Upon completion of his state...
West Virginia Counties’ Program Expanding to Workers’ Compensation
Mar 29 2011 // A West Virginia risk pool created to provide property and liability coverage to counties around the state is looking to expand into workers’ compensation. The West Virginia Counties Group Self-Insurance Risk Pool...
Hallmark Financial Services Acquires Texas Builders Insurance
Mar 28 2011 // Hallmark Financial Services Inc., headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, announced that its subsidiary, American Hallmark Insurance Co. of Texas, is acquiring TBIC Holding Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiaries Texas...
Montana Bill to Deny Workers’ Comp to Illegal Aliens Stalls in Senate Committee
Mar 28 2011 // A bill that would deny workers’ compensation to illegal immigrants who have jobs in Montana was tabled by a Senate committee after several insurers and businesses warned it would do more harm than good to...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau Finds Fraud at 6 Postal Contractors
Mar 25 2011 // Six postal contractors in Ohio have been sanctioned for workers’ compensation fraud, state regulators say. The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) said a task force created by its Special Investigations...
Montana Gov. Amendments Added to Workers’ Comp Bill
Mar 25 2011 // A Montana state Senate committee got a look at the newest version of what is being labeled a “historic” workers’ compensation reform bill that was crafted by Republicans and now includes amendments from...
Mont. Governor Endorses Workers’ Comp Compromise
Mar 25 2011 // Gov. Brian Schweitzer’s administration said Wednesday that it is supporting a deal with Republicans to cut workers’ compensation insurance rates that are widely regarded as too expensive, paving the way for a...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau Receives Nearly $2M from Jailed Doctor
Mar 24 2011 // Ohio workers’ compensation system regulators have received nearly $2 million from an Akron area anesthesiologist who was convicted in 2006 on 56 criminal counts of health care and insurance fraud. Dr. Jorge Martinez...
Alaska House Approves Updated Workers’ Comp Fee Schedules
Mar 23 2011 // The Alaska State House of Representatives has passed legislation to modernize the state’s workers’ compensation procedural fee schedules. House Labor & Commerce Committee Chair Rep. Kurt Olson, R-Kenai,...
Happy 100th Birthday Workers’ Compensation: The Great Tradeoff!
Mar 23 2011 // Happy 100th Birthday Workers’ Compensation: Now What ? This year marks the 100th anniversary of the workers’ compensation system in the U.S. As Christopher Boggs, director of Education for Insurance...
Pennsylvania Ponders Workers’ Comp for Small Business Owners
Mar 23 2011 // Agents in Pennsylvania will urge lawmakers today to pass legislation that would allow insurers to cover owners or partners of small businesses through a workers’ compensation policy. The legislation changes insurance...
Commentary: 100 Percent PD Award Encourages Discrimination
Mar 22 2011 // Bradford & Barthel has filed a Petition for Review with the California Supreme Court questioning whether the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board may make a 100 percent permanent disability award that ignores the...
Connecticut Woman Tests State Workers’ Comp Laws
Mar 22 2011 // The fiancée of a victim of last August’s shooting rampage at a beer distributorship in Manchester, Connecticut is putting the state’s workers’ compensation benefits law to the test. Stephanie Laurin was...
