Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
North Carolina Lawmakers Urged to Preserve Workers’ Compensation Benefits
Apr 13 2011 // Injured workers’ groups, trial lawyers and others are sending a clear message to North Carolina lawmakers — leave the state’s workers’ compensation law alone. Hundreds of people descended on the...
Massachusetts Workers’ Compensation Rates Not Going Up
Apr 13 2011 // Massachusetts regulators and insurers have agreed that workers’ compensation rates will not rise. Last month, the industry filed for a 6.6 percent average increase effective Sept. 1 but insurers have agreed to hold...
How Health Reform Will Affect Workers’ Comp, Liability Insurance
Apr 12 2011 // The federal health reform enacted last year will bring short- and long-term challenges to employers and the property/casualty insurance industry. According to Harry Shuford, chief economist for the insurance...
Workers’ Comp TV Show Pilot Begins Filming in Florida
Apr 11 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...
Louisiana Workers’ Comp Corp.’s Financial Strength Rating Affirmed
Apr 8 2011 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) of Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC), headquartered in Baton Rouge, La. The outlook for this rating is stable....
Workers’ Comp Costs per Claim Rise in Minnesota
Apr 8 2011 // Workers’ compensation costs per claim for injured workers in Minnesota have grown, but at a slower pace than other study states, according to a study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute...
West Virginia to Subsidize Volunteer Firefighters’ Workers’ Comp
Apr 8 2011 // The doors of West Virginia volunteer fire departments will stay open thanks to a new law that will help offset their workers’ compensation costs. West Virginia Acting Governor Earl Ray Tomblin has sign into law the...
Ohio Man Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 7 2011 // A North Baltimore, Ohio, man has pleaded guilty to one count to workers’ compensation fraud. An investigation by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Special Investigations Division (SID) found that...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Rating Bureau To Skip Mid-Year Rate Filing
Apr 7 2011 // California’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau governing board has decided not to make a mid-year pure premium rate filing suggesting a 40 percent increase. Instead, the WCIRB will make an...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Rating Bureau Could Recommend 40% Rate Increase
Apr 6 2011 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California is discussing a pure premium rate increase of up to 40 percent at today’s Governing Committee meeting, according to industry reports. The WCIRB...
Texas Sees Rise in Workers’ Comp Medical Cost per Claim
Apr 6 2011 // Medical costs per claim in Texas rose 8 percent in 2008, after a period of declining costs following reforms enacted in 2001 and 2005, and increased payor focus on managing medical care, according to a study by the Workers...
Commercial Insurance Pricing Cuts Slowed in March
Apr 6 2011 // Commercial insurers moderated their rate reductions in March, and coastal property accounts actually saw increases, the latest insurance pricing survey shows. According to the report from online exchange MarketScout, the...
Feds Probe Illinois Public Agencies’ Workers’ Compensation Payouts
Apr 5 2011 // Two federal prosecutors are investigating possible workers’ compensation abuses at Illinois government agencies after disclosures of millions of dollars in payouts and questionable practices by arbitrators. The...
Starr Aviation Develops Workers’ Compensation Small Business Unit
Apr 5 2011 // Starr Aviation Agency, Inc., a member of Starr Cos., has developed a Small Business Unit within their Workers’ Compensation division. The focus of the Workers’ Compensation Small Business Unit is to provide an...
Washington Governor Signs Bill to Improve Workers’ Comp System
Apr 4 2011 // Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire has signed a workers’ compensation bill that supporters say will save $218 million over the next four years. She signed Senate Bill 5801, which directs the Department of Labor and...
West Virginia County Program to Expand
Apr 4 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,...
People
Apr 4 2011 // The Obama administration named Michael McRaith to head the new Federal Insurance Office. McRaith, currently the head of the Illinois Department of Insurance, will run the Federal Insurance Office set up under 2010’s...
Pennsylvania Considers Workers’ Comp for Small Business Owners
Apr 4 2011 // Agents in Pennsylvania are urging lawmakers to pass legislation that would allow insurers to cover owners or partners of small businesses through a workers’ compensation policy. The legislation changes insurance laws...
Declarations
Apr 4 2011 // All About Money “It’s all about money; that’s all it is.” —John Gillooly, attorney for a Detroit-area youth football league after a court reinstated a lawsuit against the league by an injured...
Missouri Bills Address Employee Liability in Workers’ Comp
Apr 1 2011 // Missouri legislators are considering two workers’ compensation bills to address whether an employee is liable when an employee is injured on the job SB 8 would restrict co-employee liability in workers’...
