Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Report: Illinois Work Comp Arbitrator Sought Favor on Her Claim
Feb 14 2011 // A newspaper’s ongoing investigation has found that an Illinois workers’ compensation arbitrator asked for help with her own personal injury case while scheduling a hearing in an unrelated case. The apparent...
Quirk in Law Could Force Wisconsin Family to Lose Insurance Settlement
Feb 14 2011 // When Dane County, Wis., highway worker James Porter was struck and killed on the job in June 2009, Joel Porter, his son, lost his best friend. Porter’s daughter, Jessica Johnson, lost a grandfather to her two little...
Invited by GOP, Businesses Vent About EPA, OSHA, Dodd-Frank Rules
Feb 11 2011 // On issues ranging from the air we breathe to the noise factories make, business leaders want the government to stay out of their way. And the Republicans, looking toward the 2012 elections, are listening. The House’s...
S&P Sees No Rating Change for AIG from $4.1 Billion Charge
Feb 11 2011 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that its ratings on American International Group Inc. (A-/Negative/A-2) and AIG’s insurance subsidiaries “are not affected by the company’s...
It Figures
Feb 10 2011 // $2 Million The Minnesota Department of Commerce expects to receive more than $2 million in its share of a $146 million settlement with American International Group over misreporting of workers’ compensation insurance...
Montana House Committee Endorses Workers’ Comp Reform Bill
Feb 10 2011 // The Montana House Business and Labor Committee has endorsed a bill to reform the state’s workers’ compensation system. Among other things, HB 334 workers’ comp reform bill aims to provide for the closure...
Florida Advances Workers’ Compensation, Commercial Deregulation Bills
Feb 10 2011 // The Florida House Subcommittee on Insurance and Banking has approved a bill that would codify the Florida Workers’ Compensation Joint Underwriting Associations’ current rating plan and create the position of...
Investigation Solutions Saves Client $50,000 on Fraudulent Workers’ Compensation Claim
Feb 10 2011 // San Diego, CA, 02/10/11 – Investigation Solutions, Inc., the subsidiary of American Claims Management, Inc. (ACM) that handles fraud and special investigations, announced its first fraud arrest for 2011. A suspicious...
AIG to Take $4.1 Billion Q4 Charge for Reserves
Feb 9 2011 // Bailed-out insurer American International Group Inc. said it would take a $4.1 billion charge at its Chartis unit after a review showed higher-than-expected claims on older policies for asbestos exposure and workers’...
Accidents Shine Spotlight on Grain Elevators
Feb 9 2011 // Recent high-profile accident cases have put a regulatory spotlight on grain elevators. Speakers at the North Dakota Grain Dealers Association annual meeting in Fargo talked about a range of financial perils elevators must...
Oklahoma Labor Commissioner Wants Workers’ Comp Overhaul
Feb 8 2011 // Oklahoma Labor Commissioner Mark Costello is asking lawmakers to overhaul the state’s workers’ compensation system. Costello appeared before the Oklahoma House’s Committee on Insurance. He’s...
Report: Workers’ Comp in Illinois Often Just Needs Doctor’s Note
Feb 8 2011 // A newspaper has found that state, municipal or private workers in Illinois have gotten thousands of tax-free dollars in workers’ compensation with largely nothing more than a doctor’s note. The Belleville...
North Dakota Workers’ Comp Coverage Refused for Mental Stress
Feb 8 2011 // A proposal to give workers’ compensation insurance coverage to emergency workers for mental stress has been defeated in the North Dakota House. North Dakota’s workers’ compensation law normally...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Division Mourns Passing of Nevans
Feb 8 2011 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC), a division within the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR), has sadly announced the passing of acting Administrative Director Carrie Nevans. She was...
Iowa Supreme Court: Agent not Required to Suggest Unrequested Coverage
Feb 8 2011 // The Iowa Supreme Court has sided with an insurance agent in a case involving whether or not the agent had a duty to advise his clients as to the need for insurance coverage about which the clients had not inquired. In...
Missouri Business Leaders Outline Agenda to Create, Keep Jobs
Feb 7 2011 // Tort, Workers’ Comp Reform Among Legislative Proposals Business leaders in Missouri are asking state lawmakers for reforms that they say will help protect and create jobs. Among the priorities for the Fix the Six...
Return-to-Work Process Helps Employees Return to Normalcy Faster
Feb 7 2011 // Unfortunately, many companies have workplace accidents at some point that may require an employee to be away from work whether for a few days or a few months. According to the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor...
Some in Illinois GOP Want to Link Workers’ Comp Reform, State Borrowing
Feb 7 2011 // Illinois lawmakers left two big pieces of unfinished business when they went home after voting to raise income taxes. One piece would make Illinois a less expensive place to do business, and the other would get billions of...
Massachusetts Attorney General Wants Tougher Workers’ Comp Penalties
Feb 7 2011 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley wants more severe criminal penalties for businesses that go without workers’ compensation insurance for their employees. A bill filed earlier this month by...
Growing Waistlines Costing Economy in Large Proportions
Feb 7 2011 // Measurements of the cost of obesity to the U.S. economy, as well as the workers’ compensation system are growing, becoming an “epidemic,” according to recent research. The studies show that the total...
