Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Kentucky Workers’ Comp Panel Hit Over Adviser
Mar 7 2011 // An audit has found the Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Funding Commission paid about $510,000 to a private financial adviser when the law requires it to use state-employed advisers. State auditor Crit Luallen said the...
States Must Decide if Workers’ Comp Benefits Extend to Illegal Workers
Mar 7 2011 // The U.S. Supreme Court recently declined to hear a workers’ compensation insurance case that concerned an illegal immigrant in Louisiana who had sought coverage after a workplace accident. The Court’s refusal...
Mississippi Passes Bill to Speed Workers’ Compensation Appeals
Mar 4 2011 // The Mississippi Senate has passed a bill making it easier to appeal a decision of the state Workers’ Compensation Commission. Currently, an appeal of a commission decision or award is appealed to circuit court and...
West Virginia Backs Workers’ Compensation for Volunteer Firefighters
Mar 4 2011 // West Virginia lawmakers appear willing to help the state’s volunteer fire departments with their workers’ compensation expenses. The House and Senate exchanged bills this week that would dedicate insurance...
Tennessee Bill Would Tighten Workers’ Compensation Eligibility
Mar 3 2011 // The Tennessee Legislature is considering a number of changes to its workers’ compensation law that are designed to tighten the standards injured workers must meet to qualify for workers’ compensation...
Agreement Leaves Massachusetts Workers’ Comp Rates Flat
Mar 2 2011 // The organization that files workers’ comp rates in Massachusetts has agreed to leave premiums flat through next year, following an agreement with the state’s attorney general that blocked a proposed increase of...
New Mexico Senate Confirms Workers’ Comp Director
Feb 28 2011 // The New Mexico Senate on Wednesday confirmed Ned Fuller as director of the Workers’ Compensation Administration. Fuller was nominated by Gov. Susana Martinez and began work Jan. 24 as the director designee. Fuller,...
Illinois Lawmaker Wants Audit of Workers’ Comp System
Feb 28 2011 // A top Illinois lawmaker is calling for an audit of the state’s questioned workers’ compensation program as it applies to state employees. The Belleville News-Democrat reports that Illinois House Speaker Michael...
Ohio Business Owner Convicted for Failure to Keep Work Comp Coverage
Feb 28 2011 // A Harrison, Ohio, woman has been convicted of fraud in a Hamilton County courtroom for failure to maintain workers’ compensation insurance coverage to protect her employees in the event of a workplace injury or...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Web Site To Verify Employers’ Insurance
Feb 25 2011 // The California Office of Administrative Law has approved new regulations for creating a Web site that will allow people to verify employers have workers’ compensation insurance coverage, and for employers to dispute...
Darwin Reappointed as Texas Injured Employee Public Counsel
Feb 24 2011 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry has reappointed Norman Darwin of Benbrook as the state’s Injured Employee Public Counsel for a term to expire Feb. 1, 2013. The public counsel helps injured employees in the workers’...
Former North Dakota Workers’ Comp Director Contesting Felony Conviction
Feb 24 2011 // North Dakota’s former workers’ compensation director is asking the state Supreme Court for the second time to throw out his felony conviction for misspending public funds. Sandy Blunt’s attorney told the...
Illinois Work Comp Commission Shuts Down Uninsured Auto Clinic
Feb 22 2011 // On Feb. 18, 2010, the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission (IWCC) shut down an uninsured employer: ZRJ Auto Repair at 2545 W Chicago Avenue in Chicago. The Commission reported that as in previous cases, it gave...
Vermont Charges Contractor with Workers’ Compensation Violation
Feb 22 2011 // Williston, Vermont-based home improvement contractor Donald Bevins with three counts of failing to maintain workers’ compensation insurance and two counts of violating a stop work order by state labor...
Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Panel Criticized Over Outside Adviser
Feb 22 2011 // An audit has found the Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Funding Commission paid about $510,000 to a private financial adviser when the law requires it to use state-employed advisers. Auditor Crit Luallen said the...
Oklahoma Governor Says She Won’t Replace Workers’ Comp System
Feb 21 2011 // Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin says recommendations from a panel she appointed to overhaul the workers’ compensation system won’t include a proposal to change to a system where workers with claims don’t have...
Medical Marijuana Raises Workers’ Comp, Liability Issues for Employers
Feb 21 2011 // Fifteen states and the District of Columbia currently have laws that approve medical marijuana as a medical treatment option, which has increasingly important implications in the workplace. Arizona voters recently passed...
Achieving Social Objectives, Public Interest in Workers’ Comp
Feb 21 2011 // It is generally agreed that workers’ compensation has five primary objectives: Broad coverage of employees and of work related injuries and diseases. Substantial protection against interruption of income. Provision...
Safer Workplaces, But Older Workforce
Feb 21 2011 // Looking ahead for workers’ compensation in the coming decades, we see the best of times and the worst of times. On the positive side, workplaces have never been safer and the frequency of reported injuries has been...
Medical Losses, Top Line Growth Top Challenges for Workers’ Comp
Feb 21 2011 // The workers’ compensation industry in the years ahead will exist much as it has for decades in many respects. Policyholders will purchase coverage from either an agent or a company, with a portion of the market...
