Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Unpaid Workers’ Compensation Shuts West Virginia Fire Department
Feb 17 2011 // A volunteer fire department must stop answering calls because it failed to pay workers’ compensation premiums for its members. Marshall County emergency management director Tom Hart said the state fire...
Mood on Main Street: Agents on Hardest Hit Small Businesses
Feb 17 2011 // Agents across the country — except in Texas and neighboring states — agree that construction and related trades have been hardest hit by the recession. Restaurants appear to be the second hardest hit. In terms of lines...
Texas Workers’ Comp January Enforcements Include Fines Up to $68K
Feb 15 2011 // Final disciplinary actions taken by the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) for January 2011 include individual fines up to $68,000. The final actions include orders related to...
Workers’ Compensation Research Group Defends Work in North Carolina
Feb 15 2011 // A non-profit workers’ compensation research organization that maintains its work is independent of the industry and objective has found itself at the center of a controversy in North Carolina over whether to trim...
The Hartford Launches Workers Comp Guide For Business Owners
Feb 14 2011 // The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. has introduced an e-learning guide designed to clarify and simplify workers’ compensation insurance. The Hartford developed the new online resource for business owners and...
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...
