Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Calif. Workplace Injuries on Decline
Nov 11 2010 // While the recession drove California’s average annual employment down 3.7 percent in 2009, the number of work injuries and illnesses reported by California employers showed an even sharper decline, falling 9.2...
Calif. Supreme Court Declines to Take Up Controversial Workers’ Comp Case
Nov 11 2010 // The California Supreme Court has declined to review the decision in Milpitas Unified School District v. WCAB (Guzman), a case that is being heavily watched by the workers’ compensation insurance industry. In...
Hyatt Calls Injured Workers’ Claims a Union Ploy
Nov 10 2010 // Union-represented housekeepers filed injury complaints against Hyatt Hotels Corp. properties in eight U.S. cities Tuesday, but the company said the filing was a union ploy to gain leverage and members. The 12 filings with...
Workers’ Compensation Fees Would Cost New York Drivers, Insurers Warn
Nov 10 2010 // Proposed 30 percent increases in what medical providers in New York are paid for treating workers’ compensation injuries could have unintended consequences for the state’s motorists, an industry group has...
Washington Wants to Raise Workers’ Comp Rates 12%
Nov 10 2010 // Washington’s Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) has announced a 12 percent average increase in workers’ compensation insurance premiums for 2011. Average premiums would go up by 6.5 cents per hour...
Fee Schedules Stabilized Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Costs
Nov 9 2010 // Average medical costs per workers’ compensation claim in Tennessee stabilized at pre-fee schedule levels after the state introduced medical fee schedules in 2005, according to a new study. According to the report by...
Calif. State Fund Revises Broker of Record Policy
Nov 9 2010 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund announced it has revised its broker of record policy, as well as filed for a 5.2 percent overall rate increase for 2011. The rate filing also includes changes that it...
Some Question Data on Low Worker Injury Rates in North, South Carolina
Nov 8 2010 // A new federal study estimating the rate of workplace injuries last year finds North and South Carolina among the country’s safest in which to work. But some workplace safety experts doubt whether the rates accurately...
Massachusetts Revises Workers’ Comp Paperwork Snafu
Nov 5 2010 // Bowing to pressure from insurers and agent groups, Massachusetts safety regulators have eased new, workers’ comp paperwork requirements for some out-of-state contractors. At issue is a form used by inspectors to...
Washington Voters Reject Privatization of Workers’ Compensation System
Nov 3 2010 // Voters in the state of Washington have rejected a measure to inject private insurer competition into the state’s workers’ compensation system. The insurance industry hoped to open up the state’s...
Calif. State Fund: Getting Better Day by Day
Nov 3 2010 // In the ever controversial topic of workers’ compensation insurance in California, State Compensation Insurance Fund President and CEO Tom Rowe seemingly offers a bit of Zen. Rowe, who took the helm of the company in...
Alabama Weighs 12.4% Drop in Workers’ Compensation Costs
Nov 2 2010 // Alabama insurance officials will consider an industry proposal to lower workers’ compensation loss costs in the state at a public hearing tomorrow in Montgomery. Citing reduced claims frequency, workers’...
Medical Group Earns $788K Texas Mutual Dividend
Nov 2 2010 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced a $788,170 dividend to the Texas Medical Group (TMG). The workers’ compensation purchasing group dividend was based largely on TMG’s loss ratio. TMG has earned $1,726,338 in...
Maine Court: Injury en Route to Workers’ Comp Hearing Not Covered
Nov 1 2010 // Maine’s supreme court says a workers’ compensation beneficiary isn’t eligible for additional benefits for a car crash that happened en route to a mediation meeting. Kurt Feiereisen, a NewPage employee,...
North Carolina Has High Workers’ Compensation Medical Costs
Nov 1 2010 // North Carolina’s medical costs per workers’ compensation claim were among the highest in a study of 15 states, according to a new report. The study by the Cambridge, Mass.-based Workers Compensation Research...
Arkansas Workers’ Comp Rates Among the Lowest in the Nation
Nov 1 2010 // Arkansas has one of the lowest workers’ compensation premium rates in the nation, at $1.18 per $100 of payroll, according to a new study conducted by the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services. Oklahoma...
Calif. State Fund: Getting Better Day by Day
Nov 1 2010 // Agents, Brokers Will Have Even Bigger Part in State Fund’s Distribution Strategy In the ever controversial topic of workers’ compensation insurance in California, State Compensation Insurance Fund President and...
Montanans Pay Highest Workers’ Comp Insurance Rates
Nov 1 2010 // Montana has the highest workers’ compensation premium rates in the nation, at $3.33 per $100 of payroll, followed next by Alaska, which has a rate of $3.10 per $100 of payroll, according to a new study. In the...
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Nov 1 2010 // Juan Andrade stepped down as Commercial Markets president at The Hartford to join Ace as president of the insurers’ Global Personal Lines and Small Commercial Insurance division. He will assume the new position with...
