Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Calif. May Stop Paying Some Workers’ Comp Benefits
Oct 1 2010 // About 2,700 injured workers in California may not receive the workers’ compensation benefits they are entitled to because the state has not yet passed its budget. According to Susan Gard, chief of legislation and...
Calif. Governor Vetoes Workers’ Comp Measure
Sep 30 2010 // California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a workers’ compensation measure that would have required a physician who conducts a utilization review of workers’ comp medical treatment to be licensed in...
Court: Michigan Workers’ Comp Law Blocks Anti-Racketeering Suit
Sep 30 2010 // Michigan’s workers’ compensation law blocks employee lawsuits against employers brought under federal anti-racketeering law, a federal judge has ruled. Federal Judge Paul D. Boren for the second time has...
Texas Sets Workers’ Comp Interest Rate at 3.75%
Sep 29 2010 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation has set the interest or discount rate provided for in the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act at 3.75 percent for the period of Oct. 1 through...
Medical Benefits Biggest Cost in Calif. Workers’ Comp System
Sep 28 2010 // The sagging economy took a toll on California’s covered work force and payroll in 2008, but the California workers’ compensation system remains the largest in the United States, accounting for more than 1 out...
TDI Names Associate Medical Advisor for Workers’ Compensation
Sep 28 2010 // Edwin R. Buster III, MD has joined the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation as an associate medical advisor. Since 1970, Dr. Buster has been in private practice at Capital Neurosurgical...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division Announces August Enforcement Actions
Sep 24 2010 // Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Rod Bordelon recently announced final disciplinary actions taken in August by the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC)....
Illinois Ex-Trooper in Deadly Crash Wants Workers’ Compensation
Sep 22 2010 // The former Illinois State Police trooper blamed in a southwestern Illinois freeway wreck that killed two sisters wants state compensation for his crash-related injuries. The Belleville News-Democrat reports that Matt...
Texas Workers’ Comp Weekly Benefit Rates to Drop Slightly in 2011
Sep 21 2010 // The Texas workers’ compensation state average weekly wage for dates of injury from Oct. 1, 2010, through Sept. 30, 2011, is set at $766.34, the Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation...
Ariz. Appeals Court: Vendor-Reviewed Bills Standard in Workers’ Comp Industry
Sep 21 2010 // The Arizona Court of Appeals has affirmed a 2008 Maricopa County Superior Court decision that SCF Arizona paid a “reasonable amount” to two ambulatory surgical centers, rejecting their argument that SCF...
Declarations
Sep 20 2010 // Mass. Med Mal Concerns “A shift in the Massachusetts medical professional liability insurance environment requires we make appropriate rate revisions to ensure our policyholders are adequately...
6 Ways Agents Fail Their Workers’ Compensation Customers
Sep 20 2010 // Agents Can Easily Fall into the Trap of Poor Service and Not Even Know It Like most agents, you work hard at writing new accounts, what salespeople through the years have referred to as “getting the fish in the...
North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Insurers Seek Slight Increase
Sep 20 2010 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has received the 2010 workers compensation rate filings from the North Carolina Rate Bureau, the organization that represents the state’s workers compensation...
6 Ways Agents Fail Their Workers’ Comp Customers
Sep 20 2010 // Agents Can Easily Fall into the Trap of Poor Service and Not Even Know It Like most agents, you work hard at writing new accounts, what salespeople through the years have referred to as “getting the fish in the...
Texas Workers’ Comp Commissioner: Things Are Good Overall
Sep 20 2010 // Despite ongoing issues and a multitude of adversarial stakeholders, the state of the workers’ compensation system in Texas is “pretty good,” according to the head of the state division with regulatory...
6 Ways Agents Fail Their Workers’ Compensation Customers
Sep 20 2010 // Agents Can Easily Fall into the Trap of Poor Service and Not Even Know It Like most agents, you work hard at writing new accounts, what salespeople through the years have referred to as “getting the fish in the...
Washington Working Harder to Combat Insurance Fraud
Sep 20 2010 // In advance of a rate announcement expected in this month, Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries is strengthening fraud fighting efforts, helping distressed employers and driving down costs internally...
6 Ways Agents Fail Their Workers’ Comp Customers
Sep 20 2010 // Like most agents, you work hard at writing new accounts, what salespeople through the years have referred to as “getting the fish in the boat.” But it doesn’t take a master angler to know that once you...
Facebook Boast Leads to Probation for $9K Workers’ Comp Fraud
Sep 17 2010 // A supposedly injured New York woman caught bragging on Facebook about her salary and job has pleaded guilty of stealing nearly $9,000 in undeserved worker’s comp benefits and sentenced to three years probation for...
Washington Workers’ Comp Rate Proposal Delayed
Sep 17 2010 // Washington’s Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) announced that it will propose workers’ compensation rates for 2011 in November after the results of the fall election and the outcome of Initiative...
