Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Texas Work Comp Commissioner: System Improvements Are Working
Sep 14 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...
Doctors Push Back on Montana Workers’ Comp Overhaul
Sep 14 2010 // Doctors and hospitals upset with the way Montana’s proposed workers’ compensation overhaul would send less money their way believe they can persuade business and labor interests to change a carefully crafted...
Reid, Evans Appointed to Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Court
Sep 13 2010 // Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry has appointed two new judges to the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Court. Judge David Reid of Tulsa will fill the Office 6 position previously held by Mary Black and Judge Owen Evans of Tulsa...
California Workers’ Compensation Institute Assists With Posting Requirements
Sep 13 2010 // The California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) announced it has newly revised DWC-1 claim form/Notice of Potential Eligibility (NOPE), as well as English and Spanish versions of its new hire pamphlet (Facts...
New York Indicts Seven for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Sep 10 2010 // New York investigators have arrested seven people for workers’ comp fraud as part of a three-county sweep in Upstate New York. In one instance, the investigators used surveillance video to record a Poughkeepsie man,...
Workers’ Comp Payments for Medical Care Exceed Cash Benefits in 2008
Sep 10 2010 // The rising cost of medical care and increased use of medical services led to a jump in workers’ compensation payments for medical care and cash benefits for U.S. workers in 2008. Workers’ comp payments for...
North Carolina Rate Bureau Requests Workers’ Comp Increase
Sep 9 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...
Oregon Workers’ Comp Rates Remain Flat in 2011
Sep 9 2010 // Oregon’s Department of Consumer and Business Services announced that on average, workers’ compensation rates for 2011 will remain flat. The pure premium rate will decrease 1.8 percent in 2011, but the...
Texas Approves 16 Companies to Self-Insure for Workers’ Comp Claims
Sep 8 2010 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) approved one initial application and 15 renewals of the Certificates of Authority for companies to self-insure their workers’...
New York Seeks 30% Hike for Some Workers’ Comp Costs
Sep 7 2010 // The New York Workers’ Compensation Board is proposing to raise portions of the medical fees schedule by 30 percent. The fee would apply to the evaluation and management codes of the board’s medical fee...
Iowa to Assess for Second Injury Fund; Workers’ Comp Rate Hike Proposed
Sep 6 2010 // Sufficient funds are not available to meet the liabilities of Iowa’s Second Injury Fund, so the state is imposing a $4 million assessment on insurers and self-insured employers in Iowa. Notices were mailed from the...
6 Ways Agents Fail Their Workers’ Comp Customers
Sep 6 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...
Iowa Supreme Court Affirms Ruling in Firefighter Workers’ Comp Case
Sep 6 2010 // The Iowa Supreme Court in mid-August affirmed a district court ruling that found a volunteer firefighter must be summoned to duty only through official channels and not by circumstances. The ruling came in a workers’...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Insurance Rating Bureau Wants 30% Rate Increase
Sep 6 2010 // As expected, the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has submitted a pure premium rate filing to the California Insurance Commissioner recommending a 29.6 percent increase in pure premium...
Pinnacol Assurance to Credit $15M to Certain Policyholders
Sep 6 2010 // Workers’ Comp Insurer Loses Battle to Keep Records Private Colorado’s Division of Insurance announced it has reached a settlement agreement with Pinnacol Assurance concerning filing issues raised earlier this...
Montana Workers’ Comp Overhaul Gets Green Light
Sep 6 2010 // A proposed workers’ compensation overhaul agreed to by business and labor is going to Montana’s full Legislature, despite stiff opposition from trial lawyers and doctors. A legislative committee tasked with...
California Appeals Court Upholds Guzman Workers’ Comp Decision
Sep 6 2010 // California’s Sixth District Court of Appeal has affirmed the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board decision in Milpitas Unified School District v. WCAB and Joyce Guzman, allowing physicians to apply any part of...
Top 25 Workers’ Compensation Insurers Show 34% Increase in Premium Growth
Sep 6 2010 // Results Based on Premium Growth June 30, 2010, Versus June 30, 2009 Approximately one year ago, I discussed the premium growth reported by insurers with the top 25 gains in workers’ compensation insurance premium...
E&O Insights: Insuring Contractors
Sep 6 2010 // Risks to Consider When Working With Contractors If you are running an agency, there is a pretty good chance you insure a contractor or two – whether they are your traditional artisan contractors or a class of...
Fee Schedule Slowed Growth of Illinois Injured Workers’ Medical Costs
Sep 3 2010 // Medical costs per workers’ compensation claim in Illinois showed slower growth in 2007 following implementation of the medical fee schedule in 2006, according to a study from the Workers Compensation Research...
