Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
OSHA: Iowa Railroad Wrongly Censured Train Conductor
Jun 17 2010 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ordered the Iowa Interstate Railroad, headquartered in Cedar Rapids, to make amends for censuring a train conductor who was disciplined...
Texas Work Comp Enforcements Include Suspensions, Insurer Fines
Jun 16 2010 // Final disciplinary actions taken in March and April by the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) include removal of providers from Designated Doctors list and insurance company...
California Seeks Workers’ Comp Claims E-Filers
Jun 16 2010 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is seeking more participants for its e-forms trial, which allows filers to electronically submit forms and documents directly into its Electronic...
Revamp of Oklahoma Workers’ Comp System Signed by Governor
Jun 15 2010 // Legislation intended to improve the Oklahoma workers’ compensation system for injured workers was signed into law June11 by Gov. Brad Henry. The governor’s signature on the measure also reduces by one the...
South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Rates to Drop 9.8%
Jun 15 2010 // South Carolina insurance regulators have approved an industry filing that lowers workers’ compensation insurance rates for employers by an average 9.8 percent. Insurers can begin using the new rates in 30...
Texas Approves 10 Companies to Self-Insure for Workers’ Comp
Jun 11 2010 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) approved the renewal of the Certificates of Authority for 10 companies to self-insure for workers’ compensation claims for a...
Best Affirms Workers Comp Reinsurer Eastern Re’s ‘A-‘ Ratings
Jun 10 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of “a-” of Cayman Islands-based Eastern Re Ltd. S.P.C., both with stable outlooks. The ratings...
Oklahoma Governor Signs Workers’ Compensation Bills
Jun 10 2010 // Gov. Brad Henry has signed legislation requiring Senate confirmation of his nominees to the Workers’ Compensation Court that was similar to a measure he vetoed last year. Henry signed the legislation June 8 along...
Georgia to Allow Failed Insurers’ Clients to Buy Into Insolvency Pool
Jun 9 2010 // Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue has signed into law a bill allowing employers whose previous workers compensation carrier goes out of business to pay into the insolvency pool to cover injured workers’ claims. The law has...
California Workers’ Comp Premium Down Nearly 10%
Jun 8 2010 // California workers’ compensation total direct written premium (DWP) fell nearly 10 percent last year, dropping to a nine-year low of $6.9 billion, according to market share data from the National Association of...
Louisiana to OSHA: Investigate Oil Spill Cleanup Safety
Jun 7 2010 // Louisiana health and environmental officials are asking federal safety officials to make sure workers cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are being protected. Health and Hospitals Secretary Alan Levine and...
Drop in Calif. Weekly Wage Means No Change in Some Workers’ Comp Benefits
Jun 7 2010 // There will be no change in minimum and maximum temporary total disability (TTD) and permanent total disability (PTD) rates for 2011 work injuries, or in several other workers’ compensation benefits that are tied to...
People
Jun 7 2010 // Craig A. Payan has been elected to serve as chairman of the board of directors for Itasca, Ill.-based Associated Risk Managers International Inc. Payan is president of PA&T Insurance and Financial Services, an...
It Figures
Jun 7 2010 // $14.5 Million The amount in damages that a federal jury in South Carolina awarded to a South Carolina printing company against The Hartford insurance company in a case where the insurer believed a claim for a major fire...
Oklahoma Lawmakers Pass Workers’ Comp Legislation
Jun 7 2010 // The Oklahoma Legislature passed four measures that alter the state workers’ compensation system, including one that requires Senate confirmation of Workers’ Compensation Court judges – a proposal that...
People
Jun 7 2010 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. (LWCC) President and CEO Kristin W. Wall has been elected to the board of directors of NCCI Holdings Inc., a provider of workers’ compensation and employee injury data and...
California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Market More Lucrative
Jun 7 2010 // Prices are improving in the California workers’ compensation insurance market – at least according to one specialty workers’ compensation carrier in the Golden State. According to PacificComp President...
Supervisor Has Duty to Enforce OSHA Compliance
Jun 7 2010 // The workplace is undergoing a demographic change as “Baby Boomers” – born between 1946 and 1960 – retire and are replaced by Generation X (1961-1982) and Generation Y/Millennial Generation...
Texas Supreme Court Denies Review of Workers’ Comp Stop-Loss Case
Jun 4 2010 // The Texas Supreme Court has declined to review a case involving the amount some hospitals marked up workers’ compensation-related bills under rules in effect until 2008, according to Texas Mutual Insurance...
Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Finalizes Rate Reduction
Jun 2 2010 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) board of directors has approved a 3.9-percent overall private employer premium rate decrease for the upcoming policy year, beginning July 1, 2010. The upcoming rate cut...
