Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Workers’ Comp Reform Bill Passes Oklahoma House Committee
Apr 8 2010 // Legislation reforming the Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation court and system has passed a state House of Representatives committee. Reform of the state’s workers’ compensation has been a priority for...
Mental Injuries Could Lead to Work Comp for First Responders in Nebraska
Apr 8 2010 // Volunteer firefighters and other first-responders to emergencies in Nebraska who experience severe mental trauma are closer to getting workers’ compensation. After hours of sometimes heated debate, lawmakers on April...
CRM Holdings Forms Strategic Alliance with AmTrust Financial Services
Apr 8 2010 // CRM Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based workers’ compensation insurance provider, announced that its primary insurance subsidiary, Majestic Insurance Co., has entered into a quota share agreement with certain subsidiaries...
Supervisor Has Duty to Enforce OSHA Compliance
Apr 5 2010 // The American workplace is undergoing a seismic demographic change as the “Baby Boomer” generation — born between 1946 and 1960 — retires and is replaced by members of the subsequent generations: Generation...
Supervisor Has Duty to Enforce OSHA Compliance
Apr 5 2010 // The American workplace is undergoing a seismic demographic change as the “Baby Boomer” generation — born between 1946 and 1960 — retires and is replaced by members of the subsequent generations: Generation...
Oklahoma Seeks Receivership of Imperial Casualty and Indemnity
Apr 5 2010 // Oklahoma insurance regulators have moved to seize a workers’ compensation insurer they say is insolvent and whose owners are being accused of deceptive financial transactions involving another recently-liquidated...
Pinnacol Assurance Offers Colorado $330 Million to Become Private Insurer
Apr 5 2010 // Pinnacol Assurance, Colorado’s quasi-governmental workers’ compensation insurer, has submitted a potential separation agreement to Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter that would establish Pinnacol as a domestic mutual...
Measure to Privatize Oklahoma’s Compsource Dead for the Year
Apr 5 2010 // While a number workers’ compensation reform bills have made progress in the Oklahoma legislature this year, proposed measures that would have privatized the state agency that serves as the workers’ compensation...
Ohio Supreme Court Upholds 2005 Law Limiting Injured Worker Suits
Apr 5 2010 // In two separate decisions, the Supreme Court of Ohio upheld as constitutional a 2005 state law that limits the ability of workers who are injured on the job to sue their employers for a “workplace intentional...
Minnesota Workers’ Comp System Rated ‘A+’
Apr 5 2010 // Minnesota ranks highest in the nation in terms of workers’ compensation performance, according to the Encinitas, Calif.-based Work Loss Data Institute (WLDI), which has released its 2010 State Report Cards for...
Schools Group Tops $1.5M Texas Mutual Dividend Mark
Apr 5 2010 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $312,893 dividend to the Texas Schools Group (TSG). The workers’ compensation purchasing group dividend was based largely on TSG’s loss ratio. TSG has earned...
Eastern Alliance Enters Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Market
Apr 2 2010 // Eastern Insurance Holdings Inc. has established a satellite office in Nashville, Tennessee in support of its subsidiary Eastern Alliance Insurance Group (EAIG), which specializes in workers’ compensation...
Colorado Appoints 3 to Workers’ Comp Cost Containment Board
Apr 2 2010 // Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter has has made three appointments to the Workers’ Compensation Cost Containment Board. Michael W. Mitchell of Windsor will serve a term expiring Dec. 13, 2011. Richard C. Zellen of Arvada will...
Pinnacol Separation Proposal Off the Table for 2010
Apr 1 2010 // The Colorado General Assembly has decided not to consider Pinnacol Assurance’s proposed plan to separate from the state, according to the company. Earlier in March, the quasi-governmental workers’ compensation...
State Rep.: Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Court Officials Should Go
Apr 1 2010 // Saying the state’s Workers’ Compensation Court has for years stonewalled legislative records requests, state Rep. Mike Reynolds has called for the dismissal of the court’s administrator, Marcia Davis, and...
Poll: 26% of Small Firms Use Social Media for Workers’ Comp Information
Mar 31 2010 // The majority of small businesses (52 percent) believe having a social media presence is important for companies, according to a poll commissioned by Employers, a small business workers’ compensation insurer. The poll...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau Sees 13% Drop in Collections
Mar 31 2010 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) reports there was a 13 percent decrease in collections by the organization from Jan. 1 through Mar. 16, which was attributed primarily to the average 12-percent rate...
California Workers Compensation Institute Elects 2010 Board
Mar 30 2010 // T. Hale Johnston, senior vice president of Employers Compensation Insurance Co., has been re-elected chairman of the board of directors of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute for 2010 at the...
Minnesota Scores “A+” on Workers’ Comp Report Card
Mar 26 2010 // Minnesota ranks the best in the nation in terms of workers’ compensation performance, according to the Encinitas, Calif.-based Work Loss Data Institute (WLDI), which recently released its 2010 State Report Cards for...
North Carolina Court: Commissioner Rules Until Successor Sworn In
Mar 26 2010 // In a case over an Industrial Commission’s workers’ compensation award, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled recently that appointed government officials retain their jobs until their successors are sworn...
