Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
3 Face Federal Charges in Chicago Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Mar 12 2010 // Federal law enforcement officials in Chicago report that a chiropractor, a medical doctor and a billing employee at a clinic in Maywood, Ill., have been indicted on federal charges related to workers’ compensation...
Measure to Privatize Oklahoma’s Compsource Dead for the Year
Mar 12 2010 // The author of legislation authorizing the sale of Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation insurance agency said he does not have enough votes to pass it in the state House and that the bill appears dead for the...
Profit Plunges at West Virginia’s Brickstreet Mutual
Mar 11 2010 // Competition and the expiration of federal tax exemption cut BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co.’s profit by 66 percent in 2009. The workers’ compensation insurer says it earned $38.9 million last year, compared to...
Worker’s Compensation Bill Passes Oklahoma Senate
Mar 11 2010 // The Oklahoma Senate has passed a bill aimed at worker’s compensation system reform, SB 1973, sponsored by Senate President Pro Tem Glenn Coffee. Provisions of SB 1973 include: Decreases the number of Worker’s...
Clashes Led to Firings, Discrimination Claims at Ohio Work Comp Council
Mar 10 2010 // Internal pressure was mounting for months ahead of the February firings of the staff of an agency charged with protecting the well-being of Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers. Public records obtained by The...
Fairfax Financial to Buy Remaining Shares of Zenith National Insurance in $1.4 Billion Deal
Mar 8 2010 // Toronto-based Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. and Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Zenith National Insurance Corp. have entered into a merger agreement in which Fairfax will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Zenith...
IRS, States Target Employer Abuse of Classification of Independent Contractors
Mar 8 2010 // The Internal Revenue Service and 37 states are cracking down on companies that try to trim payroll costs by illegally classifying workers as independent contractors, rather than as full employees, The Associated Press has...
IRS, States Target Employer Abuse of Classification of Independent Contractors
Mar 7 2010 // The Internal Revenue Service and 37 states are cracking down on companies that try to trim payroll costs by illegally classifying workers as independent contractors, rather than as full employees, the Associated Press has...
South Carolina Worker Hurt at Job, Housing Covered by Insurance
Mar 7 2010 // A seasonal worker is entitled to workers compensation benefits for an injury sustained after falling at a housing complex supplied by his employer, the South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled. The court sided with the...
IRS, States Target Employer Abuse of Classification of Independent Contractors
Mar 7 2010 // The Internal Revenue Service and 37 states are cracking down on companies that try to trim payroll costs by illegally classifying workers as independent contractors, rather than as full employees, The Associated Press has...
Fired Ohio Workers’ Compensation Board Employees Allege Religious Bias
Mar 5 2010 // The staff of a board created to monitor legislation affecting Ohio’s massive injured worker insurance fund after a rare coin investment scandal has been fired, plunging its oversight role into chaos. The three fired...
Package of Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Reform Bills Passes House
Mar 4 2010 // Legislation aimed at reforming the Oklahoma workers’ compensation system has passed the state’s House of Representatives. House Bills 1611, 2652, 2658 and 2659 now move to the Senate for consideration. The...
Mass. AG Coakley Opposes Proposed Workers’ Compensation Rate Hike
Mar 3 2010 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said she opposes an insurance industry request to raise workers’ compensation premiums by about four percent this year. She said the hike would put an “additional...
Kentucky Governor Urges Workers Compensation Rate Cut
Mar 3 2010 // Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has asked the state’s largest workers’ compensation insurer to consider returning some of its $147 million surplus as a premium reduction or dividend to the small businesses that it...
Vermont Firms to See Decline in Workers’ Comp Costs
Mar 3 2010 // Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas says the state’s business owners are going to be paying less for workers’ compensation insurance. The new rates that will take effect April 1 will mark the fourth consecutive year in...
Calif. Construction Company Sued for Misclassifying, Underpaying Workers
Mar 3 2010 // California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. has filed a lawsuit against Livermore-based Country Builders Inc. after he said the company “cheated workers out of wages,” falsified the company’s payroll...
Massachusetts Worker’s Compensation Premium Rates Could Rise
Mar 2 2010 // Massachusetts workers’ compensation insurance rates would rise an average of 4.5 percent under a new rate proposal submitted by the Workers’ Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau. The bureau is the licensed...
Restaurant Work Injury Claims Account for 4% of Calif. Workers’ Comp Benefit Payments
Mar 2 2010 // Restaurant workers accounted for 6.1 percent of all California job injury claims, but only 4.1 percent of the state’s workers’ compensation benefit payments from 2000 to 2008, the California Workers’...
Arrowhead Announces Workers’ Compensation & Commercial Division Executive Appointments
Feb 26 2010 // San Diego, CA, 02/26/2010 – ARROWHEAD General Insurance Agency, Inc., a leading provider of top rated insurance programs, is pleased to announce executive management level promotions. These changes are effective...
AIG Reduces Q4 Loss; Reports Some Stabilization While Challenges Remain
Feb 26 2010 // American International Group, Inc. (AIG) reported a net loss of $8.9 billion for the fourth quarter of 2009, compared to a net loss of $61.7 billion in the fourth quarter of 2008. The company said that net loss in the...
