Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Study: Workers’ Comp Claim Duration Increases as Benefits Go Up
Dec 2 2009 // A new study of the workers’ compensation benefits in Oregon and New Mexico has found that as the benefits have increased, so have claims durations. The National Council on Compensation Insurance used a...
Washington Rates Workers’ Compensation Rate
Dec 2 2009 // Workers’ compensation rates in the state of Washington will climb by an average of 7.6 percent next year under changes adopted by state officials. State Labor and Industries Director Judy Schurke (SHUR’-key)...
Texas Approves 13 Companies to Self-Insure for Workers’ Comp
Dec 2 2009 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) approved the renewal of the Certificates of Authority for 13 companies to self-insure for workers’ compensation claims for a...
Independent Business Group Earns More Than $335K in Texas Mutual Dividends
Dec 2 2009 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $335,220 dividend to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) workers’ compensation purchasing group for manufacturers. The group has earned more than $878,000...
Auditors to Review Denied Workers’ Comp Claims in North Dakota
Nov 30 2009 // Auditors will take a new look at denied workers’ compensation claims in North Dakota and also will study the laws defining eligibility for certain benefits. The performance audit of Workforce Safety and Insurance...
Nevada Test Site Workers Win OSHA Ruling
Nov 30 2009 // Former Nevada Test Site employees seeking compensation for exposure to radioactive and toxic materials might not have to estimate their exposure through costly and time-consuming dose reconstructions. The National...
Change to Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Mandate in Doubt
Nov 25 2009 // A special legislative session to reconsider a pending change to workers’ compensation insurance requirements in Tennessee should only take place if there’s a consensus among lawmakers, Gov. Phil Bredesen...
Ohio Senator Wants to Eliminate Workers’ Comp Insurance for Illegals
Nov 25 2009 // A Republican state senator in Ohio wants to prohibit the nation’s largest state-run injured worker insurance program from providing benefits to illegal immigrants, a change he said should lower business...
Alaska Prison Guard Wins Workers’ Comp Case
Nov 25 2009 // The Alaska Supreme Court ruled a former prison guard at the Anchorage Jail deserves workers’ compensation for the psychological problems he suffered after being threatened by a convicted killer 15 years ago. The...
Texas Mutual Pays $760K Dividend to Green Industry Group
Nov 20 2009 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $760,070 dividend to the Texas Green Industry (TGI) purchasing group. TGI has earned $2,643,037 in workers’ compensation dividends since 2005. Group dividends are based...
Sipe Named Head of Summit in Florida
Nov 17 2009 // Liberty Mutual Agency Markets has appointed Carol Sipe as president and chief executive officer of Summit, which provides monoline workers’ compensation coverage in 10 southeastern states. Sipe succeeds Rick T....
Maine Workers’ Comp Rates Drop
Nov 15 2009 // Maine’s Insurance Bureau says workers’ compensation rates will decrease by an average of 7 percent. Insurance Superintendent Mila Kofman said this month that an industry request for a decrease has been...
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Nov 15 2009 // Alan Ring has joined National Contractors Insurance Co., Inc. (NCIC), a risk retention group, headquartered in Big Fork, Montana, as director of sales and marketing. Ring will be based in NCIC’s Anaheim Hills,...
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Nov 15 2009 // Arthur Seifert has joined Southwest Insurance Partners Inc. (SWIP) as chief executive officer of Houston-based Bunker Hill Insurance Agency (BHIA), SWIP’s wholly owned underwriting agency subsidiary. Seifert has been...
Recommendation on Oklahoma’s CompSource Due Dec. 1
Nov 15 2009 // The Task Force on the Privatization of CompSource is charged with studying ways to privatize Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation agency, and its report is due to state legislators and Gov. Brad Henry by Dec. 1....
Montana Courts Uphold Workers’ Compensation Cutoff Age
Nov 15 2009 // The Montana Supreme Court has upheld a state law that allows insurance companies to cut off workers’ compensation payments for those suffering permanent total disability when the disabled party is of retirement...
California State Compensation Insurance Fund Names Interim CEO
Nov 15 2009 // The board of directors of California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) appointed Doug Stewart, chief risk officer, as president and CEO on an interim basis, replacing outgoing CEO Janet D. Frank. “The...
Subcontractors Can’t Hide from Workers’ Comp
Nov 15 2009 // Sound risk management necessitates that owners or general contractors contractually mandate workers’ compensation coverage anytime an independent contractor or subcontractor is hired to perform work on their behalf....
Pinnacol Board to Oppose Colorado Bills
Nov 13 2009 // The board of directors of Colorado’s Pinnacol Assurance voted Thursday to oppose many of the bills proposed by a legislative committee last month. The proposed bills, which have not yet been introduced into the state...
Irwin Siegel Agency Offers Enhanced Workers’ Comp Program
Nov 12 2009 // New York-based program manager Irwin Siegel Agency Inc. (ISA) says it has added several new eligible classes to its worker’s compensation program for the social services, small business and healthcare industries. The...
