Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Real Estate Agent Arrested for Workers’ Comp Fraud in New York
Oct 27 2009 // A Florida real estate agent has been arrested in New York for committing insurance fraud against the state’s largest workers’ comp insurer, the New York State Insurance Fund. Ben Keskin, 52, of Florida, was...
Former North Dakota Work Comp Director Appeals Conviction
Oct 22 2009 // North Dakota’s Supreme Court is reviewing the appeal of a former state workers’ compensation director who was convicted of misspending more than $26,000 in agency funds. Sandy Blunt was convicted of a single...
Hawie Named Chief Investment Officer at Louisiana Work Comp Corp.
Oct 22 2009 // John W. Hawie has been hired by Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) as senior vice president and chief investment officer. He left a position as senior vice president and chief investment officer for...
Study: Workers’ Compensation Public Options Outperform Private Industry
Oct 21 2009 // An insurance industry think tank has concluded that 25 public and quasi-public workers’ compensation insurance plans perform better financially than the private market in a number of performance categories and at...
Nurse Assistant Denied Workers’ Compensation, Attorney Says
Oct 21 2009 // A nurse assistant who is in a vegetative state after being attacked at a Pasadena hospital has been unfairly denied care by workers’ compensation and her health insurance, her attorney alleges. Amelia Mendoza, 52,...
New Mexico Drops Workers’ Compensation Rate
Oct 21 2009 // The New Mexico Department of Insurance has approved rate reductions in workers’ compensation premiums for the fourth year in a row. Workers’ Compensation Administration director Glenn Smith says such rate...
Pinnacol Chief Blasts Colorado State Legislators’ Hearings
Oct 20 2009 // The chief executive of Pinnacol Assurance contends that the interim committee hearings investigating the state workers’ compensation insurer were biased in favor of injured workers. The committee, which was comprised...
People
Oct 19 2009 // Brian Duperreault, president and CEO of Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc., has extended his employment with MMC through January 2014. Duperreault has held this position since January 2008. Prior to joining MMC, Duperreault...
BrickStreet Mutual All Paid Up
Oct 19 2009 // BrickStreet Mutual Insurance has remitted its final payment to West Virginia for funds it owes the state for aiding its transition from a state-run organization to a private carrier in 2006. Since the end of June when the...
People
Oct 19 2009 // Unisource Program Administrators (UPA), a workers’ compensation wholesaler headquartered in Oklahoma City, has expanded services to all 50 states. In addition, the company named Barbara Drollinger, a 20-year...
Oklahoma Lawmakers Again Studying Ways to Overhaul Worker’s Comp System
Oct 19 2009 // The Oklahoma House Economic Development and Financial Services Committee is considering a major overhaul of that state’s workers’ compensation system. State Rep. Mark McCullough, R-Sapulpa, a committee member...
Texas Workers’ Comp Report Card: Medical Costs Higher in Networks
Oct 19 2009 // But Return-to-Work Rates Higher, Too In its annual report card on the performance of Workers’ Compensation Health Care Networks, the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) Workers’ Compensation Research and...
It Figures
Oct 19 2009 // 10 The number of states now reporting an international mail fraud scheme involving a bogus letter said to be from Nationwide Insurance. Residents in 10 states have received counterfeit checks bearing the Nationwide name....
California Workers’ Comp Increase Questioned
Oct 19 2009 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner is indicating that he may not support the state Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s (WCIRB) request to increase costs by 22.8 percent. Poizner said...
Delaware Business Group to Promote Workers’ Comp Discount Program
Oct 16 2009 // The Central Delaware Chamber of Commerce said it will begin working with state insurance regulators to promote the insurance department’s workplace safety program to its nearly 900 members. The program represents a...
Chimp Owner Claims Connecticut Woman was Mauled on the Job
Oct 16 2009 // An attorney representing the owner of a chimpanzee that mauled and blinded a woman is calling the attack a work-related incident and said her family’s case should be treated like a workers’ compensation...
Risk Services Expands Workers’ Compensation Program Unit Nationally
Oct 15 2009 // Florida-based Risk Services, a provider of traditional and alternative commercial insurance programs, has expanded its workers’ compensation program administrator division nationally. Risk Services said it will...
Florida Approves 6.8% Workers’ Compensation Rate Cut
Oct 15 2009 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has given the green light to an overall statewide average workers’ compensation rate decrease of 6.8 percent. The decrease, which was proposed by the industry’s...
California Law Blocks Workers’ Comp Payment Rescission
Oct 14 2009 // Among the bills signed into California law by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this week was a bill that prohibits workers’ compensation insurance companies from refusing to pay for services they authorized previously. The...
Loss Control Leads to $801K Dividend for Texas Auto Dealers
Oct 9 2009 // Workers’ compensation insurer Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced an $801,625 dividend to the Lone Star Auto Dealers (LSA) purchasing group. LSA has earned nearly $4 million in dividends since 2002. The dividend...
