Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
West Virginia Workers’ Comp Insurer BrickStreet Free of Debt to State
Sep 30 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...
Florida Workers’ Compensation Guaranty Fund Elects Directors
Sep 29 2009 // The Florida Workers’ Compensation Insurance Guaranty Association announces its newly elected / re-elected board of directors. Terms begin Oct. 1, 2009 and run through Sept. 30, 2013. Heading the FWCIGA board is Tom...
Texas Sets Workers’ Comp Discount, Interest Rate for 4th Quarter
Sep 29 2009 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation has set the rate for any interest or discount provided for in state workers’ comp statutes at 3.88 percent for the period effective Oct. 1,...
New Mexico Farm Workers Sue for Coverage
Sep 28 2009 // New Mexico dairy worker Joe Griego says the worst part of being attacked by a bull at work has been finding out his injuries aren’t covered by state workers’ compensation benefits. So Griego and others are...
Ferachi Named Medical Director for Louisiana Office of Workers’ Comp
Sep 28 2009 // Dr. Larry Ferachi, a Baton Rouge board-certified orthopaedic surgeon who has served as team physician for the LSU football and basketball teams since 1995, has been named medical director for the Louisiana Workforce...
Kentucky Employers Mutual Lowers Workers’ Compensation Rates 6%
Sep 25 2009 // Kentucky’s largest workers’ compensation insurance provider says it is lowering its rates for businesses around the state for the fourth consecutive year. The rate reduction by Kentucky Employers’ Mutual...
Workers’ Comp Wholesaler Unisource Expands Nationwide
Sep 25 2009 // Unisource Program Administrators (UPA), a workers’ compensation wholesaler, has expanded services to all 50 states. In addition, the company named Barbara Drollinger, a 20-year workers’ compensation expert,...
October 7th Lunch Discussion: The State of California Workers’ Compensation…. not for the Faint of Heart
Sep 24 2009 // SAN DIEGO – The Insurance Brokers & Agents of San Diego along with the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation of San Diego will be hosting a lunch discussion on October 7, 2009 with guest speaker Linda Smith,...
Washington Workers’ Compensation Rates Could Rise 7.6 Percent
Sep 23 2009 // The state of Washington yesterday announced higher workers’ compensation insurance premiums for 2010 than earlier forecasted. In June, the state’s Department of Labor and Industries advised the Workers’...
Texas Sets Workers’ Comp Weekly Benefit Rates
Sep 22 2009 // The Texas Department of Insurance has announced the weekly benefit rates for workers’ compensation insurance for Oct. 1, 2009, through Sept. 30, 2010. In accordance with the Texas Labor Code (TLC) §408.047, the...
Florida’s Newly-Formed Ascendant to Rescue First Commercial Policies
Sep 21 2009 // The new company will use independent agents and brokers for sales. Florida officials announced that a new Miami-based insurance company will pick up the insurance for about 15,000 of the policyholders now with First...
Hawaii Workers’ Compensation Coststo Drop Again for Fifth Year in a Row
Sep 21 2009 // Workers’ compensation insurers in Hawaii have filed to reduce by 4.1 percent the loss cost factor that goes into the rates charged to employers. This marks the fifth year in a row that workers’ compensation...
Florida’s Newly-Formed Ascendant to Rescue First Commercial Policies
Sep 21 2009 // The new company will use independent agents and brokers for sales. Florida officials announced that a new Miami-based insurance company will pick up the insurance for about 15,000 of the policyholders now with First...
Midwest-based Agent ‘Walks the Walk’ to Control Work Comp Costs
Sep 21 2009 // Carl Zeutzius has walked his share of floors over the past four years. But they were miles well traveled. As a Certified Work Comp Advisor (CWCA) and director of Sales and Marketing for UNICO Group, an insurance, risk...
Bengals Want Workers’ Comp Cases Moved to Ohio
Sep 21 2009 // The Cincinnati Bengals have filed a lawsuit asking that the workers’ compensation claims of 31 former players be moved from California to Ohio. In its lawsuit filed in Cincinnati, the professional football team says...
Indiana Appeals Court Affirms Work Comp Coverage for Obesity Surgery
Sep 21 2009 // An Indiana appeals court has upheld the ruling of the state workers’ compensation board that an employee at a pizza restaurant is eligible for treatment for obesity under a workers’ compensation policy. The...
Declarations
Sep 21 2009 // Not Wasting Time “I will not waste time with those who have made the calculation that it’s better politics to kill this plan than improve it.” —President Barack Obama, in a Sept. 9 speech before...
Colorado’s Pinnacol Defends Actions
Sep 21 2009 // Executives from Colorado’s state-chartered workers’ compensation insurance company defended themselves against accusations of lavish spending and excess profits during a legislative hearing and they told...
California Workers’ Compensation Drug Costs Up, Despite Reforms
Sep 21 2009 // Despite the adoption of California workers’ compensation medical reforms in 2004, a new study finds that both the average number of prescriptions and average prescription drug payments per claim are on the rise...
Workers’ Compensation System Failing Lower Wage Workers
Sep 21 2009 // Study Finds Few Workers File for Benefits Even When Seriously Injured Only 8 percent of lower wage workers injured on the job receive workers’ compensation benefits, according to a new report. Also, lower wage...
