Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
People
Aug 3 2009 // Teresa Miller was appointed administrator of Oregon’s Department of Consumer and Business Services Insurance Division. Miller joined the Insurance Division in July 2008 and has been serving as acting administrator...
California Makes 83 Recommendations to Improve Insurance Guarantee Fund
Aug 3 2009 // The California Department of Insurance has come up with dozens of suggestions for improving the insurance fund that steps in to pay claims when an insurance company goes bankrupt. A report issued by Insurance Commissioner...
Colorado Workers’ Comp Insurer Wants to Go Private
Jul 31 2009 // The head of Colorado’s state-chartered workers’ compensation insurance fund says the company wants to go private. Ken Ross, president and chief executive of Pinnacol Assurance, told The Denver Post editorial...
Michigan Workers’ Comp Medical Payments Per Claim Among Lowest
Jul 31 2009 // Medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in Michigan were among the lowest of 14 states, largely the result of lower utilization and lower prices paid for some services, according to a new study from the...
Florida Workers’ Comp Claims Costs Grew in Years after Reform
Jul 30 2009 // Medical costs for workers’ compensation claims in Florida grew between 5 and 7 percent in 2005 and 2006, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The growth rate of followed a...
Study: Pennsylvania Workers’ Comp Claim Costs Rising
Jul 29 2009 // Medical costs for workers’ compensation claims in Pennsylvania are typical of those in other states but rising, according to the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). In a new study, the Cambridge,...
California Senate Passes Budget, Workers’ Comp Fund Assets for Sale
Jul 24 2009 // The California State Senate passed a package of bills early Friday morning, revising the 2009-10 budget, that was passed in February, with $24.2 billion in deficit reduction solutions and a $921 million reserve; in total...
New Hampshire Steam Plant Gets Big OSHA Fines
Jul 24 2009 // The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed fines of $104,200 against a New Hampshire steam generating plant following a January fire in which a worker was burned. OSHA says in the incident,...
California Makes 83 Recommendations to Improve Insurance Guarantee Fund
Jul 24 2009 // The California Department of Insurance has come up with dozens of suggestions for improving the insurance fund that steps in to pay claims when an insurance company goes bankrupt. The report issued by Insurance...
USG Holdings Introduces Workers’ Comp Division in California
Jul 23 2009 // USG Holdings has launched AAU Comp, a new subsidiary headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., to offer workers’ compensation coverage and programs on a national basis. AAU Comp expects its book of business to include...
New Jersey Case Tests Overseas Reach of Workers’ Comp Law
Jul 23 2009 // A New Jersey nonprofit that hires workers to teach in foreign countries is not required to provide workers’ compensation insurance for those employees, a New Jersey appeals court has ruled. The decision — which...
South Carolina Chief Refutes Legislative Audit Critical of Some Insurance Department Work
Jul 20 2009 // A report by the auditing arm of the South Carolina Legislature has concluded that the state insurance department overall does a good job regulating insurance companies and their rates but it could do a better job of...
It Figures
Jul 20 2009 // $750,000 The proposed reduced limit on coastal insurance available from the North Carolina Beach Plan under legislation designed to address the over-exposure and under-funding of this state-backed plan. The limit is now $1...
Mountain Climbing
Jul 20 2009 // It’s not that the public sector can’t do anything right; it can and does and it very often handles the jobs nobody else wants to do. Monopolies just aren’t good policy— whether they are held by a...
California Commissioner Rejects Workers’ Comp Bureau Rate Increase
Jul 20 2009 // Citing testimony that self-insured employers have been able to reduce overall workers’ compensation costs, California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has rejected the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating...
People
Jul 20 2009 // LoriAnn Lowery resigned from her position as president of Lloyd’s North America, after a little more than a year on the job. Sue Langley, Lloyd’s director of market operations and North America, said Lowery,...
Recession Increasing Insurance Fraud
Jul 20 2009 // Areas Where Agents Might See an Increase in Fraud Does a bad economy increase crime? According to Mike McKee, senior special agent for the National Insurance Crime Bureau, it’s too soon for statistics to confirm...
Employers Direct Stops Writing Workers’ Comp Insurance in California
Jul 20 2009 // Citing the strain of escalating medical costs on the workers’ compensation system, increasingly intense price competition, and the uncertainty over the sustainability of the 2003-2004 legislative reforms due to...
Oklahoma Lawmakers to Study Workers’ Comp Reform Proposals
Jul 20 2009 // Workers’ compensation reform proposals will be subjected to legislative scrutiny through an Oklahoma House of Representatives study requested by state Rep. Mark McCullough, among others. McCullough, who has authored...
Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, Millennials at Greater Risk of Hearing Loss
Jul 20 2009 // Rock concerts, iPods and cell phones may be contributing to a future generation of individuals suffering from hearing loss. “We could very well see hearing loss problems continue to increase into future...
