Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Head of New York Workers’ Compensation Board Stepping Down
Jul 6 2009 // No Replacement Named Zachary Weiss, chairman of the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board, will resign from his post later this month to become a federal administrative law judge. Weiss became chairman of the...
North Dakota Employers’ Workers’ Comp Bills Likely to Rise
Jul 6 2009 // Eight months after North Dakota voters gave Gov. John Hoeven the final word on state workers’ compensation rates, employers’ insurance bills are likely to rise due to the recent bleak market for...
Florida Workers’ Comp Lawyers Retained Business After 2003 Reforms
Jul 6 2009 // After Florida limited the fees insurers had to pay to attorneys in workers’ compensation cases in 2003, attorney involvement in cases fell only slightly, according to new research. In fact, a significant proportion...
Citizens, Work Comp Bills OK’d in Louisiana
Jul 6 2009 // The Louisiana Legislature adjourned June 25, approving two bills of importance to the insurance industry late in the session, but bypassing several tort reform measures that some insurance and business trade groups had...
People
Jul 6 2009 // Houston-based insurance agency Bowen, Miclette & Britt named Dan Persha director of environmental risk management. With 30 years of commercial insurance brokerage experience, Persha specializes in heavy casualty,...
Consider the Crisis
Jul 6 2009 // Insurance is no doubt used in times of crisis — to recover from such events as a house fire, when a driver is in an accident, or a business suffers a loss, for example. But recently, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger...
California Governor Proposes Selling Some State Workers’ Comp Insurer Assets
Jul 6 2009 // California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing to sell a portion of the state workers’ compensation insurer State Compensation Insurance Fund for $1 billion, Rachel Cameron, deputy press secretary for the...
Safe and Sound
Jul 6 2009 // Making the Connection for Contractors Contractors with a sharp eye for their bottom line are smart to place a premium on safety. Insurance agents and brokers tend to know a construction business that avoids injuries is not...
Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. Names Scholarship Recipient
Jul 2 2009 // Mary K. Stelly of Arnaudville, La., has been selected as the 2009 recipient of the Stephen W. Cavanaugh Scholarship, awarded annually by the Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) to an outstanding...
California Employers Oppose Fees on Workers’ Comp Premiums
Jul 2 2009 // Members of the Workers’ Compensation Action Network (WCAN) have launched a campaign to oppose more than $60 million in new annual workers’ compensation assessments being proposed in California. The new...
Missouri Court Temporarily Blocks Workers’ Comp Judge Firings
Jul 1 2009 // A Missouri court has temporarily blocked the firing of three administrative law judges who decide workers’ compensation cases. The judges were to be laid off by the July 1 start of the new fiscal year. But Cole...
Employers Direct Stops Writing Workers’ Comp Insurance in California
Jul 1 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...
Insurer Group Asks Louisiana Governor to Veto Workers’ Comp Bill
Jul 1 2009 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) has asked Gov. Bobby Jindal to veto House Bill 658, workers’ compensation legislation that PCI believes would increase the likelihood of fraudulent claims,...
Continental Risk Insurance Offers Workers’ Comp Program
Jul 1 2009 // Continental Risk Insurance Services is now offering worker’s compensation coverage for hundreds of classes including contractors, manufacturers, and fitness clubs with a specialization in large accounts. Free...
California-Based ICW Group Upgrades, Rebrands Based on Agent Feedback
Jun 30 2009 // Truly listening to what agents have to say can make a world of difference in how an insurance company is run and organized. Just ask the folks at San Diego-based ICW Group Insurance Companies, an Insurance Journal-ranked...
Jimcor Agencies Adds Workers’ Comp Program
Jun 30 2009 // Montvale, New Jersey-based Managing General Agent Jimcor Agencies has begun selling a workers’ compensation insurance program as part of its admitted markets division, Zaloom Associates. Jerry Zaloom, president of...
California Efforts To Reduce Prison Budget Would Hurt Fraud Fighting
Jun 29 2009 // California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed downgrading insurance crimes in California from felonies to misdemeanors to help reduce the prison budget — a move that insurance and fraud experts say would have...
Louisiana Passes Workers’ Comp Medical Treatment Bill
Jun 26 2009 // The Louisiana Legislature passed SB 303, workers’ compensation medical treatment legislation, just before it adjourned on June 25. According to the American Insurance Association (AIA), SB 303 requires that medical...
Agents Advised to Know How Work Comp Trusts Differ From Typical Insurance Companies
Jun 25 2009 // To start off, what exactly is a workers’ compensation group trust? Per the New York State Insurance Department Web site, it is: [A] group of employers who perform related activities in an industry who agree to be...
West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Insurer Approved in Kentucky
Jun 25 2009 // West Virginia’s BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. said it received word this week that it has been approved to write workers’ compensation insurance in Kentucky. The expansion into Kentucky begins a “new...
