Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Liberty Northwest Drops Workers’ Comp Direct Sales for Independent Agents
Jun 10 2009 // Liberty Mutual Group’s Agency Markets business unit announced that one of its member companies, Liberty Northwest, has sold the renewal rights for most of its direct-sold workers’ compensation policies written...
CEO of Colorado Workers’ Comp Insurer: Private Would Be Better
Jun 10 2009 // The head of Colorado’s state-created workers’ compensation insurance company says the organization could do a better job if it were privatized. CEO Ken Ross told state lawmakers that Pinnacol Assurance has paid...
Workers’ Compensation Industry Worried About Obesity Claims
Jun 9 2009 // It’s time to face facts: the U.S. is a nation of obese workers. About a quarter of the nation is obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While this presents serious health...
Eldrige Named Presiding Judge of Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Court
Jun 9 2009 // Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry has appointed Judge Kent Eldridge as presiding judge of the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Court. Eldrige succeeds Judge Mary Black. Judge Eldridge selected Judge Michael J. Harkey as vice...
California Considers Changes to the Workers’ Comp System
Jun 9 2009 // The California Department of Insurance held a workers’ compensation insurance claims cost benchmark hearing on June 8, at which suggestions were made on changes that could be made to the workers’ comp system to...
Families Fight Ohio Uranium Plant Workers’ Compensation Ruling
Jun 8 2009 // Relatives of workers who died of exposure to radiation or toxic materials at a Cold War-era uranium enrichment plant in Ohio are fighting a ruling by state officials that keeps them from receiving workers’...
California Insurance Commissioner To Hold Workers’ Comp Hearing
Jun 8 2009 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner will be hosting a Claims Cost Benchmark hearing to further investigate workers’ compensation medical costs today,at 1 p.m., June 1, 2009, in Sacramento, Calif. The...
Oregon Tracks Workers’ Comp Payment Trends
Jun 5 2009 // Oregon’s Department of Consumer and Business Services has published a report examining trends in medical costs during 2000-2007. According to the report, for the period studied, total workers’ compensation...
Illinois Employer Shut Down for Lack of Workers’ Comp Insurance
Jun 5 2009 // For the first time, an Illinois business has been closed down for failure to obtain workers¹ compensation insurance. The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission and the City of Evanston shut down All Good Dogs Pet...
Arizona Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Workers’ Comp Fund Raid
Jun 4 2009 // The Arizona Supreme Court has turned away a legal challenge to the state’s budget-balancing move to take $4.6 million paid into a special workers’ compensation insurance fund. The Supreme Court declined to...
Regulator: California Workers’ Comp Insurance Rating Bureau Needs to Address Challenges
Jun 3 2009 // The California Department of Insurance has released the audit report of the state’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. Recommendations made by the audit suggest that WCIRB should: Begin to collect...
Florida Workers’ Compensation Rates Cut to Reflect Lawyer Fee Cap Law
Jun 3 2009 // Florida’s insurance regulator has approved a rollback of workers’ compensation insurance rates from April 1 rates to the lower rates that were in effect on Jan. 1. The order by Florida Insurance Commissioner...
Stop-Work Order Bill Awaits Signature by New Jersey Governor
Jun 3 2009 // The head of New Jersey’s workers’ compensation division could begin issuing stop-work orders against contractors for misrepresenting employee headcounts under a bill awaiting signature by Gov. Jon Corzine. The...
Former Gov. New CEO of Missouri Workers’ Compensation Insurer
Jun 3 2009 // Former Missouri Gov. Roger Wilson has taken over as acting president and CEO of Missouri Employers Mutual. Wilson began May 31 as the leader of the workers’ compensation firm that employs more than 200 people in...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Board OKs Safety Rules, Rate Decrease
Jun 2 2009 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Board of Directors has approved rule changes associated with the safety standards in the Ohio Administrative Code for several industries. Ohio law allows BWC to adopt...
Fiat Agrees to Assume Chrysler’s Workers’ Compensation in Michigan
Jun 1 2009 // Michigan is dropping objections to the sale of Chrysler LLC after the buyer agreed to assume Chrysler’s workers’ compensation liabilities. The settlement announced last Friday averts a court fight. The state...
Investigators Aim to Catch Few Bad Apples in P/C Agent Ranks
Jun 1 2009 // As Economic Conditions Drive Up Fraud, Officials Hope to Prevent Agent Abuses from Spreading Those who track insurance criminals for a living say that as the economy has worsened, insurance fraud has been rising –...
Declarations
Jun 1 2009 // Undue Stress “The pending sale could create undue stress on our workers’ compensation system. We will fight every step of the way to ensure Ohio’s self-insured employers and their workforce are...
The Biggest Loser?
Jun 1 2009 // Obesity Weighs Heavily on Workers’ Compensation Claims It’s time face facts, we’re a nation of fatties. About a quarter of our citizens can be characterized as obese, according to the Centers for Disease...
Florida Gov. Crist Signs Bill Capping Legal Fees for Workers’ Comp
May 29 2009 // Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has signed into law a bill that restores a cap on the fees attorneys may charge in workers’ compensation cases. A previous law limiting the fees had been ruled unreasonable by the...
