Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Louisiana Workers’ Comp Insurer Names New Chief Investment Officer
Jun 17 2009 // Amerisafe Inc., a DeRidder, La.-based specialty writer of high hazard workers’ compensation insurance, has appointed Brendan Gau as executive vice president and chief investment officer. Gau’s appointment is...
Ohio High Court: Employer not Eligible for Work Comp Benefits Refund
Jun 17 2009 // The Supreme Court of Ohio has ruled that a double dismissal of a workers’ compensation appeal does not entitle an employer to a refund of compensation benefits from the state. Specifically, according to the Ohio high...
Declarations
Jun 15 2009 // Good Dogs, Bad Employer “We gave the employer every opportunity to comply with the law.” —Jan Eisbart, manager of the Insurance Compliance Division of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission. The...
People
Jun 15 2009 // Burns & Wilcox reported that Kendra Corman has joined the company as its new marketing director. Corman is responsible for managing the company’s advertising and marketing initiatives, which includes overseeing...
Florida Cuts Workers’ Comp Rates After Lawyer Fee Cap Reinstated
Jun 15 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...
Former Alabama Workers’ Comp Executive Goff Sentenced to 12 Years
Jun 15 2009 // A former Montgomery, Alabama insurance executive has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for mail fraud and embezzlement in his insurance business. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson imposed the sentence on John...
Oregon Workers’ Comp Payments Up 3.4%
Jun 15 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...
Pressure Is On to Catch a Few Bad Apples
Jun 15 2009 // Fraud Investigators on Alert to Prevent Property/Casualty Agent Abuses from Spreading Those who track insurance criminals for a living say that as the economy has worsened, insurance fraud has been on the rise — and...
Regulator: California Workers’ Comp Insurance Rating Bureau Needs to Address Challenges
Jun 15 2009 // The California Department of Insurance has released an audit report of the state’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. Among the recommendations are that WCIRB should: Begin to collect the detailed,...
Missouri Insurance Department Names Two New Division Leaders
Jun 12 2009 // The Missouri Department of Insurance has appointed two veteran insurance regulators to division director positions. Mary Kempker has been name to direct the Market Regulation Division. Kempker has worked at the department...
Appalachian Launches Pay-As-You-Go Work Comp, GL Programs
Jun 12 2009 // Appalachian Underwriters Inc., based in Oak Ridge, Tenn., has launched true pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) general liability and workers’ compensation programs, developed specifically for clients of professional employer...
California Seeks to Amend Heat Illness Prevention Standard
Jun 11 2009 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) in conjunction with its Division of Occupational Safety and Health, better known as Cal/OSHA, has requested that the Occupational Safety and Health Standards...
Injured Mississippi Volunteer Firefighters Face Financial Woes
Jun 10 2009 // When Leakesville, Mississippi volunteer firefighter Scottie Holland was injured in January, it could have crippled him physically and financially. “They had been called out to a structural fire. He was pulling the...
Beacon Hill Associates Offers Workers’ Comp Product
Jun 10 2009 // PartnerOne Environmental, the underwriting division of Virginia-based wholesaler Beacon Hill Associates, says it can now offer workers’ comp coverage in conjunction with general liability or contractors pollution...
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’...
