Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
House Votes to Amend Idaho Workers’ Comp Laws
May 1 2009 // The Idaho House voted 50-16 to change how Idaho State Insurance Fund pays dividends to workers’ compensation policy holders. The measure has already cleared the Senate and now goes to Gov. C.L. “Butch”...
Wyoming Workplace Safety Task Force to Meet
Apr 28 2009 // A workplace safety task force that’s examining why Wyoming has one of the highest worker fatality rates in the country plans to meet in Cheyenne this week. The state’s oil and natural gas industries are a...
California Commissioner Asks Workers’ Comp Board to Withdraw Rate Increase
Apr 28 2009 // At a rate hearing on Tuesday, April 28, California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner urged the Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) to withdraw its request for an increase in the workers’...
BerkleyNet Expands Workers’ Comp Program in Midwest
Apr 27 2009 // Berkley Net Underwriters LLC has announced plans to increase its state footprint and distribution opportunities for its workers’ compensation program in the Midwest. Anthony Pokorny has been named director of...
Pennsylvania Man Convicted of $650K Workers’ Comp Swindle
Apr 24 2009 // A federal jury in northeastern Pennsylvania has found a businessman guilty of pilfering nearly $650,000 from a county workers’ compensation fund. Executive Claims Administration president Charles Costanzo of Dunmore...
California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau Revises Rate Recommendation
Apr 24 2009 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has revised its recommended pure premium rate increase of 24.4 percent downward to 23.7 percent. On March 27, 2009, the WCIRB submitted a pure premium...
Ohio Work Comp Bureau Accepting Applications for Deductible Program
Apr 23 2009 // Ohio’s private employers have until May 31 to sign-up for the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation’s (BWC) new deductible program, that agency announced. The program is designed to give employers better...
Despite Veto, Okla. Senate Vows to Send Work Comp Law to Voters
Apr 22 2009 // The Oklahoma State Senate has passed a referendum that would allow Oklahomans to vote next year on a proposal to require Senate approval of the governor’s workers’ compensation judicial nominees. The Senate...
Ohio Chiropractor Sentenced for Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Apr 21 2009 // A Cleveland, Ohio, chiropractor who has been under investigation by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation’s (BWC) special investigations department (SID) has been sentenced after pleading guilty to...
Injured Workers’ Suit Against Mississippi Furniture Maker Upheld
Apr 20 2009 // The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld a $3.76 million verdict against a Mississippi furniture maker sued by employees who alleged they were injured from a hazardous glue that the manufacturer made them use. The Supreme...
Declarations
Apr 20 2009 // Life-Changing Tornado “I had more insurance than I thought I did.” —Bill Lant, owner of Lant’s Country Feed Store in Seneca, Mo., says an EF-4 tornado that swept through Newton County, Mo., on May 10,...
People
Apr 20 2009 // The Association of Professional Insurance Women Inc. (APIW) has selected Chubb Group Executive Vice President Janice Tomlinson as its “Insurance Woman of the Year.” Tomlinson, who has been employed by Chubb...
California 2008 Workers’ Comp Premiums Written Decrease 20%
Apr 20 2009 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has published its summary of insurer experience reported up to Dec. 31, 2008. California written premium for 2008 is estimated at approximately $10.4...
Declarations
Apr 20 2009 // Chinese Drywall Concerns “I believe you’re going to see this is widespread. Anytime you have mounting evidence of potentially toxic goods you have an obligation to act quickly to protect...
California Reconsiders En Banc Decisions
Apr 20 2009 // The California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board has decided to reconsider its earlier en banc decisions in Ogilvie v. City and County of San Francisco, Almaraz v. Environmental Recovery Services and Guzman v....
Colorado Senate Panel Looks at Workers’ Comp to Fund Higher Ed
Apr 20 2009 // Colorado lawmakers are looking at a plan to take $500 million from the state-created workers’ compensation insurance company to reverse deep cuts in higher education. The Senate Appropriations Committee reviewed the...
Idaho Workers Comp Bill Resurfaces, Won’t Impact Lawsuit
Apr 17 2009 // The Idaho Senate resurrected a bill to reform how the State Insurance Fund pays dividends to its workers compensation policy holders, but this new version won’t affect a lawsuit alleging the fund’s managers...
Texas Bill Aims to Reverse State High Court Ruling in Work Comp Case
Apr 17 2009 // Texas lawmakers, unhappy with a recent state Supreme Court decision in a high profile workers’ compensation case, have passed out of committee a measure its sponsors say will overturn the Court’s ruling in...
Oregon Reports Nine Fatalities Receive Workers’ Comp Benefits in Q1
Apr 16 2009 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services has released the Quarterly Fatality Report for the first quarter of 2009. DCBS has received notification of nine compensable fatalities accepted for workers’...
Colorado Senate Votes to Take $500 Million from Workers’ Comp Insurer
Apr 15 2009 // The Colorado Senate has backed two measures aimed at taking $500 million from a state-created workers compensation insurance company to balance next year’s budget over the objections of Pinnacol Assurance and the...
