Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Florida’s Patriot Forms Private Label Workers’ Compensation Unit
Apr 15 2009 // Fort Lauderdale-based wholesale insurance broker Patriot Risk Management, Inc. has formed Patriot Underwriters, Inc. to help expand its insurance distribution and policyholder services business. Patriot Underwriters will...
Colorado Attorney General: Workers’ Comp Assets Off Limits
Apr 13 2009 // The Colorado solicitor general says tapping a state-created workers’ compensation insurance company for money to balance the state budget would be unconstitutional. The analysis from Solicitor General Dan Domenico...
Lawmakers Won’t Bail Idaho Workers’ Comp Fund Out of ‘Pickle’
Apr 10 2009 // Idaho’s Senate Commerce and Human Resources Committee voted 5-4 on April 7 to kill a bill that trial lawyers insisted was aimed at scuttling their three-year-old class-action lawsuit against the Idaho State Insurance...
California Workers’ Comp Appeals Board to Reconsider En Banc Decisions
Apr 10 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 9 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...
Houston Cleaning Company, OSHA Settle Whistleblower Suit
Apr 8 2009 // The U.S. Department of Labor reported a settlement with Triple B Cleaning Inc. in Houston to resolve U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) findings that the company illegally...
Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Costs Continue to Decline
Apr 7 2009 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Jay Bradford has announced a decrease in workers’ compensation costs effective July 1, 2009. The overall loss cost decrease in the voluntary market is 7 percent, while the overall...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Permanent Disability Ratings Not Bound by AMA Guides
Apr 7 2009 // The California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board recently ruled on two permanent disability (PD) workers’ compensation insurance cases that physicians are not necessarily bound by the American Medical...
Ohio Work Comp System Study Released
Apr 7 2009 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) recently announced the release of a year-long comprehensive study of Ohio’s workers’ compensation system. The study, conducted by actuarial insurance experts...
Texas High Court Reaffirms Controversial Entergy Workplace Ruling
Apr 6 2009 // After agreeing to a rare rehearing, the Texas Supreme Court on April 3 upheld its decision that – despite what some lawmakers say – a “premises owner” cannot be sued by injured employees of a...
Economic Downturn Presents Mixed Results for Workers’ Comp Market
Apr 6 2009 // The economic and financial downturn will have a mixed impact on the workers’ compensation insurance market, say industry analysts. Harry Shuford, chief economist for the National Council on Compensation Insurance...
Workers’ Compensation Group Trusts: E&O Friend or Foe?
Apr 6 2009 // Agents Advised to Know How Trusts Differ From Typical Insurance Companies To start off, what exactly is a workers’ compensation group trust? Per the New York State Insurance Department Web site, it is: “[A]...
Workers’ Compensation Group Trusts: E&O Friend or Foe?
Apr 6 2009 // Agents Advised to Know How Trusts Differ From Typical Insurance Companies To start off, what exactly is a workers’ compensation group trust? Per the New York State Insurance Department Web site, it is: “[A]...
Workers’ Compensation Group Trusts: E&O Friend or Foe?
Apr 6 2009 // Agents Advised to Know How Workers’ Comp Trusts Differ From Typical Insurance Companies To start off, what exactly is a workers’ compensation group trust? Per the New York State Insurance Department Web site,...
Calif. Rating Bureau Recommends 24.4% Workers’ Comp Rate Increase
Apr 6 2009 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California (WCIRB) has recommended to the California Department of Insurance (DOI) to implement a 24.4 percent increase in pure premium rates that would take...
It Figures
Apr 6 2009 // $28.2 Billion Amount insurers contributed to California’s gross state product in 2006, according to a report by the Insurance Information Institute. The report also noted insurers accounted for nearly 300,000 jobs in...
What’s So Special About Special Event Insurance?
Apr 6 2009 // The pitfalls of not placing special-event coverage, when it’s truly needed and available, can result in catastrophic losses to your insured, and possibly even damage the credibility of your agency and errors and...
SFM Launches Employment Practices Liability Coverage in Midwest
Apr 3 2009 // Bloomington, Minn., workers’ compensation specialty carrier SFM Companies has begun insuring employers in the Midwest against the risk of employment practices liabilities, protecting them from high legal defense...
Oklahoma Supreme Court Rules for Firefighter in Work Comp Dispute
Apr 3 2009 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court has upheld the claim of a 19-year veteran of the Edmond Fire Department who has cancer that he is entitled to receive workers’ compensation benefits. The firefighter, 45-year-old Tim...
Florida Cap on Workers’ Compensation Lawyers’ Fees Goes to Senate
Apr 2 2009 // A bill that would trump a Florida Supreme Court ruling and restore a cap on attorneys’ fees in workers’ compensation cases passed the Florida House after some mild debate. Following a second round of discourse...
