Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Policyholders of Failed HIH Insurance Company Receive Millions in Payments
Mar 11 2009 // Hawai’i Insurance Commissioner J.P. Schmidt has released the final payments from the estate of the failed insurer HIH America Insurance Company of Hawai’i Inc. HIH Hawai’i has now paid 100 percent of its...
Western Pinnacle Insurance Services, Inc Announces Addition of New AM Best A Rated Workers Compensation Carrier
Mar 9 2009 // “Western Pinnacle Insurance Services, Inc (“WPIS”), a diversified MGA/Wholesaler announced today the addition of a new AM Best A rated carrier for its workers compensation capabilities. Virgil Anderson,...
Highway Patrol Chief to Head North Dakota Workers Comp
Mar 9 2009 // Former North Dakota Highway Patrol superintendent Bryan Klipfel has been named the state’s new workers compensation director. Gov. John Hoeven announced Friday that he’s chosen Klipfel for the job. Klipfel...
Missouri Unions Suffer Setback in Challenge to Workers’ Comp Law
Mar 9 2009 // The Missouri Supreme Court recently rejected labor union challenges to a 2005 law that limited the ability of some injured workers to get benefits under the workers’ compensation system. Business groups praised the...
Tough Luck for North Dakota Workers’ Comp Whistleblowers
Mar 9 2009 // Former employees of North Dakota’s Workforce Safety and Insurance agency have struggled to pursue claims that they were illegally fired for spotlighting questionable activities at the agency. A judge has thrown out...
South Carolina Debates Workers’ Compensation for Illegal Immigants
Mar 9 2009 // South Carolina legislators are pushing a bill to cut workers’ compensation benefits for illegal immigrants in an effort to strengthen what’s already one of the nation’s toughest laws aimed at keeping...
West Va. Insurance Authority Eyed
Mar 9 2009 // West Virginia gives its insurance department a lot of leeway in regulating workers’ compensation. But a new House bill would require the department to get legislative approval for workers’ compensation...
States Gear Up for Stimulus Package
Mar 9 2009 // Impact on Insurance Industry May be Minimal, Experts Say The $787 billion stimulus package passed by Congress looms as the largest mountain on the country’s newly changed economic landscape. But despite hope that the...
Nevada Workers’ Comp Loss Costs, Risk Rates to Decrease
Mar 9 2009 // Nevada Insurance Commissioner Scott Kipper has approved revised workers’ compensation voluntary loss costs and assigned risk rates filed by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI). The revised loss...
Nevada OSHA Director Defends Construction Site Safety Efforts
Mar 6 2009 // The head of Nevada’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration defended his agency’s efforts to ensure workplace safety during a Senate committee hearing this week that marked the start of a monthlong...
Texas Selects NCCI as Sole Collector of Workers’ Comp Data
Mar 6 2009 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) announced it has designated a single data collection agent, the National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. (NCCI), to collect...
Texas Workers’ Comp Div. Issues $169K in Fines in Dec.and Jan.
Mar 5 2009 // Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Rod Bordelon announced that disciplinary actions taken by the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) in December 2008 and January...
City Fighting Workers’ Comp Claim of Oklahoma Firefighter
Mar 4 2009 // City officials in Edmond, Okla., are challenging court rulings in favor of a firefighter who claims his colon cancer is a work-related injury because of the smoke, hazardous materials and chemicals he was exposed to on the...
West Virginia’s Workers’ Comp Writer BrickStreet to Expand Into Other States
Mar 3 2009 // Workers’ compensation insurer BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. wants to expand into Kentucky, Virginia, Alabama, Pennsylvania and Illinois. President and Chief Executive Officer Greg Burton says the West...
Tough Luck for Dismissed North Dakota Workers’ Comp Employees
Mar 3 2009 // Former employees of North Dakota’s Workforce Safety and Insurance agency have struggled to pursue claims that they were illegally fired for spotlighting questionable activities at the agency. A judge has thrown out...
Gov. Hoeven to Name North Dakota Workers’ Compensation Director Soon
Mar 3 2009 // Gov. John Hoeven’s staff attorney says the governor will soon name a a permanent executive director for the state workers’ compensation agency. Ryan Bernstein, Hoeven’s staff attorney, says the governor...
California AG Sues to Block Fraudulent Workers’ Comp Scheme
Feb 27 2009 // California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. filed a lawsuit to stop the Contractors Asset Protection Association Inc. from engaging in what he called a “sophisticated and fraudulent scheme” to cheat the...
OSHA Cites Wisconsin Excavation Firm for Cave-In Hazards
Feb 27 2009 // A northern Wisconsin excavating company purposely risked workers to potential trench cave-ins and was cited for safety violations that carry nearly $700,000 in fines, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
No Jail Time for Former North Dakota Workers’ Comp Director
Feb 27 2009 // North Dakota’s former workers compensation director has been given a two-year deferred sentence with no jail time and a $2,000 fine for misspending public money. The deferred sentence means Sandy Blunt’s record...
Audit Hits Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Claims Handling
Feb 27 2009 // An audit of Minnesota’s worker’s compensation system has found that insurers are mishandling a growing number of claims, including by paying injured workers less than they deserve. The report from the...
