Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Texas Supreme Court Revisits Workplace Injury Case
Oct 20 2008 // The Supreme Court of Texas recently held a rare rehearing of a unanimous decision listening to arguments about whether it erred last year in ruling that a contract employee who suffered on-the-job injuries couldn’t...
Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Sean Dilweg
Oct 20 2008 // From tornadoes, hail and flooding to the impact of the AIG bailout and the federal versus state regulation debate, Sean Dilweg has a lot on his plate as Wisconsin’s insurance commissioner. Appointed by Wisconsin...
Ark. Court to Consider Fairness of Workers’ Comp System
Oct 20 2008 // The Arkansas Supreme Court has agreed to consider an injured man’s argument that the state Workers’ Compensation Commission operates unfairly in violation of the constitution. Arkansas Chief Justice Jim Hannah...
California Approves Legislation To Transform Workers’ Comp Insurer
Oct 20 2008 // Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed Assembly Bill 1874 and Senate Bill 1145 into law to help increase transparency and strengthen corporate governance at the Golden State’s workers’ compensation...
Colorado Orders 16% Decrease in Workers’ Comp Loss Costs
Oct 20 2008 // Colorado employers may be paying lower premiums for workers’ compensation insurance in 2009, because a significant component of workers’ compensation premiums, known as loss costs, will drop 16 percent, the...
Cross-Border Trucking, Competitiveness Concerns in Arizona
Oct 20 2008 // Being the sixth-largest state in the nation, and one of the fastest-growing, makes Arizona an attractive place to live and do business. And that means the state is desirable from an insurance perspective, too, according to...
From Seed to Supermarket
Oct 20 2008 // Agricultural Risks Require the Knowledge and Skill of Specialty Agents Agribusiness insurance has grown significantly as food production has become a global commodity. Since World War II there has been a dramatic reduction...
Florida Regulator Orders Further Reduction in Workers’ Comp Rates
Oct 16 2008 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty disapproved a worker’s compensation rate filing that the National Council on Compensation Insurance submitted on Aug. 27. McCarty ordered NCCI to make an amended filing to...
Colorado Orders 16% Decrease in Workers Comp Loss Costs
Oct 13 2008 // Colorado employers may be paying lower premiums for workers compensation insurance in 2009, due to the announcement that a significant component of workers’ compensation premiums, known as loss costs, will drop 16...
New Ohio Workers’ Comp Law to Help 40,000 Employers
Oct 13 2008 // A new law has gone into effect that erases a competitive disadvantage for roughly 40,000 Ohio employers paying workers compensation premiums. For years, about 40,000 of the roughly 280,000 Ohio employers paying...
Small Business Owners Unfamiliar With Risks in Self-Insured Groups’ Workers’ Comp Insurance
Oct 10 2008 // Small business owners are not fully aware of the financial risks involved in obtaining workers’ compensation insurance through self-insured groups, according to the results of the most recent Small Business Opinion...
Medical Group Earns First Texas Mutual Workers’ Comp Dividend
Oct 10 2008 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $282,592 dividend to the Texas Medical Group (TMG) workers’ compensation discount program. This marks the group’s first dividend. The group dividend was based largely...
New Jersey Governor Signs Workers’ Comp Reform Package
Oct 9 2008 // New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine has signed a package of five bills lawmakers hope fill strengthen the state’s workers’ compensation system to better protect workers injured on the job. The package of bills...
OSHA Fines Oklahoma Refinery $91K
Oct 8 2008 // The government is proposing $91,000 in penalties against Oklahoma’s Wynnewood Refining Co. for allegedly failing to protect employees from hazardous working conditions. The Occupational Safety and Health...
Texas Company Cited in Fatal I-430 Bridge Accident in Arkansas
Oct 7 2008 // A Texas contractor faces almost $31,000 in penalties after federal safety officials found that undersized bolts and overloaded scaffolding contributed to accident in Arkansas in April that resulted in the deaths of three...
Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Lowers Workers’ Comp Rates
Oct 7 2008 // Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance, a workers’ compensation insurance provider, lowered its rates for numerous industries throughout the state. The rate reduction amounts to 6.7 percent overall and will...
Arkansas Court to Consider Workers’ Comp Fairness Issue
Oct 6 2008 // The Arkansas Supreme Court has agreed to consider an injured man’s argument that the state Workers’ Compensation Commission operates unfairly in violation of the constitution. Arkansas Chief Justice Jim Hannah...
Crane Safety Guidelines Needed
Oct 6 2008 // In March 2008 a construction crane collapsed into a neighborhood bar and nearby apartments in New York City, killing seven people. In Bellevue, Wash., in June 2006, a large crane fell into an apartment building killing a...
Crane Safety Guidelines Needed
Oct 6 2008 // In March 2008 a construction crane collapsed into a neighborhood bar and nearby apartments in New York City, killing seven people. In Bellevue, Wash., in June 2006, a large crane fell into an apartment building killing a...
Crane Safety Guidelines Needed
Oct 6 2008 // In March 2008 a construction crane collapsed into a neighborhood bar and nearby apartments in New York City, killing seven people. In Bellevue, Wash., in June 2006, a large crane fell into an apartment building killing a...
