Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Former North Dakota’s Workers’ Comp Director Pleads Not Guilty
Aug 28 2008 // Former North Dakota workers compensation director Sandy Blunt pleaded not guilty to two felony charges of misspending agency funds, almost two months after the state Supreme Court ruled Blunt should go on trial. South...
Liberty Northwest Returns More Than $3.7 Million To Oregon Restaurateurs
Aug 28 2008 // Portland, Ore.-based Liberty Northwest, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, announced strong return results for its Liberty Northwest/Oregon Restaurant Association (LNW/ORA) workers’ compensation...
North Dakota Attorney General Says Workers’ Comp Meeting Illegal
Aug 27 2008 // North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says directors of the state’s workers’ compensation agency broke the law by meeting in a restaurant without public notice. Stenehjem ordered the Workforce Safety...
Kentucky Approves Workers’ Comp Loss Cost Reduction of 5.1%
Aug 27 2008 // A 2008 filing most insurance carriers will use to develop rates for workers’ compensation coverage shows the third straight decrease in loss costs, Insurance Commissioner Sharon P. Clark announced. The loss cost...
New York Workers’ Comp Rates to Drop 5 Percent
Aug 27 2008 // Premiums for workers’ compensation insurance in New York will drop 5 percent in 2009, said Gov. David Paterson, marking the second straight annual decline since landmark reform legislation was passed in 2007. The...
Florida Workers’ Comp Rates to Drop For 6th Consecutive Year
Aug 27 2008 // The latest workers’ compensation filing in Florida calls for an overall average rate decrease of 14.1 percent statewide, which would produce a savings of more than $465 million for Florida employers, according to...
California Drop Lowers U.S. Workers’ Compensation Payments
Aug 26 2008 // U.S. workers’ compensation payments for medical care and cash benefits for workers disabled by workplace injuries or diseases declined in 2006, according to a study released by the National Academy of Social...
Oregon Doctors Upset Over Change in Workers’ Comp Rules
Aug 25 2008 // Health care providers all over Oregon say they’ll have to drop workers’ compensation cases, after a change in how they are paid to care for those injured on the job. The temporary rule, imposed July 7, 2008,...
More Farm Deaths in California Heat
Aug 22 2008 // California, the nation’s leader in heat-related deaths among farmworkers, sought to turn that trend around three years ago with new laws aimed at ensuring people toiling in sweltering fields had such basics as a...
Texas Company Fined $149K for Health and Safety Violations
Aug 22 2008 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed $149,100 in fines to Texas Linen Co. Ltd. in Austin, Texas, for one willful, 43 alleged serious and one...
N.Y. Court Holds Up Assessments for Failed Workers’ Comp Trusts
Aug 21 2008 // The New York Workers’ Compensation Board must do a better job of justifying a significant assessment against employer groups in the state that self-insure for workers’ compensation claims, a Supreme Court judge...
How to Become the Local Employer of Choice
Aug 21 2008 // About two-thirds of companies do no planning for workforce issues at all. Quickly rising and about to strike, the tidal wave of demographic pressure in the U.S. is a formidable threat to the health of American business....
California High Court Clarifies Policies on Workers’ Comp Utilization Reviews
Aug 21 2008 // utilization review process when considering requests for treatment. Employers must conduct utilization reviews when deciding whether to approve or deny an injured employee’s request for workers’ compensation...
Washington Raises Workers’ Comp Benefits, Pays Dividend to Employers
Aug 21 2008 // Workers currently receiving Washington workers’ compensation wage-replacement or pension benefits will receive a 5.018 percent cost-of-living increase, according to the state Department of Labor and Industries...
Flood & Peterson Distributes $2.7 Million in Workers’ Comp Insurance Dividends
Aug 20 2008 // Greeley, Colo.-based Flood & Peterson Insurance recently distributed $2.7 million in workers’ compensation dividend checks to 1,227 Colorado clients as a reward for maintaining safe workplaces. The $2.7 million...
Delaware Orders 11.5% Workers’ Comp Rate Cut
Aug 19 2008 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn is ordering a 11.57 percent across-the-board cut in average workers compensation premium rates effective October 1, 2008. Denn also said that he will consider making additional...
Liberty Mutual Sues New York over Workers’ Comp Law Changes
Aug 19 2008 // Boston-based insurer Liberty Mutual Holding Co. has filed a federal lawsuit challenging several recent amendments to New York State’s workers’ compensation law as unconstitutional. The suit alleges that changes...
NAS Insurance Offers Legal Expense Coverage Not Covered By Workers’ Comp
Aug 14 2008 // Encino, Calif.-based NAS Insurance Services has introduced CompLex writeNOW! to provide legal expense coverage for exposures that are not covered by workers’ compensation insurance. CompLex writeNOW! presents a range...
California Proposes 16% Workers’ Comp Rate Increase
Aug 14 2008 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California indicated it plans to submit a filing to the California Department of Insurance (CDI) recommending a 16 percent increase in pure premium rates effective...
OSHA Program Targets Crane Safety in South Central States
Aug 14 2008 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Region VI office in Dallas announced it has established a Regional Emphasis Program (REP) covering employees in the construction...
