Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
North Carolina Insurance Agency Searched in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Aug 11 2008 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long today announced the arrest of an Apex woman on one count of embezzlement and one count of obtaining property by false pretenses. Mary Grantham Hicks, aka Mary Linda Hicks, 58,...
Former North Dakota Workers’ Comp Director Hearing Set
Aug 11 2008 // North Dakota’s former workers’ compensation director is to be arraigned later this month on charges that he misspent more than $18,000 in agency funds. Sandy Blunt is accused of two felonies. He is charged with...
Court: California Homeowners Not Liable for Tree Trimmer’s Death
Aug 8 2008 // A homeowner is not vicariously criminally liable for the misdemeanor acts of a tree trimmer, the California Supreme Court decided. According to Maria Dolores Ramirez V. Thomas Nelson, a worker for an unlicensed contractor...
Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Carrier Boosts Q2 Earnings
Aug 8 2008 // Louisiana-based Amerisafe Inc., which provides workers’ compensation insurance for small to mid-sized companies in hazardous industries, recorded a 13 percent increase in second-quarter profit despite a slight...
North Dakota Workers’ Comp Proposal Submitted for Ballot
Aug 7 2008 // Supporters of changing how North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency is run have turned in petitions to put their idea on the November ballot. The initiative would put the governor in charge of appointing the...
Ohio Businesses File Suit on Workers’ Comp Rate-Setting System
Aug 6 2008 // Ohio businesses concerned about the cost of state workers’ compensation insurance for injured workers are trying to force a change in the way premiums are set for employers. A lawsuit filed in December was heard in...
South Carolina Governor Backs off Workers’ Comp Payment Limit Fight
Aug 6 2008 // South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford backed away from efforts to force the state Workers’ Compensation Commission to accept new injury payment standards, accepting a settlement agreement that would end months of legal...
Report: Donations to Okla. Political Organization May be Illegal
Aug 5 2008 // An organization controlled by Oklahoma attorneys who specialize in workers’ compensation cases has raised almost $1 million for political purposes mostly from injured workers who sometimes do not know they have...
Two New York Contractors Face Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Aug 5 2008 // A New York contractor and the sub-contractor he hired are both facing charges of workers’ compensation fraud following their arrests by New York State Police. Police arrested Phillip Gish, 70, of East Aurora, N.Y. on...
Wyo. Supreme Court Upholds Workers’ Comp for Widow
Aug 4 2008 // The Wyoming Supreme Court has upheld workers’ compensation death benefits for the widow of a man who was paralyzed by a workplace injury and who died years later of pneumonia. David Fisher was paralyzed by an...
It Figures
Aug 4 2008 // $235 Million Ohio businesses that aren’t paying insurance bills to cover injured workers can expect a visit from the state. The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation said July 16 that it is creating a compliance...
Stunning Workers’ Comp for Cops in Tennessee
Aug 4 2008 // Police in Brownsville, Tenn. will soon be armed with electric stun devices. Mayor Webb Banks said officials realize the weapons are controversial, but if police tell people they have them, officials believe officers...
How to Become the Local Employer of Choice
Aug 4 2008 // Workers’ Comp Expert Advises Employers on Surviving Today’s Demographics About two-thirds of companies do no planning for workforce issues at all. Quickly rising and about to strike, the tidal wave of...
Selective Insurance Touts Q2 Workers’ Comp Improvement, Mass. Expansion
Aug 1 2008 // Selective Insurance reported that new premiums declined for the second quarter while workers’ compensation results improved and its recent expansion into the commercial markets in Massachusetts and Tennessee is going...
OSHA Had Cited Wisconsin Mill 3 Times Before Fatal Explosion
Aug 1 2008 // The Wisconsin paper mill where an explosion killed three workers earlier this week received three citations for safety violations in the past 10 years, including one that was serious, according to a federal Web site. The...
North Dakota Workers Comp Agency Changes Benefit Appeals Process
Aug 1 2008 // North Dakota’s workers compensation agency plans to resume using independent judges to review disputes over benefits for workers who are hurt on the job, its director says. Two attorneys who represent injured workers...
Virginia Plans Hearing on Workers’ Compensation Premiums
Aug 1 2008 // The Virginia State Corporation Commission is setting an October 28 hearing to consider adjustments in premiums charged for workers’ compensation insurance. The National Council on Compensation Insurance has requested...
OSHA Issues 3rd Largest Fine Ever Against Texas-Based Imperial Sugar
Jul 29 2008 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on July 25 announced it has proposed penalties totaling $8,777,500 against Houston-based Imperial Sugar Co. and its two affiliates alleging violations at their...
Workers’ Compensation History: The Great Tradeoff!
Jul 29 2008 // Eighteenth century pirates and a nineteenth century German “Iron” Chancellor preceded the United States in the creation of a social system for the protection of injured workers. The modern workers’...
Federal Investigations Continue in Mississippi Jobsite Cave-ins
Jul 29 2008 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration in Mississippi is continuing investigations into two separate jobsite cave-ins in March that led to the deaths of four workers. Both cave-ins require up to six months to...
