Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Insurance Guarantee Association Reimbursed $56 Million
Jul 24 2008 // Continental Casualty Co. has reimbursed the California Insurance Guarantee Association (CIGA) nearly $56 million by for payments previously made to injured workers, the California Department of Insurance announced. The...
Corpus Christi, Weslaco Workers’ Comp Offices Closed Due to Dolly
Jul 24 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), Division of Workers’ Compensation has closed its Corpus Christi and Weslaco field offices until further notice due to severe weather caused by Hurricane Dolly. Additional...
Brownyard Adds Workers’ Comp to Security Guard and Pest Control Programs in California
Jul 24 2008 // The Brownyard Group, a program administrator providing specialized insurance coverage for select industry groups, announced it is offering workers’ compensation coverage in California for its security guard and pest...
Safety National Casualty Corp. Provides Workers’ Comp for Automobile Dealers
Jul 21 2008 // The board of directors of the Preferred Automobile Dealers Self Insurance Program Inc. (PADSIP) placed its members’ specific excess workers’ compensation and employers’ liability reinsurance with Safety...
How to Become the Local Employer of Choice
Jul 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....
Crane Collapses At Houston Refinery — Killing 4, Injuring 7
Jul 21 2008 // As federal investigators converged on a Houston oil refinery July 19 where a crane collapse killed four and injured seven others, the company that owns the 30-story-tall crane released the names of the dead workers. The...
Ohio Businesses With Unpaid Workers’ Comp Bills Estimated at $235 Million
Jul 18 2008 // 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 unit to...
Finding Doctor Tougher With Oregon Ruling
Jul 18 2008 // A new workers’ compensation ruling by the state may make it a little toughter to find a doctor to treat injuries on the job. Doctors, physical therapists and other medical providers have been firing e-mails at the...
New York Concrete Firm Pays $211K in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Jul 16 2008 // The head of a Long Island brick and concrete firm has pleaded guilty to attempted insurance fraud and his company ordered to pay $211,000 in restitution to the New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF) for concealing the...
Georgia Builders Association Attempts Takeover of Builders Insurance
Jul 15 2008 // When Builders Insurance Group — a mutual captive insurer for Georgia homebuilders — shifted its exclusive affiliation with Home Builders Association of Georgia, the association implemented a takeover of the...
N.D. Workers’ Comp Committee Studying Benefits of Privatization
Jul 14 2008 // Complaints about North Dakota’s Workforce Safety and Insurance (WSI) agency may not translate into support for making WSI a private business and allowing competition from other insurers, state lawmakers say. The...
California High Court Clarifies Policies on Workers’ Comp Utilization Reviews
Jul 14 2008 // Employers must conduct utilization reviews when deciding whether to approve or deny an injured employee’s request for workers’ compensation medical treatment, the Supreme Court of California has ruled. In State...
Not All N.Y. Workers’ Compensation Self-Insurance Trusts are in Trouble
Jul 11 2008 // New York officials have closed 14 workers’ compensation self-insured trusts in the past few years and questioned the financial stability of 22 others. However, that still leaves 29 group trusts operating in the state...
Wausau Survey: Employers Stay Level Headed Despite Recession Worries
Jul 11 2008 // Although a U.S. economic recession would not be good news overall for employers, most don’t believe a recession would drive up workers’ compensation claims, according to a new survey of financial executives by...
N.Y. Court Holds Up Assessments for Failed Workers’ Comp Trusts
Jul 10 2008 // The New York Workers’ Compensation Board must do a better job of showing why a significant assessment was been levied against employer groups in the state that self-insure against workers’ compensation claims,...
Washington Raises Workers’ Comp Benefits, Pays Dividend to Employers
Jul 9 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...
Oklahoma Governor Appoints 4 to Workers’ Compensation Court
Jul 9 2008 // Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry has appointed four people to the state’s Workers’ Compensation Court. The three new members of the court are Robert Lake Grove of Oklahoma City, William R. Foster of Norman and Eric W....
CompPartners Names Guyan Director of Product Development
Jul 8 2008 // Suzanne M. Guyan has joined CompPartners, a workers’ compensation, disability, and group health managed care organization based in Irvine, Calif., as director of product development. Guyan has a diverse and...
N.Y. Engineers Rescue of Workers’ Comp Trusts
Jul 7 2008 // But Those Involved with 14 Failed Trusts Remain on the Financial Hook New York State lawmakers have authorized $52 million from an emergency state fund to assure uninterrupted payment of benefits of injured workers whose...
West Va.’s Open Workers’ Comp Market Attracts 24 New Carriers
Jul 7 2008 // All of West Virginia employers, other than governmental entities, on July 1 gained the advantage of being able to shop their workers’ compensation coverage among carriers in a competitive market. Insurance...
