Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
N.D. Surpreme Court Revives Workers’ Comp Charges Against Former Director
Jul 2 2008 // North Dakota’s Supreme Court revived two felony charges on June 30 against a former state workers’ compensation director, saying prosecutors may put him on trial for allegedly misspending more than $18,000 in...
California Workers’ Comp Insurer Extends Credit to Wildfire Victims
Jul 2 2008 // California State Compensation Insurance Fund announced that it will extend credit to policyholders who have suffered a financial loss or business disruption caused by the hundreds of wildfires burning throughout...
N.Y. Court Denies Undocumented Alien Added Workers’ Comp
Jul 1 2008 // New York’s top court has ruled that an undocumented alien injured while working as a printer properly received basic workers’ compensation, but he wasn’t eligible for additional payments because of his...
Texas Workers’ Comp Discount, Interest Rate Set at 6.18%
Jun 30 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation has determined that any interest or discount provided for in the state’s Workers’ Compensation Act shall be at the rate of 6.18...
West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Market Opens to Competition
Jun 30 2008 // All of West Virginia employers, other than governmental entities, can for the first time, shop their workers’ compensation coverage among carriers in a competitive market. Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline said...
Palm Beach Capital Acquires Florida-based Workers’ Comp Provider
Jun 30 2008 // Palm Beach Capital of West Palm Beach, Florida, acquired SUNZ Group LLC, a workers’ compensation solutions provider. SUNZ, based in St. Petersburg, Florida and founded in 2005, provides workers’ compensation...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division Assesses More Than $81K in Penalties
Jun 27 2008 // Administrative penalties for April and May 2008 assessed by the Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) totaled $81,667. The disciplinary actions taken by Commissioner of...
West Virginia Workers’ Comp Insurer Working to Pay off State Loan Early
Jun 27 2008 // The sole provider of workers’ compensation insurance in West Virginia plans to make an early $60 million payment on a $200 million startup loan from the state. Greg Burton, BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co.’s...
New Jersey Workers’ Comp Reforms Target Payments, Employer Scofflaws
Jun 25 2008 // New Jersey lawmakers have approved a number of major changes to the Garden State’s workers’ compensation insurance system. The reforms comprise a package of six bills passed earlier this week by the Assembly...
Strengths and Weaknesses, Part 1: What Agents Think of Regional, National P/C Insurers
Jun 25 2008 // Regional carriers rate better in underwriting experience, relationships and stability as well as in customer service and agency relations than their national competitors in the view of independent agents. Regional insurers...
Report: Workplace Injuries Unreported
Jun 24 2008 // A congressional report found two out of three work-related illnesses and injuries may be going unreported, and called into question federal regulators’ claims that workplace problems are declining. The House...
Beacon Mutual Cuts Workers’ Compensation Rates in R.I. 7.2%
Jun 24 2008 // Beacon Mutual Insurance Co., Rhode Island’s largest workers’ compensation carrier, reported that it will implement a 7.2 percent average decrease in rates that has been approved by the Department of Business...
North Dakota Workers’ Comp Board Gives $77 Million Back to Businesses
Jun 24 2008 // North Dakota’s workers’ compensation board approved giving $77 million in dividends to most of its business customers over the next year, which could reduce their annual insurance bills by 62 percent. The...
Embattled Vermont Hotel Lacked Workers’ Compensation Insurance
Jun 23 2008 // The Cortina Inn in Killington, Vermont, which closed two months ago after being linked to Legionnaires’ disease, has filed for bankruptcy. But a bankruptcy court judge in Connecticut dismissed the inn’s case...
New Mexico Workers’ Comp Agency Shuts Down Las Cruces Business
Jun 20 2008 // New Mexico’s Workers’ Compensation Administration shut down a Las Cruces business, alleging it was not complying with requirements to pay workers’ compensation insurance. Agency workers, accompanied by...
N. D. Attorney General Checking Meeting of Workers’ Comp Agency
Jun 20 2008 // A former North Dakota Workforce Safety and Insurance executive says he walked in on an illegal meeting of agency board members in a restaurant, and he has asked Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem to investigate. “They...
Upstate New York Company Charged with Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jun 18 2008 // An upstate New York trucking company is accused of underreporting its payroll by $2.2 million, costing the state Insurance Fund more than $300,000 in lost workers’ compensation premiums. The state Insurance...
New York Workers’ Comp Board Targets Workplace Safety for Teens
Jun 17 2008 // The New York Workers’ Compensation Board said it will expand a program to promote job safety for teenage workers. The program is a partnership with the Department of Labor where the board refers to the department...
San Diego Man Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jun 17 2008 // A San Diego man has been sentenced for insurance fraud. On May 21, 2008, Ramon Romo was sentenced to 180 days in San Diego Superior Court and ordered to pay more than $25,000 in restitution in addition to $680 in fines. On...
California Appeals Court Upholds Cap on Workers’ Comp Treatments
Jun 16 2008 // A Court of Appeal in California rejected a constitutional challenge to the number of visits a worker is entitled to for chiropractic, physical therapy or occupational therapy visits under the state’s workers’...
