Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
FBI Says Fighting Financial Crimes a Priority; Insurance Cases Top 200
Jun 2 2008 // Feds Focus on Arson, Hurricane Katrina, Corporate Fraud, Premium Diversion and Workers’ Compensation The Federal Bureau of Investigation pursued 529 financial crime cases in its most recent fiscal year, including 209...
New Hampshire Cracking Down on Workers’ Comp Misclassifications
May 30 2008 // Four New Hampshire agencies are working together to catch companies that illegally misclassify workers as independent contractors to avoid paying workers’ compensation insurance and unemployment taxes. The...
Texas Approves 10 Companies to Self-Insure for Workers’ Comp
May 30 2008 // Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Albert Betts approved 10 companies, employing approximately 31,400 employees in Texas, to self-insure for workers’ compensation claims for a one-year period under the Texas...
California Workers’ Comp Insurer Files for 3.5 Percent Rate Decrease
May 28 2008 // California State Compensation Insurance Fund announced it filed a July 1, 2008, revision to its rating plan, which it anticipates will result in a 3.5 percent reduction in collectible premium. While base rates will remain...
Former N.D. Workers’ Comp Investigator Files Lawsuit
May 27 2008 // In the first of what may be several lawsuits by former employees of North Dakota’s Workforce Safety and Insurance (WSI) agency, a former fraud investigator says several top WSI officials illegally schemed to fire...
2004 Reforms Slow Tennessee Workers’ Comp Costs, Study Finds
May 23 2008 // Tennessee experienced a moderation in average workers’ compensation costs per claim among 14 study states, after two consecutive years of rapid cost growth and in the wake of reforms enacted in 2004, according to a...
FBI Says Fighting Financial Crimes a Priority; Insurance Cases Top 200
May 23 2008 // The Federal Bureau of Investigation pursued 529 financial crime cases in its most recent fiscal year, including 209 insurance fraud cases. During it fiscal year 2007, the 209 insurance fraud cases investigated by the FBI...
California Cop to Receive Workers’ Comp Benefits for Vacation Injury
May 23 2008 // A police officer who was injured while on vacation while he was training for a physical fitness test is entitled to workers’ compensation benefits, the California Court of Appeal recently ruled. According to Tomlin...
North Dakota’s Workers’ Comp Rates to Rise 2.5 Percent in July
May 23 2008 // The North Dakota Workforce Safety & Insurance (WSI) board of directors approved the 2008-2009 premium rate plan on Thursday, May 22nd. While the new rating plan begins July 1, 2008, it calls for no change in statewide...
N.Y. Suspends Workers Comp Security Fund Payments
May 19 2008 // Workers’ compensation insurers in New York can cease making payments to the state’s security fund, now that the fund has amassed $74 million in assets, the Insurance Department said. By statute, the department...
Insurers Market Private Workers’ Comp on U.S. Defense Projects
May 19 2008 // As the need for U.S. government foreign-based support personnel increases, so does the need for workers’ compensation coverage for contractors involved in U.S. funded projects. Contracts for insurers wanting to...
New York Agents Seek to Curb State-backed Workers’ Comp Insurer
May 19 2008 // A trade group for New York insurance agents wants to rewrite the laws governing the New York State Insurance Fund — a nonprofit state agency that is the state’s largest workers’ compensation insurer — to...
Ohio Employers Ask for Another Review of Workers’ Comp Rates
May 19 2008 // A group of Ohio employers who say their businesses are being crushed by injured-worker insurance rates that the state modified last year has asked the state’s watchdog to take another look at the program. The newly...
Florida Workers’ Compensation Reforms Lowered Costs for a Year
May 19 2008 // Workers’ compensation costs per claim in Florida appear to have decreased in 2004 in the wake of reforms enacted in 2003, but the decrease did not continue in 2005, according to a new study by the Workers...
Employers Should Spell Out Telecommuting Policy to Control Exposure
May 19 2008 // Even where an employer has no formal telecommuting policy, it likely faces risks from workers working off-site More and more employers are offering various levels of telecommuting in order to retain existing staff and...
Defense Base Act: Doing Business Outside the Box
May 19 2008 // As the need for and presence of and U.S. government foreign-based support personnel increases, so does the need for workers’ compensation coverage for contractors involved in U.S. funded projects. As such, the...
Insurers Market Private Workers’ Comp for U.S. Defense Projects
May 19 2008 // The Defense Base Act sets forth the benefits due private sector employees injured while working overseas As the need for U.S. government foreign-based support personnel increases, so does the need for workers’...
Defense Base Act: Business Outside the Box
May 19 2008 // As the need for and presence of U.S. government foreign-based support personnel increases, so does the need for workers’ compensation coverage for contractors involved in U.S. funded projects. The opportunity to...
Construction Accidents Prompt OSHA Review
May 19 2008 // A U.S. House of Representatives committee is planning a review of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration as a result of recent construction deaths in Las Vegas and other major cities. Rep. Lynn Woolsey,...
Plan Ahead to Help Reduce Telecommuting Workers’ Comp Exposure
May 19 2008 // A thorough telecommuting policy can help employers avoid losses and increase productivity. More and more companies are offering their employees various levels of telecommuting benefits to retain existing staff and attract...
