Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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’...
Contractors Should Consider How They Build Their Workforce
Jun 16 2008 // Should Subcontractors Be Hired as “Employees” or Independent Contractors? Two recent events remind the insurance industry of the importance of understanding the relationship of a worker at a construction site...
Workers’ Comp Insurance Deserves Extra Caution in Construction Market
Jun 16 2008 // Move from Residential to Commercial Construction Increasing Risk Severity Following legislative reforms, the slowing economy and soft market conditions, workers’ compensation insurance carriers are eager to build...
California Launches Workers’ Comp Enforcement Program
Jun 16 2008 // The California Department of Industrial Relations has launched an Insurance Coverage Program, an enforcement program designed to identify and target employers who fail to carry workers’ compensation insurance. DIR...
Exclusive Survey, Part 1: Strengths and Weaknesses – What Agents Think of Regional and National P/C Insurers
Jun 16 2008 // Where Regional P/C Insurers Beat Out Nationals … and Where Nationals Outperform Regionals Regional carriers rate better in underwriting experience, relationships and stability as well as in customer service and agency...
Feds Propose $193K in Fines for Mississippi Manufacturer
Jun 13 2008 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing fines of $193,000 for 54 violations of federal safety laws at two Howard Industries locations in Laurel, Mississippi. OSHA officials cited the electrical power...
Tennessee Man Arrested for Workers’ Comp Fraud in Virginia
Jun 11 2008 // A Tennessee trucker faces 193 charges for workers’ compensation fraud in Virginia, according to Virginia authorities. Virginia State Police special agents detained William Douglas Pickel on May 21 as Big Sandy...
Workers’ Comp Insurer AmCOMP Fights Excess Profits Charge in Florida
Jun 11 2008 // Florida-based workers compensation insurer AmCOMP Inc. has asked for a hearing to dispute Florida officials’ claim that its profits have been excessive. According to AmCOMP’s request for the hearing, the...
Liberty Mutual, Negley Offer Behavioral Health Care Agency Package
Jun 10 2008 // Retail and wholesale brokers working with Negley Associates can now add workers compensation coverage to their clients’ professional liability, general liability, directors and officers liability, excess liability...
Reduced Okla. Supreme Court Caseload Attributed to Reforms, Mediation
Jun 10 2008 // Legislative reforms and mediated lawsuits are responsible for a decline in the number of appeals and court actions handled by the Oklahoma Supreme Court over the past few years. The Tulsa World examined eight years of...
California Receives $6.3 Million in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Jun 10 2008 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced Cover All, Inc., a 15-year old flooring and carpet installation company headquartered Chatsworth, pled no contest to one count of insurance fraud in Los Angeles...
California Launches Workers’ Comp Enforcement Program
Jun 6 2008 // The California Department of Industrial Relations has launched an Insurance Coverage Program, an enforcement program designed to identify and target employers who fail to carry workers’ compensation insurance. DIR...
California Appeals Court Upholds Cap on Workers’ Comp Treatments
Jun 5 2008 // A Court of Appeal in California has 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...
North Dakota Workers’ Comp Disability, Survivor Benefits to Rise
Jun 4 2008 // Some North Dakota workers’ compensation benefit recipients will see a 5.6 percent increase next month. Workforce Safety and Insurance says it is the largest yearly inflation adjustment in at least 20 years. The...
