Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Zenith National Insurance Reports $41.9 Million Q1 income
Apr 24 2008 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Zenith National Insurance Corp. (NYSE: ZNT) reported net income for the first quarter 2008 of $41.9 million, or $1.12 per share, compared to net income for the first quarter 2007 of $64.5...
Workers’ Compensation Rates Continue to Decline in Arkansas
Apr 24 2008 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman announced a decrease in workers’ compensation rates effective July 1, 2008. Since the passage of an all-encompassing workers’ compensation legislative...
Prosecutor: No Criminal Charges Filed in N. D. Workers’ Comp Agency Firings
Apr 23 2008 // A prosecutor has decided not to seek criminal charges for the firings of two North Dakota workers compensation agency employees, saying he does not believe he could prove they were victims of illegal retaliation. James...
NSM Insurance Group Acquires Insurex Workers’ Comp Brokerage
Apr 23 2008 // NSM Insurance Group has acquired Insurex, a California-based workers’ compensation brokerage. The acquisition “immediately expands our ability to provide new national workers’ compensation markets to our...
No Mass. Workers’ Comp For Sleepy Big Dig Employee Hurt Driving Home
Apr 21 2008 // A construction worker on Boston’s “Big Dig” highway project is not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits for injuries he suffered after he fell asleep while driving home late from work, the...
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Apr 21 2008 // Novato, Calif.-based Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. named Michael LaRocco president and CEO. He will report to Chuck Kavitsky, president and CEO of Allianz of America, parent of Fireman’s Fund, and will also...
California Legislature Considers Changes to State Fund
Apr 21 2008 // California’s Legislature is considering changes to operations of the state’s largest workers’ compensation insurer. Senate Bill 1145 was recently heard by the Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance...
Man Who Fled to Georgia Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud in Texas
Apr 18 2008 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Travis County district court has sentenced a Los Fresnos, Texas, man on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The court sentenced Frank Tisdale to five...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division Assesses $63K in Penalties
Apr 17 2008 // Disciplinary actions taken by Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Albert Betts in February and March 2008 totaled $63,800 for violations of the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act, the Texas Department of...
Okla. AG Settles with Concentra over Workers’ Comp Billing Practices
Apr 17 2008 // Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson announced his office has signed an agreement with Concentra Health Services that requires the company to pay the state more than $182,000 and institute new training procedures to...
Missouri Supreme Court Upholds Felony Conviction
Apr 17 2008 // On April 15 the Missouri Supreme Court ruled in favor of a class D felony conviction of Bob Salter of St. Louis, Mo.. Salter was sentenced to one year in prison, fined $5,000 and was assigned an additional $25,000 penalty...
Mass. Workers’ Comp Rates Cut 1%
Apr 17 2008 // The Patrick Administration announced an agreement in the 2008 workers’ compensation rate setting proceeding that will save Massachusetts businesses $11 million. The new rates average to a 1.0 percent reduction per...
South Carolina Workers’ Comp Exclusivity Doesn’t Bar Invasion of Privacy
Apr 16 2008 // A South Carolina workers’ compensation exclusivity statute did not bar an employee from filing claims for invasion of privacy and false imprisonment in a psychiatric hospital, according to a U.S. District Court...
Auditor Again Checking North Dakota Injured Workers’ Claims
Apr 15 2008 // A state auditor is doing another check of North Dakota injured workers’ claims to see how many were inappropriately denied. A consultant’s review found only a “handful” of questionable claim...
Nebraska Lawmakers Kill Bill to Provide Workers’ Comp for Mental Illness
Apr 15 2008 // Emergency responders who suffer mental illness after witnessing a violent act shouldn’t plan on getting workers’ compensation benefits. State lawmakers changed positions on Thursday, April 10th voting down a...
Okla. Senate Republicans: Dems Blocked Vote on Work Comp Reform
Apr 15 2008 // Oklahoma Senate Republicans say their Democratic peers have blocked consideration of an amendment on workers’ compensation reform. Democrat Lt. Gov. Jari Askins recently broke a tie to help Senate Democrats block...
South Carolina Attorney Declines Consideration for Workers’ Comp Board
Apr 15 2008 // Columbia, S.C. attorney, Samuel Painter, withdrew his name from consideration for a term on the state’s Workers’ Compensation Commission. Painter faced repeated questions earlier this week about his involvement...
Excess Workers’ Comp Program for Non-subscribers Launched in Texas
Apr 11 2008 // Safety National Casualty Corp., a Missouri-based provider of excess workers’ compensation insurance, has launched a new program for non-subscriber employers in Texas. This new program, TExcess, provides excess...
California Workers’ Compensation Insurer in the Midst of Change
Apr 11 2008 // California State Compensation Insurance Fund has been facing many changes recently, but it has no intent to be the dominant player in the state workers’ compensation insurance market, according to Janet Frank,...
Sleepy Employee Hurt Driving Home Denied Mass. Workers’ Comp
Apr 9 2008 // A construction worker on Boston’s “Big Dig” highway project is not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits for injuries he suffered after he fell asleep while driving home late from work, the...
