Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Workers’ Comp for Mental Injuries Narrowed to First Responders in Neb.
Apr 9 2008 // State lawmakers have decided that first responders who suffer mental illness after witnessing a violent act should be eligible for workers’ compensation benefits, but other employees should not. Police officers,...
Study: California Workers’ Comp Claims Cost Decreasing
Apr 8 2008 // California’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau has released a study that notes that following workers’ comp reform, statewide average ratios of loss adjustment expense (LAE) to loss per claim...
North Dakota’s Stenehjem Says Workers’ Comp Agency within the Law
Apr 8 2008 // Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency did not violate the state’s open records law when it denied a legal record to an agency critic. Stenehjem wrote in a legal...
North Dakota Dems Endorse Schneider for Insurance Commissioner
Apr 7 2008 // Jasper Schneider remembers attending Democratic conventions as a small boy with his father, John, a former House Democratic leader and U.S. attorney during the Clinton administration. On Friday, the 28-year-old was on...
Texas Supreme Court to Rehear Entergy Workers’ Comp Case
Apr 7 2008 // The Texas Supreme Court has agreed to rehear a case from Jefferson County dealing with the scope of the state workers’ compensation law. The court has not yet set the date for new arguments but said April 5 it will...
Two Lawyers Named to Connecticut Workers’Comp Commission
Apr 7 2008 // Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell has named Daniel Dilzer and David Schoolcraft to the state Workers’ Compensation Commission. Dilzer, 41, is a lawyer with the New Britain-based law firm Davila & Dilzer. He serves...
