Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Mass. Workers’ Comp Writers Seek 2.3% Rate Boost
Apr 7 2008 // The Workers Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau, which represents insurers, submitted its filing on Feb. 29. The bureau has requested a Sept. 1, 2008 effective date for new rates. A hearing was held April 3. The...
Ohio Allows 5% Rate Cut On Workers’ Comp
Apr 7 2008 // Ohio state officials approved a 5 percent overall rate reduction in premiums for businesses participating in Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers, the first reduction since 2001. The decrease, which takes effect...
S.C. Workers’ Comp Nominees Put Law Before Governor’s Orders
Apr 7 2008 // South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s nominees to the Workers’ Compensation Commission say they would follow what the law requires and not bow to executive orders issued by a governor. The Senate Judiciary...
Arizona Court: Off-Duty Officer Injury Qualifies for Workers’ Compensation
Apr 7 2008 // Arizona’s Court of Appeals has ruled that an administrative law judge erred in finding that an off-duty police officer’s gunshot injury in the course of protecting a friend was not due workers’...
Take a P/C Soft Market, Throw in a Recession, and Stir
Apr 7 2008 // The P/C industry’s chief economist on how agents are affected when a recession coincides with a soft market The following interview with Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Information Institute, took place...
Mitchell to Acquire Fair Isaac’s Workers’ Comp Medical Cost Business
Apr 3 2008 // Claims management and information firm Mitchell International, Inc. reports it has agreed to acquire the workers compensation medical cost containment and bill review business of Fair Isaac Corp. Mitchell currently...
Business Owner Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud in Texas
Apr 2 2008 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that an Arp, Texas, business owner pled guilty in a workers’ compensation fraud-related case. A Travis County district court ordered Jerry Don Calicutt, owner of ZIPCO Services...
Tennessee Gov. Appoints 2 to State Workers’ Compensation Council
Apr 2 2008 // In a flurry of statewide appointments to boards and commissions last month, Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen appointed two new members to the state Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council. Katherine D. Boyte, of Nashville...
California Legislature Considers Changes to State Workers’ Comp Insurer
Apr 2 2008 // California’s Legislature will hear testimony today regarding operations of the state’s largest workers’ compensation insurer. Senate Bill 1145 will be heard by the Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance...
Nebraska Bill would Expand Workers’ Comp Coverage to Mental Illness
Apr 1 2008 // Employees who witness violent acts and suffer mental illnesses as a result would be eligible for workers’ compensation benefits under a bill discussed Thursday by state lawmakers. Several senators raised concerns...
California Appeals Court: SCIF Erred in Denying Access to PPN
Apr 1 2008 // A California Court of Appeals has ruled that the state’s primary workers’ compensation insurer cannot deny an occupational medical clinic from its preferred provider network because it impaired the...
Ohio Allows 5% Rate Cut on Workers’ Comp Insurance
Mar 31 2008 // Ohio state officials on Friday approved a 5 percent overall rate reduction in premiums for businesses participating in Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers, the first reduction since 2001. The decrease, which...
Former Mass. Sen. Jacques Approved as Mass. Workers’ Comp Judge
Mar 28 2008 // A former state senator has been confirmed to be a judge at the Department of Industrial Accidents, despite questions about her qualifications and concern about a political account she plans to maintain on the bench. The...
California Workers’ Comp Insurance Rating Bureau Not Filing Mid-Year Rate Change
Mar 28 2008 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has announced it has decided not to file for a mid-year pure premium rate change. Accepting a recommendation made by the WCIRB Actuarial Committee, the...
Arizona Court: Off Duty Officer Injury Qualifies for Workers’ Comp
Mar 26 2008 // Arizona’s Court of Appeals has ruled that an administrative law judge erred in finding that an off-duty police officer’s gunshot injury in the course of protecting a friend was not due workers’...
Preferred Employers Introducers Medical Provider Network for California Businesses
Mar 26 2008 // San Diego-based Preferred Employers Insurance Co., which specializes inworkers’ compensation insurance for small employers in California, has created a medical provider network for treatment of work related injuries....
West Virginia Man Pleads Guilty to Workers Compensation Fraud
Mar 25 2008 // A Wyoming County, W. Va. man pleaded Monday guilty to one misdemeanor count of wrongfully seeking workers compensation benefits in an amount less than $1000, according to West Virginia Insurance Commissioner, Jane L....
West Virginia’s Workers Comp Insurer May not See Huge Profits Again
Mar 25 2008 // BrickStreet Insurance’s profit from running West Virginia’s workers’ compensation program more than doubled in its second year of business, but those heady days could be ending. In July, the company will...
West Virginia Invites Workers’ Comp Insurers to Open Market Forum
Mar 25 2008 // On the verge of an open competitive environment in West Virginia’s workers’ compensation insurance market, the state’s insurance commission scheduled a forum for insurers seeking information. Insurance...
