Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
