Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
5 West Virginians Indicted in Multiple Insurance Fraud Charges
Feb 4 2008 // A Kanawha County, W. Va., grand jury indicted five individuals in multiple cases involving insurance fraud last week, according to the state’s Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline,. Tina Marie Browning, 40, of...
Spring 2008 Texas Workers’ Comp Seminars to Focus on Change
Feb 4 2008 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) will host seminars in Austin and Dallas in April to focus on developing issues impacting the Texas workers’ compensation system. The 2008 Workers’ Compensation Spring...
Meadowbrook Acquires Remaining Earnings from U.S. Speciality Underwriters
Feb 4 2008 // Southfield, Mich-based Meadowbrook Insurance Group, Inc. announced today its termination of the Management Agreement associated with its acquisition of the business of U.S. Specialty Underwriters, Inc. (USS). As previously...
N.Y. Agents and Insurers Laud Workers’ Comp Loss Cost Rating Bill
Feb 1 2008 // New York State agents and insurers praised the passage late last month of a key workers compensation reform that will extend the rate-making authority of the New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board, and move the...
N. D. Governor Names Two Directors for Workers’ Comp Board
Feb 1 2008 // Gov. John Hoeven has picked a grocer and construction company president for the board of North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency. Michael Gallagher and John Dyste (DYS’-tee) will join the 11-member...
Conn. AG’s Report Faults Rowland-Era $80M Workers’ Comp Deal
Feb 1 2008 // Connecticut Attorney Richard Blumenthal has released a report saying the Nutmeg State “badly botched” an $80 million deal to privatize payments of more than 600 state workers’ compensation claims —...
Fla. CFO Concerned as Gov. Proposes Workers’ Comp Fund Sweep
Jan 31 2008 // In response to Gov. Charlie Crist’s budget recommendations for the 2008-2009 fiscal year, Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink expressed concerns over proposals to reduce the Workers’ Compensation...
Ohio Bill Widens Health Coverage, Offers Workers’ Comp Discounts
Jan 31 2008 // More Ohioans would have access to health insurance through tax credits and other incentives and the state would offer programs to promote healthiness under a wide-ranging bill introduced in the Ohio House earlier this...
OSHA Fines Dallas Company for Summer 2007 Blast
Jan 29 2008 // Federal regulators fined a Dallas company $6,300 in connection with a spectacular acetylene gas explosion last summer that sent metal canisters flying into the air. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
Decision: Tenn. Restaurants to Pay $4.8 Million to Workers’ Comp Fund
Jan 28 2008 // A judge has ordered a group of Tennessee restaurant owners to pay $4.8 million into a workers’ compensation fund that was mismanaged. About 500 Tennessee Restaurant Association members will have to pay thousands each...
Calif. Agents Brace for Rising Workers’ Comp Rates
Jan 27 2008 // In the largest survey of its kind, fewer than half of California’s 10,000 business insurance agents see California’s business economy improving, either for themselves or for their clients, in 2008. The study...
Ariz. Court Goes Against State Farm in Uninsured Motorist Case
Jan 27 2008 // A recent Arizona Supreme Court ruling blocks insurance companies from lowering underinsured motorist payments to injured people who have received workers’ compensation. Because the lawsuit was filed as a class...
Texas Updates Online Workers’ Comp Proof of Coverage Information
Jan 25 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) has updated its employer proof of coverage information available through the agency Web site. The coverage database will now be refreshed...
Wyo. Lawyers Say Changes Needed for Benefits Delivery in WC Program
Jan 25 2008 // Legal advocates in Wyoming say they plan to press for changes in the way the state’s workers’ compensation program distributes benefits to people injured on the job. The state program paid out about $121...
OSHA Investigating Fatal Accident in West Virginia
Jan 23 2008 // The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the death of a man at a McDowell County, W. Va., metal processing plant. Authorities say 46-year-old Mohegan, W. Va., resident Robert Lee Pack died...
Workers Comp Insurer Guard Begins Rollout of Businessowners Policy
Jan 23 2008 // Guard Insurance Group in Wilkes-Barre, Penn. is venturing beyond its workers compensation roots by introducing a small businessowners policy (BOP) during the first quarter of 2008. The company said it will begin rolling...
Tenn. Restaurant Owners Concerned about Workers’ Comp Insurer
Jan 21 2008 // Some Tennessee restaurant owners are concerned that a small, unrated insurance company with ties to the state has been chosen to take over a worker’s compensation fund. Already liable for a $4.8 million fund that the...
Brass, Cuneo and Lowe Appointed to California WC Appeals Board
Jan 18 2008 // California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced the appointments of Frank Brass, James Cuneo and Deidra Lowe to the state’s Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB). All appointments are subject to...
California Agents Brace for Rising WC Rates, Sluggish Economy
Jan 18 2008 // In the largest survey of its kind, fewer than half of California’s 10,000 business insurance agents see California’s business economy improving – either for themselves or for their clients – in...
Tennessee Restaurant Owners Looking at $4.8M Worker’s Comp Bill
Jan 18 2008 // Restaurant owners across Tennessee may have to pay thousands each to shore up a workers’ compensation fund that the state says was mismanaged. The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance is suing Ronnie Hart,...
