Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nanotechnology: A Big Risk in a Small Package?
Mar 10 2008 // Nanotechnology presents great opportunity, but the impact on insurance is still unknown Insurance professionals gathered in the oak-paneled Old Library of Lloyd’s of London this past December to learn more about a...
12 Companies OK’d to Self Insure for Workers’ Comp in Texas
Mar 7 2008 // Twelve companies with approximately 32,500 employees in Texas recently were approved to self-insure for workers’ compensation claims for a one-year period under the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of...
Kentucky Woman to Repay $69,414 in Workers’ Comp Case
Mar 7 2008 // A Marion, Ky., woman must repay $69,414 after receiving and cashing disability benefit checks for almost four years after the insured’s death, according to Kentucky Office of Insurance. According to Lyon Circuit...
Not So Funny: N.Y. Slaps Comic Franken with $25K Workers’ Comp Fine
Mar 6 2008 // The Senate campaign of comedian-turned-candidate Al Franken is dealing with a bump served up by an unpaid fine. The state of New York fined Franken’s personal corporation $25,000 for not carrying workers’...
Nevada Workers’ Comp Insurer Appoints VP
Mar 6 2008 // Reno, Nev.-based Employers has appointed Morton Large vice president of underwriting operations for Strategic Markets. Through its subsidiaries, Employers provides workers’ compensation insurance to small businesses...
Travelers Adds Workers’ Compensation to Aviation Unit
Mar 5 2008 // Travelers’ Aviation unit has introduced a new workers’ compensation insurance program for corporate flight departments. Travelers’ new aviation workers’ compensation program will provide coverage...
Suspended N.D. Workers’ Comp Executive Running for State Senate
Mar 5 2008 // A suspended executive at North Dakota’s workers compensation agency is running for the state Senate. Democratic activists in central North Dakota’s District 14 endorsed James Long to oppose incumbent Republican...
Vt. Workers’ Comp Rates To Drop
Mar 5 2008 // Most Vermont employers for the second straight year will see lower workers’ compensation premiums when new state-approved loss cost rates become effective April 1. Rates for loss costs in the voluntary market will...
Texas Work Comp Division Accepting Comment on Network Rules
Mar 5 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) is accepting public comment on proposed rules regarding notification to health care providers of contractual agreements with informal...
Texas Home Builders Work Comp Purchasing Group Opens Doors
Mar 4 2008 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced that the Texas Home Builders (THB) workers’ compensation purchasing group is now an open program. Any licensed Texas agent can help their clients take advantage of the...
Dinallo: N.Y. Needs Better Workers Comp Data Collection
Mar 4 2008 // New York State should centralize its workers’ compensation data in an information bank that could be used to analyze, benchmark and improve the system, Insurance Superintendent Eric Dinallo says. The information bank...
Texas Work Comp Division: Job Injuries, Illnesses Increased in 2006
Feb 29 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation reported that the number of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work in private industry in Texas increased in...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division Reports Disciplinary Actions for Dec., Jan.
Feb 29 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) announced final disciplinary actions taken by Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Albert Betts in December 2007 and January 2008....
Court: Conn. Widow Can’t Pursue Claim Husband Was Worked To Death
Feb 27 2008 // The widow of a Connecticut Superior Court judge cannot pursue a lawsuit claiming the state worked her husband to death, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled. The high court struck down a special act of the legislature,...
Oregon Regulators Implement Workers’ Comp Changes
Feb 27 2008 // March 24, 2008, is the last day that the Oregon Insurance Division is accepting public comment on its proposed rulemaking to implement 2007 legislation related to workers’ compensation insurance. The proposed...
OSHA Fines Wis. Company for Safety Violations after 4 Workers Die
Feb 27 2008 // A federal agency has cited Lakehead Blacktop & Materials for safety violations in the deaths last fall of four men who were overcome by toxic fumes after going in a manhole at the company’s landfill. The...
Kentucky Woman Sentenced in Workers’ Comp Case
Feb 26 2008 // A Floyd County, Ky., woman pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor insurance fraud charge after lying about her husband’s employment history during a workers’ compensation hearing, according to the Kentucky Office of...
Declarations
Feb 24 2008 // Media Alert “In an attempt to goad the media into writing another article about their suit, State Farm continues to add more irrelevant, inflammatory and frivolous allegations. I hope the learned members of the media...
S.C. Gov. Sanford, Workers’ Comp Panel Payment Spat Reaches Court
Feb 24 2008 // A struggle between South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and a commission that determines how much money injured workers receive is now in federal court. A restraining order blocking the state Workers’ Compensation...
Case Watch
Feb 24 2008 // Bad Faith Texas Mut. Ins. Co. v. Ruttiger Texas App. 1st Dist. Jan.17, 2008 Bad faith cause of action lies against workers’ compensation carrier. An individual was injured on the job. The workers’ compensation...
