Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Top Insurance Stories in 2007 in East
Dec 31 2007 // New leaders tackled old issues and the region battled fire and rain. 1. No day at the beach Insurance markets for coastal properties continued to challenge insurers, agents, policymakers and property owners, despite an...
California Workers’ Comp Insurer Makes HR Promotion
Dec 31 2007 // Susan Lynch has been promoted to manager of California State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Employee Assistance Program (EAP) in Human Resources. EAP helps State Fund employees address personal issues and maintain...
Mass. Attorney General: Cut Workers’ Comp Rates Again
Dec 27 2007 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley wants workers’ compensation insurance rates to come down again in 2008. Coakley says small businesses can’t afford to pay too much for the insurance. The rates are...
California Workers’ Comp Insurer Promotes Two
Dec 27 2007 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has appointed Chris Reyes regional assistant real estate manager for Central Valley operations, and Yvette Montano-Anda claims manager for Los Angeles Claims...
Ohio Companies Sue Bureau of Workers’ Comp over Rating System
Dec 27 2007 // Three companies have filed a class-action suit against the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation over a system that they say costs employers million of dollars in excessive premiums. The companies argue that the...
Court: Workers’ Comp Benefits Don’t Apply at Educational Conference
Dec 23 2007 // The family of an employee is not entitled to workers’ compensation death benefits if the death occurs while the employer is attending an educational conference, the Court of Appeal in California has ruled. In City of...
Declarations
Dec 23 2007 // Workers’ Comp Insurer Needs Change “Given SCIF’s size, its fiscal health is integral to ensuring a healthy and competitive workers’ compensation marketplace.” —California Insurance...
Scathing Audit: Calif. Workers’ Comp Insurer Needs Significant Reforms
Dec 23 2007 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund “has weak corporate governance, inadequate internal controls in various areas and a general inability to plan for the long-term,” according to an operational...
N.Y. Worker’s Comp Reform Hits New Snafu Over Trust Fund
Dec 23 2007 // A state-run pool system to pay workers with permanent partial disabilities could erode the savings promised by New York’s landmark workers compensation reform, insurers warn, although some insiders say that those...
From Med Mal Caps to RICO Violations, No Headline Shortage in 2007
Dec 23 2007 // Severe summer storms that ransacked the Midwest, a court ruling that could negatively impact the medical malpractice insurance market in Illinois and RICO allegations in Minnesota were just a few of the news stories that...
People
Dec 23 2007 // Robert P. Page of Houma, La., was installed as president of the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA National). Page, co-owner of Charles A. Page and Sons Insurance Agency in Houma, has served on the...
West Va. Privatization of Workers’ Compensation Not all Smooth Sailing
Dec 23 2007 // Gov. Manchin at odds with lawmakers over system as it prepares for more private insurers The latest power struggle between W.Va. Gov. Joe Manchin’s administration and lawmakers spilled out into the open recently. Led...
Comp Loss
Dec 23 2007 // In 2006, South Carolina’s workers’ compensation premiums grew more than 18 percent and the state has ranked second in the nation in terms of how quickly rates have increased. So in 2007, South Carolina enacted...
Fault Lines in N.Y. Workers’ Compensation
Dec 23 2007 // The debate over payments to the Aggregate Trust Fund is one, although by no means the only, workers’ compensation insurance reform that New York carriers want to see changed. “We were generally very pleased...
Albany Actually Works
Dec 23 2007 // In a major first term victory, N.Y. Gov. Spitzer struck a deal with legislative leaders to reform the state’s workers’ compensation system, a deal that had the backing of business and labor. Benefits for...
Weather blows through top stories of 2007
Dec 23 2007 // Weather, directly or indirectly, was a driving force in the insurance markets for the South Central states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas in 2007. With the exception of Arkansas, throughout the year the South...
OSHA To Investigate Maine Mill Accident
Dec 21 2007 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will investigate an accident at an Irving Forest Products lumber mill in Dixfield, Maines where a worker lost part of his right hand. J.D. Irving spokeswoman Mary Keith...
Workers Comp Fraud Sweep Nets 8 in N.Y.
Dec 21 2007 // The New York State Insurance Fund said a fraud sweep in Nassau County resulted in the arrests of eight people who allegedly took a combined $938,000 in fraudulent workers compensation benefits. The arrests came after a...
Workers’ Comp Dividend Earned by Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Group
Dec 21 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $129,320 dividend to the Texas Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association (TPCA) workers’ compensation purchasing group today. The group’s first dividend...
N.D. Workers’ Comp Agency Will Reconsider Some Denied Claims
Dec 20 2007 // North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency will take another look at some denied claims for benefits, unless issues raised in a dispute already have been examined in court, an agency official says. Injured...
