Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
California Workers’ Comp Insurer Names Program Manager
Dec 19 2007 // California State Compensation Insurance Fund has named Gary Dunlap program manager for the organization’s Customer Service Center. Dunlap has spent 34 years at SCIF, starting in 1971 as a claims adjuster. His most...
Okla. Work Comp Hearing Rescheduled
Dec 18 2007 // A public hearing on the revision of Oklahoma’s Workers’ Compensation Schedule of Medical and Hospital Fees has been rescheduled for Dec. 19, 2007, the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Court announced. The...
California Workers’ Comp Insurance Rating Board Reports Q3 Results
Dec 18 2007 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Board of California has reported the third quarter results summarizing insurer loss and premium experience through Sept. 30, 2007. “California statewide written...
N.D. Workers’ Comp Agency to Use Own Judges in Benefit Appeals
Dec 18 2007 // North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency has begun hiring its own hearing officers to referee benefit disputes, a move critics say could tilt decisions against employees who are injured on the job. The move...
IBA West Offers Workers’ Comp Specialty Programs
Dec 17 2007 // IBA West Service Corp. and AmWINS Access have teamed to offer a specialty workers’ compensation program for IBA West member brokers and agents and their construction, trucking and security guard clients. Coverage is...
California Workers’ Comp Insurer Names Regional Assistant Real Estate Manager
Dec 17 2007 // Luis Borovinsky has been named regional assistant real estate manager for California State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Southern California operations. Borovinsky joined the organization’s Santa Ana District...
Companies Suing West Va. Insurer BrickStreet Over Agent Commissions
Dec 17 2007 // Two companies are suing West Virginia’s workers’ compensation writer BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. over agent commissions. Aero-Fab Inc. and The Bunch Co. allege that Brickstreet is billing companies for the...
California Court Rules Workers’ Comp Benefits Don’t Apply at Conference
Dec 17 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...
OSHA Fines 4 Companies in Deadly Mississippi Bridge Collapse
Dec 14 2007 // A bridge collapse in Mississippi that killed two workers and injured seven others was a “preventable” tragedy and four companies share the blame in the deadly mishap, the Occupational Safety and Health...
California Store Director Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Dec 14 2007 // Roseville, Calif., Bel Air Market Store Director Nichole Leddy and Assistant Store Director Amy Looper have been sentenced each to one count of workers’ compensation insurance fraud in Placer County, Calif., Superior...
