Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Zurich Adds 100 Small Business Workers’ Comp Classifications
Nov 28 2007 // Zurich North America announced it has added 100 monoline workers’ comp business classifications to its coverage offerings. Most of the new classes are for light manufacturing, wholesale and service company risks. The...
Okla. Workers’ Comp Court to Hold Public Hearing
Nov 28 2007 // The Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Court Administrator announced the Court will hold a public hearing on Dec. 10, 2007, at 1:00 p.m. in the Carousel Room at Metro Technology Center, 1900 Springlake Drive, Oklahoma...
Calif. State Fund Holds Line On 2008 Rates
Nov 27 2007 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has announced the filing of its Jan. 1, 2008, rating plan, making no change in the average collectible rate level. SCIF held the line on rates despite the Workers’...
Texas Agent Sentenced for Perjury in Workers’ Comp Case
Nov 27 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that an independent licensed insurance agent pled no contest to a charge of perjury in a workers’ compensation fraud-related case. A Travis County district court sentenced...
Modesto Restaurant Owners Fined over Workers’ Comp Flap
Nov 26 2007 // The owners of the popular Mallard’s restaurants in Stockton and Modesto, Calif., will pay the state a $100,000 fine for not carrying worker’s compensation insurance. The state labor commissioner’s office...
Workers’ Comp Claim Denied for Tenn. Telecommuter Assault Victim
Nov 26 2007 // The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that a telecommuter who was attacked while preparing lunch in her kitchen wasn’t entitled to workers’ compensation benefits for her injuries. In the case of Kristina Wait...
OSHA Rules Employers Must Pay Cost of Workers’ Safety Equipment
Nov 19 2007 // Employers will have to pay the full cost for almost all personal safety equipment used by their workers, the Labor Department said recently, a move advocates say will prevent thousands of on-the-job injuries. The...
N.D. Workers’ Comp Support Chief Put on Leave, Banned from Building
Nov 19 2007 // A North Dakota workers’ compensation executive who has been placed on paid leave says he expects to lose his job for cooperating with authorities during a probe of the agency. James Long, 38, chief of support...
Okla. Racetracks Warned of Possible Workers’ Comp Problems
Nov 19 2007 // Oklahoma Labor Commissioner Lloyd Fields told the Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission recently the state’s four racetracks face a potential problem of horse trainers who do not carry workers’ compensation...
People
Nov 18 2007 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) elected new officers during its annual meeting in Boston recently. Robert Joyce, chairman and chief executive officer of Westfield Group, was elected as the...
It Figures
Nov 18 2007 // 17.75% The voluntary market rate cut in workers’ compensation ordered by Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn who also ordered a 22 percent cut for the state’s assigned risk pool. He said these are the...
Good Things Going on in West Virginia
Nov 18 2007 // When talk turns to insurance in West Virginia, inevitably workers’ compensation comes up. No one knows that better than Insurance Commissioner Jane Cline. In a recent interview with Insurance Journal‘s Andrew...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Premium Rates Declining
Nov 18 2007 // The Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California reported written premium for the first six months of 2007 at an estimated $6.9 billion, approximately 23 percent below the written premium reported for the...
Boomers to Affect Workers’ Comp in Long-Term Care Industry
Nov 18 2007 // The long-term care industry will be impacted substantially by the aging of the population and employment and certain sectors of the long-term care industry are forecast to grow significantly faster than average over the...
Watson Wyatt: P/C Market to Remain Soft in 2008
Nov 16 2007 // The market for property and casualty insurance will stay soft in 2008, as premiums are expected to either decline or remain flat, according to actuarial and risk management experts at global consulting firm, Watson Wyatt...
N.D. Workers’ Comp Board Okays Consultant to Review Personnel, Claims
Nov 14 2007 // The board of North Dakota’s troubled workers compensation agency has voted to hire an outside consultant to review its operations. After meeting for about an hour behind closed doors, the board decided that a...
W. Va.: 2 Kanawha County Women Arrested on Insurance Fraud Charges
Nov 14 2007 // West Virginia Insurance Commission officials arrested two Kanawha County women on insurance fraud related charges. A State Trooper assigned to the Insurance Commission’s Fraud Unit in Charleston arrested Linda Jett...
N.D. Governor Coy about Support for Workers’ Comp Initiative
Nov 13 2007 // Gov. John Hoeven favors a proposed initiative that would give him power to hire North Dakota’s workers compensation director, but he won’t say whether he’ll campaign for the measure if it qualifies for...
Texas Physicians Group: New Comp Rules Benefit Workers
Nov 13 2007 // New rules proposed by the Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation will help injured workers in finding and receiving care from a physician, according to the Texas Medical Association. Among...
Texas Work Comp Treatment Planning Pilot Project Launched
Nov 9 2007 // Several Texas workers’ compensation insurance carriers are participating in a pilot project with health care providers to initiate treatment planning for workers’ compensation injuries, according to the Texas...
