Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Another N.D. Workers’ Comp Official Seeks Job Protection
Nov 8 2007 // Another North Dakota workers’ compensation official has asked for job protection. Kay Grinsteinner, internal audit manager for Workforce Safety and Insurance, e-mailed the agency’s executive director and its...
Delaware Slashes Workers’ Comp Rates 17-22%
Nov 8 2007 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn announced today that he will order an average workers compensation insurance premium cut of 17.75 percent for Delaware employers in the “voluntary” workers compensation...
Study Targets Prescription Savings in Workers’ Comp for Chronically Injured
Nov 7 2007 // Chronically injured workers – those who remain injured for four years or more – represent only 17 percent of all injured workers, but account for 45 percent of all workers’ compensation prescriptions, and...
Calif. AG Files Lawsuit Against PacifiStaff Construction Training Company
Nov 7 2007 // California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. has sued PacifiStaff, a Southern California corporation that trained construction companies to violate workers’ compensation laws by the use of “fake corporations...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Insurance Rating Bureau: Premium Rates Declining
Nov 6 2007 // The Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has completed its report summarizing insurer loss and premium experience through June 30, 2007. According to the report, California written premium reported...
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Nov 4 2007 // S.C. commission rejects Sanford’s workers’ comp order on standards The South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission unanimously rejected Gov. Mark Sanford’s order to begin using uniform medical...
Hawaii Approves 19.3% Workers’ Comp Decrease
Nov 4 2007 // Hawaii Insurance Commissioner J.P. Schmidt has approved a 19.3 percent decrease in loss costs for workers’ compensation insurance, based on a filing by the National Council on Compensation Insurance. NCCI originally...
Calif. Aims for 5.2% Workers’ Comp Rate Increase
Nov 4 2007 // California’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau has recommended that pure premium rates in the state be increased to 5.2 percent, instead of the 4.2 percent recommended earlier in September. In...
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Nov 4 2007 // Bermuda-based Catlin Group Ltd. appointed Nick Greggains chief underwriting officer for insurance, and Andrew Englesbe chief underwriting officer for reinsurance for Catlin U.S. Both will be responsible for insurance and...
Commercial insurers stock prices, M&A activity flat in third-quarter 2007
Nov 4 2007 // Stock Prices: Commercial property/casualty insurer stocks have been relatively flat through the third quarter of 2007. Chubb Corp. (NYSE:CB) had the largest gains for the year, up a modest 3 percent. M&A Activity: The...
Maine Workers’ Compensation Insurers File for 2.2% Decrease
Nov 2 2007 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance, an advisory rating organization for companies that offer workers’ comp insurance, is asking state regulators for an average rate decrease of 2.2 percent in Maine next...
Study: Boomers to Affect Workers’ Comp in Long Term Care Industry
Nov 2 2007 // The long-term care industry will be impacted substantially by the aging of the population and employment in certain sectors of the long-term care industry is forecast to grow significantly faster than average over the next...
Texas Comp Division Sets Payroll Requirements for Seasonal Workers
Nov 2 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation announced that the adjusted annual payroll requirement of an employer for the coverage of seasonal workers is $46,423. This gross payroll amount...
OSHA Fines N.D. Plant $5000 after Death of Worker
Nov 2 2007 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed a $5,000 fine for a West Fargo, North Dakota wind tower manufacturing plant where a worker was killed. OSHA area director Bruce Beelman said the fine is for a...
N.H. Construction Firms May Exempt 3 Executives from Workers’ Comp
Nov 1 2007 // New Hampshire construction firms may exclude up to three executives from their workers compensation policies, provided the executives do not actively work on construction sites, under a recent change in statute. The new...
Edgewood Adds Program Group to Staff
Nov 1 2007 // San Mateo, Calif.-based Edgewood Partners Insurance Center (EPIC) has launched a program group in its new San Ramon office at Bishop Ranch. Seth Madnick, senior vice president, Bonnie Tsutsumi, program director, and...
Whistleblowers Seek Job Protection in N.D. Workers’ Comp Case
Nov 1 2007 // A workers’ compensation fraud investigator whose testimony helped lead to a felony charge against the agency’s chief executive has asked for job protection, saying he fears he will be fired. Todd Flanagan is...
Fla. Approves Workers’ Comp Rate Decrease
Oct 31 2007 // Florida insurance regulators approved the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s amended rate filing for workers’ compensation insurance rates. On Oct. 22, Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty ordered...
3 in Kentucky Face Insurance Fraud Charges
Oct 31 2007 // Three Jefferson County, Ky., residents were indicted on insurance fraud charges after allegedly filing inaccurate payroll data with a workers’ compensation insurance carrier, resulting in an underpayment of more than...
Senators Slam Delay in Nuclear Workers’ Compensation Payments
Oct 30 2007 // Majority Leader Harry Reid and other senators said this week that there are unacceptable delays in a government program to compensate Cold War-era nuclear workers who developed cancer from exposure to radiation. Reid,...
