Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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,...
28 Delaware Municipalities Form Workers’ Compensation Pool
Oct 29 2007 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn says local authorities in the state are forming a self-insurance pool that will make workers compensation insurance more affordable for the local governments and taxpayers. Denn...
Job Protection Sought in N.D. Workers’ Comp Case
Oct 29 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...
S.C. Workers’ Comp Commission Won’t Follow Sanford Order’s Standard
Oct 29 2007 // The South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission unanimously rejected Gov. Mark Sanford’s order to begin using uniform medical standards in deciding how much should be paid to injured workers with long-term...
Workers’ Comp Costs to Rise 1.6 Percent in N.C. Voluntary Market
Oct 29 2007 // A settlement agreement between the North Carolina Department of Insurance and the North Carolina Rate Bureau, the organization that represents the state’s workers’ compensation insurance companies, will raise...
W. Va. lawmakers may reassert workers’ comp oversight
Oct 27 2007 // West Virginia legislators learned recently that they have no one to blame but themselves for the loss of power over the rules that govern workers’ compensation claims and benefits. Lawmakers first ceded the...
Calif. governor signsworkers’ comp bill
Oct 27 2007 // California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed legislation that is expected to lower workers’ compensation rates for small businesses and increase competition among insurance companies. Existing law requires...
Calif. workers’ comp reforms working better than expected, Gov. decides not to raise benefits
Oct 27 2007 // Reforms to California’s worker’s compensation system enacted since 2002 “have had a substantial impact on system costs,” according to a new report by the state Workers’ Compensation Insurance...
Hawaii Commissioner Approves 19.3% Workers’ Comp Decrease
Oct 26 2007 // Hawai’i 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...
N.D. Workers’ Comp Board Votes to Reinstate Director; Charges Dropped
Oct 25 2007 // North Dakota’s workers compensation director, who until last week was facing a felony charge, has been given his job back, something Sandy Blunt was unsure would ever happen. In a brief telephone meeting Monday, the...
Anticipating Reform, Okla. Lawmakers Study Workers’ Comp System
Oct 25 2007 // Oklahoma Rep. Mark McCullough’s recent study of the state’s workers’ compensation system may lead to reform legislation being filed in the state’s 2008 legislative session, the House of...
