Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
N.C. Workers’ Comp Provider Names Regional Director
Oct 15 2007 // North Carolina-based Key Risk, a provider of workers’ compensation insurance products and services for employers throughout the Eastern U.S., has named assistant vice president Glen R. “Chip” Marohn...
Calif. Gov. Signs Workers’ Comp Reform Bill
Oct 12 2007 // California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed legislation authored by Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco/San Mateo, that is expected to lower workers’ compensation rates for small businesses and increase competition...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Reforms Working Better than Expected
Oct 12 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...
W. Va. Workers Comp Writer BrickStreet Consolidates Operations
Oct 11 2007 // West Virginia’s private workers’ compensation insurance carrier, BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co., is moving to a new corporate headquarters in downtown Charleston. BrickStreet began the process of...
Seminar to ‘Walk’ a Texas Workers’ Compensation Claim
Oct 11 2007 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) will host seminars in Austin and Dallas in November to track and analyze actual workers’ compensation claims through the Texas system. The 2007 Workers’ Compensation Fall...
W. Va. Lawmakers Ponder Power Shift in Workers’ Compensation
Oct 10 2007 // West Virginia legislators learned Sunday 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 rule-making...
Texas Schedules Hearing on Medical Reimbursement, Fee Guidelines
Oct 10 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI) will hold a public hearing on Nov. 5, 2007, in the Room 100 at the Hobby Building, 333 Guadalupe Street in Austin. The public hearing will...
Texas Business Owner Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Oct 10 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Travis County court sentenced a Bryan, Texas, business owner on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. James N. Vavra was sentenced to two years’ deferred...
D.C. Allows Workers’ Comp Rate Cut
Oct 9 2007 // Workers’ compensation rates decreases avergaing 7.6 percent for the industrial classes in the voluntary market and 10.6 percent for the industrial classes in the residual market assigned risk category have been...
Business cheers as S.C. orders objective workers’ comp standards
Oct 8 2007 // South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was joined by business groups from across his state when he signed an executive order last month ordering that the Workers’ Compensation Commission apply objective standards when...
Ark. sets 2008 workers’ comp rates, benefits
Oct 8 2007 // An update to Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission Advisory 2000-1 sets the new maximum workers’ comp rates for 2008 for total disability at $522 and permanent partial disability at $392. The new Advisory...
News Currents
Oct 8 2007 // Business cheers as S.C. orders objective workers’ comp standards South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was joined by business groups from across his state when he signed an executive order last month ordering that the...
People
Oct 8 2007 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) promoted Jamie Bourg to claims manager for the company’s large accounts team. Bourg will manage and direct the claims department, including claims handling and...
Ark. sets 2008 workers’ comp rates, benefits
Oct 8 2007 // An update to Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission Advisory 2000-1 sets the new maximum workers’ comp rates for 2008 for total disability at $522 and permanent partial disability at $392. The new Advisory...
Idaho reduces workers’ comp rates an average of 3.7%
Oct 8 2007 // Idaho Department of Insurance Director Bill Deal announced that the state’s workers’ compensation premium rates will be reduced by an average of 3.7 percent for 2008. “This decrease points out the...
Oregon to decrease workers’ comp rates 2.3%
Oct 8 2007 // Oregon’s Department of Consumer and Business Services has announced it is decreasing the workers’ compensation pure premium rate in 2008 by 2.3 percent. Meanwhile, the workers’ comp premium assessment,...
Accident Fund Offers New Group Workers’ Comp Programs in Ill., Mich.
Oct 4 2007 // In partnership with the Schaumburg Business Association and the Michigan Society of Professional Engineers, Accident Fund Insurance Company of America recently introduced two new group workers’ compensation insurance...
Washington Man Sentenced for Defrauding Workers’ Comp System
Oct 3 2007 // Willard Leech of Bellingham, Wash., has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and 12 months of community supervision for illegally collecting workers’ compensation wage-replacement benefits while working at another...
Texas Renews 13 Companies to Self-Insure for Workers’ Comp Claims
Oct 3 2007 // Thirteen companies with approximately 49,800 employees in Texas were approved to self-insure for workers’ compensation claims for a one-year period under the Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’...
Ohio Supreme Court Reverses Ruling: Injured Worker Gets Benefits Afterall
Oct 3 2007 // The Ohio Supreme Court, taking a second look at its own ruling, decided that a young fast-food worker who badly burned himself after violating safety rules should get temporary disability benefits. Some attorneys had...
