Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Fla. Workers’ Comp Rate Decrease not Enough for Commissioner
Oct 24 2007 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty disapproved the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s latest rate filing for workers’ compensation insurance rates, due to become effective next year. McCarty...
Texas Workers’ Comp Penalties Total Nearly $685K for Aug., Sept.
Oct 23 2007 // Final disciplinary actions taken by Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Albert Betts during August and September 2007 include orders assessing administrative penalties totaling $684,877 for violations of the...
Calif. Holds Workers’ Comp Rate Hearing
Oct 23 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner is holding a hearing today to receive testimony from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) regarding its pure premium rate recommendation of 5.2...
Charges Dismissed Against N. D. Workers’ Comp Officials
Oct 22 2007 // Prosecutors dismissed a felony conspiracy charge against two top executives of North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency, days before they were to appear in court to make their pleas. Sandy Blunt, the chief...
Texas Green Industry Group Earns $637,511 in Work Comp Dividend
Oct 22 2007 // By controlling its losses, the Texas Green Industry (TGI) workers’ compensation purchasing group earned $637,511 dividend from Texas Mutual Insurance Company. Texas Mutual says TGI has earned more than $1 million in...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Bureau Recommends Increasing Rates 5.2%
Oct 22 2007 // California’s Workers’ Comensation Insurance Rating Bureau has recommended that pure premium rates be increased to 5.2 percent, instead of the 4.2 percent recommended earlier in September. In September, WCIRB...
Calif. Governor Refuses Again to Raise Benefits for Disabled Workers
Oct 16 2007 // For the second year in a row, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has refused to raise benefits for disabled workers that critics say were slashed too deeply by regulations his administration adopted in 2004. The Republican...
6 Florida Contractors Cited for Workers’ Comp Violations
Oct 16 2007 // Investigators from the Florida Department of Financial Services, Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Compliance report that they issued six stop work orders during a surprise enforcement sweep last week. Enforcement...
SFA Brings Ohio and New England Retail Agents Better Access To Specialty Workers’ Compensation Markets
Oct 15 2007 // October 15 2007, Newtown, PA – Alternative risk broker and consultant Self-Funded Alternatives has announced an expanded marketing effort to assist retail agents in the State of Ohio and the New England region with...
N.D. Worker’s Comp Officials Get Trial Judge, Arraignment Date
Oct 15 2007 // The criminal case against two North Dakota state workers’ compensation officials has been assigned to the district judge who earlier dismissed some charges against one of the defendants. Sandy Blunt, the chief...
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...
