Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Maine-based Workers’ Comp Writer MEMIC on the March– Now in 42 States
Oct 3 2007 // MEMIC Indemnity Co., a member of The MEMIC Group, has recently earned authorization to write workers’ compensation insurance in Rhode Island, North Carolina, Virginia and Colorado. The MEMIC Group can now offer...
Loss of State Workers Comp. Contract Prompts Layoffs in W. Va.
Oct 2 2007 // A company that manages old workers’ compensation claims for West Virginia is laying off 62 employees after it lost the contract to another company. Cambridge Integrated Services Group Inc. announced the layoffs...
Texas to Hold Hearing on Work Comp Monitoring and Enforcement Rule
Oct 2 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI) will hold a public hearing on Oct. 29, 2007, in the Tippy Foster Room at 7551 Metro Center Drive, Suite 100 in Austin. The public hearing will...
N.D. Measure Would Return Workers’ Comp Bureau Control to Governor
Oct 1 2007 // A proposed ballot measure would return control of North Dakota’s workers’ compensation bureau to the governor, bypassing a board of directors that now employs the agency’s top manager. The proposal, which...
Ark. Sets 2008 Workers’ Comp Rates, Disability and Death Benefits
Oct 1 2007 // An update to Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission Advisory 2000-1 sets the new maximum rates for 2008 for total disability at $522 and permanent partial disability at $392. The new Advisory 2007-1 sets $169,650...
Democrats Push OSHA to Regulate Worksites with Popcorn Flavoring
Sep 28 2007 // That buttery taste and smell of microwave popcorn may have caused a deadly lung disease in workers who package it. While there’s no evidence of any danger to the millions of people who eat it, Congress is taking...
Texas Repeals Workers’ Comp Treatment Planning Rule
Sep 27 2007 // A rule that would have required treating doctors in the Texas Workers’ Compensation System to complete a treatment plan for non-network workers’ compensation patients in specific situations was repealed on...
Pa. Aluminum Manufacturer Fined for Alleged Safety Violations
Sep 26 2007 // The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined an aluminum manufacturing company $155,585 for alleged health and safety violations. Signature Aluminum Inc. was fined $112,500 for failing to establish and...
HAWAII INSURERS FILE 16.8 PERCENT WORKERS’ COMP COST DECREASE
Sep 24 2007 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance has filed a request to decrease workers’ compensation loss costs in Hawaii by 16.8 percent, beginning Jan. 1, 2008, according to the state Department of Commerce and...
Calif. urges governor to sign workers’ comp bill
Sep 24 2007 // The Association of California Insurance Companies is urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign into law legislation that it said could encourage expansion of the workers’ compensation insurance market in...
