Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Accident Fund Signs Agreement to Purchase CompWest
Aug 28 2007 // Lansing, Mich.-based Accident Fund Insurance Company of America has entered into an agreement with the shareholders of CWI Holdings Inc. to purchase CWI and its wholly owned subsidiaries, including San Francisco-based...
NCCI: Workers’ Compensation Claims Frequency Continues to Fall
Aug 27 2007 // The decline in claim frequency for workers’ compensation injuries has continued into 2006, and the decline continues to be widespread, according to the National Council on Compensation Insurance. NCCI’s latest...
Berkley Names Standen President of Workers’ Comp Writer Key Risk
Aug 27 2007 // W. R. Berkley Corp. in Greenwich, Conn. has named Robert W. Standen president of Key Risk Insurance Co. and its affiliate, Key Risk Management Services, Inc., both based in Greensboro, North Carolina. Key Risk sells...
Oregon Legislature Passes Several P/C Insurance-Related Bills
Aug 24 2007 // The 2007 Oregon Legislature has passed a number of bills relating to insurance. The bills affecting property/casualty insurance include: *SB 183 (ch 574) Premium relief to rural doctors for professional medical liability...
Court Rules Workers’ Comp Costs Can Be Tallied in Incentive Compensation
Aug 24 2007 // The California Supreme Court has ruled that incentive compensation plans, calculated on profits, can subtract out costs for workers’ compensation costs from profits, even if it discourages employees from reporting...
Texas Workers’ Comp Stakeholder Meeting Set for Aug. 27
Aug 23 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC), will hold a stakeholder meeting at 9 a.m. on Aug, 27, 2007. The purpose of the meeting is to provide workers’ compensation system...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Report Finds Shortcomings in Program
Aug 23 2007 // The Ohio state’s insurance program for injured workers did nothing improper when it arbitrarily reduced workers’ compensation rates for some companies using little criteria or documentation, the Ohio inspector...
Californian Convicted of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Aug 23 2007 // A Pomona, Calif., man has been convicted for workers’ compensation insurance fraud, announced the California Department of Insurance. On Aug. 14, 2007, Manuel Carreon, 45, was convicted on one felony count of...
Drops in Calif. Spending Lowers Nation’s Workers’ Comp Benefits, Costs
Aug 22 2007 // U.S. workers’ compensation payments for medical care and cash benefits for workers disabled by workplace injuries or diseases declined in 2005, according to a study by the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI)....
Texas Mutual: 4 Sentenced for Fraud in Workers’ Comp Cases
Aug 21 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that four workers’ compensation claimants were sentenced, in separate cases, for fraud. The claimants collected a combined $17,346 in benefits they were not entitled to, the...
Workers’ Comp Writer MEMIC Enters N.Y.; Opens Albany Office
Aug 21 2007 // Workers’ compensation insurer MEMIC has begun operating in the New York market for the first time. The company opened an office in Albany for its MEMIC Indemnity Co. subsidiary in June, and has begun offering its...
N.Y. Woman Pays Steep Price for Workers Comp Fraud
Aug 16 2007 // A 37 year old Ronkonkoma, New York woman has paid $41,160 in restitution and faces five years probation after pleading guilty in a case of workers’ compensation fraud against the New York State Insurance...
Insurers Oppose Proposed Calif. Workers’ Comp Deductible
Aug 16 2007 // Some California insurers are asking the Legislature to reconsider a proposal that they say will boost workers’ compensation temporary disability payments to injured workers dramatically. The American Insurance...
Former N.Y. Mail Carrier Lied to Get Workers’ Comp Benefits
Aug 15 2007 // A former New York postal worker who said he suffered a back injury on the job 16 years ago has admitted to bilking the government out of nearly $400,000 in workers’ compensation benefits. David VanDeusen, 56, of...
N.Y. Extends Workers’ Comp Eligibility Deadline for 9/11 Responders
Aug 15 2007 // World Trade Center responders now have another year — until August 14, 2008 — to file the paperwork needed to claim workers’ compensation benefits if they become ill in the future. The registration deadline would...
Wis. Workers’ Comp Rates Drop 2.47%
Aug 15 2007 // Wisconsin’s commissioner of insurance has announced a 2.47 percent decrease in the overall worker’s compensation rate for the upcoming year, effective October 1. “A rate decrease for worker’s...
Calif. Modifies Benefit Notice Rules
Aug 15 2007 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation has issued a 15-day notice of revisions to proposed workers’ compensation benefit notice and medical provider network regulations. The DWC has modified its...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division Assesses $153K in Fines in June, July
Aug 14 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announced final disciplinary actions taken by Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Albert Betts during June and July 2007. The final...
OSHA Proposes Fines Against 16 Firms Working at Miss. Steel Plant
Aug 13 2007 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed $72,775 in penalties against 16 companies involved in the construction of a SeverCorr steel plant near Columbus,...
Sept. Workers’ Comp Conference Scheduled in West Virginia
Aug 13 2007 // The Offices of the Insurance Commissioner, in conjunction with the National Council on Compensation Insurance will hold a forum specifically designed to provide workers’ compensation carriers with the information...
