Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Lubbock Businessman Appointed to Chair Texas Mutual Board
Aug 1 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced that Richard Cooper of Lubbock has been named chair of the company’s board of directors. Cooper replaces Martin Young Jr. of Houston, who served as chair since 1995. Cooper is...
Two in N.H. Accused of Workers’ Compensation Benefit Fraud
Aug 1 2007 // Two New Hampshire residents have been indicted on fraud charges involving workers’ compensation insurance. Attorney General Kelly Ayotte says indictments were returned against Phillip Rice, 52, of Derry and Dorothy...
Two N.Y. Firms Shut Down for Failure to Buy Workers’ Comp
Jul 31 2007 // The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board reports it has ordered two businesses to close immediately for failing to comply with workers’ compensation laws. This is the second set of closures ordered under...
Buker Named Mo. Workers’ Comp Director
Jul 30 2007 // Jeff Buker has been named as Missouri’s new workers’ compensation director, labor officials said. Buker has worked on various division projects in the past year and a half involving self-insurance and the...
Okla. Employment Service Owners Convicted of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jul 25 2007 // A federal jury in Oklahoma convicted the owners of a Norman employment service of defrauding businesses by billing them for workers’ compensation insurance coverage that didn’t exist. The panel found Justin...
Texas Workers’ Comp Stakeholder Meeting Set for Aug. 1
Jul 25 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announced it will hold a stakeholder meeting at 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 1, 2007, to allow for comment on informal working draft rules concerning...
Workers’ comp may not cover employee horseplay
Jul 23 2007 // A Delaware oil refinery worker injured in a practical joke by his co-workers may be allowed to sue them, the state Supreme Court has ruled. Stephen Grabowski was injured in October 2000 when three co-workers grabbed him in...
N.D. Workers’ Compensation Program Selects Aon’s Valley Oak Systems
Jul 23 2007 // Valley Oak Systems, Inc., an Aon company and provider of insurance solutions, today announced that Workforce Safety & Insurance (WSI), North Dakota’s exclusive workers’ compensation carrier, has selected...
N.Y. to slash workers’ comp rates 20.5%
Jul 23 2007 // Rates for workers’ compensation in New York will decline by more than 20.5 percent — the biggest cut in more than 20 years — saving employers about $1 billion, according to state officials. Gov. Eliot...
Control experience modification factor, before it controls you
Jul 23 2007 // Moving employers to take the right steps to reduce experience mod factors One of the most confusing components of an employer’s workers’ compensation policy is the experience modification factor. Employers...
Workers’ comp may not cover employee horseplay
Jul 23 2007 // A Delaware oil refinery worker injured in a practical joke by his co-workers may be allowed to sue them, the state Supreme Court has ruled. Stephen Grabowski was injured in October 2000 when three co-workers grabbed him in...
News Currents
Jul 23 2007 // Federal court to hear Nationwide’s Miss. storm surge appeal A federal appeals court has set Aug. 6 as the date to hear arguments on whether Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. should be forced to cover storm surge damage...
News Currents
Jul 23 2007 // Okla. court says law can’t bar evidence in workers’ comp case State senator vows effort to address issue The Oklahoma Supreme Court invalidated a portion of a state law that prohibits medical evidence to be...
Florida’s workers’ comp trust fund coffers overflowing with cash
Jul 23 2007 // It’s almost unheard of for a state to try to stave off positive cash flow, but for its overstuffed workers’ compensation trust fund, that’s what Florida is doing. With more than three times the amount of...
Ark. 2007 workers’ comp bills include rules for second injuries, coverage waivers
Jul 23 2007 // The Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission has summarized workers’ compensation acts passed by the 2007, 86th General Assembly: Act 1599: Raises the $75,000 threshold at which the Death and Permanent...
People
Jul 23 2007 // Richard S. “Dick” Gieger, general counsel of the law firm of Thompson, Coe, Cousins and Irons, was presented the Raymond Mauk Leadership Award on July 12 in Austin, Texas, at the 15th Annual Mid-Year Property...
Calif. workers’ comp earthquake losses could exceed $150 million annually
Jul 23 2007 // California workers’ compensation insurers will need $180 million annually to pay for workers’ compensation losses induced by earthquakes, according to a recently released study by the Workers’...
News Currents
Jul 23 2007 // Oregon fines nine AIG companies $5 million The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) has imposed a $5 million fine on nine insurers in the American International Group (AIG) for numerous violations of...
News Currents
Jul 23 2007 // Hawaii governor vetoes workers’ comp bills The Hawaii Legislature has failed to override Gov. Linda Lingle’s vetoes of two workers’ compensation bills. A two-thirds majority vote was required in both the...
Agency must pay $5.8 million to SoCal firm
Jul 23 2007 // An insurance agency must pay $5.8 million to a small business that discovered it lacked workers’ compensation coverage after a burned employee sued. An agent for Hilb, Rogal and Hamilton Insurance Services improperly...
