Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
News Currents
Aug 6 2007 // Minn. groups sue AIG for $100 million in damages for fraud, violations The Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Reinsurance Association (WCRA) and the Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Insurers Association (MWCIA)...
News Currents
Aug 6 2007 // Minn. groups sue AIG for $100 million in damages for fraud, violations The Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Reinsurance Association (WCRA) and the Minnesota Workers’ Compen-sation Insurers Association (MWCIA)...
Commercial lines insights of top agencies
Aug 6 2007 // While much of the talk about the current commercial and professional lines market turns to insurers lowering their prices, the soft market is requiring agents to raise their agencies’ level of attention paid to...
Oregon State Workers’ Comp Insurer Not Immune from Suit
Aug 3 2007 // The Oregon Supreme Court has ruled that State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation (SAIF), the state workers’ compensation insurer, may be sued for damages. In John Johnson v. SAIF Corp., the plaintiff alleged that...
Flood & Peterson Distributes $2.9 Million in Workers’ Comp Dividends
Aug 3 2007 // Flood & Peterson Insurance of Greeley, Colo., has distributed $2.9 million in workers’ compensation dividend checks to 1,600 Colorado clients as a reward for maintaining safe workplaces and because of the...
Pa. Roofing Firm Pleads Guilty in Electrocution of Worker
Aug 3 2007 // A Pennsylvania roofing company pleaded guilty to violating a federal workplace safety regulation in the case of a worker who was electrocuted as his scaffold came into contact with a power line. A representative of Zeke...
Ohio Governor Names 11 to New Board of Workers’ Comp Bureau
Aug 2 2007 // Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland named 11 new non-legislative directors to oversee the state’s scandal-marred Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, the state’s insurance fund for injured workers that has been...
Insurers Seek 3.3% Workers Comp Premium Raise in Virginia
Aug 2 2007 // The Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) has scheduled an Oct. 30 hearing to consider an insurance industry request to increase the workers compensation premium levels for industrial risks insured in the voluntary...
Informal, Working Drafts of Texas Medical Fee Guideline Rules Posted
Aug 2 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) posted on its Web site the informal working draft rules concerning medical reimbursements for professional services and workers’...
Ark. Workers’ Comp Proposed Rule, Form Changes Available for Comment
Aug 2 2007 // The Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission has posted proposed changes to existing rules and forms and a proposed new rule and accompanying form on its Web site at...
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...
