Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Maximize your value by asking the right questions
Jul 2 2007 // Price, all too often, is the single factor in an agent’s choice of workers’ compensation insurance coverage for his or her clients. An effective way to differentiate your agency from your competitors is to shop...
News Currents
Jul 2 2007 // Insurers: S.C. workers’ comp package falls short A recently-enacted South Carolina workers’ compensation reform package lacks “some integral components necessary to achieve the desired cost saving for...
Tenn. collects record in workers’ comp penalties
Jul 2 2007 // The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development announced a record penalty collection of $1,012,161 assessed against employers for non-compliance with the insurance requirements of the state’s...
Maximize your value by asking the right questions
Jul 2 2007 // Price, all too often, is the single factor in an agent’s choice of workers’ compensation insurance coverage for his or her clients. An effective way to differentiate your agency from your competitors is to shop...
Calif. workers’ comp written premiums down 17%
Jul 2 2007 // The Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has released the results of its report summarizing insurer loss and premium experience through March 31, 2007. According to the report: “California...
News Currents
Jul 2 2007 // Washington takes workers’ comp rate holiday Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries announced that beginning July 1, employers can take a workers’ compensation premium partial rate holiday. The...
Court says employer should not pay for all permanent disability
Jul 2 2007 // The California Supreme Court has rejected an appeal of an injured electrician, affirming a lower court’s ruling that an employer is not responsible for permanent disability it did not cause. In Larry Gossett vs. WCAB...
$25 million
Jul 2 2007 // Estimated amount in insured losses Air Worldwide Corp. predicts could result from the forest fire burning at Lake Tahoe. As of June 26, 2007, 220 homes were destroyed and about 1,000 people were forced to flee their...
Colemont Creates Workers’ Comp, Division, Hires Specialty Broker
Jun 29 2007 // Colemont Insurance Brokers-Southern California has added Blake Baker to its Woodland Hills, Calif., office. Baker is a workers’ compensation specialty broker with more than 20 years of experience in the...
Survey: N.D. Workers’ Comp Staff Distrust Top Managers; Like Their Jobs
Jun 29 2007 // Most employees at North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency distrust senior managers and believe department policies often are applied unfairly, a new survey says. However, most workers said they enjoyed...
Wash. Workers’ Comp Benefits to Increase 5.4%
Jun 29 2007 // Workers currently receiving Washington workers’ compensation wage-replacement or pension benefits will receive a 5.445 percent cost-of-living increase that went into effect July 1. State law requires that benefits be...
MedRisk’s Boyce Named to Workers Comp Research Institute Board
Jun 28 2007 // Shelley Boyce, chief executive officer of MedRisk, Inc., has been named to the board of directors of the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). A nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization,...
N.C. Man Arrested in Workers Compensation Scheme
Jun 27 2007 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long announced the arrest of Eric Stanley Stokes, charged with one count of obtaining property by false pretense. Stokes, 43, of 5914 Hidden Meadow Ln., Charlotte was processed at...
Arizona Legislature Approves Bill to Hike Worker Benefits
Jun 27 2007 // Some Arizona employees hurt on the job could get higher workers’ compensation benefits under a bill approved by the Arizona House in a 57-0 vote. The bill (HB2195), which was approved by the Senate earlier in June,...
Texas Announces Work Comp Discount, Interest Rate for Q3 2007
Jun 26 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation announced that any interest or discount provided for in the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act for the period of July 1, 2007, through Sept. 30,...
Insurers Say S.C. Workers’ Comp Law Good, Could Be Better
Jun 25 2007 // A highly anticipated workers compensation reform package is a victory for South Carolina workers, the business community and the insurance industry but it still lacks some integral components necessary to achieve the...
32 N.Y. Businessowners Charged with Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jun 25 2007 // The owners of 32 businesses have been accused of lying about their employees to avoid paying into the workers’ compensation fund, state regulators said. The Westchester businesses, mostly small restaurants and delis,...
Oil Industry Develops New Safety Standards for Hazardous Worksites
Jun 22 2007 // An oil industry trade group said it has developed standards to better protect workers from explosions like the 2005 BP refinery in Texas explosion that killed 15 people and injured 170. The American Petroleum...
Washington L&I Announces Workers’ Comp Rate Holiday
Jun 22 2007 // Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries has announced that beginning July 1, and over the next six months, employers and workers in the state will save an estimated $315 million in workers’ compensation...
Calif. Court Rules Employer Not Responsible for All Permanent Disability
Jun 22 2007 // The California Supreme Court has rejected an appeal of an injured electrician, affirming a lower court’s ruling that an employer is not responsible for permanent disability it did not cause. The case, Larry Gossett...
