Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Texas Workers’ Comp Division Improves Online System Forms
May 16 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), Division of Workers’ Compensation (Division) announced it has improved the functionality of more than 90 forms posted on the agency Web site,...
Texas Secretary, Barrel Racer Pleads Guilty to Fraud Charges
May 14 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Houston woman pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges in a Travis County district court. The court sentenced Sheryl K. Reynolds to a 10-year...
NCCI Reiterates “Optimistic but Cautious” Outlook for Workers Comp
May 11 2007 // The workers compensation calendar year combined ratio stands at 96.5 percent — the best underwriting result in at least 30 years and the first underwriting profit for the line since 1995 according to NCCI Holdings...
Majestic Insurance Appoints Senior VP of Underwriting
May 11 2007 // San Francisco-based Majestic Insurance Co., the U.S.-based primary insurance subsidiary of CRM Holdings Ltd., has appointed James C. Kilduff as senior vice president of underwriting. Kilduff has more than 26 years of...
Colo. Ends Legislative Session; Positive for Insurance Industry
May 11 2007 // The Colorado Legislature wrapped up its regular session on May 4, with fairly positive results for the insurance industry and consumers. The auto insurance system will remain a tort system, instead of reverting back to a...
Calif. Supreme Court Limits Employers’ Liability in Workers’ Comp
May 9 2007 // The California Supreme Court has ruled that workers’ compensation reforms adopted in 2004 do not supersede employer apportionment of compensation for permanent disability injuries. In reviewing cases from five...
Audits Target W. Va. Workers Comp Writer BrickSreet’s Transition Spending
May 9 2007 // West Virginia egislators fielded two audits this week questioning $3.5 million spent by the state workers’ compensation program before it became the BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. last year. But BrickStreet...
Case Law Watch
May 7 2007 // Anti-assignment Clause Holloway v. Republic Indemnity Co. of America (Oregon, Nov. 16, 2006) Ruling: At issue on this appeal was whether an anti-assignment clause that provided that “[y]our rights or duties under...
News Currents
May 7 2007 // Study: Obese workers drive up workers’ compensation costs Gaining too much weight can be as bad for an employer’s bottom line as it is for a person’s waistline. A Duke University Medical Center analysis...
Congress should consider “guiding principles” for TRIEA
May 7 2007 // The Coalition to Insure Against Terrorism (CIAT) and the American Insurance Association (AIA) jointly announced on April 24 that the two organizations have agreed on a set of common principles to be considered by Congress...
Congress should consider “guiding principles” for TRIEA
May 7 2007 // The Coalition to Insure Against Terrorism (CIAT) and the American Insurance Association (AIA) jointly announced on April 24 that the two organizations have agreed on a set of common principles to be considered by Congress...
It Figures
May 7 2007 // 250 The number of federal emergency management officials in Rhode Island helping to stage a mock response to the fictional “Hurricane Yvette” from a “storm center” at the Cranston Street Armory in...
Congress should consider “guiding principles” for TRIEA
May 7 2007 // The Coalition to Insure Against Terrorism (CIAT) and the American Insurance Association (AIA) jointly announced on April 24 that the two organizations have agreed on a set of common principles to be considered by Congress...
Study: Obese workers drive up workers’ compensation costs
May 7 2007 // Gaining too much weight can be as bad for an employer’s bottom line as it is for a person’s waistline. A Duke University Medical Center analysis found that obese workers filed twice the number of workers’...
Figures
May 7 2007 // 250 The number of federal emergency management officials in Rhode Island helping to stage a mock response to the fictional “Hurricane Yvette” from a “storm center” at the Cranston Street Armory in...
Congress should consider ‘guiding principles’ for TRIEA
May 7 2007 // The Coalition to Insure Against Terrorism (CIAT) and the American Insurance Association (AIA) jointly announced on April 24 that the two organizations have agreed on a set of common principles to be considered by Congress...
Figures
May 7 2007 // $100 million The dollar figure placed on an alleged nationwide workers’ compensation scam for which five men have been indicted. The investigation began in 2002 after the Florida Division of Workers’...
People
May 7 2007 // Insurance broker Marsh Inc. has appointed Rob McGinnis as the leader of its U.S. Consumer Business, which includes the U.S. operations of the firm’s Affinity, Program, and Private Client Services...
Congress should consider ‘guiding principles’ for TRIEA
May 7 2007 // The Coalition to Insure Against Terrorism (CIAT) and the American Insurance Association (AIA) jointly announced on April 24 that the two organizations have agreed on a set of common principles to be considered by Congress...
Chamber of Commerce seeks veto of HI workers’ comp bill
May 7 2007 // The Hawaii Legislature has passed a bill on temporary total disability benefits for workers’ compensation that the Chamber of Commerce is saying will increase business costs, because employers would not be able to...
