Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
MedAlert Convicted of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Feb 5 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that MedAlert Inc. pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The Travis County 331st District Court ordered MedAlert to pay $2,842 in restitution to Texas...
Mass. Settles with Employers Re Over Inflated Workers’ Comp Charges
Feb 2 2007 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has setttled a case brought by the state against Employers Reinsurance Group (ERC), a former subsidiary of General Electric, for unlawfully hiking the price of the Boston Water...
Calif. Permanently Disabled Return-to-Work Rates Up 5%
Feb 1 2007 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has released return-to-work rate information on permanently disabled workers that shows a more than five percent average increase in return-to-work rates for...
Calif. Commissioner to Examine Broker Disclosure, Workers’ Comp Issues
Feb 1 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner may have three major priorities for his office — to make his office non-partisan, to fight insurance fraud and to prepare the state for the next major disaster — but that...
Ark. Gov. Names New Judge for Workers’ Comp Commission
Jan 30 2007 // Ark. Gov. Mike Beebe has appointed Chandra Hicks as the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission’s newest Administrative Law Judge, the AWCC reported. The AWCC administrates the state’s workers’...
Providence Property & Casualty Appoints New Officers
Jan 29 2007 // Providence Property & Casualty Insurance Company, which provides workers’ compensation insurance to Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs), has appointed Stephen (Steve) A. Gober as vice president,...
Proactive agents help contractors and subcontractors reduce comp costs
Jan 29 2007 // Transitional duty assignments, return-to-work goals, regular communication, information gathering are all part of a solid program When helping contractors and subcontractors reduce their workers’ compensation costs,...
Report: Nevada workers’ comp system needs to examine serious claims
Jan 29 2007 // The Nevada workers’ compensation system “has undergone dramatic change since 1993″ becoming more competitive and allowing private insurers to enter the market,” but it has room for improvement...
Contractors’ Workers’ Compensation
Jan 28 2007 // When helping contractors and subcontractors reduce their workers’ compensation costs, focus on four key elements: accurately determine the cause of the high costs, improve communications with employees, bring...
Delaware enacts major workers comp system reform package
Jan 28 2007 // News Currents The Delaware Senate and House moved swiftly earlier this month to pass a bill containing major reforms of the state’s workers’ compensation system. Gov. Ruth Ann Minner immediately signed the...
Highlights of Delaware’s workers’ comp changes
Jan 28 2007 // In some of its specific provisions Delaware’s workers’ compensation reform law (SB1): • directs that a new workers’ compensation rating plan be filed with the Insurance Commissioner within 90 days...
Report: Nevada workers’ comp system needs to examine serious claims
Jan 28 2007 // The Nevada workers’ compensation system “has undergone dramatic change since 1993″ becoming more competitive and allowing private insurers to enter the market,” but it has room for improvement...
West Virginia Exposes Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jan 26 2007 // William E. Keir pleaded guilty earlier this month to one felony count of wrongfully seeking workers’ compensation insurance, according to the West Virginia Insurance Commission. Keir, 29, of Morgantown was indicted...
Texas Mutual Expands Workers’ Comp Network Service Areas
Jan 25 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced that the Texas Department of Insurance approved the expansion of its workers’ compensation health care network option. The new service areas include west Texas cities such as...
Washington Fraud Unit Collections Up in 2006
Jan 25 2007 // Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) said its fraud program collected $135 million in fiscal year 2006, a 29 percent increase over the previous year. In addition, the department recovered...
Texas Selects The Medical Disability Advisor for Return-to-Work Outcomes
Jan 24 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation on Dec. 29, 2006, adopted state-wide return-to-work guidelines; the DWC selected Reed Group’s The Medical Disability Advisor: Workplace...
WCRI Report Examines Nevada Workers’ Comp System
Jan 19 2007 // “The Nevada workers’ compensation system has undergone dramatic change since 1993” becoming more competitive and allowing private insurers to enter the market, according to the Workers’ Compensation...
Texas Workers’ Comp Commissioner Signs Disability Management Rules
Jan 19 2007 // Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Albert Betts has signed rules that establish treatment guidelines, treatment planning benchmarks, and return-to-work goals and time frames which can be used to provide...
Ark. Injured Trucker Wins Court Order for Workers’ Comp Rehearing
Jan 19 2007 // The Arkansas Court of Appeals says the state Workers’ Compensation Commission did such a poor job of considering an injured trucker’s claim that it was “impossible” for the court to properly review...
Ohio Health-care Provider Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jan 19 2007 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) announced today that a Cleveland woman pleaded guilty to a felony count of workers’ compensation fraud. Carolyn Burten, also known as Carolyn Cook, pleaded guilty...
