Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines

N.Y. Drywall Contractor Charged with Workers’ Compensation Fraud

Dec 15 2006 // A New York business owner faces charges of insurance fraud following his arrest by Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau’s office for allegedly defrauding the New York State Insurance Fund of more than...

Ohio Injured Workers Felt Pressure by Lawmakers, Businesses, Records Say

Dec 15 2006 // Employees at Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers struggled with pushy lawmakers and threats by businesses to involve the governor as they decided premium rates for certain Ohio businesses, newly released...

NCCI Proposes Increase for Workers’ Compensation Loss Costs

Dec 15 2006 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance has submitted a filing for an average increase of 3.4 percent for workers’ compensation voluntary insurance loss costs, according to Nevada Insurance Commissioner Alice...

Calif. State Fund Receives More Than $3 Million in Fraud Restitution

Dec 15 2006 // San Diego Superior Court Judge William H. McAdam has ordered the owners of a San Diego area roofing company to pay $3 million in restitution to California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund, $81,649 in investigation...

Conn. Approves Slightly Lower Workers’ Comp Loss Costs

Dec 15 2006 //

Texas Work Comp Division Revises Training, Scheduling for Doctors

Dec 14 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation announced it has approved new training for designated doctors in the Texas workers’ compensation system while improving the scheduling of...

Palm Beach Man Accused of Underreporting Workers’ Comp Payroll

Dec 12 2006 // Ronald Salvatore Mauro, 64, of South Palm Beach, was arrested last week following an investigation by the Florida Department of Financial Services, Division of Insurance Fraud, according to officials. Officials said the...

California Sets New Workers’ Comp Medical Mileage and Ambulance Service Rates

Dec 12 2006 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has announced that the mileage rate that workers’ compensation claims administrators pay injured workers for travel related to medical treatment or...

Washington Hearings on Workers’ Comp Rate Holiday Begin This Week

Dec 12 2006 // The Washington Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) will begin its hearings on a proposal to reduce to zero for six months the premiums employers and workers pay into one of the funds that supports the...

Deceased employee’s estate not entitled to workers’ comp benefits, appeals court rules

Dec 11 2006 // The Second Applegate Court of California has ruled in Six Flags Inc. vs. Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, et. al. that it is unconstitutional to award a $250,000 worker’s compensation death benefit to the...

Declarations

Dec 11 2006 // Award not warranted “Awarding workers’ compensation death benefits to an estate conflicts with the underlying policy of the workers’ compensation scheme, which is to provide financial support to a worker...

Study ranks states on workers’ comp premiums; Alaska highest

Dec 11 2006 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) has issued its biennial study on national workers’ compensation premiums, and noted that Alaska has the highest rates of all 50 states and the District...

CA State Fund files rate decrease

Dec 11 2006 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund is calling for a 9 percent average decrease in collectible premium in its latest filing of workers’ compensation rates for 2007. The new rate will affect new and...

Neb. insurers argue against benefits for state trooper in suicide case

Dec 11 2006 // Family members of a state trooper who killed himself after the 2002 Norfolk bank slayings face another court battle in their fight for workers’ compensation benefits they say they are owed. Several large insurers and...

It Figures

Dec 11 2006 // $1.07 million The fine imposed against the owners of Rhode Island’s The Station nightclub for failing to carry workers’ compensation insurance at the club, the site of a 2003 fire that killed 100 people. Owners...

Dec 10 2006 // People The Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. announced the election of the following officers and directors: President Len Kaplan, executive vice president and CFO, Delta General Agency, Houston; Vice President Lana...

Study ranks states on workers’ comp premiums; Alaska highest

Dec 10 2006 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) has issued its biennial study on national workers’ compensation premiums, and noted that Alaska has the highest rates of all 50 states and the District...

News Currents

Dec 10 2006 // Deceased employee’s estate not entitled to workers’ comp benefits, appeals court rules The Second Appellate Court of California has ruled in Six Flags Inc. vs. Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, et. al....

Declarations

Dec 10 2006 // Award not warranted “Awarding workers’ compensation death benefits to an estate conflicts with the underlying policy of the workers’ compensation scheme, which is to provide financial support to a worker...

Marsh Unit Arranges Collateral Program for N.C. Workers’ Comp Fund

Dec 7 2006 // MMC Securities Corp., an affiliate of Marsh Inc., has completed a $510 million alternative collateral program on behalf of the North Carolina Self-Insurance Security Association for its security fund. The North Carolina...