Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Workers’ comp reforms reduced physician fees
Oct 23 2006 // California’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau has released its 2006 Legislative Cost Monitoring Report. According to the report, physician fees have been reduced by about 4 percent since...
News Currents
Oct 23 2006 // Utah workers’ comp fund plans no changes The Utah Workers Compensation Fund, an insurance pool that pays Utah residents who are injured on the job, has dropped plans to restrict benefits. Earlier, UWCF officials...
Bustamante and Poizner in the final campaign stretch
Oct 23 2006 // From holding the line on new reforms to reducing uninsured motorists, a fair share of work lurks ahead for California’s soon-to-be-chosen insurance commissioner. Front-runners fighting for the honor of regulating...
No Change in Maine Workers’ Comp Premiums for 2007
Oct 20 2006 // The Maine Bureau of Insurance confirmed that typical workers compensation premiums will not be going up for 2007. The department reported that the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) will not be filing a...
Texas Mutual Announces Apartment Association Purchasing Group
Oct 19 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced its newest workers’ compensation purchasing group: Texas Apartment Association (TAA). The group provides qualifying members with a competitive option for workers’ comp...
Fla. Orders 15.7% Workers’ Comp Cut
Oct 18 2006 // A significant drop in workers compensation claims frequency and a reduction in the cost of claims have triggered a larger-than-recommended decrease in rates, at the bidding of Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin...
New Mexico Workers Compensation Insurance Rates are Cut
Oct 18 2006 // Rates are being cut for New Mexico workers’ compensation insurance premiums. The state Insurance Department has approved overall rate reductions of 4.2 percent for the voluntary market and 1.3 percent for the...
West Virginia Launches Online Workers’ Comp Validation System
Oct 17 2006 // Instantaneous validation of employer workers’ compensation coverage is now available online in West Virginia. The Coverage Validation System (CVS) provides government agencies, contractors and other businesses that...
Junkin Named to Seat on Miss. Workers’ Comp Commission
Oct 17 2006 // Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour has named Johnny Junkin, of Natchez, to the Workers’ Compensation Commission (MWCC) for an unexpired term ending January 1, 2007 and for a six-year term beginning January 1, 2007...
Truck Driver Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud in Texas
Oct 16 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Travis County court sentenced Jerry S. Amaya of Cedar Creek, Texas, on workers’ comp fraud-related charges. The court sentenced Amaya to one year of probation and...
California State Fund to Host Safety Training Seminars
Oct 16 2006 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund will sponsor a comprehensive safety seminar in Redding, Calif., on Oct. 18, and a restaurant supervisor safety-training program in Monterey Park, Calif., on Oct. 18. The...
S.C. Workers’ Comp Said to be in Crisis as Rates Rise Again
Oct 13 2006 // Workers compensation loss costs may increase by 18.4 percent for businesses in South Carolina effective Dec. 1, 2006. Robert Herlong, vice president and regional manager for Property Casualty Insurers of America, said...
Mass. Panel Urges Jail Time for Worker Safety Failures
Oct 13 2006 // A legislative panel in Massachusetts is recommending that company officials face criminal charges if they have recklessly failed to protect workers who are killed on construction sites, according to a published report. The...
OSHA Fines Ala. Firm for Death of Worker in Trench Collapse
Oct 13 2006 // OSHA cites company for Gulfport death Received by Newsfinder from AP Oct 12, 2006 1:01 Eastern Time GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) _ The Occupational Health and Safety Administration penalized a company whose worker died in a trench...
Utah Officials Plan No Changes in Workers’ Comp
Oct 13 2006 // The Utah Workers Compensation Fund, an insurance pool that pays people who are injured on the job, has dropped plans to restrict benefits. Fund officials considered asking for a change in state law to tighten eligibility...
Long Island Roofer Sentenced in Workers’ Comp Case
Oct 10 2006 // A Long Island, N.Y. business owner has been sentenced to six months in jail after pleading guilty to attempted violation of the workers’ compensation law, and other unrelated charges, following his arrest in a case...
Texas Green Industry Workers’ Comp Group Gets $297K Dividend
Oct 10 2006 // Hotchkiss Insurance Agency Inc. announced a $297,098 dividend to the Texas Green Industry (TGI) Workers’ Comp purchasing group. The announcement marked the second dividend payment for the group by Texas Mutual...
Texas Mutual Launches Group for Machinery and Equipment Dealers
Oct 10 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced its newest workers’ compensation purchasing group: Texas Machinery and Equipment Dealers (TM&E). State law allows employers in similar industries to reduce their...
Texas Workers’ Comp Rulebook Supplement 2006-05 Available Online
Oct 10 2006 // Rulebook Supplement 2006-05 containing rules adopted by the Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation is available online from the Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation. The supplement can...
ICT Announces Line Up for Workers’ Compensation Seminars
Oct 10 2006 // The Insurance Council of Texas is hosting workers’ compensation seminars on Nov. 7 and Nov. 15 that focus and provide training on the new rules adopted by the Division of Workers’ Compensation to implement...
