Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Workers’ Comp Reforms Continuing to Bring Costs Down
Dec 20 2006 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has completed its report summarizing insurer loss and premium experience through Sept. 30, 2006. The data seems to verify that workers’...
Mich. Accident Fund Names Cooper Vice President of Claims Operations
Dec 19 2006 // Lansing, Mich.-based Accident Fund Insurance Company of America recently announced that Stephan Cooper has been named vice president of Claims Operations. In his new role, Cooper directs Accident Fund’s...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau Too Lax in Kickback Probes, Report Says
Dec 19 2006 // The Ohio state’s scandal-plagued fund for injured workers failed to aggressively investigate allegations of kickbacks and other schemes by managed care providers, The (Toledo) Blade reported recently. Since 2004, the...
Engineers Urge Better Safety for Public Workers After Fla. Explosion
Dec 15 2006 // Seventy-six-year Florida resident, American Society of Safety Engineers’ professional member and chemist Edwin Granberry Jr., urged officials to provide the same level of workplace safety protection for the estimated...
Vermont Temporarily Delays New Workers Comp Rehab Rules
Dec 15 2006 // The Vermont Labor Department has put off plans to change the way injured workers are evaluated for workers’ compensation claims. Stephen Monahan, director of the Workers Compensation & Safety Division, on...
Seven Indicted for Workers’ Compensation Fraud in Texas
Dec 15 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that seven individuals were indicted, in separate cases, in Travis County on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The individuals allegedly collected a combined $31,358...
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...
