Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines

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...

Cambridge Offers Workers’ Comp Program in California

Dec 7 2006 // Cambridge General Agency is now offering a workers’ compensation program through ACE Casualty Risk, a division of ACE USA. The program is called ACE Complete. There are more than 125 classes in California for small...

N.D. Senators Ask for Dismissal of Workers’ Comp Director

Dec 6 2006 // More than a dozen Democratic state legislators have signed a letter asking for the dismissal of North Dakota’s workers’ compensation director. The director, Sandy Blunt, said he will not resign, and the...

In Delaware, No Hike in Workers Comp; 2.7% for Assigned Risk

Dec 5 2006 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn said he would approve no increase in costs for voluntary market workers compensation rates and a 2.7 percent hike in residual market or assigned risk rates. In so doing, he...

OSHA Catches Fall River, Mass. Contractor with Unprotected Trench

Dec 5 2006 // A Fall River, Mass., contractor faces $25,950 in fines from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) after a spot inspection found two employees working in an unprotected...

Judge Upholds $1 Million Workers Comp Fine in The Station Case

Dec 4 2006 // A judge last week upheld a $1.07 million fine imposed against the owners of The Station nightclub for failing to carry workers’ compensation insurance at the club, the site of a 2003 fire that killed 100 people,...

Court Rules Estate Not Entitled to Workers’ Comp Benefits

Nov 29 2006 // The Second Appellate 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...

Virginia Approves Workers’ Comp Price Changes

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Calif. State Fund Files Average 9 Percent Premium Decrease

Nov 28 2006 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund is calling for a 9 percent average decrease in collectible premium its latest filing of workers’ compensation rates for 2007. The new rate will affect new and...

Texas Workers’ Comp Conference to Focus on System Changes

Nov 28 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) will present a two-day educational conference Dec. 4-5, 2006 in Austin. The 2006 DWC Conference will feature presentations by two Texas...

OSHA Cites Ga. Contractors For Work Site Hazards at Trenches

Nov 22 2006 // A federal work safety agency accused contractors in north Georgia and metro Atlanta last week of allowing employees to work in unsafe conditions in deep trenches at their sites. The Occupational Safety and Health...

California Issues 2007 Insurer Assessment Rates

Nov 22 2006 // The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) has issued 2007 assessment rates for User Funding, Anti-Fraud Programs, the Uninsured Employer Benefit Trust Fund and the Subsequent Injury Benefit Trust Fund. State...

Ark. Workers’ Comp Commission Updating 2007 Kids’ Chance Application

Nov 21 2006 // Kids’ Chance of Arkansas Inc. is revising the 2007 application for its annual scholarships, the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission reported. The application will be available online by mid-January. These...

MarketScout Launches Monoline WC Facility Targeting Energy Accounts

Nov 21 2006 // MarketScout, the Dallas Texas based eInsurance Exchange, has launched a new exclusive Monoline Energy Workers’ Compensation program. The facility accepts most class codes related to the energy industry, including...

Fine Appointed as Ark. Workers’ Comp Commission Judge

Nov 20 2006 // O. Milton Fine II, a longtime attorney on Gov. Mike Huckabee’s staff, is the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission’s newest Administrative Law Judge, the AWCC reported. The AWCC is administrator of...