Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
News Currents
Sep 25 2006 // Employers are paying more attention to worker and workplace safety, which is helping states like Hawaii and Wyoming to reduce its workers’ compensation rates. Hawaii, Washington, Wyoming bringing down workers’...
Calif. State Fund appoints Tudor president
Sep 25 2006 // The California State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Board of Directors appointed James C. Tudor as the organization’s president. Tudor’s appointment caps an extensive four month national search for a...
J.P. Schmidt, Hawaii, Insurance Commissioner
Sep 25 2006 // Although it is undeniably one of the 50 United States, Hawaii’s location at the edge of the Pacific Rim yields creative business opportunities throughout the world. The state’s captive insurer law already has...
Workers’ comp and the Latino construction workforce
Sep 25 2006 // N20 11 Service aims to keep drunks from driving Taxis and drivers available for yearly fee 60 The Fiess decision: Mold is out and more The Court certifies question; for carriers the wait it was worth it
!Cuidado! Construction Industry and the Latino Workforce
Sep 25 2006 // In the next 10 years, the construction business will need to fill more than 180,000 jobs. As the rush to fill these positions advances, workers’ compensation professionals will be challenged along with the...
Specialized care network found to reduce workers’ comp costs
Sep 25 2006 // In workers’ compensation cases, management of injured workers by a specialized network of health care providers — without third-party utilization review — can reduce missed work days and lower health care...
Pinnacol Assurance Honored as “Top Company”
Sep 22 2006 // Pinnacol Assurance, Colorado’s oldest and largest workers’ compensation insurer, has been named the state’s “Top Company” in Financial Services by ColoradoBiz Magazine. Pinnacol was selected...
Alaska Workers’ Comp Reforms Lower Rates
Sep 22 2006 // Alaska Governor Frank H. Murkowski has announced hs is very pleased that workers’ compensation system reforms proposed by the administration and enacted last year by the Legislature have led to a proposed 10.5...
Columbus Woman Convicted of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Sep 22 2006 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) reported today that a Columbus woman was convicted of workers’ compensation fraud. Bobbie Knapp pleaded guilty in Franklin County Common Pleas Court to a felony...
Texas Work Comp Reform: A Lot Done, More to Go
Sep 21 2006 // Speaker after speaker at the Sept. 20 workers’ compensation conference presented by the Insurance Council of Texas recognized that while reform of Texas’ workers’ compensation system has come a long way,...
Shaw Joins PMC Insurance in Mass.
Sep 21 2006 // Andrew Shaw has joined PMC Insurance Group, based in Needham Mass., as vice president. His responsibilities include new business development, agency relationship management and product expansion. Before joining PMC, Shaw...
Texas Work Comp Commissioner Betts Approves 17 Companies to Self-Insure
Sep 20 2006 // Seventeen companies with approximately 82,000 employees in Texas recently were approved to self-insure for workers’ compensation claims for a one-year period under the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of...
Calif. Governor Schwarzenegger Vetoes Workers’ Comp BIll
Sep 20 2006 // Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed two bills that he said would have undermined the bipartisan workers’ compensation reforms passed by the legislature in 2004. “When I ran for office, skyrocketing...
Okla. Man Sentenced in Comp Case
Sep 19 2006 // An Elk City, Okla. man was ordered to pay more than $20,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to two felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud in Oklahoma County District Court, the state attorney...
Fla. Orders 5 Workers’ Comp Insurers to Refund ‘Excess Profits’
Sep 19 2006 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has ordered five workers’ compensation insurance carriers to return what his department has determined are excessive profits totaling $649,363.00. Workers’...
Employers Direct Web Site to Sell Workers’ Comp Directly to Consumers
Sep 19 2006 // Employers Direct Insurance Co., a direct writer of California workers’ compensation insurance, has announced the launch of its new enhanced Web site developed for current and prospective customers. The new design at...
Appalachian Underwriters Acquires CRC Workers Comp Unit
Sep 18 2006 // Appalachian Underwriters Inc. said it has purchased CRC Insurance Service’s guaranteed cost workers compensation program. The program mirrors that of Appalachian’s existing state and carrier footprint very...
Calif. State Fund Hosts Emergency Preparedness in the Workforce Workshop
Sep 18 2006 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund is holding a seminar for policyholders on emergency preparedness, aging in the workforce and responding to workplace injuries at a free seminar in Pleasanton, Calif., on...
WCRI to Present Workers’ Comp Study Results for La. Oct. 4
Sep 18 2006 // WCRI announced it will present the preliminary results for Louisiana from two WCRI benchmark studies at a public meeting held by the Louisiana Department of Labor, Office of Workers’ Compensation Administration on...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Rating Bureau Proposes Rate Decrease
Sep 15 2006 // California’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Board has proposed a 6.3 percent reduction in the pure premium rate. On August 16, 2006, the WCIRB submitted its Jan. 1, 2007 pure premium rate filing to the...
