Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Calif. State Fund Appoints Tudor President
Sep 15 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...
Brokers Reject Deal in Ohio Scandal
Sep 14 2006 // The Ohio state insurance fund for injured workers continued efforts to reduce soaring medical costs this week, meeting with companies the agency says must brace for lower payments for managing medical claims. Payments to...
Registration Open for Annual Texas Workers’ Comp Conference
Sep 14 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation is holding registration for its annual Workers’ Compensation Conference on December 4-5, 2006, in Austin. Participants can register for the...
San Diego Couple Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Sep 14 2006 // A San Diego couple has been sentenced to one year in jail after conspiring to deceive medical professionals and employer out of thousands in grand theft and workers’ compensation fraud According to California...
Texas Work Comp Division Goes Paperless with Complaint Resolution Process
Sep 13 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has changed its complaint resolution process by going “paperless,” using VisiFLOW document management software and TDI’s...
Auditor Gets $555,000 for Company to Review Ohio Workers’ Comp
Sep 13 2006 // Ohio State Auditor Betty Montgomery received permission Monday to replace the auditing agency the embattled Bureau of Workers’ Compensation fired in May for holding back its opinion of the bureau’s finances...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division to Hold Hearing on Disability Management
Sep 12 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation will hold a public hearing on Oct. 5, 2006, in Conference Room 100 (Commissioner’s Conference Room) of TDI’s Central Office located in...
