Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Occupational Health Program Returns Washingtonians To Work Quicker
Jul 17 2006 // Injured workers in three Eastern Washington counties were 33 percent less likely to miss work and collect wage-replacement benefits if they were treated by doctors participating in a Department of Labor and Industries...
Texas Workers’ Comp Rulebook Supplement Available Online
Jul 12 2006 // Rulebook Supplement 2006-03 containing a rule adopted by the Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation is available online from the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), Division of Workers’ Compensation, the...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Oversight Board Must Be Strengthened, Report Says
Jul 11 2006 // Reforms implemented by Ohio Gov. Bob Taft and lawmakers didn’t go far enough to strengthen the board that oversees Ohio’s troubled state insurance fund for injured workers, an independent consultant studying...
W.Va. Insurance Commission Acting Against Uninsured Employers
Jul 6 2006 // The West Virginia Insurance Commission is cracking down on the estimated 2,000 employers in the state that do not have workers’ compensation insurance, which is required by law. When an employee of an uninsured...
LWCC Launches New Web Site
Jul 6 2006 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) announced it has launched a new corporate Web site, www.lwcc.com. The site features dedicated sections for employers, insurance agents and injured workers to obtain...
Mich. Workers’ Compensation Agency, State Bar to Sponsor Seminar
Jul 6 2006 // For attorneys and others interested in learning about the state’s workers’ compensation law, the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth (DLEG) and the State Bar of Michigan have teamed up to sponsor a...
Mo. Department Revises Workers’ Comp Loss Costs for 2003-2005
Jul 6 2006 // The Missouri Department of Insurance has directed the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) to revise loss costs for years 2003-2005. According to the statement issued by the Department, historical payrolls...
California Workers’ Compensation Loss Ratios Down Significantly
Jul 6 2006 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has completed its report summarizing insurer loss and premium experience through March 31, 2006. According to the report, workers’ comp reforms...
The Logistics Trust of Texas Now Open for Business
Jul 5 2006 // The Logistics Trust of Texas, a workers’ compensation self-insurance group administered by First Cardinal of Texas Ltd, has received approval from the Texas Department of Insurance to begin offering coverage, First...
Washington Workers’ Compensation Benefits to Increase 3.5 Percent
Jul 5 2006 // Workers currently receiving Washington workers’ compensation wage-replacement or pension benefits will receive a 3.5 percent cost-of-living increase. State law requires that benefits be recalculated each July 1 to...
What Lines Program Insurers Like, Dislike
Jul 4 2006 // Insurers’ appetite for targeted insurance programs still favors larger deals and shuns workers’ compensation risks, according to one expert’s analysis of conditions. Benfield Inc. Senior Vice President C....
Standard & Poor’s Annual Insurance Conference
Jul 4 2006 // Despite recent adversity and scrutiny faced by the insurance industry, financial ratings for companies appear on the upswing. “For the first time that I can remember we have a period where none of the sectors that we...
Pa. must end confusion over contractors in workers’ comp
Jul 3 2006 // An increasing number of Pennsylvania businesses are paying thousands more for workers’ compensation than necessary because of our state law’s vague treatment of subcontractors. While businesses must buy...
Supreme Court: Workers’ comp premiums not priority in bankruptcy
Jul 3 2006 // News Currents A workers’ compensation insurer does not have a claim against a bankrupt business for unpaid premiums under bankruptcy law, according to the U.S. Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision that insurers are...
Golden State adopts new regulations to reduce worker injuries and death from high heat
Jul 3 2006 // California workers may soon be able to file for workers’ compensation if they become injured due to high heat. The California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board has adopted a permanent heat stress...
Pa. must end confusion over contractors in workers’ comp
Jul 3 2006 // An increasing number of Pennsylvania businesses are paying thousands more for workers’ compensation than necessary because of our state law’s vague treatment of subcontractors. While businesses must buy...
Mass. Man Pleads Guilty to Workers Comp Fraud Charges
Jun 30 2006 // A Sutton, Mass. man pleaded guilty to worker’s compensation fraud and larceny over $250 in Worcester Superior Court, according to Attorney General Tom Reilly. Hal Tyree, 51, of Sutton pleaded guilty to one charge...
California State Fund Receives $64,000 in Restitution for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jun 30 2006 // Caifornia’s State Compensation Insurance Fund recently received $64,000 in restitution from the owner of a San Luis Obispo county moving company. Mark John Frey, 38, of Oceano, Calif., pleaded no contest on May 15 to...
S.C. Workers’ Comp Case Could be Reopened
Jun 29 2006 // A judge in Columbia, S.C. deciding whether to approve a nearly 33 percent increase in a workers’ compensation rates may be asked to reopen a case after opponents of the increase learned the Insurance Department...
States Lack Controls Over Workers’ Comp Drug Costs
Jun 29 2006 // Public policymakers are considering cost containment measures to bring the costs of prescription drugs used to treat injured workers more into line with similar costs in group health or government insurance programs,...
