Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
N.Y. Looks to Speed Comp Benefits to Ill 9/11 Rescue Workers
Aug 15 2006 // New York State has adopted a trio of laws designed to speed workers’ compensation benefits for workers and their families with claims related to 9/11 rescue efforts. The first new law enables many workers who became...
Ill. Director Says Worker’s Comp Fraud Is $300 Billion National Problem
Aug 14 2006 // The Illinois State Insurance Department receives reports of six alleged cases of workers’ compensation insurance fraud each week, according to insurance Director Michael McRaith. McRaith commented recently on a stop...
In R.I., Beacon Mutual 16% Workers’ Comp Rate Cut Approved
Aug 14 2006 // Beacon Mutual Insurance Co., the state’s dominant workers’ compensation insurer, plans to reduce rates by an average of 16 percent. The company, which has roughly 14,500 policyholders, says it expects the rate...
Jacksonville, Fla. Tree Service Business Owner Charged with Workers’ Comp Fraud
Aug 11 2006 // A Jacksonville, Fla. tree service business owner has been arrested after the electrocution of one of his employees and charged with workers’ compensation fraud, first degree, for failure to provide workers’...
N.D. Workers’ Comp Agency Wants Records on Delinquent Employers
Aug 10 2006 // North Dakota’s workers compensation agency wants permission to publish a list of employers who haven’t paid their insurance premiums. Members of the Workforce Safety and Insurance agency’s board have...
Minn. State Fund Mutual Changes Name to Reflect Multi-state Growth
Aug 10 2006 // State Fund Mutual Companies, a workers’ compensation iinsurer in the Minnesota-Wisconsin market and the largest in Minnesota, has changed its name to SFM, the Minneapolis-based company announced today. “We are...
California State Fund Receives $566,000 in Restitution for Fraud
Aug 10 2006 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has received $566,480 in restitution from a Marin County roofing company owner convicted of workers’ compensation fraud. Kenneth Scott Cooper, 51, of San Rafael,...
Texas Clarifies Rules on Designated Doctors, Peer Reviewers
Aug 9 2006 // The qualifications and functions of designated doctors and peer reviewers in the Texas workers’ compensation system are clarified in rules adopted by Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Albert Betts in late...
2007 Workers’ Compensation Rates Announced in Ark.
Aug 9 2006 // The Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission on Aug. 7, 2006, released an update of Advisory 2000-1 to report the amounts to be paid injured employees under the state workers’ compensation laws. The update...
California Study Examines Medical Access in the Wake of Reforms
Aug 9 2006 // A new California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) study has found that injured worker access to medical-legal and medical care providers changed very little following the enactment of reforms designed to...
NYMAGIC: Premiums Up 36%, Led By Excess Workers’ Comp
Aug 8 2006 // NYMAGIC, Inc. reported net earnings for the three months ending June 30, 2006 were $6.1 million, or $.67 per diluted share, compared with $5.0 million, or $.56 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2005. Net...
Texas Mutual Announces Manufacturers Purchasing Group
Aug 8 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced its newest workers’ compensation purchasing group: Texas Association of Manufacturers (TAM). The group provides qualifying members with a competitive option for workers’...
Ill. Assurance to Address How to Reduce Workers’ Comp Costs
Aug 8 2006 // Assurance Property & Casualty Staffing Insurance Specialist, Jeff Tuisl, will be a featured speaker at the “Ultra Staff 2006 Software & More Seminar” at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in...
California Couple Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Insurance Fraud
Aug 8 2006 // Robert and Rosemary Bunch, both 56, have been sentenced in California on workers’ compensation insurance fraud convictions. The couple from Roasamond pled guilty prior to a jury trial. The Bunches were sentenced on...
Former claims director indicted in Oklahoma
Aug 7 2006 // Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson reported that the former claims director for CompSource Oklahoma is accused of one count of workers’ compensation fraud in a Multicounty Grand Jury indictment unsealed in July...
Julie Benafield Bowman
Aug 7 2006 // Like insurance commissioners in other states, Arkansas Insurance Commis-sioner Julie Benafield Bowman, is keeping an eye on catastrophe issues and the availability of insurance related to them. Unlike commissioners in...
W. VA. BEGINS TAGGING FIRMS
Aug 7 2006 // Following up on warnings issued earlier this year, West Virginia officials have begun identifying businesses that are operating without workers’ compensation coverage and posting yellow warnings signs on their...
Colorado workers’ comp premium holds steady
Aug 7 2006 // Colorado employees are likely to see their workers’ compensation costs remain unchanged for 2007. State Insurance Commissioner David Rivera said the National Council on Compensation Insurance will not be filing for...
Protecting your most valuable assets overseas
Aug 7 2006 // Foreign voluntary workers’ compensation, kidnap & ransom, and accident coverage help mitigate losses A business has many valuable assets, but perhaps none as critical to success as its employees. Businesses...
Employers’ workers’ comp costs rose faster than benefit payments in 2004
Aug 7 2006 // Employers’ costs for workers’ compensation grew faster than combined cash benefits for injured workers and medical payments for their treatment, according to a new study issued by the National Academy of Social...
