Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Court Orders Ohio Governor to Provide Insurance Fund Records
Jun 14 2006 // The Ohio Supreme Court has ordered Gov. Bob Taft to hand over documents related to the state’s troubled insurance fund for injured workers so it could decide whether to make them public. The ruling was a partial...
W.Va. Workers’ Comp Loss Costs Decrease 10 Percent
Jun 13 2006 // West Virginia Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline has announced that the Offices of the Insurance Commissioner have approved an overall 10 percent decrease in loss costs for workers’ compensation rates. Loss cost...
Beecher Carlson Expands Risk Services/Captive Operations in Denver
Jun 13 2006 // Beecher Carlson, an insurance brokerage and risk management consulting firm, has expanded its risk services/captive operations with the appointment of Richard (Dick) Huntington as senior vice President and Carol Riggs as...
Beacon Mutual Seeks 16% Workers Comp Price Drop in R.I.
Jun 12 2006 // Beacon Mutual insurance Co., which writes workers compensation for about 90 percent of the businesses in Rhode Island, has filed for a 16 percent reduction in rates to cover its workers compensation loss costs. A company...
Pa. Labor Department to Host Workers’ Comp Conference June 12
Jun 9 2006 // Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry Secretary Stephen M. Schmerin will kick-off the 5th Annual Workers’ Compensation Conference at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, June 12, in the Chocolate Ballroom, Hershey Lodge...
Wash. Trooper Accused of Taking Workers Comp While Off Fishing
Jun 9 2006 // A Washington state trooper accused of falsely claiming 20-thousand dollars worth of workers compensation benefits has been charged in Olympia with theft and perjury. Thirty-five-year-old James A. Long of Chinook, who is...
Former Ohio Worker’s Comp Fund Official Expected to Enter Guilty Plea
Jun 8 2006 // Prosecutors say Terrence Gasper, the former chief financial officer at Ohio’s $15 billion insurance fund for injured workers, exchanged investment opportunities for money, his son’s college tuition and stays at...
Attorneys: Summary Judgment in Texas Work Comp Case Sets Precedent
Jun 8 2006 // Attorneys Anthony Cox and Greta Matzen, with the Dallas-based law firm of Hermes Sargent Bates LLP, announced they obtained a summary judgment of damages stating that Section 41.0105 of the Texas Civil Practice and...
Mlynarczyk Named to Conn. Workers Comp Commission Post
Jun 7 2006 // Governor M. Jodi Rell has named New Britain attorney Peter C. Mlynarczyk to the Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Commission. Mlynarczyk currently serves as corporation counsel for the City of New Britain, overseeing...
Two W.Va. Arrests for Insurance Fraud, Workers’ Comp Forgery
Jun 7 2006 // Insurance agent Brenda Valentine of the Mountain State Insurance Agency Inc. has been indicted on six felony counts of insurance fraud; and Scott Saul of Pipeline Services has pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation...
Sloan-Mason Offers Utility Contractors Coverage in Florida
Jun 7 2006 // Sloan-Mason has announced it is targeting Florida domiciled underground utility contractors, including sewer and water main construction companies. The San Diego-based surplus lines broker has non-resident licenses in a...
CompPAC Trust of Texas Expands Work Comp Eligibility to Artisan Contractors
Jun 6 2006 // The CompPAC Trust of Texas, a workers’ compensation self-insurance group administered by First Cardinal of Texas Ltd., reported it has received approval from the Texas Department of Insurance to expand its list of...
Majestic Insurance Rating Moves from Stable to Positive
Jun 6 2006 // A.M. Best Co. has improved its outlook for Majestic Insurance Co. from stable to positive. According to AM Best, the rating reflects Majestic’s profitable operating results during the last five-year period, improving...
N.Y. to Hear Proposal for 7.5% Workers Comp Hike
Jun 6 2006 // The New York State Insurance Department has scheduled a public hearing to consider the application of the New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board (NYCIRB) for a workers’ compensation insurance increase of 7.5...
California Assembly Passes Two Bills
Jun 5 2006 // A bill that would extend the sunset date for certain tax credits made to community development financial institutions and another bill that would require the administrative director of the Division of Workers’...
N.Y. Agents Back Overhaul Of Workers’ Comp System
Jun 5 2006 // New York should increase its workers’ compensation benefits and try to deliver benefits in a less adversarial process, according to the Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. The association made its...
Q & A with Texas Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Albert Betts
Jun 5 2006 // Chief of state’s workers’ comp division says much reform work has been done but there’s more to do Insurance Journal: What are some of the major aspects of the Division of Workers’...
Case Law Watch
Jun 5 2006 // ArkansasWorkers’ Compensation Jones Brothers Inc. v. Whitlock, et al. (Ark. May 4, 2005) Prime contractor liable for workers’ compensation benefits owed to employee of uninsured subcontractor: The Supreme Court...
Workers’ comp 2005 results ‘excellent,’ but caution advised, say experts
Jun 5 2006 // The workers’ compensation insurance industry had another excellent year in 2005 on an accident-year basis, said Steve Klingel, NCCI Holdings Inc.’s president and CEO, at the recent National Council on...
Workers’ comp market ‘guarded’ at the moment, expert says
Jun 5 2006 // Singer Bob Dylan’s song, “The Times, They Are a Changin,'” was cited as a cautionary reminder by Steve Klingel, NCCI Holdings Inc.’s president and CEO, as he gave a positive report on 2005 results...
