Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Central Texas All Industry Day to Take Place March 1
Feb 14 2006 // The Central Texas Chapter of CPCU Society and the Austin Association of Insurance Professionals will host the 2006 All Insurance Industry Day March 1 at the Doubletree Hotel in Austin. The schedule of events...
Washington Employer Sentenced for Failing to Pay Workers’ Comp Premiums
Feb 14 2006 // Failing to have a workers’ compensation account and pay premiums has landed an Oak Harbor, Wash., employer in jail. Mark Dahl, sole owner of Catalina Marine Services Inc., pleaded guilty to a Class C Felony in...
Ky. Councilman Sentenced on Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Feb 14 2006 // A former Central City, Ky. councilman will spend the next 15 months in prison after being sentenced on federal fraud charges. Danny W. Miller received the sentence on Monday after pleading guilty in U-S District Court last...
Sloan Sentenced on W.Va. Workers’ Comp Fraud Charge
Feb 14 2006 // Charles Albert Sloan has been sentenced on one count of wrongfully seeking workers’ compensation benefits and one count of fraudulently obtaining a controlled substance, both felonies, according to West Virginia...
Six Floridians Cheated GCs, Arrested in $15M Workers’ Comp Scam
Feb 13 2006 // A multimillion-dollar workers’ compensation scam that raked in its perpetrators more than $15 million has been cracked by state and local officials who have arrested six men in Boca Raton, Fla. and charged them with...
Fla. Electric Company Owner Charged With Fraud, Grand Theft
Feb 13 2006 // Edward L. Bee, the owner of two Bartow, Fla. electric companies, Bee Corporation Inc. and Harris Electric, has been charged with workers’ compensation fraud by the Florida Department of Financial Services Fraud...
Workers’ Comp 101 and Return to Work Seminar to be Held in Corpus Christi
Feb 13 2006 // Del Mar College Small Business Development Center in Corpus Christi, Texas, will sponsor a one-day educational seminar on Workers’ Compensation 101 and Return To Work presented by the Texas Department of Insurance...
Calif. Man Arrested on Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Feb 13 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced the arrest of Alejandro Ruiz Lopez, 26, on felony charges of workers’ compensation fraud after an investigation revealed that Lopez allegedly falsified a...
Washington L&I Offers Workers’ Comp Cards to Employers
Feb 13 2006 // To help ensure that employers are promptly notified of a workplace-injury claim, Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) has created wallet cards that employers can fill out and give to their...
Spouses of Deceased Workers to Receive Retroactive Benefits
Feb 13 2006 // According to the Workplace Health, Safety & Compensation Commission of New Foundland and Labrador (Canada), 58 women whose husbands were fatally injured before the Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ equality rights...
AIG Settlement Includes $343 Million to States for Workers’ Comp Errors
Feb 10 2006 // As part of its record $1.6 billion overall settlement with state and federal officials for fraud and improper accounting, American International Group will pay states $343.5 million for underpayment of workers compensation...
N.C. Woman Wants Workers’ Comp Based on Attack By Boss, Wife
Feb 10 2006 // A Greensboro, N.C., woman attacked at work and kidnapped by her boss and his wife is fighting with an insurance company over her workers’ compensation claim, the News & Record and the Associated Press...
Court Case Could Cost Montana Workers’ Comp System $200M
Feb 10 2006 // A looming workers’ compensation court case could cost Montana taxpayers $100 million and force a roughly $160 million rate hike for business buying insurance from the Montana State Fund, the agency’s top...
Colo. Bill Denying Workers’ Comp to Illegal Immigrants Dies in Committee
Feb 10 2006 // A Colorado proposal to deny workers’ compensation benefits to illegal immigrants injured on their jobs has died in a Senate Business, Labor and Technology Committee. Republican Sen. Greg Brophy’s bill 98 would...
Ariz. Wants to Deny Workers’ Comp Benefits to Those Who Test Positive for Drugs, Alcohol
Feb 10 2006 // Arizona lawmakers have preliminary approved a bill and constitutional amendment that would deny workers’ compensation benefits to employees injured or killed on the job who test positive for alcohol or illegal...
Commission Says Calif. Gov. Cut Permanently Disabled Comp in Half
Feb 10 2006 // VotersInjuredatWork.org and the California Applicants Attorneys Association reacted to a report adopted by the State of California’s Commission on Health & Safety & Workers’ Compensation finding that...
Travelers Introduces Indian Tribal Workers’ Compensation Product
Feb 9 2006 // St. Paul Travelers has introduced a Tribal Workers’ Compensation product for Indian tribes and their enterprises. This product is specifically designed for federally-recognized Indian tribes that have a tribal...
IBA West Opposes Workers’ Comp Ballot Initiatives
Feb 9 2006 // Earlier this week, leaders of California’s business community announced they would fight any efforts to reverse the workers’ compensation reforms enacted in 2004 (Senate Bill 899). The group announced the...
CHOICE Launches Workers’ Comp Physician Practice Analysis
Feb 9 2006 // CHOICE Medical Management Services, LLC has launched the first ever comprehensive workers’ compensation physician practice analysis. “This is the first provider analysis in the industry using data from the...
NCCI Official Predicts Higher Costs for S.C. Workers’ Compensation
Feb 8 2006 // South Carolina’s workers’ compensation costs promise to be much larger than the 12.7 percent suggested by Martin Simmons, the Consumer Advocate’s actuarial witness and according to Peter M. Burton, NCCI...
