Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Legislative Advocacy: A matter of insurance industry survival
Feb 19 2006 // The Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal in Washington, D.C., has prompted many to question the appropriateness of legislative lobbying that has become so much a part of American politics. California leads the nation in money...
Calif. Workers’ Compensation
Feb 19 2006 // Reduced rates and renewed competition in Calif. California workers’ compensation insurance rates are taking a turn for the better. Thanks to reform legislation, employers should have more access to reasonable rates....
Two Suspects Arrested for Auto Insurance Fraud
Feb 19 2006 // Fraud Roundup Two Elk Grove, Calif., residents were arrested on insurance fraud charges related to the alleged staged theft, arson, and subsequent insurance claim for a vehicle belonging to one of the suspects. According...
S&P reports favorable workers’ comp outlook
Feb 19 2006 // The outlook for the U.S. workers’ compensation sector in 2006 is good, with the ratings impact for insurers expected to be neutral on the whole, according to a report from Standard & Poor’s Ratings...
News Currents
Feb 19 2006 // Record $1.6 billion deal ends litigation, creates ‘new path’ for giant AIG State and federal regulators on Feb. 9 announced agreements that resolve litigation and investigations of securities fraud, account...
AIG to cover workers’ comp errors
Feb 19 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’...
Ky. Insurance Regulator Says Stiff Penalties Handed out in Fraud Cases
Feb 17 2006 // The Kentucky Department of Insurance reported that recent Kentucky court actions indicate judges are increasingly handing out stiff sentences for insurance fraud-related crimes. “We hope the word is getting out that...
Nevada Approves Workers’ Comp Loss Costs Filing
Feb 16 2006 // Nevada Insurance Commissioner Alice A. Molasky-Arman has announced she has approved the National Council on Compensation Insurance filing for an average decrease of 0.3 percent for workers’ compensation voluntary...
N.Y. Worker Injured in Fall From Platform Gets $2.3 Million
Feb 16 2006 // A jury awarded $2.3 million to a Staten Island, N.Y. man who fell from a faulty work platform and broke a kneecap and wrist almost nine years ago, his lawyer said. The Manhattan state Supreme Court jury found this week...
Insurers Face Challenges as Injured Veterans Return from War
Feb 15 2006 // Employers and their insurers need to be prepared for the tens of thousands of physically injured veterans returning from conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the Insurance Information Institute...
Pennsylvania Again Cuts Workers’ Comp Rates, This Time by 8.5%
Feb 14 2006 // Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell touted the decision cutting workers’ compensation insurance rates, a decision he said will save the state’s employers approximately $100 million on their 2006...
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...
