Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
San Diego Man Convicted of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jan 23 2006 // A former employee of a San Diego custom kitchen cabinet company was sentenced in San Diego County Superior Court on one count of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. Superior Court Judge Timothy Walsh ordered...
Health care networks coming soon to Texas workers’ comp system
Jan 23 2006 // Health care costs in the Texas workers’ compensation system are among the highest in the nation. Furthermore, studies suggest that one out of every four injured employees does not return to work. In an effort to...
NCCI criticizes AP’s report on S.C. workers’ comp as ‘factually incorrect’
Jan 23 2006 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. has criticized recent Associated Press articles about NCCI’s review of the South Carolina Governor’s Workers Compensation Task Force proposal as being...
Fla. Insurance Council predicts hurricane coverage utmost concern
Jan 23 2006 // Florida Insurance Council Executive Vice President Sam Miller predicts hurricane insurance will be the most significant property and casualty issue in 2006, just as it was in 2005, on the state level. “Congress, at a...
W.Va. mine survivor Randall McCloy Jr., families of deceased, eligible for benefits
Jan 23 2006 // Randal McCloy Jr., the only survivor of the recent tragedy at the the 260-foot-deep Inter-national Coal Group Mine in West Virginia, will be eligible for medical benefits and wage replacement benefits immediately, and will...
W.Va. claimant pleads guilty of workers’ compensation fraud
Jan 23 2006 // Terry Lee Villers of Wirt County, W.Va. has been sentenced to two felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud according to Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline. Villers was sentenced Dec. 16 in the Circuit Court of...
Workers’ compensation reform tops PCI’s legislative agenda in S.C.
Jan 23 2006 // Comprehensive reform of South Carolina’s workers’ compensation system, including repeal of the Second Injury Fund are top legislative priorities of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America during...
Colo. legislators to tackle auto insurance in 2006 session
Jan 23 2006 // The 2006 legislative agenda for property/ casualty insurers in Colorado will be dominated by automobile insurance and regulatory issues, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI), based in...
BIG ‘I’S S.C. AGENDA: WORKERS’ COMP
Jan 23 2006 // Improving the state’s workers’ compensation system, developing coastal property insurance markets and increasing consumer awareness and educating them about insurance issues are key 2006 goals of the South...
Kentucky Miner’s Family Wins Increased Death Benefits
Jan 23 2006 // The family of an underground coal miner killed in a rock fall is entitled to increased death benefits because the company he worked for had violated several mine safety laws, the Supreme Court ruled last week. Ronnie...
Multiline Productivity Poll: Agents play key role in understanding risk
Jan 23 2006 // Insurance buyers see increasing value from reducing their total cost of risk across multiple lines of commercial insurance, according to a new survey commissioned by property and casualty insurer Wausau Insurance, Wausau,...
News Briefs
Jan 22 2006 // N.Y. shuts comp trusts Two of New York’s 70 workers compensation self-insurance trusts are being shut down by state officials. The two trusts are the Provider Agency Trust for Human Services and the Manufacturing...
N.Y.’s workers’ comp system’s not working
Jan 22 2006 // Many suits formerly brought under the employers liability section of the workers’ compensation policy are now brought under the contractual liability section of the general liability policy. This shift has...
Productivity Poll
Jan 22 2006 // Insurance buyers see increasing value from reducing their total cost of risk across multiple lines of commercial insurance, according to a new survey commissioned by Wausau Insurance. Eighty-one percent (up from 70 percent...
R.I.’s Beacon Mutual pursues rate cuts, restructuring plan
Jan 22 2006 // Beacon Mutual, Rhode Island’s biggest workers’ compensation writer with about 90 percent of the business, has some big plans. First is its plan to lower the loss cost portion of premiums for most employers by...
W.Va. mine survivor Randall McCloy Jr.,families of deceased, eligible for benefits
Jan 22 2006 // Randal McCloy Jr., the only survivor of the recent tragedy at the the 260-foot-deep Inter-national Coal Group Mine in West Virginia, will be eligible for medical benefits and wage replacement benefits immediately, and will...
Big ‘I’s S.C. agenda: Workers’ comp
Jan 22 2006 // Improving the state’s workers’ compensation system, developing coastal property insurance markets and increasing consumer awareness and educating them about insurance issues are key 2006 goals of the South...
Health care networks coming soon to Texas workers’ comp system
Jan 22 2006 // In certain situations, employees may seek care outside the network. An employee who has a pre-existing relationship with an HMO doctor may receive treatment for a workers’ compensation injury from that...
News Currents
Jan 22 2006 // Colo. legislators to tackle auto insurance in 2006 session The 2006 legislative agenda for property/ casualty insurers in Colorado will be dominated by automobile insurance and regulatory issues, according to the Property...
Spotlight: Counseling Buyers
Jan 22 2006 // Multiline Productivity Poll: Agents play key role in understanding risk Insurance buyers see increasing value from reducing their total cost of risk across multiple lines of commercial insurance, according to a new survey...
