Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
ERISA
Dec 4 2005 // This recurring feature examines insurance coverage decisions in the Midwest’s appellate courts as compiled by the New York-based law firm of Goldberg Segalla LLA and edited by insurance lawyer Kevin T. Merriman...
Texas Health Care Networks: A New Approach for Workers’ Compensation
Dec 2 2005 // House Bill 7 enacted sweeping workers’ compensation reforms. One of those reforms was the establishment of health care provider networks. After receiving much thoughtful input from system participants, I am proud to...
Mont. Old Fund Insurance In Dire Need of Funds
Dec 1 2005 // A Montana-owned insurance agency for injured workers may need $69 million to pay all of its bills, according to a Montana State Fund executive. Outside insurance experts hired by the State Fund concluded earlier this year...
Labor Unions File Suit Against Missouri Workers’ Comp Law
Dec 1 2005 // More than 70 labor groups filed suit this week challenging the constitutionality of Missouri’s new workers’ compensation law, claiming it tilts toward employers so dramatically as to breach a social contract...
State Fund Hosts Safety Seminar
Nov 30 2005 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Monterey Park Office will hold a free employer seminar on “Enhancing Safety Through Wellness” on Thursday, Dec. 1. The seminar will look into how the...
Superior Court Decision May Impact Occupational and Medical Clinics
Nov 30 2005 // A Superior Court decision to award Palm Medical Group Inc. $1.13 million in a dispute with State Fund (Palm Medical Group v. State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF)) may affect hundreds of other occupational clinics in...
Zenith Files 13.1% Drop in its Calif. Workers’ Comp Rates Starting Jan. 1
Nov 28 2005 // Zenith National Insurance Corp. reported that its wholly owned subsidiary, Zenith Insurance Company, has filed with the California Department of Insurance its workers’ compensation rates for use in California on or...
Choice of Medical Care Provider Affects Costs, Outcomes for Injured Workers
Nov 23 2005 // The choice of medical care providers to treat injured workers by either workers or their employer not only impacts medical costs but also a variety of outcomes for injured workers, according to a new study by the Workers...
North Carolina Pro Athletes Win Workers’ Comp Court Cases
Nov 21 2005 // A handful of former Carolina Panthers players who were injured playing football have won their cases before the North Carolina Court of Appeals and one before the North Carolina Supreme Court. Jim Lore, a Raleigh attorney...
False Workers’ Comp Statement a Felony
Nov 21 2005 // West Virginia Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline, announced Richard Custer Jr. was sentenced Oct. 12 on one felony charge of making a false statement to the Workers’ Compensation Commission. Custer, of Marshall...
Calif. Commissioner Calls for 15.3 Percent Workers’ Comp Rate Decrease
Nov 21 2005 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has recommended a 15.3 percent decrease in the state’s workers’ compensation pure premium rates by winter. In announcing the move, the Commis-sioner also...
Bus Driver Guilty of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Nov 21 2005 // A Metropolitan Transportation Authori-ty (MTA) bus driver has pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation insurance fraud after an investigation by the California Depart-ment of Insurance (CDI) Fraud Division. Renee...
INSURANCE EXPERT: MONTANA WORKERS’ COMPENSATION FUND NEEDS $14 MILLION
Nov 21 2005 // Montana’s state-run insurance program for workers injured on the job before July 1990 needs a $14 million infusion or it could run out of money in 10 years, leaving the state responsible for up to twice as much in...
FLORIDA
Nov 20 2005 // Brian, Brad and Dean Shecht-man, cousins who allegedly swindled more than 1,200 elderly victims out of millions of dollars in a bait-and-switch insurance scheme are in the limelight again as details surface about a...
North Carolina Pro Athletes Win Workers’ Comp Court Cases
Nov 20 2005 // A handful of former Carolina Panthers players who were injured playing football have won their cases before the North Carolina Court of Appeals and one before the North Carolina Supreme Court. Jim Lore, a Raleigh attorney...
People
Nov 20 2005 // Michael A. Moran has joined Insurance & Benefits Consultants of Sarasota, Fla., as president. Moran’s new responsibilities were announced after Florida Preferred Administrators Inc. entered into a purchase...
Calif. Fraud Ring Lands Three in Jail
Nov 20 2005 // Three suspects have been arrested following an 11-month investigation by the California Department of Insurance of an auto insurance fraud ring that targeted car rental and insurance companies for fraudulent automobile...
News Briefs
Nov 20 2005 // California Governor’s Measures Defeated in Special Election California’s special election battle, the costliest campaign in the state’s history, roared to a close in November, much to the chagrin of Gov....
Calif. Commissioner Calls for 15.3 Percent Workers’ Comp Rate Decrease
Nov 20 2005 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has recommended a 15.3 percent decrease in the state’s workers’ compensation pure premium rates by winter. In announcing the move, the Commis-sioner also...
No Workers’ Comp Premium Increases Scheduled in Washington
Nov 18 2005 // Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) has announced there will be no general increase in workers’ compensation premiums for 2006. In late August, the agency proposed a 3.8 percent increase....
