Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
What’s Wrong with an “Aging Workforce”?
Nov 6 2005 // Aging workforce” is a term often heard throughout corporate America. Most of us have read how, over the next decade, the 45-and-older crowd will grow to an unprecedented percentage of the working population. This...
News Briefs
Nov 6 2005 // ILLINOIS Garrett Bonham, 29, seeks more than $75,000 in a lawsuit filed last month for injuries sustained in his 10 years of employment as a performing knight at the Schaumburg, Ill., Medieval Times, according to the...
North Carolina Pro Athletes Win Workers’ Comp Court Cases
Nov 6 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...
At IIAT’s Small Agency Conference, lawmaker says involvement is key to legislative success
Nov 6 2005 // Sen. Staples Urges Agents to Continue Participating in the ‘Process’ Nearly 250 attendees turned out for the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas’ first-ever Small Agency Conference, held in Waco in...
Calif. Court Rules Illegal Immigrants Can Get Workers’ Comp
Nov 6 2005 // Illegal immigrants injured on the job are entitled to workers’ compensation benefits despite their legal status, a California state appeals court recently ruled. The 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled in a case...
News Briefs
Nov 6 2005 // California CDI Amends Proposed “Action Notice” Filing Regulations The California Department of In-surance has deleted a section of proposed regulations that would have required insurers to notify CDI when a...
Conn. to Weigh Workers’ Comp Rate Change at Nov. 18 Hearing
Nov 4 2005 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Susan F. Cogswell will hold a public hearing on Friday, Nov. 18 to consider a workers’ compensation filing for an average decrease of +0.8% for pure premium loss costs and an...
Meeting Scheduled for Input From Texas Workers’ Comp Stakeholders
Nov 4 2005 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation announced it will hold a meeting on Nov. 14 to solicit input from stakeholders in the workers’ comp system regarding implementation of House...
Rising Medical Solutions Addresses Ill. Workers’ Comp Reform
Nov 3 2005 // Kimberly Moreland, director of Account Management at Rising Medical Solutions Inc., recently spoke to some of the challenges facing those who deal in workers’ compensation at the Work Injury Conference in...
N.Y. Gov. Pataki Proposes Workers’ Comp System Reforms…Again
Nov 3 2005 // New York Governor George E. Pataki has proposed a plan to reform New York’s workers’ compensation system that he says will reduce costs for businesses while increasing benefits for injured workers. Pataki said...
N.H. Workers’ Comp Rates Going Down
Nov 2 2005 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department has approved a workers’ compensation voluntary market loss cost rate decrease averaging 3.9 percent and an average decrease of 4.6 percent for assigned risk rates. The revised...
CA State Fund To Host Confined Workplace Spaces Seminar
Nov 1 2005 // California State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Stockton District Office and the Stanislaus County Farm Bureau will jointly hold a free seminar, “Confined Space in the Workplace,” on November 3rd in...
TDI to Hold Workers’ Compensation Network Workshop
Oct 31 2005 // The Texas Department of Insurance has scheduled a Workers’ Compensation Health Care Network Workshop for Dec. 6, 2005, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The workshop will take place at TDI headquarters, 333 Guadalupe...
Fla. DOI Orders Comp Rate Reduction
Oct 28 2005 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty disapproved a workers’ compensation rate filing from National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) and called for a new filing with a larger rate decrease. In his...
State Fund Hosting Restaurant Health and Safety Workshop
Oct 27 2005 // The California State Compensation Insurance Fund’s San Jose District Office will be hosting a free Restaurant Health and Safety workshop to help restaurant owners create a comprehensive safety training program and...
Los Angeles Bus Driver Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud
Oct 27 2005 // A Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) bus driver has pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation insurance fraud after an investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud Division. Renee Terri...
IIASA Luncheon to Focus on Workers’ Comp
Oct 27 2005 // The Independent Insurance Agents of San Antonio announced that Amy Lee, with the Workers’ Compensation Division of the Texas Department of Insurance, will provide an update of developments in Texas’ workers...
Delaware Hears Proposed 10% Workers’ Comp Hike Today
Oct 26 2005 // The First State’s Insurance Commissioner Matthew Denn is today holding what he thinks may be the state’s first true public hearing on workers’ compensation rates. The subject of today’s hearing will...
Employer Guilty of Providing False Information to W.V. Workers Compensation Commission
Oct 25 2005 // West Virginia Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline, announced Tuesday that Richard Custer Jr., was sentenced Oct. 12 on one felony charge of making a false statement to the Workers’ Compensation Commission. Custer,...
Specialty Risk Services Adds Director of Fraud Management
Oct 25 2005 // Specialty Risk Services LLC, a third-party property-casualty third administrator for workers’ compensation and general liability claims, has appointed Timothy Barry to director of Special Investigative Unit and Fraud...
