Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
S.C. Panel Proposes Workers’ Compensation Changes
Dec 13 2005 // A South Carolina workers’ compensation panel has reported to Gov. Mark Sanford that changing the workers’ compensation system is the key to making the state a better place to grow business and create jobs. In...
Six Arrested in Suspected Calif. Workers’ Comp Fraud Ring
Dec 13 2005 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced the arrest of six suspects following a two-year, multi-agency undercover investigation into an alleged insurance fraud “mill” that reportedly...
Okeechobee, Fla. Building Contractor Apprehended for Workers’ Comp Fraud, Grand Theft
Dec 12 2005 // Okeechobee building contractor Merle Dee Johnson has been bonded out of the Okeechobee County Jail after being arrested by Florida investigators for allegedly committing workers’ compensation fraud and grand theft....
Texas Gov. Names Darwin Public Counsel for Injured Employees
Dec 9 2005 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry named Norman W. Darwin of Weatherford to serve as Injured Employee Public Counsel in the Office of Injured Employee Counsel (OIEC) for a term to expire Feb. 1, 2007. Created under House Bill 7 during...
N.Y. Insurance Fund Names Wehner as Executive Director
Dec 8 2005 // David P. Wehner, who has been chairman of the state’s Workers Compensation Board since 2004, has left that post to become executive director of the New York State Insurance Fund. Wehner fills the vacancy left by the...
Texas Workers’ Comp Train the Trainer Seminar to be Held Dec. 14
Dec 7 2005 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation will present a one-day educational seminar entitled Train the Trainer, on Dec. 14, 2005, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., in Austin. Registration begins at...
W. Va. Workers’ Comp Chief Warns Employers Failing to Pay
Dec 7 2005 // As it spins off as a private insurance program, West Virginia’s workers’ compensation program will show little patience with employers that fail to pay their premiums, its executive director said Monday. As of...
Fla. Town Hall Meetings Scheduled to Update Employers, Employees About Workers’ Comp
Dec 6 2005 // A series of town hall workshops will be held this month in Orlando, Tampa and Ft. Myers, Fla. to give employers and employees updated information on the state’s workers’ compensation system and to answer...
Venture Hospitality Adds Workers’ Comp Market
Dec 5 2005 // Venture Insurance Programs has announced that its hospitality program – Venture Hospitality – has added another workers’ compensation market. The workers’ compensation product is underwritten by...
OSHA CAVE-IN FINDING:
Dec 5 2005 // A Franklin, New Hampshire contractor faces $50,750 in fines from the U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for allegedly failing to supply cave-in protection at a Boscawen jobsite....
Congress Hears of Jockeys’ Workers Compensation Woes
Dec 5 2005 // Racetrack executives appeared before a House panel in Washington last month arguing that congressional action is not necessary to solve industry problems, including a recent lapse in health insurance for jockeys that left...
Congress Hears of Jockeys’ Workers Compensation Woes
Dec 5 2005 // Racetrack executives appeared before a House panel in Washington last month arguing that congressional action is not necessary to solve industry problems, including a recent lapse in health insurance for jockeys that left...
FORMER BARTLESVILLE EMPLOYEE PLEADS GUILTY TO FRAUD
Dec 5 2005 // A former City of Bartlesville employee was ordered to pay almost $4,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to one count of workers’ compensation fraud, according to Attorney General Drew Edmondson. David Wayne...
Fixing Workers’ Comp
Dec 5 2005 // Louisiana officials anticipate changes in workers’ comp as Hurricane recovery continues. Steven Cavanaugh, CEO of the Louisiana Workers’ Comp-ensation Corp., said the region still faces enormous challenges,...
NO WORKERS’ COMP PREMIUM INCREASES SCHEDULED IN WASHINGTON
Dec 5 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....
COLO. COMP PREMIUM TO DECREASE
Dec 5 2005 // Beginning Jan. 1, 2006, the standard premium for workers’ compensation in Colorado will de-crease an average of 1 percent, as a result of an order signed by Colorado Insurance Commissioner David Rivera. Although...
IJ’s Program Directory, as well as IJ’s E&S Directory and Workers’ Comp Directory, are also available online. Brokers an
Dec 4 2005 // Welcome to Insurance Journal’s 14th Annual Program Directory, Volume II. Information contained in this 2005 directory has been compiled by IJ’s staff as a resource for readers. For the purposes of this...
News Briefs
Dec 4 2005 // ALABAMA Alabama Expects 50,000 Claims More than 50,000 claims are expected in Alabama from hurricane damage, however, complete cost estimates won’t be available until this month. Ragan Ingram, Department of Insurance...
News Briefs
Dec 4 2005 // New Online License Service Available for Wash. Agents and Brokers Insurance agents, brokers and other insurance professionals licensed to transact business in Washington can now print copies of their licenses from their...
Congress Hears of Jockeys’ Workers Compensation Woes
Dec 4 2005 // Racetrack executives appeared before a House panel in Washington last month arguing that congressional action is not necessary to solve industry problems, including a recent lapse in health insurance for jockeys that left...
