Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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....
N.Y. Seen Losing $125M Sept. 11 Workers’ Comp Aid for Sick Rescuers
Nov 17 2005 // Congressional budget negotiators have decided to take back $125 million in Sept. 11 aid from New York, which had fought to keep the money to treat sick and injured ground zero workers, lawmakers said. New York’s...
Supco: Injured Worker Can’t Sue Company for Turning Him In
Nov 17 2005 // The Montana Supreme Court rebuffed an attempt by man who received a nearly $2 million workers compensation claim to sue his former employer, who he believed turned him in for fraud in a related case. The Conoco refinery in...
Liberty Mutual Manages Workers’ Comp Using Group Health Analysis
Nov 16 2005 // Over the past several years, risk managers faced a staggering one-two punch. First, workers’ compensation medical costs exploded, growing faster than inflation. Then, medical treatment passed wage payments to become...
Colo. Comp Premium to Decrease
Nov 15 2005 // Beginning Jan. 1, 2006, the standard premium for workers’ compensation in Colorado will decrease an average of 1 percent, as a result of an order signed by Colorado Insurance Commissioner David Rivera. Although...
Crawford & Co.’s Claims Advantage Reduces Cost, Severity of Workers’ Compensation Claims
Nov 15 2005 // A new proprietary web-based application that incorporates structured interviews into the workers’ compensation claims process has been introduced by Crawford & Company of Atlanta. Crawford Claims Advantage...
Oxnard, Calif. State Fund Office Offers Employer Safety Seminar
Nov 15 2005 // As part of State Fund’s ongoing educational program to create safe workplaces and update employers on new workers’ compensation insurance rules, its Oxnard District Office will hold a free safety seminar on...
PCI Applauds W. Va. Gov.’s Focus on Workers’ Comp Reform
Nov 14 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) has applauded West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin for calling a special session of the State Legislature in order to finalize any remaining details of the...
S.C. Insurance Department’s Chief Expert on Risks, Rates, Resigns
Nov 11 2005 // Dean Kruger, the South Carolina Insurance Department’s chief expert on risks and rates was asked to resign this week after he criticized the National Council on Compensation Insurance. Kruger, who worked at the...
