Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Md. Workers Comp Insurer Retains CEO Bromwell Despite Indictments
Oct 23 2005 // Former State Sen. Thomas Bromwell will retain his position as president and chief executive officer of Maryland’s largest workers’ compensation insurer despite his indictment in an alleged racketeering scheme...
Calif. Court Rules Illegal Immigrants Can Get Workers’ Comp
Oct 20 2005 // Illegal immigrants injured on the job are entitled to workers’ compensation benefits despite their legal status, a California state appeals court ruled. The 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled in a case involving...
Tip Helps Texas Mutual Bust Workers’ Comp Fraud Scam
Oct 20 2005 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Thomas Whited of Bastrop pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The Travis County 167th District Court sentenced Whited to a one-year suspended...
Former Md. Senator, Workers Comp Fund CEO Facing Federal Charges
Oct 20 2005 // A once-powerful former Maryland state senator and head of the state’s largest workers’ compensation provider was indicted this week on federal charges of influence-peddling in exchange for free contracting work...
RemedyTemp Gains the Upper Hand in CIGA Workers’ Comp Case
Oct 20 2005 // RemedyTemp Inc., which operates as Remedy Intelligent Staffing and RemX Specialty Staffing, on Thursday said the California Supreme Court has decided not to hear an appeal by the California Insurance Guarantee Association...
N.Y. Gov. Hopeful Weld ‘s Insurance Chief in Massachusetts Stirred Controversy
Oct 19 2005 // As governor of Massachusetts, William Weld, a Republican who has said he wants to be governor of New York, helped turn around the state’s workers’ compensation system and introduce some competition into the...
FIC Says Irresponsible Workers’ Compensation Rate Reductions Could Reverse Reform Progress
Oct 18 2005 // The Florida Insurance Council, (FIC) is warning regulators against steep, politically-motivated cuts in workers’ compensation insurance rates. FIC said the reforms resulting from the massive workers’ comp bill...
Hawaii Insurance Division Approves 18.2 Percent Workers’ Comp Decrease
Oct 18 2005 // The state of Hawaii Insurance Division has approved an 18.2 percent decrease in the cost of workers’ compensation claims, which likely will lower premiums for Hawaii companies beginning Jan. 1. According to the...
