Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
L.A. Firefighters Want New Workers’ Comp Carrier
Aug 15 2005 // Firefighters want the city to find another firm to handle workers’ compensation claims because alleged slow processing by the current company delays medical treatment and costs millions of dollars in overtime and...
Fifth Circuit Appellate Court Upholds Insurer ‘Bodily Injury by Disease’ Exclusion
Aug 12 2005 // The United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, recently issued its opinion in Graphic Packaging International Inc. v. Employers Insurance of Wausau, upholding the validity of an exclusion for “bodily injury by...
NASI Report Tracks Mich., Ohio Workers’ Comp Payments for 2003
Aug 11 2005 // Michigan’s total workers’ compensation payments for injured workers’ cash benefits and medical care fell by 2.4 percent to $1,477 million in 2003, according to a report released today by the National...
PCI Says Court Ruling Threatens Workplace Safety
Aug 11 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America is disappointed that the state Supreme Court has invalided what PCI believed was a valuable law designed to help provide drug and alcohol-free working environments in...
Zenith National, Units Outlook Revised to Postivie; Ratings Affirmed
Aug 11 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has affirmed its ‘BB+’ counterparty credit rating and ‘B+’ preferred stock rating on Zenith National Insurance Corp. (Zenith). Standard &...
Safety National Casualty Acquires ERC’s Excess Comp Book
Aug 10 2005 // Safety National Casualty Corporation has acquired renewal rights to the excess workers’ compensation business of Employers Reinsurance Corporation (ERC). The St. Louis, Mo.-based company l will immediately begin...
Wharton Study Recommends Short-Term TRIA Renewal, Study of Long-Term Solution
Aug 10 2005 // A 224-page report from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania recommends that Congress renew the current federal Terrorism Risk Insurance Act backstop but “only for a relatively short period of...
ACIC’s Releases Special Insurance-Related Legislative Roundup
Aug 8 2005 // This is the Association of California Insurance Companies special report on the status of significant insurance-related bills that are awaiting action by the Legislature. Lawmakers return from their month-long summer...
CAS Attendees Hear of Positive Trends in California Workers’ Comp
Aug 8 2005 // Insurers, and especially self-insurers, are seeing positive trends as a result of the workers’ compensation reforms in California, experts on the subject told attendees at the recent Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS)...
Surprising Share of Workers’ Comp Cases Involve ‘Adverse Surprise’ Costs
Aug 8 2005 // Workers’ compensation cases with significant unanticipated medical care and costs are most common in California and Texas, and can represent as much as 30 percent to 40 percent of medical costs in most states,...
Keeping a Leg Up on Injuries with Post Injury Management
Aug 8 2005 // In today’s environment, work place injuries remain a topic of concern for employers and insurance professionals alike. Many risk managers have worked with employers to develop effective injury and illness prevention...
CAS Attendees Hear of Positive Trends in California Workers’ Comp
Aug 8 2005 // Insurers, and especially self-insurers, are seeing positive trends as a result of the workers’ compensation reforms in California, experts on the subject told attendees at the recent Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS)...
Surprising Share of Workers’ Comp Cases Involve ‘Adverse Surprise’ Costs
Aug 8 2005 // Workers’ compensation cases with significant unanticipated medical care and costs are most common in California and Texas, and can represent as much as 30 percent to 40 percent of medical costs in most states,...
WCRI to Present Study Results for La.
Aug 4 2005 // On Sept. 22, 2005, in Baton Rouge, La., the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) will present the preliminary findings for Louisiana from the 6th Edition of the annual WCRI CompScope multi-state benchmarks study...
ICT to Host Workers’ Comp Conference
Aug 4 2005 // The Insurance Council of Texas will host its 2005 Workers’ Compensation Conference in Austin on Sept. 7. State Representative Burt Solomons of Carrollton, author of House Bill 7, the sweeping workers’...
Okla. Man Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud
Aug 4 2005 // A Duncan, Okla., man will pay more than $15,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to workers’ compensation fraud in Oklahoma County District Court, according to State Attorney General Drew Edmondson. Curtis Ray...
Ohio WC Bureau Planning Hospital Rate Cuts
Aug 3 2005 // In spite of warnings from health care groups, the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation plans to cut the rates it pays hospitals treating sick and injured workers. The bureau insures about two-thirds of all employees...
N.J. Man Finds Workers’ Comp Fraud Doesn’t Pay
Aug 3 2005 // New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice Director Vaughn McKoy announced that a Gloucester County man has pleaded guilty to theft and falsifying records for fraudulently collecting more than $11,000 in workers’...
Okla. Employers May See Lower Workers’ Comp Costs
Aug 1 2005 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland expects workers’ compensation insurance costs for policyholders with licensed insurance companies to decrease because of benefit changes produced by a special session bill...
Fla. Officials Put Wraps on Workers’ Comp Sweeps; 100 SWOs Written to State Employers
Jul 29 2005 // Investigators from Florida’s Department of Financial Services Division of Workers’ Compensation announced the results of a recent two-day sweep of construction sites in the state. Officials said 848 site visits...
