Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ky. Temp Supplier Fined for Underreporting Workers’ Compensation to KEMI
Aug 24 2005 // A Kentucky company that supplies temporary workers for underground coal mines has pleaded guilty in Letcher Circuit Court to a felony count of insurance fraud. Boone Mountain Services Inc., of Jackhorn, Ky. was charged...
AIA Calls 98 Percent Increase in Second Injury Fund a ‘Tax’ on S.C. Employers
Aug 24 2005 // The South Carolina Second Injury Fund for workers’ compensation has approved a record-breaking 98 percent annual increase in the Fund’s 2005 assessment charged to employers, another indication that repeal of...
N.C. Legislators Sign ‘Limited Package’ of Workers’ Compensation Reforms
Aug 24 2005 // North Carolina legislators have taken final action on a limited package of workers’ compensation reforms (H. 99), assigning the more contentious and costly issues to an interim legislative study committee, according...
TDI Outlines Workers’ Comp Enforcement Changes
Aug 23 2005 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin released a bulletin summarizing changes in enforcement procedures for the state’s workers’ compensation system that become effective Sept. 1, 2005. House Bill 7 (HB 7)...
Farmers Reports 15% Workers’ Comp Rate Reduction
Aug 23 2005 // The Farmers Insurance Group of Companies has announced a 15 percent rate reduction in workers’ compensation rates for its Texas business customers. This latest reduction comes on the heels of an earlier 20 percent...
TWCC Approves COAs to Self-Insure for 13 Companies
Aug 22 2005 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission approved reapplications for Certificates of Authority to Self-Insure from 12 private employers during a public meeting on August 17. The Commission also approved the...
Lighthouse Underwriters Adds Workers’ Comp to ElderCare Program
Aug 22 2005 // Lighthouse Underwriters LLC (www.lighthouseunderwriters.com), a program underwriting company that works with select industry groups, has expanded its ElderCare insurance program with a new workers’ compensation...
ICT TO HOST WORKERS’ COMP CONFERENCE
Aug 22 2005 // The Insurance Council of Texas will host its 2005 Workers’ Compen-sation Conference in Austin on Sept. 7. State Representative Burt Solomons of Carrollton, author of House Bill 7, the broad workers’...
Mother-Daughter Team Arrested
Aug 22 2005 // Two Kern County farm labor contractors surrendered to authorities July 12 after a two-year investigation found that they had allegedly under-reported their business’ payroll by $1 million. The investigation began...
COMMISSIONER ANNOUNCES -26.78 PERCENT RATE DECREASE IN WORKERS’ COMP:
Aug 22 2005 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced that workers’ compensation insurers in the state filed rate reductions averaging -14.6 percent for policies incepting on or after July 1, 2005 bringing the...
When Failure to Provide Fall Protection Becomes a Willful OSHA Violation
Aug 22 2005 // © 2005 ConstructionWebLinks.com Reprinted with Permission. All Rights Reserved The court rejected the contractor’s claim that it had a stringent fall protection plan, noting that the four-page, handwritten plan...
News Briefs
Aug 22 2005 // ILLINOIS CCC Settles Class Action Suit: Chicago-based claims software-maker CCCInformation Services Inc. and 15 of its customers signed a settlement agreement with the plaintiffs in various class-action suits pending in...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau Sets
Aug 22 2005 // Stung by reports of high medical costs, the Ohio insurance fund for injured workers has proposed to cut the amount of money it pays to reimburse hospitals. The Bureau of Workers’ Compensation will reduce its...
People
Aug 22 2005 // Atlanta-based Crawford & Co. has appointed Stephen Pratt vice president of Carrier Relations, Quality and Technical Claims; and David A. Lee has been named manager of its Little Rock, Ark., Claims Management Services...
News Briefs
Aug 22 2005 // ALABAMA Hurricane Sales Tax Measure Dies An effort was mounted during Alabama Legislature meetings to grant a sales tax break on necessary supplies to prepare for a hurricane but the measure did not pass. Its sponsor Rep....
News Briefs
Aug 22 2005 // Arkansas Conference to Aid Business Leaders The Arkansas Workers Compensa-tion Commission will hold the 18th Annual Workers’ Compen- sation Educational Conference Oct. 12-14 in Little Rock. The AWCC said businesses...
Oilfield Safety a Concern as Energy Demands Rise
Aug 22 2005 // As worldwide oil consumption and demand spirals upward so to does the stress on U.S. oilfield workers to meet those demands, according to the American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) Permian Basin Chapter in...
Former Insurance Broker Pleads Guilty
Aug 22 2005 // The California Department of Insurance announced that Mark Jerome Gentry of Antioch, Calif., entered a guilty plea on June 23, 2005 to multiple counts of grand theft in the Contra Costa County Superior Court. Gentry was...
News Briefs
Aug 22 2005 // WIAA SUBMITS COMMENTS ON LATEST GARAMENDI AGENDA PROPOSAL: The Western Insurance Agents Association submitted comments to the California Department of Insurance opposing yet another over-reaching proposed regulation...
Maryland’s IWIF Partners with Pair of Members to Offer WC Coverage
Aug 19 2005 // IWIF Workers’ Compensation Insurance, a Maryland workers’ compensation insurance carrier, recently introduced two new target market programs specially designed for WANADA and AIMS members domiciled in...
