Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California’s State Fund Riverside District Office Hosts Employer Seminar on Workers’ Comp Fraud Prevention
Jul 12 2005 // As part of its commitment to fight workers’ compensation insurance fraud, California’s State Fund will host a free fraud prevention seminar for employers at its Riverside District Office. The seminar will take...
State Selects Sacramento Firm to Study Workers’ Comp System
Jul 11 2005 // The state of California has selected Bickmore Risk Services of Sacramento to conduct an analysis of the effect of recent legislative reforms on workers’ compensation insurance rates and the insurance market. BRS...
Only 40 Percent of Fla. Roofing Contractors Have Workers’ Compensation Coverage
Jul 9 2005 // Rising costs of construction materials and more expensive workers’ compensation insurance are causing roofing contractors to use more uninsured workers according to Department of Financial Services Office of...
XL Expects Negative Q2 Results Following Reserve Strengthening
Jul 8 2005 // Bermuda’s XL Capital Ltd. has announced today that its second quarter 2005 results will be adversely impacted by an increase in net reserves in its North American reinsurance operations of $191 million...
Mich. Sponsors Comp Seminar
Jul 7 2005 // The Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth and the State Bar of Michigan have teamed up to develop a four-part seminar series about workers’ compensation, beginning Aug. 3. The series, aimed at lawyers and...
Montlake Holdings, Texas Alliance of Energy Producers Form Self-Insured Group for Workers’ Comp
Jul 7 2005 // The Texas Alliance of Energy Producers and Montlake Holdings announced they have established a self-insured group for workers’ compensation insurance, the only one of its kind in Texas for business owners in the oil...
Wash. L&I’s Anti-Fraud Effort Recovers $27M in First Three Mos. of 2005
Jul 7 2005 // The Washington Department of Labor and Industries’ fraud program recovered more than $27 million in the first three months of this year, according to a report sent to the state Legislature and the Office of Financial...
Alaska Gov. Attaches Workers’ Comp Strings to Budget Appropriations
Jul 6 2005 // Lawmakers made sure Angoon got a taste of the oil-wealth bounty in this year’s capital budget by earmarking money for a search-and-rescue boat, a fire truck, a snow plow and renovations to the community hall. But...
Construction Co. Owner Sentenced in Okla. Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Jul 6 2005 // The owner of a Tulsa construction company will pay $20,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to workers’ compensation fraud, according to Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson. William R. King, 41, was...
Texas Workers’ Comp Education Conference Features New Format
Jul 6 2005 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission and the International Workers’ Compensation Foundation Inc. will sponsor the 15th Annual Texas Workers’ Compensation Education Conference on August 17-19, 2005....
N.C. Man Charged in Comp Scam
Jul 6 2005 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long announced the arrest recently of Robert Samuel Ballard, 49, of Wilkes County on 25 charges of obtaining property under false pretenses. Department of Insurance investigators...
Wash. Workers’ Comp Benefits See an Increase of 0.6%
Jul 5 2005 // Workers currently receiving Washington workers’ compensation time-loss or pension benefits will receive a 0.6 percent cost-of-living increase effective immediately. State law requires that maximum time-loss benefits...
ABI Hails Adoption of Employers Liability (Workers Comp) Attorney Fee Schedule
Jul 5 2005 // The Association of British Insurers (ABI) applauded the announcement that the U.K.’s Civil Justice Council has reached an agreement “on the level of success fees in employers’ liability disease...
Conn. Treasurer Touts Turnaround in Debt-Ridden Second Injury Fund
Jul 5 2005 // Connecticut has eliminated the projected 20-year debt of its Second Injury Fund for workers’ compensation claimants in just six years by paying off the final $48 million late last week, the state treasurer...
Calif. Man Pleads Guilty on Two Counts, Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jul 5 2005 // John Arcurio, 49, of Fillmore, plead guilty June 22, to two felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud and insurance fraud. Arcurio was arrested in Kern County and transferred to the County of Ventura Superior...
What Lines Program Insurers Like, Dislike
Jul 4 2005 // Insurers’ appetite for targeted insurance programs still favors larger deals and shuns workers’ compensation risks, according to one expert’s analysis of conditions. Benfield Inc. Senior Vice President C....
A Roundup of Fraud Activities Reported Across the Southeast
Jul 4 2005 // TRG Officials Must Pay $2.5 M Carmelo Zanfei and William Paul Crouse, accused by Florida’s Department of Financial Services of bilking more than 7,000 Floridians of more than $2.5 million in unpaid insurance bills,...
Standard & Poor’s Annual Insurance Conference
Jul 4 2005 // Top Corporate Executives Stress Moving Beyond Spitzer Despite recent adversity and scrutiny faced by the insurance industry, financial ratings for companies appear on the upswing. “For the first time that I can...
AIK COMP MEMBERS ASSESSED $97 M
Jul 4 2005 // Frankfort, Ky.-based AIK COMP. has announced it plans to assess former members in Kentucky more than $97 million in an attempt to cover its debts. AIK intends to recover the money in retroactive premiums in an attempt to...
BRIDGEFIELD ADDS WORKERS’ COMP FOR N.C. MARKET
Jul 4 2005 // Bridgefield Casualty Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Summit Holding Southeast Inc., announced it is expanding its operations to North Carolina. Bridgefield Casualty is rated “A” (Excellent) by A.M. Best Co. and...
