Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Workers’ Compensation Reform: A Tale of Two States
Jul 4 2005 // The cries for meaningful workers’ compensation reforms have reverberated in the halls of the capitol buildings in Austin and Oklahoma City for many years. Session after session the respective legislatures tinkered...
CAS Attendees Hear of Positive Trends from Calif. Workers’ Comp Reforms
Jul 4 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 Spring...
Calif. Commissioner Discusses Workers’ Comp, Homeowners’ Insurance
Jul 4 2005 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi recently took time out from his schedule to chat with Insurance Journal Online Editor Dave Thomas regarding SB 938, “use it and lose it” practices against...
Contractor Pleads Guilty to Comp Fraud
Jul 4 2005 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced that a Landers roofing contractor has pled guilty to workers’ comp premium fraud and other charges. Michael Louis Curran pled guilty on June 8 to one felony...
Montana Worried About Pending Workers’ Compensation Ruling
Jul 4 2005 // A case before the Montana Workers’ Compensation Court could potentially create a $300 million deficit for the state’s workers’ compensation system. The case before Workers’ Compensation Judge Mike...
WYO. WORKERS’ COMP RATES TO STAY THE SAME FOR NOW:
Jul 4 2005 // Wyoming officials have declined to change the amount businesses pay for workers’ compensation insurance for the time being. An administrator at the Employment Tax Division warned that the issue has not completely...
News Briefs
Jul 4 2005 // MASSACHUSETTS Romney Would Require Insurance: Gov. Mitt Romney would require every person in the state to have health insurance under his plan for universal health coverage, which he has dubbed the Safety Net Care...
Missouri Lays Down the Law
Jul 4 2005 // After years of clamoring for relief from expanding workers’ compensation claims, payouts and premiums, Missouri employers are heralding legislative changes that may signal a growing trend by business to curtail...
