Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
NCCI Payroll Correction to Lower Vt. Workers’ Comp Rates for Some
May 9 2005 // Hundreds of Vermont policyholders may see reductions in their 2003 and 2004 workers’ compensation insurance premiums as a result of adjustments to the data used in the 2003 and 2004 rate filings prepared by the...
AIG FACES AUDIT OVER COMP:
May 9 2005 // The state insurance department is appointing a consultant to audit years of alleged improper booking of workers’ compensation premiums at American International Group. New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and...
SHALALA TO SPEAK AT CHOICE AWARDS
May 9 2005 // U.S. Department of Heath and Human Services former Secretary Donna E. Shalala will be the keynote speaker during the Aug. 23, Third Annual Florida CHOICE Awards for Workers’ Compensation in Orlando, Fla. The program...
SB 899 MAKES A DIFFERENCE TO WORK COMP SYSTEM:
May 9 2005 // April 19 marked the anniversary of the signing of SB 899, the third of three significant workers’ compensation reform measures enacted during the past few years by California’s elected officials. Together,...
Four Suspects Arrested for Workers’ Comp Fraud
May 6 2005 // Authorities arrested four suspects May 6 after an extensive investigation into a workers’ compensation and payroll tax fraud scheme, one in which the suspects allegedly underreported the payroll of their Saratoga...
FBI Targets Insurers in Widening Fraud Probe; Industry Responds
May 5 2005 // The insurance industry, already under scrutiny by state and federal authorities for various practices, now faces another questioner. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched a probe of the insurance industry that...
NCCI State of the Line Report: Workers’ Comp Combined Ratio Best Since 1997
May 5 2005 // The workers’ compensation calendar year combined ratio dropped four points to 105 percent, the best performance for the first time since 1997, according to NCCI Holdings Inc.’s State of the Line preliminary...
AIA Backs N.Y. Workers’ Comp Guaranty Fund Bill
May 5 2005 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) on Wednesday praised legislation (S.5248A/A.7708), which passed the Assembly on Monday and the Senate late Tuesday, to protect the solvency of the workers’ compensation...
Okla. Senate Continues to Spar Over Workers’ Comp Reform
May 3 2005 // The Oklahoma Senate Communications Office reported that Senate President Pro Tempore Mike Morgan cited his constitutional authority and presided over the Oklahoma State Senate on May 2 while standing beside his desk on the...
Okla. State Sen. Laster Lashes Out at Republican Workers’ Comp Bill
May 2 2005 // Oklahomans should know more about House Bill 2046, the workers’ compensation reform measure being pushed by Lt. Governor Mary Fallin, than Republicans are telling them, according to Oklahoma Senate Judiciary Chairman...
Former Calif. SCIF President Webb Passes Away; Worked at SCIF For More than 36 Years
May 2 2005 // Former State Fund President Jack Webb – one of the most influential and colorful figures in the 91-year history of California’s workers’ compensation insurance system – died May 2nd. Webb had been...
Mich. Gov. Makes Appointments to Workers’ Comp Appellate Commission
May 2 2005 // Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced the following recent appointments to the Workers’ Compensation Appellate Commission: Gregory Przybylo of Okemos, attorney in private practice. Przybylo is appointed for a...
Okla. House Passes Comp Reform Measures
Apr 29 2005 // The Oklahoma House of Representatives reported April 28 that it has passed bipartisan workers’ compensation reform that will grow Oklahoma’s economy, creating jobs and wages and providing more benefits for...
Inventum Unveils New Techniques for Identifying Unreported Workers’ Comp and General Liability Exposures
Apr 29 2005 // Ft. Lauderdale – Inventum’s innovative Predictive Exposure Modeling®, pat. pending service has been enhanced to offer improved results to a wider array of workers’ compensation and general liability...
Spitzer, Mills on the Prowl; New York Insurance Dept. to Audit AIG
Apr 26 2005 // New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Insurance Superintendent Howard Mills on Tuesday announced that the Insurance Department would appoint a consultant to audit years of alleged improper booking of workers’...
State Fund Assists Investigation of San Diego Chiropractor Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 26 2005 // A San Diego chiropractor — who was charged with billing State Compensation Insurance Fund for treatment that was not rendered to injured workers and over billed for services — was ordered to surrender her...
Zenith Announces First Quarter Results
Apr 26 2005 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Zenith National Insurance Corp. reported net income of $39.3 million, or $1.65 per share, for the first quarter of 2005 compared to net income of $25.1 million, or $1.09 per share, for the...
Farmers Announces Another California Workers’ Comp Rate Reduction
Apr 26 2005 // The Farmers Insurance Group of Companies announced a 10 percent rate reduction in workers’ compensation rates for its California business customers. Since 2004, Farmers has slashed its workers’ compensation...
NAMIC Urges Anti-tort Reform, Comp Vetoes in Colorado
Apr 25 2005 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) has asked Colorado’s governor to veto two bills that would erode ongoing tort reform and undermine the state’s worker’s compensation...
Calif. Commissioner Comments on Workers’ Comp Pure Premium Rate Hearing
Apr 25 2005 // The following statement is from California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi in regards to today’s workers’ compensation pure premium rate hearing: “The information I received today is very...
