Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
PCI SAYS INSURERS SURVIVE COLORADO LEGISLATIVE SESSION:
May 23 2005 // At the conclusion of Colorado’s recent legislative session, PCI said that the insurance industry successfully worked to preserve Colorado’s stable marketplace. Colorado’s insurance scoring law, which is...
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May 23 2005 // MASSACHUSETTS Safe Driver Plan Revised: Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julie M. Bowler has approved changes in the way drivers receive discounts and surcharges to their auto insurance policies based on their driving...
Fla. OKs Funds to Fight PIP Fraud
May 23 2005 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher thanked legislators for approving his request for funding to add more law enforcement investigators to fight PIP fraud and workers’ compensation fraud, and a...
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May 23 2005 // MASSACHUSETTS Safe Driver Plan Revised: Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julie M. Bowler has approved changes in the way drivers receive discounts and surcharges to their auto insurance policies based on their driving...
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May 23 2005 // GEORGIA Licensing System Changes The Georgia Insurance Comm-ission held “Ind-ustry Day Meet-ings” across the state in May to discuss recent changes to the licensing system. In an effort to be responsive to...
To Subscribe or Not Subscribe That is the Workers’ Comp Question
May 23 2005 // As Texans, we pride ourselves on our rugged independence and our determination to forge our own path. That is certainly what Texas has done in the area of workers’ compensation, the state-regulated insurance program...
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May 23 2005 // JURY REACHES PARTIAL VERDICT IN EXECUTIVE LIFE CASE: A jury reached a partial verdict in the case involving the illegal takeover of failed insurer Executive Life Insurance Company on May 9, according to the Associated...
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May 23 2005 // MICHIGAN Commissioner Appeals Credit Scoring Decision The state of Michigan has filed an appeal of a judge’s ruling that allowed insurance companies to continue using customers’ credit scores to determine their...
Alaska Workers’ Compensation Bill Goes into Overtime
May 23 2005 // An Alaska committee of House and Senate members was unable to hammer out a compromise plan to revise workers’ compensation laws, leaving work on the bill to be completed during a special session scheduled to take...
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May 23 2005 // James Robinson Huber has been appointed senior vice president and regional executive, Southeast Region for ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of The ACE Group of Companies. Based in Atlanta, Huber will be...
Workers’ Comp: An Introductory View into Loss Sensitive Plans
May 23 2005 // By Jeremiah Howard and Robert Young At a time in the California workers’ compensation marketplace where insureds are desperately seeking rate relief, many have begun to seriously evaluate alternatives to the...
California’s State Fund Seminar on Workers’ Comp Fraud Draws Kern County Employers
May 20 2005 // As part of its commitment to fight workers’ compensation insurance fraud, State Fund held a seminar May 18 at the Valley Plaza’s Pacific Theatre where more than 200 Kern County employers heard State Fund and...
San Jose Chain Store Owners Plead Guilty in Workers’ Comp Scam
May 20 2005 // A San Jose, California husband and wife have pled guilty to charges of workers’ compensation premium fraud and will serve 14-month jail sentences and pay $2 million in restitution following a multi agency...
Independent Banks Partner to Save on Calif. Workers’ Comp Costs
May 19 2005 // Facing ever-increasing workers’ compensation costs, a group of California banks received approval from the FDIC and filed an application with the State of California to form a self-insurance group (SIG) and is...
Electronic Proof of Coverage Approved by Ark. Workers’ Comp Commission
May 19 2005 // The Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission (AWCC) announced the adoption of electronic proof of coverage (POC), effective July 1, 2005, at which time the form AR-I (Insurance Coverage Card) no longer will be...
New Permanent Disability Regulations to Reduce Workers’ Comp Rates
May 19 2005 // New permanent disability regulations will reduce the cost of workers’ compensation insurance pure premium rates by anywhere from three to 12 percent, said California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi in a...
Mass. Approves 3% Workers’ Comp Rate Reduction
May 19 2005 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler has approved a 3.0 percent overall average rate reduction in workers’ compensation rates, a savings of $32.6 million in premiums paid by employers. The new rates...
N.Y. Workers’ Comp Writers Seek 16% Rate Boost for October
May 18 2005 // The New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board has submitted a filing for an average 16.1 percent rate increase effective Oct. 1, 2005. This filing came at the same time that the board withdrew its bid for a 9.5 percent...
Calif. Contractor Sentenced in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case; Will Pay State Fund $605,940
May 17 2005 // The owner of a Corona, California-based construction firm has begun serving a two-year jail sentence as part of his conviction on felony workers’ compensation insurance fraud. Lawrence S. Hatfield, 59, of Orange...
Garamendi Covers Workers’ Comp to Run for Lt. Governor in Talk with Insurance Journal
May 17 2005 // With the list of insurance industry issues never small in California, Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi recently took time out from his schedule to chat with Online Editor Dave Thomas. Is the workers’...
