Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mo.’s Gov. Blunt Tabs Insurance Lawyer to Chair Labor and Industrial Relations Commission
Jan 16 2005 // JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt has named an insurance defense attorney as chairman of the state Labor and Industrial Relations Commission. As chairman, Bill Ringer, 56, will represent the...
Survey: Investigations into Industry Practices to Expand in 2005; Respondents Expect Consolidation to Continue
Jan 14 2005 // Leaders of the property/casualty insurance industry expect the investigations into certain industry practices by state attorneys general and insurance departments will continue to expand in 2005, according to a survey...
Texas Workers’ Comp Bill Presented
Jan 14 2005 // Texas State Senator Todd Staples of Palestine has introduced Senate Bill 5, designed to overhaul the state’s workers’ compensation program. “In Texas, we spend far more to treat on-the-job injuries, but...
PCS to Provide CAT Designations, Loss Estimates for Terrorist Acts and Outsized Workers’ Comp Events
Jan 14 2005 // ISO’s Property Claim Services (PCS) unit has expanded its services to include loss estimates for potential catastrophic terrorism losses. PCS this week announced it will assign catastrophe serial numbers to potential...
Okla. Senate Leader Names Workers’ Comp One of Most Important Issues for Session
Jan 14 2005 // Oklahoma Senate President Pro Tempore Cal Hobson, D-Lexington, offered the following statement regarding reform of the state’s workers’ compensation system, which is expected in the legislative session that...
Proposed Mo. Bill Aims to Reduce WC Premiums
Jan 14 2005 // Senate Republicans made workers’ compensation the first order of business last Wednesday, hearing testimony on a proposed bill that would reduce the number of injured workers eligible for benefits. Missouri’s...
Four Californians Arrested for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jan 14 2005 // Joint investigations by the California Department of Insurance’s Fraud Division and the Imperial County District Attorney’s Office have resulted in the felony arrests of four suspects for multiple counts of...
New Md. Medical Liability Law, Upcoming Issues Reportedly Concerning Insurers
Jan 13 2005 // Although disappointed that the Maryland General Assembly chose to override Gov. Robert Ehrlich’s veto of a controversial medical liability reform bill, insurers are reportedly equally concerned about other challenges...
CRM Appoints New Claims Account Coordinator
Jan 13 2005 // Irvine, Calif.-based Compensation Risk Managers of California, LLC (CRM) has announced the appointment of Edward Low as the firm’s new claims account coordinator for California. Low has extensive experience in...
Houston Man Fined for Workers’ Comp Fraud Scam
Jan 12 2005 // Austin-based Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Henry Prince of Houston has pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges and must pay restitution to the insurer. The Travis County 147th...
Guy Carpenter & Co. Report Finds U.S. Reinsurance Market Flat, Slightly Down
Jan 10 2005 // Guy Carpenter & Company Inc., part of the Marsh & McLennan Companies, has released its annual report on pricing at renewals, U.S. Reinsurance Renewals at Jan. 1, 2005, which found pricing generally to be flat to...
CWCI to Host Seminar on New Permanent Disability Rating Schedule
Jan 10 2005 // Tthe California Workers’ Compensation Institute has announced it will conduct a one-day seminar, “PD Rating 102: Practical & Legal Aspects of Implementing California’s New PD Rating Schedule.”...
R.I. Approves 20% Cut in Workers’ Comp Loss Costs
Jan 9 2005 // Average loss costs for workers’ compensation insurers adopting figures from the National Council on Compensation Insurance in Rhode Island are going down 20.2 percent following an order by the Department of Business...
AIA: Attorneys Call for Workers’ Comp Rate Regulation
Jan 7 2005 // Democratic lawmakers and attorneys are using the recently implemented workers’ compensation reforms as a tool in their game to undermine Gov. Schwarzenegger’s track record, according to the American Insurance...
California Approves Workers’ Comp Self-Insurance Group for Private Schools
Jan 6 2005 // Facing the ever-increasing workers’ compensation costs, a group of private schools recently was approved by the California Department of Industrial Relations, Office of Self-Insurance Plans to begin operating a...
Calif. Chiropractor, Two Associates Nabbed in Workers’ Comp Scam Costing More than $10 Million
Jan 6 2005 // A Modesto, California chiropractor and two employees were arrested early Thursday on charges that they repeatedly billed for services that were unnecessary or never rendered from 1996 through 2004, potentially costing...
Mass. Prison Officer Indicted for Comp Fraud
Jan 5 2005 // A former Bristol County (Mass.) Corrections Officer has been indicted for working while collecting workers’ compensation benefits, according to Attorney General Tom Reilly. Kevin J. Mello, of South Dartmouth was...
Governor’s Plan Putting Calif. Workers’ Comp Market on Right Track, Says ACIC
Jan 5 2005 // Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plan for reform of the troubled California workers’ compensation system is already putting the state’s system on more stable footing, according to the state’s...
Beleaguered Workers' Comp Lines Seek Captives as a Solution
Jan 3 2005 // With workers’ compensation insurance costs skyrocketing, many companies are considering a captive solution, but industry observers say companies should first consider all alternatives, and if they do decide to set up...
MICH. TO SEE 11.2% DROP IN AVERAGE COMP RATE:
Jan 3 2005 // Michigan will see an 11.2 percent decline in the average workers’ compensation insurance rate, the largest drop in nearly a decade. The pure premium rate decline is reportedly due, in part, to well-developed safety...
