Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
SCC Sets Workers’ Comp Premium Level Adjustments for Va. Workers
Dec 16 2004 // The State Corporation Commission (SCC) has approved revisions to the premium levels charged for workers’ compensation insurance in Virginia. Workers’ compensation insurance provides medical care and wage...
Okla. Has Record Year for Low Workplace Injury, Illness
Dec 15 2004 // For the second year in a row, Oklahoma workplaces set records for the fewest number of recordable injuries and illness as well as the lowest injury and illness rate, according to the state’s Department of Labor. The...
Sloan Mason Announces Revision in Workers’ Comp/USL&H Product
Dec 13 2004 // Sloan Mason Insurance Services announced an important revision to their Workers’ Compensation/USL&H product for California companies with longshore exposures. Domestic U.S. Insurance Carrier – A.M. Best...
Ohio Chiropractor Gets 1 Year of Probation for Comp Fraud, Pays Back $216,000
Dec 13 2004 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation announced a Greenville, Ohio, man has pled guilty to a felony charge of workers’ compensation fraud. Dr. Robert Fantasia was sentenced to one year of probation, basic...
Hawaii Chamber of Commerce Ready to Resume Legislative Battle to Reform Workers’ Comp
Dec 13 2004 // The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii said it is ready to resume the legislative battle to reform workers’ compensation laws, an effort that was unsuccessful last year in spite of efforts by a number of business groups...
4,000 Businesses In Group Comp Fund Owe $51 Million In Ky. Self-Insurance Claims
Dec 10 2004 // More than 4,000 Kentucky business owners participating in a group workers’ compensation fund have been left holding-the-bag and being billed for $51 million in claims racked up by AIK Comp, a self-insurance plan...
State Fund Collects $550,000 in Restitution from Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Dec 10 2004 // State Compensation Insurance Fund collected $550,000 as the first installment of a total $677,693.00 owed to the Fund from a Los Angeles business owner who pleaded no contest to felony workers’ compensation insurance...
Texas Mutual Announces New Purchasing Group
Dec 10 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced its newest workers’ compensation purchasing group: the Texas Sign Association. The group will provide qualifying members with a competitive option for workers’...
Bowman Named Ark. Insurance Commissioner
Dec 8 2004 // Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has named Julie Benafield Bowman of Little Rock as the state insurance commissioner. The governor made the announcement during a Tuesday morning news conference at the state Capitol. Bowman will...
Calif. Contractor Associations, Unions Form Trust to Administer Workers’ Comp Carve-Out Program
Dec 7 2004 // Northern California contractors and unions representing carpenters, laborers and operating engineers have formed a labor-management trust to administer a collectively bargained workers’ compensation carve-out...
ACIC Releases Statement on Workers’ Comp Reforms
Dec 7 2004 // The following is a statement presented to the Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee Dec. 7 on workers’ compensation reforms. The statement by Jeff Fuller, ACIC’s executive vice president and general...
Calif. Releases 2005 User Funding/Fraud/Uninsured Employer & Subsequent Injury Fund Rates
Dec 6 2004 // The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) has issued 2005 assessment rates for User Funding, Anti-Fraud Programs, the Uninsured Employer Benefit Trust Fund and the Subsequent Injury Benefit Trust Fund. State...
Self Insured Solutions Forms California’s First Agricultural Workers’ Comp Self-insured Group
Dec 6 2004 // Following up on the establishment of the California Contractors Network — a self-insured group (SIG) for high-risk employers — Self Insured Solutions has created California’s first Agricultural...
L.A. Business Owner Sentenced for Comp Fraud
Dec 6 2004 // A Los Angeles business owner was sentenced to pay $1.8 million in restitution and fines this week after a three-year joint investigation involving the California Department of Insurance found he had underreported wages at...
N.D. COMP BOARD ADOPTS 5% RESERVING DISCOUNT:
Dec 6 2004 // The board of directors of North Dakota’s monopoly workers’ compensation provider, Workforce Safety and Insurance, voted to adopt a 5 percent discount in calculating the WSI reserve fund. The board also...
OHIO COMP MEDICAL COSTS DOWN 6.7%:
Dec 6 2004 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation announced recently that paid medical costs for workers’ compensation claims were down 6.7 percent, about $15 million lower than expected for the first quarter of fiscal...
TWCC PENALIZES CARRIERS:
Dec 6 2004 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission (TWCC) issued 62 Notices of Violation (NOVs) to insurance carriers on Nov. 9, 2004, for a total of $155,500 in penalties for late initial payments of Temporary Income...
Garamendi Recommends 2.2% Reduction in WC Pure Premium Rates
Dec 6 2004 // California Insurance Comm-issioner John Garamendi called for a 2.2 percent reduction in pure premium rates for workers’ compensation insurance in a Nov. 17 conference call to the media. “My current advice to...
Documentary Tells Story of Injured Worker’s Struggle with State Fund
Dec 6 2004 // Production recently finished on a documentary detailing an injured worker’s personal struggle with California’s workers’ compensation system. Writer/producer of the documentary Almost Broken, Christine...
AIA: CAAA LAWSUIT WILL UNDERMINE WORKERS’ COMP REFORMS:
Dec 6 2004 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) issued a statement in response to the lawsuit filed by the California Applicant Attorneys Association (CAAA) challenging the regulations regarding Medical Provider Networks (MPNs)...
