Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
IWIF Workers’ Comp Seminars Now Interactive, Still Free
Feb 14 2005 // IWIF, a Maryland provider of workers’ compensation insurance, has introduced a new interactive feature to its policyholder seminar lineup. Business owners, IWIF policyholders and independent insurance agents will now...
Solomons’ Bill Calls for Overhaul of Texas’ Comp System
Feb 11 2005 // State Rep. Burt Solomons (Carrollton) recently filed a bill that would make major changes to the workers’ compensation system in Texas. According to an announcement released by the House of Representatives, House...
Mo. Senators Square-Off on Workers’ Comp Bill
Feb 11 2005 // Senators began debate Wednesday on a Republican-favored bill that would limit the number of workers’ eligible for compensation in an effort to bring down high insurance premiums for Missouri businesses. The state...
Nev. Man Charged in Workers’ Comp Scam
Feb 11 2005 // Nevada Attorney General Brian Sandoval announced that following a plea of guilty, District Judge Steven Kosach sentenced Dennis Dean Hogue, 51, to 12 to 34 months in the Nevada State Prison for one count of Worker’s...
AWCC to Hold Educational Conference Oct. 12 – 14
Feb 10 2005 // The Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission (AWCC) has scheduled its 18th annual Education Conference for Oct. 12-14, 2005, in Little Rock’s DoubleTree Hotel and the adjacent Robinson Convention Center. Alan...
N.Y. Workers Comp Security Fund Almost Out of Money
Feb 8 2005 // The fund that pays New York injured workers whose workers’ compensation carriers have gone belly up is itself nearly bankrupt, according to state officials. The New York Workers Compensation Security Fund has about...
Some California Doctors Leaving Workers’ Comp System
Feb 8 2005 // Francis Pecoraro is trading a San Francisco Bay area medical practice that mainly serves injured workers for one in Wilmington, N.C., that he believes will be friendlier to doctors and doctors’ families. Pecoraro,...
AIG Aviation Grows Specialty Workers’ Comp Program; Risks for Fixed Base Operators Covered
Feb 8 2005 // AIG Aviation Inc., a member company of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), is expanding its Specialty Workers’ Compensation offering to cover the risks associated with Fixed Base Operators (FBOs) at private,...
Ohio Man Ordered to Pay Up
Feb 7 2005 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation announced a Columbus man has been sentenced for a misdemeanor charge of workers’ compensation fraud. Souhil Sabbagh was sentenced to one year probation and ordered to...
Ohio Man Commits Misdemeanor Fraud
Feb 7 2005 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation announced a Springfield man has been sentenced for a misdemeanor charge of workers’ compensation fraud. Jeff Hamm was sentenced to three months incarceration, a $300...
Ohio Woman Caught in Comp Scam
Feb 7 2005 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation announced a Clark County woman has been sentenced for a felony charge of workers’ compensation fraud. Doris Marcy was sentenced to one year probation and ordered to pay...
Oklahoma Lawmakers Hope to Stem Workers’ Comp Crisis
Feb 7 2005 // Oklahoma lawmakers previously announced that workers’ compensation would figure prominently in this year’s legislative session. So far they are backing up their words with action, as a number of bills have...
SEABRIGHT FILES IPO; PLANS TO WRITE WORKERS’ COMP IN CALIFORNIA:
Feb 7 2005 // Seattle-based Seabright Insurance Holdings Inc. raised $78.8 million in their initial public offering Jan. 20, with shares priced at the high end of the expected range, Reuters reported. Seabright recently entered the...
CALIF.’S STATE FUND IMPLEMENTS NEW REFORM MEASURE:
Feb 7 2005 // State Compensation Insurance Fund announced the establishment of an enhanced Medical Provider Network that will assure the provision of rapid access to medical treatment for injured workers. The network expands on State...
Calif. Chiropractor, Associates Nabbed in $10M Workers’ Comp Scam
Feb 7 2005 // A Modesto, Calif. chiropractor and two employees were arrested on charges that they repeatedly billed for services that were unnecessary or never rendered from 1996 through 2004, potentially costing insurers more than $10...
Four Arrested for Workers' Comp Fraud
Feb 7 2005 // Joint investigations by the CDI’s Fraud Division and the Imperial County District Attorney’s Office have resulted in the felony arrests of four suspects for multiple counts of workers’ comp insurance...
State Compensation Insurance Fund President Oki Announces Retirement
Feb 5 2005 // State Compensation Insurance Fund announced that after three years of leading California’s largest workers’ compensation insurer, Fund President Dianne Oki will retire in the coming month after a 37-year career...
Five Northern Californians Arrested on Charges of Insurance Fraud
Feb 4 2005 // On Jan. 13, 2005, Victor Morales Delgado and his brother-in-law, Jose Guerrero, both of Sacramento, self-surrendered to investigators with the California Department of Insurance Organized Auto Insurance Task Force (Task...
Okla. Gov. Henry Unveils Workers’ Comp Plan
Feb 3 2005 // Saying he wants to cut costs for business and boost benefits for injured workers, Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry announced his comprehensive reform plan for the state’s workers’ compensation system. Based on the...
LAPD Cop Nabbed in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Feb 3 2005 // A Los Angeles Police Department officer who worked as an armed security guard at Staples Center and Dodger Stadium while collecting disability benefits for on-duty injuries was convicted this week of workers’...
