Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
N.Y. to Hear 9.5% Workers’ Comp Rate Hike
Dec 30 2004 // The New York State Insurance Department has scheduled a public hearing for Friday, Jan. 7, 2005 to consider the application of the New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board for a workers’ compensation insurance...
Sacramento Day Care Worker Gets 90 Days in Jail in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Dec 30 2004 // Sacramento resident Thomas Jordan was sentenced on Dec. 28 to 90 days in jail on a felony workers’ compensation fraud charge. Jordan was employed by K.C. Family Care Inc. of Sacramento. K.C Family Care operates a...
Washington’s Workers’ Comp Rates Rank in Lowest One-Third in U.S.
Dec 30 2004 // A new rate-comparison study shows that workers’ compensation rates in Washington remain among the lowest in the nation. The 2004 “Workers’ Compensation Premium Rate Ranking” study by the Oregon...
Governor Proposes New Worker’s Compensation Rules
Dec 30 2004 // The Schwarzenegger administration has released a sweeping set of regulations aimed at revising how doctors evaluate permanent injuries to workers and how much compensation they are paid. The new regulations, unveiled last...
Pa. Hikes Maximum Weekly Workers’ Comp Benefit
Dec 29 2004 // Pennsylvania Secretary of Labor & Industry Stephen M. Schmerin announced increases in the maximum weekly benefits for new unemployment compensation beneficiaries and new workers compensation claimants, effective the...
Missouri Employers Mutual Assigned ‘A-‘ by Best
Dec 28 2004 // Ratings agency A.M. Best Co. has assigned a financial strength rating of “A-” (excellent) to Missouri Employers Mutual Insurance Co. The rating outlook is stable. The rating reflects Columbia, Mo.-based...
SCIF Captures $14.6 Million Judgment Against Pair of Calif. Businesses
Dec 27 2004 // In one of the largest awards of its type in the history of California’s workers’ compensation system, State Fund has won a $14.6 million judgment against two Rancho Cucamonga businesses that reportedly used an...
AIA: Applicant Attorneys Workers’ Comp Study is Flawed
Dec 23 2004 // A new study commissioned by the California Applicant Attorney Association (CAAA) is seriously defective, and just another part of their relentless campaign to undermine implementation of recently enacted workers’...
Santa Claus Opts for N.D.’s All-States Comp Cover, Says State Agency
Dec 23 2004 // For the third year in a row, Santa Claus is being issued a special workers’ compensation certificate by North Dakota’s Workforce Safety & Insurance to operate on Christmas Eve and Day, the agency said in a...
AIK Comp to Suspend Writing Workers’ Comp. Business In Kentucky
Dec 22 2004 // AIK Comp, a Kentucky workers’ compensation group self-insurance fund currently in rehabilitation following a $58.5 million shortfall, will suspend writing new or renewal business effective Jan. 1, 2005, Martin...
Wells to Head Zurich Workers’ Comp Unit
Dec 22 2004 // Zurich has appointed Joseph Wells, 45, as director of its workers’ compensation line of business. Wells succeeds Bob Rheel, who was named chief executive officer of Zurich’s General Insurance operations in...
New Calif. Legislation Becomes Law on Jan. 1
Dec 21 2004 // A number of new insurance-related bills will go into law in California on Jan. 1, 2005. They include: Auto Insurance AB 2677 (Ridley-Thomas – Auto Insurance: Cost Estimates) requires insurers to provide personal auto...
Pa. Insurers File for Workers’ Comp Rate Cut
Dec 21 2004 // Pennsylvania workers’ compensation rates will be going down next April if a loss cost filing submitted by the industry is approved. The Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau has recommended that workers’ comp...
Ohio’s Gov. Taft Pushes Hard to Get Comprehensive Tort Reform
Dec 20 2004 // Insurers and business interests appear to have won another victory in Ohio, as Gov. Robert Taft will soon sign a broad tort reform bill that caps jury awards and limits products and obesity liability. This follows on the...
AIG Specialty WC Site Expansion
Dec 20 2004 // AIG Specialty Workers’ Compensation, a division of the property and casualty insurance subsidiaries of American International Group Inc., expanded its “Partners in Productivity” Web site to enable its...
Fla. Comp Rules Repealed, Little Effect Seen on Insurance Industry
Dec 20 2004 // In early December the Florida Supreme Court decided it lacked jurisdiction and repealed Florida’s workers’ compensation rules it had previously enacted. According to knowledgeable industry experts, the action...
Arkansas: New Year to Bring a New Insurance Chief
Dec 20 2004 // The big news for the old year is that Arkansas will kick off the New Year with a new insurance commissioner. Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on Dec. 7, 2004, named Julie Benafield Bowman of Little Rock as insurance department...
Ten Small Alaska Communities Drop City Insurance
Dec 20 2004 // Ten small Alaska communities have discontinued their municipal insurance because of declining assistance from the state and rising insurance and fuel costs, and another dozen could follow within the next few months, said...
TEVIS INSURANCE FILES WITH CDI FOR LICENSE TO SELL WORKERS’ COMP IN CALIFORNIA:
Dec 20 2004 // San Francisco-based Tevis Insurance Company announced that it has filed an application with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) to become a new workers’ compensation insurance carrier. The application will...
Wow! We Made It!
Dec 20 2004 // This is the last issue for the year 2004. And while it may seem like any other Insurance Journal West, it’s actually pretty special and notable. The end of 2004 marks a remarkable achievement here at Insurance...
