Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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)...
Team Drywall Taken Into Custody
Dec 6 2004 // Four individuals from a Highland, Calif. business called Team Drywall were taken into custody in a $290,466 workers’ compensation premium fraud case that was investigated by the California Department of Insurance...
Pair Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Dec 6 2004 // An Inyokern, Calif. couple who reportedly bilked the workers’ comp system out of more than $76,000 in a disability scheme was sentenced to prison Nov. 16 on the charges and ordered to pay $102,706 in restitution and...
W. VA. WORKERS’ COMPENSATION AUDIT REPORTS POSITIVE TRENDS:
Dec 6 2004 // An independent audit report for fiscal 2004 shows continued positive financial trends for the West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission, according to Gregory Burton, executive director. The report cites a...
Fla. Workers’ Compensation Rules Repealed; Little Effect Expected on Insurance Industry
Dec 3 2004 // The Florida Supreme Court yesterday decided that it lacked jurisdiction and repealed recent changes in Florida’s Workers’ Compensation Rules, but according to knowledgeable industry experts, the action should...
Corona Man Arrested for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Dec 3 2004 // Luis Roberto Diaz, of Corona, Calif., surrendered to the San Bernardino Superior Court on November 22, 2004, after being charged with two counts of grand theft, three counts of insurance premium fraud, one count of...
CRM Names Walczyk as COO
Dec 2 2004 // Irvine, Calif.-based Risk Managers of California, LLC (CRM) announced the appointment of a new chief operating officer. Chet Walczyk, a veteran workers’ compensation insurance executive with more than 25 years of...
Tevis Insurance Files with CDI for License to Sell Workers’ Comp in California
Dec 2 2004 // San Francisco-based Tevis Insurance Company announced that it has filed an application with the California Department of Insurance to become a new workers’ compensation insurance carrier. The application will be...
Owner of Maintenance Company that Worked for UCLA, Rose Bowl Charged in Fraud Scam
Dec 2 2004 // The 61-year-old owner of a building maintenance company that did work for UCLA and the Rose Bowl has been charged with multiple counts of filing between $600,000 to $900,000 in fraudulent workers’ compensation...
TWCC Submits Recommendations to Legislature
Dec 1 2004 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission reported that, as required by the Texas Labor Code, it has recommended changes to the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act to be considered by the 79th Texas Legislature...
SIIS to Hold Texas Workers’ Comp Seminar
Dec 1 2004 // Southwestern Insurance Information Service (SIIS) announced it will host a Public Policy Seminar, “Texas Workers’ Compensation Issues,” at a Jan.7, 2005, luncheon beginning at 11:30 a.m. at the Red Lion...
Murphy Promoted to Sr. VP of Heath Texas
Nov 30 2004 // Heath Insurance Brokers announced that Jerry Murphy has been promoted to senior vice president for the company’s Texas branch. Murphy specializes in worker injury coverages including both workers’ compensation...
