Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Adding Value in the Workers’ Comp Market Through Technical Analysis
Sep 20 2004 // If insurance brokers want to add value and differentiate themselves from their competitors in this hardening workers’ compensation marketplace, they should pay attention to the intricacies of how experience...
Restaurant Package
Sep 20 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Venture Programs Inc. added a restaurant package through Alea North America Ins. Co. to its Venture Hospitality program. The restaurant package includes property, general liability, liquor liability,...
Going Paperless – Is it for the Independent Agency’
Sep 20 2004 // All Agencies Can Benefit from a Paperless Environment Many independent insurance agents and brokers are used to the concept of “paperless processing” since most of the insurance companies they represent utilize...
CALIF. LEGISLATURE, GOV. TAKE POSITIVE STEPS ON ISSUES:
Sep 20 2004 // The Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) commended the Legislature and governor for taking positive, responsible steps this year on major insurance-related bills. “During the recently concluded...
IAIABC Panel Takes Fresh Look at Terrorism
Sep 20 2004 // In a code orange New York, the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions (IAIABC) took a fresh look at terrorism and its relation to workers’ compensation at its recent 90th Annual...
How Contractors Can Get a Grip on Workers’ Comp Costs
Sep 20 2004 // Small contractors struggling with workers’ compensation coverage may feel like they’re using a one-pound hammer to knock in a nine-inch nail—swing all you want, you won’t get very far. The nail is...
WASH. L&I PROPOSES SMALL INCREASE IN WORKERS’ COMP RATES IN 2005:
Sep 20 2004 // Workers’ compensation premiums would increase an average of only 3.7 percent next year under a proposal issued by the Washington Department of Labor and Industries (L&I). The increase is the lowest in three...
Texas Sunset Advisory Commission Recommends Dismantling TWCC
Sep 16 2004 // The Texas Sunset Advisory Commission thinks the Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission should be abolished. At a Sept. 15 meeting, the committee recommended that TWCC’s current structure should be dismantled...
Washington L&I Sees Dramatic Increase in Recovery of Unpaid Work Comp Premiums
Sep 14 2004 // Three years after it launched an initiative to level the playing field among employers in the construction industry, the Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) has seen a dramatic increase in the amount of unpaid...
Workers’ Compensation Reform Regulations Move Forward On Schedule
Sep 14 2004 // The California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is on track to meet its Nov. 1 deadline for adopting emergency regulations that will allow medical provider networks to begin...
Mass. Gov Urged to Veto Comp Provision in Budget
Sep 14 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) and several other insurance industry groups are urging Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to veto a section of the 2004 supplemental budget dealing with the payment...
Vilsack Signs Bill to Allow Apportionment of Iowa Workers’ Comp Claims
Sep 14 2004 // In a one-day special session, the Iowa Legislature passed a controversial economic stimulus package and reforms that insurers have argued will help reduce workers compensation costs. Gov. Tom Vilsack, a Democrat, signed...
PMA Group Enhances Web site Loss Reporting
Sep 14 2004 // The PMA Insurance Group has introduced an upgrade to its Web site functionality. As of Sept. 1, PMA clients have the option of reporting all lines of PMA claims electronically through the Internet. The new Internet Loss...
Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco
Sep 13 2004 // Laying a Foundation for Long Term Success Being first is not a new thing to Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, who was sworn in on January 12, 2004 as the first female Governor of Louisiana. Twenty years earlier, at the beginning...
Mass. Man Nabbed for Insurance Fraud
Sep 10 2004 // A Hopkinton, Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty to misrepresenting to a contractor that he had workers’ compensation coverage for his employees and then filing a bogus claim with his homeowners’ insurance...
Wash. L&I Proposes Small Increase in Workers’ Comp Rates in 2005
Sep 9 2004 // Workers’ compensation premiums would increase an average of only 3.7 percent next year under a proposal issued by the Washington Department of Labor and Industries (L&I). The increase is the lowest in three...
Iowa Legislature Addresses Workers’ Comp Payments in Special Session
Sep 9 2004 // In a one-day special session, the Iowa Legislature has passed a controversial economic stimulus package and reforms supported by the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) that will reportedly help reduce...
Ohio Man Sentenced in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Sep 7 2004 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) announced a Swanton man has been sentenced for workers’ compensation fraud. David Tressler was sentenced to five years of community control, ordered to pay...
Guy Carpenter Unveils Enhanced Version of CASUS Catastrophe Model
Sep 7 2004 // Guy Carpenter & Co. Inc. announced the launch of an enhanced version of CASUS, the industry’s first and only model for analyzing unknown accumulations in workers’ compensation, group life, accident and...
STUDY: COMP PAYMENTS AGAIN OUTPACE WAGES:
Sep 6 2004 // Total payments for workers’ compensation rose faster than wages in 2002 for the second year in a row, according to a new report released by the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI). In 2002, total...
