Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Court Says Texas Providers, Carriers Must Pay IRO Fees in Medical Necessity Disputes
Aug 17 2004 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission reported that the Third Court of Appeals in Austin has upheld the constitutionality of TWCC’s rules regarding fees to be paid to Independent Review Organizations...
Monument LLC, Forms Cornerstone Comp to Serve Faith-based Schools
Aug 17 2004 // Monument LLC, a California-based design, implementation and management firm of self-insured workers’ compensation groups, announced that it has formed Cornerstone Comp Inc., a new, self-funded California-based...
S&P Report Warns on California Workers’ Compensation
Aug 16 2004 // Downward pricing pressures threaten to send the California workers’ compensation market into another tailspin, according to a new report from Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services. “The industry has...
PAULA Financial Reports Net Income for 2Q 2004
Aug 13 2004 // Pasadena-based PAULA Financial announced net income for the second quarter of 2004 of $215,000, a 90 percent increase over net income of $113,000 for the 2003 period. Net income for the six months ended June 30, 2004 also...
Wis. Comp Costs Rose 11%, Still Low in Comparison
Aug 12 2004 // The average medical payment per claim to injured workers in Wisconsin continued to grow at a double-digit rate, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The study of 12 states...
R.I. Court to Decide Next Week on Personal Liability of Nightclub Owners for $1 Million Workers’ Comp Penalty
Aug 12 2004 // The Rhode Island Workers Compensation Court has refused to dismiss a case by state labor officials that seeks to hold the owners of The Station nightclub personally liable for their failure to purchase workers compensation...
TWCC, IWCF to Hold 14th Annual Texas Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference
Aug 11 2004 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission and the International Workers’ Compensation Foundation Inc. are the sponsors of the 14th Annual Texas Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference. The...
Fla. DFS Honored by Trade Group for Online Database
Aug 11 2004 // The Florida Department of Financial Services’ Division of Workers’ Compensation received top honors from an international trade group that assists national, state and local governments in overseeing...
Ohio BWC Reports Paid Medical Costs for WC Claims Lower Than Expected
Aug 10 2004 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) announced this week paid medical costs for workers’ compensation claims were 8.5 percent, or nearly $80 million lower, than expected medical costs for fiscal year...
Judge Rules OSHA Must Disclose Safety Violators
Aug 9 2004 // The government must disclose the names of companies with the worst safety records along with their injury rates, a federal judge has ruled. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a Labor Department agency, had...
Ga. Workers’ Comp Board Appoints Imahara
Aug 9 2004 // Georgia’s State Board of Workers’ Compensation announced the appointment of David Imahara, current Appellate Division Director, to the position of Administrative Law Judge effective Aug. 15. Imahara will become...
MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL COSTS STAY LOW:
Aug 9 2004 // The average medical payment per claim for the care of injured workers in Massachusetts rose 13 percent in the most recent period but still remained the lowest of the 12 states analyzed in a study by the Cambridge-based...
COMMISSIONER SAYS CALIF. WORK COMP RATES ARE GOING DOWN:
Aug 9 2004 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced that workers’ compensation rate filings illustrate a downward trend, but still fall short of his pure premium rate advisory of minus 20.9 percent issued on...
N.D. Man Pleads Guilty in Comp Case
Aug 9 2004 // A Mandan, N.D., man was ordered to pay more than $40,000 in back premium and penalties to Workforce Safety & Insurance (WSI) after pleading guilty to a charge of failure to secure workers’ compensation coverage...
Fla. Construction Co. Owner Charged
Aug 9 2004 // An Indian Harbor, Fla., construction company owner was charged with workers’ compensation fraud after jeopardizing the coverage of at least one employee, according to investigators with the Department of Financial...
Calif. State Fund Awarded $135,000
Aug 9 2004 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund will collect $135,000 in restitution from a San Diego County-based construction firm as part of the sentence in a workers’ compensation insurance fraud case. San...
WCRI: Pennsylvania Comp Medical Costs Per Claim Continue Growth
Aug 9 2004 // The average medical payment for workers’ compensation claims in Pennsylvania rose nearly 14 percent during the most recent period studied, according to the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The study...
Joint Investigation Nabs Louisiana Workers’ Comp Fraudster
Aug 9 2004 // Louisiana’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Administration (OWCA) reported recently that an attempt to cheat the state’s workers’ compensation insurance program has resulted in a prosecution and...
California State Fund Fraud Program Nets $5 Million from Convictions
Aug 9 2004 // State Compensation Insurance Fund’s anti-fraud program has enabled California district attorneys to win more than $5 million in restitution orders. The restitution judgments are reportedly a direct result of 155...
Rhode Island Wants Nightclub Owners Held Personally Liable for Failure to Carry Workers’ Comp
Aug 6 2004 // The owners of The Station nightclub of Warwick should be held personally liable for failing to have workers’ compensation insurance for their employees, the state of Rhode Island argued this week in Workers’...
