Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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’...
OSHA Urges Federal Employees to Buckle Up
Aug 6 2004 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in partnership with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will hold a motor vehicle safety symposium to drive...
ACIC Comments on Workers’ Comp Rates
Aug 6 2004 // Sam Sorich, president of the Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) issued a statement in response to calls for price controls on workers’ compensation insurance. “Now is not the time to...
Texas Lt. Gov. Calls for Study on Workers’ Comp Pricing
Aug 6 2004 // On the heels of new numbers from the Texas Department of Insurance showing that workers’ compensation insurance carriers are charging higher premiums even though claim costs are decreasing, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst...
W. Va. WCC Receives Record Premiums
Aug 6 2004 // The West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission on Monday received more than $52 million in premiums, a new single-day record that exceeds the previous mark by nearly a half-million dollars. Deposits by check or...
NCCI Requests Work Comp Rate Hikes in Okla.
Aug 5 2004 // Worker’s compensation insurers operating in Oklahoma want a significant increase in the premiums they charge for coverage, the Associated Press and The Oklahoman reported. An industry group representing the companies...
TWCC Imposes Penalties for Late Benefit Payments
Aug 5 2004 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission announced it has started a new enforcement strategy to ensure the prompt and timely initiation of Temporary Income Benefits (TIBs) to injured workers. The new strategy is in...
CWCI to Hold Seminar on Permanent Disability Rating
Aug 5 2004 // The California Workers’ Compensation Institute will present a seminar titled “Impairment Rating in California Workers’ Compensation: AMA Guides 101”, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, October 5 at...
Texas Assoc. of Business Backs Revamp of Workers’ Comp System
Aug 4 2004 // The Texas Association of Business (TAB) is calling for major organizational reform of the Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission, saying the agency’s current leadership structure undermines its ability to...
Okla. Republicans Vow to Keep Pushing Comp Reform
Aug 4 2004 // The minority leaders of the Oklahoma Senate and House of Representatives issued an announcement stating that legislative action during the state’s last legislative session could have staved off the higher...
PCI Backs Ky. Governor’s Action on WC Funds
Aug 3 2004 // A decision by Gov. Ernie Fletcher to have the Office of Insurance take over regulation of the group self-insured workers’ compensation funds in Kentucky is reportedly supported by the Property Casualty Insurers...
Three Suspects Arrested for Alleged Auto, Work Comp Insurance Fraud
Aug 3 2004 // Investigators arrested three people August 3 on numerous felony charges after a 3-year California Department of Insurance investigation into a chiropractic office, which uncovered numerous alleged auto insurance and...
ICT to Hold Fall 2004 Workers’ Compensation Seminars
Aug 2 2004 // The Insurance Council of Texas announced the schedule for its Fall 2004 workers’ compensation seminar, Managing Disabilities and Other Benefit Issues in the Texas Workers’ Compensation System. The seminar will...
Oregon Newspaper: Documents Detail Goldschmidt Work for SAIF
Aug 2 2004 // New documents reviewed by a Salem newspaper map out how former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt’s deal-brokering helped shape a plan on medical malpractice insurance for obstetricians in rural Oregon. The former governor was...
Fla. Employer of Killed, Injured Workers Ordered to Halt Work Actions
Aug 2 2004 // The employer of two workers killed and at least three who were injured last month in a construction accident on a Hobe Sound work site has been ordered to cease all business operations in Florida. The order was issued...
NAMIC Issues P/C Legislative Analysis
Aug 1 2004 // One-fifth of the 251 property/casualty bills enacted in the states so far this year relate to the regulation of automobile insurance, according to an analysis by the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies...
Maine Supreme Court Rules on Workers’ Comp Board Evidence Admission Standards
Jul 30 2004 // The Maine Workers Compensation Board is not subject to the more strict rules of evidence governing other courts and should be open to evidence from a variety of sources so long as it is sufficiently reliable, the state...
Dunlap Joins Collier Shannon Scott as Gov’t Relations Advisor
Jul 30 2004 // Washington, D.C.-based law firm Collier Shannon Scott announced that John Dunlap joined the firm as a Government Relations Advisor. Based in Sacramento, Dunlap will help clients navigate California’s political and...
