Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Rodriguez Admits Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 23 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Enrique Rodriguez of Houston has pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The 390th District Court of Travis County sentenced Rodriguez to two years...
WTC Benefits Awarded to Absentee Father
Apr 21 2004 // A man is entitled to half his son’s World Trade Center-related death benefits, even though the father abandoned him as an infant, a state appeals court decided recently. The workers’ compensation death benefit...
Workers’ Comp Association Urges TRIA Extension
Apr 21 2004 // The American Association of State Compensation Insurance Funds, based in Bloomington, Minn., reported that it has urged key members of Congress to extend the federal Terrorism Risk Insurance Act beyond its Dec. 31, 2005,...
XL Launches U.S. Primary Casualty Risk Management Program, Excess Workers Comp Division
Apr 20 2004 // Bermuda’s XL Capital Ltd. announced that it plans to enter the market for primary casualty risk management programs for major U.S. corporations. The company also announced the launch of an Excess Workers Compensation...
Intracorp Says It Can Help Reduce Workers’ Comp Costs in California
Apr 20 2004 // Philadelphia-based Intracorp says that it can help slow down skyrocketing workers’ compensation costs through a new suite of managed care tools designed specifically for California companies. “With medical...
CWCI Details Calif. Workers’ Comp Reform Overhaul
Apr 20 2004 // Governor Schwarzenegger fulfilled one of his most ambitious campaign promises April 19 signing Senate Bill 899 (Poochigian), a comprehensive workers’ compensation bill that addresses many of the major cost drivers...
Maine Agents Told Markets, InsurBanc, IIABA Enjoying Spring Growth
Apr 19 2004 // Speakers at this year’s annual meeting of the Maine Insurance Agents Association didn’t let a sneaky spring snowfall get them down as they issued positive reports on markets, products, association business and...
Terrorism Tops List of Concerns for Workers’ Comp Professionals
Apr 19 2004 // Industry executives in the workers’ compensation field from across the nation gathered in Las Vegas Feb. 5-6 for the 5th Annual AMCOMP (American Society of Workers’ Comp Professionals Inc.) Meeting &...
Two Fla. Residents Face Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Apr 19 2004 // Two Florida men are facing workers’ compensation fraud charges after insurance fraud investigators with the Department of Financial Services conducted investigations of numerous construction sites in and around...
Bringing Steady Leadership to Mississippi for Several Decades
Apr 19 2004 // With continued service to the state of Mississippi since the mid-70’s, Insurance Commissioner George Dale has been a steadying influence for the industry in the Magnolia State. When Dale was elected commissioner in...
LA. WOMAN FACES COMP CHARGES:
Apr 19 2004 // A Vernon Parish, Louisiana woman has been arrested on charges of workers’ compensation fraud. Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti, Jr. said 27-year-old Georgianna Smith of Anacoco, manipulated the system to...
OKLA. COMP BILL SHELVED:
Apr 19 2004 // Oklahoma State Senate President Pro Tempore Cal Hobson announced that the Senate Judiciary Committee will not hear House Bill 2619, which addresses the state’s workers’ compensation system. Hobson said the bill...
Garamendi, CDI File Lawsuit Against State Compensation Insurance Fund
Apr 19 2004 // Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi and the California Department of Insurance (CDI) filed a suit against State Compensation Insurance Fund (State Fund), California’s workers’ comp insurer of last resort, in...
Workers’ Compensation – Small- to Mid-Size Employer
Apr 19 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Insurex Inc. and Frontier General announce the release of a new workers’ compensation product in California with ACE Casualty Risk, a division of ACE USA. The new product launched is called ACE...
Worker Pleads Guilty in Work Comp Case
Apr 19 2004 // A 25-year-old Central Washington man, Fernando Palestino, has pleaded guilty in Chelan County Superior Court to first-degree theft, second-degree perjury and first-degree identity theft after he was caught working at a...
Calif. Commissioner Calls for Workers’ Comp Reform Savings to be Passed Through to Employers
Apr 16 2004 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi released the following statement in regards to the recent agreement by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature for a workers’ compensation reform...
AIA Says No to Calif. Rate Regulation
Apr 16 2004 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) on Thursday issued a statement in response to the introduction of ABX4 16. This measure would reportedly impose a new rate regulation scheme on workers’ compensation carriers...
Calif. Legislature Passes Workers’ Comp Bill
Apr 16 2004 // The California state Assembly overwhelmingly passed a workers’ compensation reform measure to repair the state’s troubled workers’ comp system by a 77-03 vote, while the State Senate passed the measure by...
ACE USA Makes Available Defense Base Act Workers’ Comp Coverage for Overseas Jobs
Apr 16 2004 // ACE US International, a unit of ACE USA-the U.S.-based retail operating division of The ACE Group of Companies- is offering coverage for Defense Base Act (DBA) workers’ compensation exposures for prime contractors...
Brown & Brown Fined $250K; Settles Case with TDI
Apr 16 2004 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) reported that it recently imposed a $250,000 fine against a Houston insurance agency that marketed and sold workers’ compensation insurance policies in violation of state...
