Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Zenith Announces First Quarter Results
Apr 28 2004 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Zenith National Insurance Corp. reported net income of $25.1 million for the first quarter of 2004 compared to net income of $11.7 million for the first quarter of 2003. Diluted net income per...
Ga. Gov. Names State Rep. Massey to State Board of Workers’ Comp
Apr 28 2004 // Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue announced the appointment of State Representative Warren Massey to the State Board of Workers’ Compensation. “As a member of the General Assembly, Warren has been a dedicated...
Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Proposals Revived
Apr 27 2004 // Several workers’ compensation reforms proposed in a pair of Oklahoma House of Represenatives bills that died in the Senate had new life breathed into them by amendments the House attached to Senate Bill...
AIA Welcomes Hoch As Director of California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation
Apr 27 2004 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) welcomed the April 26 appointment of Andrea Hoch as director of the California Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC). Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) announced his...
CDI Announces Online Workers’ Compensation Rate Comparison Tool
Apr 27 2004 // Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced Tuesday the launch of an online comparison tool listing rates of the top 50 workers’ compensation insurers in the California market. The feature, at...
Mass. Plumber to Spend Time at Home for WC Fraud
Apr 27 2004 // An Abington, Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty to charges he schemed, along with his insurance agent, to avoid paying more than $131,000 in workers’ compensation insurance premiums, Attorney General Tom Reilly...
CWCI Schedules Workers’ Comp Reform Seminars
Apr 26 2004 // The California Workers’ Compensation Institute will hold a 1-day seminar in early June in San Francisco, Irvine and Universal City to educate industry professionals on the provisions and practical implementation...
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...
