Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Small Business Workers’ Compensation
Apr 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: InsureVianet introduced a new Internet-based small business workers’ compensation insurance program for agencies in Indiana and Michigan. This technology allows agents and brokers to enter...
Terrorism Tops List of Concerns for Workers’ Comp Professionals
Apr 5 2004 // Industry executives in the workers’ compensation field from across the nation gathered in Las Vegas recently for the 5th Annual AMCOMP (American Society of Workers’ Comp Professionals Inc.) Meeting &...
The ‘Red Flag’ That Isn’t There
Apr 5 2004 // Starting from an early age, I was always interested in the subject of magic. I would watch the great magicians of the day, read books about Houdini and others, and haunt my local magic shop on Saturday afternoons. It...
Agents Learn about Opportunities, Challenges at Agribusiness Conference
Apr 5 2004 // The Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West (IBA West) and Insurance Skills Center sponsored the 17th Annual Agribusiness Conference held March 17 and 18 in Sacramento. The nation’s largest agricultural conference...
State Fund Awarded $800,000 in Fraud Case
Apr 5 2004 // State Compensation Insurance Fund will collect $800,000 in restitution from two former owners of a San Diego County-based construction company. The award followed their guilty plea on felony workers’ compensation...
Wash. L&I Suspends Registration of Contractors
Apr 5 2004 // Two Vancouver, Wash.-area construction companies and a Port Angeles contractor are the first to lose their registration as a result of action taken by the Wash. Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) for failure to...
One TPA Says it Has the Secret to Reining in Comp’s Transition Costs
Apr 5 2004 // At first glance, Jeffrey McDaniel does not seem disabled. He is built like a football player, and in his mesh green and gold jersey he looks like one too. A pat on the back reveals his muscled frame, the one that helped...
Ga. Set to Repeal Workers’ Comp Subsequent Injury Trust Fund
Apr 2 2004 // The Georgia Senate on Thursday passed and sent to the governor legislation eliminating the reported outdated and costly state-sponsored workers’ compensation Subsequent Injury Trust Fund (SITF). H.B. 1579, introduced...
CDI Sets Hearing Date In Anticipation of Additional Workers’ Comp Reform
Apr 2 2004 // On April 1, 2004, in anticipation of enactment of workers’ compensation reform legislation in the near future, the California insurance commissioner issued a Notice of Proposed Action and Notice of Public Hearing,...
Sierra Health Services Closes Transaction to Sell Workers’ Comp Subsidiary
Apr 1 2004 // Sierra Health Services Inc. announced that effective March 31, 2004, and after receipt of applicable regulatory approval, it has closed the transaction to sell its workers’ compensation subsidiary, California...
Former Ky. State Policeman Found Guilty on Charges of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 1 2004 // West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission Executive Director Gregory Burton announced that a former Kentucky state police officer has been convicted in Kanawha County Circuit Court of felony workers’...
Insurex, Frontier General Launch New Calif. Workers’ Comp Product with ACE Casualty Risk
Apr 1 2004 // San Diego-based insurance brokerage Insurex Inc. and Oakland, Calif.-based Frontier General announced the release of a new workers’ compensation product in California with ACE Casualty Risk, a division of ACE USA....
Dozens Arrested for Auto Body Insurance Fraud in Northern California
Apr 1 2004 // A multi-agency enforcement unit conducted a sweep April 1 that has to date resulted in the arrests of 27 suspects following a year-long undercover investigation into auto body insurance fraud. Warrants were issued by the...
N.D. Offers Comp Fund Job to Former Md. Chief
Apr 1 2004 // The former head of the Maryland’s workers’ compensation fund has been offered the job to run North Dakota’s insurance program. Thomas Cleary was offered the position to become the new executive...
W. Va. Workers’ Comp Board of Managers Gives Approval to New Rules, Resolutions
Apr 1 2004 // Executive Director Gregory Burton said four measures approved this week by West Virginia’s Workers’ Compensation Board of Managers represent important building blocks for the Commission’s future...
Maine Panel Advances WC Board Restructuring
Mar 31 2004 // The Maine Legislature’s Labor Committee has reported unanimous support to pass a bill proposed by Governor John Baldacci that will amend the structure of the state’s Workers’ Compensation Board. Frequent...
California Governor Optimistic About Reaching Deal on Workers’ Comp
Mar 31 2004 // Governor Schwarzenegger is optimistic about reaching a deal with lawmakers soon on reforming the state’s workers’ comp system, according to Reuters. The governor and legislators have been in talks for days, but...
Okla. Department of Labor Says Fewer Injuries in Required Time Off Work in 2002
Mar 30 2004 // The number of workplace injuries involving lost workdays fell 10 percent in 2002 compared with the previous year according to a report released this month by the Oklahoma Department of Labor. Of the 16,747 job-related...
Former N.Y. Arena Football Star Arrested on Workers’ Compensation Fraud in Calif.
Mar 30 2004 // Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio announced that Chris Perry, a former star on the Buffalo Destroyers arena football team, has been arrested in California on grand theft charges.Perry, who began collecting New...
Louisiana Woman Arrested in Workers’ Comp Case
Mar 30 2004 // Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti, Jr. announced the arrest of a Vernon Parish woman who reportedly manipulated her workers’ compensation program to fraudulently obtain nearly $60,000 in compensation benefits,...
