Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Workers in Mass., Pa. Fare Better After Injuries Than In Other States
Mar 22 2004 // Injured workers located in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania report more satisfactory outcomes than their counter parts in Texas, according to a study by the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The study,...
Little Relief in Sight for Tight Longshore Marketplace
Mar 22 2004 // The Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Act was first passed in 1927, and has existed in its current form for 20 years, but recent developments have changed not only its applicability but also the availability of...
Better Workers’ Comp Underwriting Needed, AMCOMP Members Told
Mar 22 2004 // Workers’ compensation executives from across the nation gathered last month for the annual American Society of Workers’ Comp Professionals Inc. (AMCOMP) conference in Las Vegas where members heard the industry...
Selecting the Right Company Partner for Workers’ Comp Pays Dividends
Mar 22 2004 // First, this article is not about “parting shots.” When I hear this expression I immediately think of a retaliatory barrage to a poor unsuspecting sole. Instead, I’m going to discuss an issue near and dear...
Tennessee Workers’ Comp Market Looks for Answers
Mar 22 2004 // As agents search for the best way to market workers’ compensation coverage in Tennessee, several with industry expertise on the subject, spoke with Insurance Journal Southeast on what needs to be done to make for a...
Controlling Medical Costs in Workers’ Compensation
Mar 22 2004 // Rising healthcare costs are recognized as a key problem in the workers’ compensation industry. Medical costs once constituted 30 percent of the total workers’ comp claims expenses; today, however, they...
Employers Direct Contracts with No. Cal. Builders Assoc.
Mar 22 2004 // Employers Direct Insurance Company (EDIC) has contracted with the Home Builders Association of Northern California (HBANC) to provide workers’ compensation insurance coverage to selected members. EDIC works directly...
Calif. Governor Wants Workers’ Comp Fix in a Week
Mar 22 2004 // Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger warned state legislators that unless they reach a deal next week to repair California’s costly workers’ compensation system, he’ll bypass them and go to voters to fix the...
Ethics Awareness Month
Mar 22 2004 // I have mixed views on Martha Stewart’s plight. On the one hand, I feel she’s been unfairly targeted and made an example of by the federal government because she’s a prominent media personality. On the...
Auto Related Workers’ Compensation
Mar 22 2004 // Nuts and Bolts: Integrated Programs Insurance Services (IPIS) announced it now has available a workers’ compensation program for auto related risks such as new car dealers, auto accessory stores, auto repair shops,...
Adding Value in the Workers’ Comp Market Through Technical Analysis
Mar 22 2004 // If insurance brokers want to add value and differentiate themselves from their competitors in this hardening workers’ compensation marketplace, they should pay attention to the intricacies of how experience...
FISHER BANS UNLICENSED COMPANY:
Mar 22 2004 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher issued an order preventing an unlicensed Georgia firm from selling workers’ compensation insurance in Oklahoma. Atlanta-based Exceptional Personnel Inc., which also does...
One Step Closer to Reform’
Mar 22 2004 // Ironically, there was no shortage of things to write about when it came to filling the pages of our Workers’ Compensation issue. All over the West, workers’ comp has been the hot topic in many states—not just...
Workers’ Comp – Buying a Policy or Selecting an Insurance Partner’
Mar 22 2004 // Recently, while conducting an education program for a group of agency professionals on the subject of workers’ compensation, I realized that for many agents, the workers’ compensation policy is the...
Revised Workers’ Comp Estimates Misconstrued by Senator, Commissioner
Mar 22 2004 // California Senator Richard Alarcón (D-San Fernando Valley) came down on the insurance industry March 10, demanding that workers’ compensation insurers cut their premium rates immediately to reflect revised industry...
Auto Related Worker’s Comp
Mar 22 2004 // Nuts and Bolts: Integrated Programs Insurance Services has available a workers’ comp program for auto-related risks such as new car dealers, auto accessory stores, auto repair shops, retail tire dealers, among...
Applicant Attorneys Desperate to Maintain Job Killing Work Comp System
Mar 22 2004 // Applicant attorneys, labor and industrial physicians are attempting to divert attention from the real cost drivers in California’s workers’ compensation system. Despite overwhelming evidence from the Insurance...
Workers’ Comp Reform: Legislative Deal or Ballot Initiative’
Mar 22 2004 // California Governor Arnold Schwarz-enegger said in a March 11 press conference that he might be willing to compromise with legislators on workers’ comp reforms after some key industry figures were revised, according...
All Wrapped Up in Workers’ Comp
Mar 22 2004 // No surprise, but with the first quarter of 2004 drawing to a close, workers’ compensation remains, as it has been for many years, one of the most troubled lines of insurance in the United States. On a calendar year...
Calif. Commissioner Says Insurers Could Live with Some Rate Regulation
Mar 18 2004 // Calif. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi, in an apparent change in direction, said recently that California could regulate workers’ compensation insurance rates in a way that wouldn’t discourage insurers...
