Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Workers’ Comp Reform Legislation Will Bring Stability and Fairness into System, Says AIA
Apr 16 2004 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) today issued a statement in response to the California State Legislature’s approval of SB 899 Poochigian (D-Fresno). According to Nicole Mahrt, director of Public Affairs for...
Lawmakers See Possible Vote April 16 on Workers’ Compensation Plan
Apr 15 2004 // Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger blamed attorneys for the “two or three sticking points” that loom over negotiations on a workers’ compensation insurance reform bill. “Every time we get language, the...
Study Says Workers’ Comp Terrorism Reinsurance Pool Not Enough
Apr 15 2004 // The private insurance industry for workers’ compensation would not have enough capital to withstand potential losses on its own should a catastrophic terrorism event, or multiple events, occur, according to the...
ACIC Comments on Calif. Workers’ Compensation Reform Package
Apr 15 2004 // The following is a statement issued by Sam Sorich, president of the Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC). “The Association of California Insurance Companies commends the Legislature and Governor...
W. Va. Workers’ Comp Commission Files Injunction Against Kanawha County Employer
Apr 14 2004 // West Virginia’s Workers’ Compensation Commission recently filed an injunction against a state employer whose account with the Commission is in default. The injunction was filed in Kanawha County Circuit Court...
RIMS Survey Says Workers’ Comp Affecting Calif. Businesses
Apr 14 2004 // The Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) received 261 responses from corporate risk managers regarding the workers’ compensation system in California supporting a conclusion that California may be losing jobs...
W. Va. Workers’ Comp Board of Managers Gets Feedback on Pair of Proposed Rules
Apr 13 2004 // West Virginia’s Workers’ Compensation Board of Managers on Monday heard public comments on two proposed rules – one focusing on proposed risk pools for self-insured employers and the other on a mandatory...
