Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
ACE USA Appoints New VP Head of Emerging Issues
Mar 17 2004 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operations of the ACE Group of Companies, has announced the appointment of Kathleen Muedder, CPCU, as Senior Vice President, Emerging Issues. She will focus on identifying strategic...
CRM Underscores NY Health Care Trust Financial Strength, Continues Growth of Customer Base
Mar 17 2004 // Compensation Risk Managers announced from its Poughkeepsie headquarters that its Healthcare Industry Trust of New York (HITNY) product remains on solid financial ground and continues to provide “high quality,...
Maine Governor Unveils Plan to Revamp Gridlocked Workers’ Comp Board
Mar 17 2004 // Flanked by the presidents of the Maine AFL-CIO and Maine State Chamber of Commerce, Governor John E. Baldacci on March 16 unveiled legislation to restructure the Maine Workers’ Compensation Board. The goal of the...
Reining in Comp’s Transition Costs
Mar 16 2004 // One TPA Says It Has the Secret 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...
Calif. Commissioner Warns Workers’ Comp Savings Could Vanish
Mar 16 2004 // The billions of dollars in savings from last year’s workers’ compensation reform legislation will never fully materialize unless lawmakers pass important “cleanup” measures to fine tune the new...
Wash. Man Pleads Guilty in Workers’ Comp Case
Mar 16 2004 // A 37-year-old former resident of Snohomish County, Timothy Smith, has pleaded guilty in Snohomish County Superior Court to first-degree theft after he was reportedly caught working for various employers while collecting...
RTW Lands Minn. Assigned Risk Contract
Mar 15 2004 // Minneapolis-based workers’ compensation insurer and third-party administrator RTW Inc. has been awarded a three-year contract with the Minnesota Assigned Risk Plan. Under the terms of the contract, RTW will provide...
Parting Shots: Stay the Course on Florida Workers’ Comp Reform
Mar 15 2004 // Long-needed, comprehensive reforms to Florida’s troubled workers’ compensation system passed during last May’s special session of the Legislature, culminating a long-term effort by Florida’s...
ACIC Comments on Calif. Workers’ Comp Cost Information
Mar 12 2004 // The following is a statement by Sam Sorich, president of the Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC): Information released by the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California is being...
Calif. Commissioner Wants to Lure Insurers Back to State
Mar 12 2004 // Continuing his push to reform the state’s broken workers’ compensation system, Calif. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi will travel to New York to meet with executives of some of the country’s largest...
New Workers’ Comp Tool Compares States
Mar 11 2004 // Policymakers and others interested in comparing workers compensation systems among states have a new tool from the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute, based in Cambridge, Mass. CompScope is a new tool that...
Wash. Worker Pleads Guilty in Workers’ Comp Case
Mar 11 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...
Oklahoma House Passes Workers’ Comp Bill
Mar 11 2004 // The Oklahoma House of Representatives, concluding what has reportedly been a grueling three weeks of public policy debate, passed a workers’ compensation reform bill designed to keep a lid on costs. According to the...
Wash. L&I Suspends Registration of Contractors for Failure to Pay Workers’ Comp Premiums
Mar 10 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...
AWCC Educational Conference to be Held in October
Mar 10 2004 // The Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission (AWCC) announced that its 17th annual educational conference will be held Oct. 13 – 15, 2004 in Little Rock. The conference traditionally mixes in-depth study...
Texas Man Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud
Mar 9 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Roger Gilbreth pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The 390th District Court sentenced Gilbreth to two years deferred probation and 120 hours of...
The “Red Flag” That Isn’t There
Mar 8 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...
Terrorism Tops List of Concerns for Workers’ Comp Professionals
Mar 8 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 &...
Workers’ Comp Chief Concern of Most Calif. Small Business Owners
Mar 8 2004 // While the state’s economic recovery has not yet reached every part of the business spectrum, 72 percent of California small business owners polled are expecting 2004 to be an overall better year than 2003, according...
N.Y. Pizza Shop Owner Faces Workers Comp Fraud Charges
Mar 8 2004 // New York’s Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio announced that the owner of Village Pizza & Burger, located at 156 North Main Street in Spring Valley, N.Y., has been arrested and charged with insurance...
