Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Auto Insurance, Workers’ Comp Emerge Again as Top Leading Legal Issue Trends
Jan 30 2004 // Workers’ compensation and automobile insurance laws accounted for nearly 40 percent of the new property/casualty-related statutes enacted by state legislatures last year, according to the fifth annual analysis of...
Texas Mutual, Argonaut Partner for Other States Coverage
Jan 28 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced it is partnering with Argonaut Insurance to offer workers’ compensation coverage for Texas-based businesses that have operations in other states. The agreement will apply to...
Former Claims Adjuster and Accomplices Arrested on Felony Grand Theft Charges
Jan 28 2004 // A former workers’ compensation claims adjuster and all eight of her alleged accomplices must now face felony grand theft charges after an investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Investigation...
Ala. Workers’ Comp Fund Would Reportedly Benefit from Assessment Increase
Jan 28 2004 // With the Alabama Insurance Guaranty Association (AIGA) facing unprecedented budgetary shortfalls, the state’s employers and injured workers could reportedly be left with unpaid claims in the event of insurer...
N.Y. Agent Arrested on 50 Counts of Insurance Fraud
Jan 28 2004 // New York State Insurance Department Superintendent Gregory V. Serio announced the arrest of Lon T. Horton, who has been charged with 43 counts of issuing fraudulent certificates of insurance, two counts of insurance fraud,...
INDUSTRY, MO. REGULATORS AGREE COMP COSTS SHOULD FALL IN 2004:
Jan 26 2004 // State regulators and the insurance industry’s principal workers’ compensation trade group have called for a reduction in Missouri workers’ compensation insurance rates, providing financial relief for the...
Workers’ Comp
Jan 26 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Midlands Management Corp. is offering a workers’ compensation market. Dollars: Policy limits up to $1 million employer’s liability. Minimum premium is $3,500. Carrier: Rated “A”...
North Dakota Man Must Pay $55,000 Restitution for Comp Fraud
Jan 26 2004 // A Mandan, N.D., man was ordered to pay $54,679 in restitution to Workforce Safety & Insurance after pleading guilty to fraud in South Central District Court Dec. 16, according to a statement released by the North...
Workers’ Comp
Jan 26 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Midlands Management Corporation is offering a workers’ compensation market. Dollars: Policy limits up to $1 million employer’s liability. Minimum premium is $3,500. Carrier: Rated...
Mission Possible: Bringing Insurers Back to Louisiana
Jan 26 2004 // If the Professional Insurance Agents of Louisiana, the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of Louisiana (IIABL) and Louisiana’s insurance commissioner have their way, the state will soon be flooded with insurers...
New Trade Association Gives Voice to Calif. Insurers
Jan 26 2004 // A new California trade association has been formed to represent the needs of the state’s domestic insurers. The Pacific Association of Domestic Insurance Cos. (PADIC) began operations Jan. 1. Formed by several small-...
One-on-One with Arizona State Fund President Don Smith
Jan 26 2004 // In recent months, we’ve heard nothing but praise for Arizona’s workers’ compensation system, especially when compared to the trouble California system. Wondering what all the hoopla was all about, I...
Controlling Medical Costs in Workers’ Compensation
Jan 26 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...
MDIA Announces Workers’ Compensation Costs Containment
Jan 23 2004 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Medical Diagnostic Associates, A Medical Corporation (MDIA), a leading national provider of Network Diagnostic Services, the expansion of its unique, high-quality Second Opinion program,...
Conference Attendees Told TRIA Needs Careful Examination by Insurers
Jan 23 2004 // Insurers will have to make tough public policy decisions regarding whether the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) should be extended beyond its sunset date of Dec. 31, 2005, attendees at the ExecuSummit Conference in New...
NAMIC Praises Tenn. Call for Workers’ Comp Reforms
Jan 23 2004 // Gov. Phil Bredesen’s call to action to reform the Tennessee workers’ compensation system this year is welcomed news, a representative of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies said Thursday. In...
Texas Ranks High in Workers’ Comp Costs per Claim
Jan 23 2004 // Workers’ compensation costs per claim in Texas increased at double-digit rates for the third consecutive year, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute. Workers’ compensation...
APCapital Won’t Sell Comp Renewals
Jan 23 2004 // East Lansing, Mich.-based insurer American Physicians Capital Inc. announced that it is continuing with its plan to exit the workers’ compensation business, but has determined that nonrenewing its policies is the...
CWCI Study Examines Evidence-Based Medicine in California Workers’ Comp
Jan 22 2004 // The California Workers’ Compensation Institute has issued a new study examining the development and history of evidence-based medicine (EBM) as a tool for assuring appropriate, quality medical care, and its potential...
CWCI Schedules Workers’ Comp Treatment Utilization Guideline Seminars
Jan 22 2004 // The California Workers’ Compensation Institute will hold a one-day seminar in March in San Francisco and in Long Beach to educate industry professionals on practical issues surrounding implementation of the new...
