Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
ACE USA Appoints Riegler to Lead ACE Risk Management’s Excess Workers’ Comp Unit
Nov 20 2003 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operations of the ACE Group of Companies, announced the appointment of Ken Riegler, senior vice president, to lead the National Excess Workers’ Compensation unit for ACE Risk Management...
Stonewood Co. Receives License to Write Workers’ Comp
Nov 19 2003 // Stonewood Insurance Company (Stonewood) announced that the North Carolina Department of Insurance has approved its license to write workers’ compensation effective Nov. 12, 2003. Stonewood was incorporated in North...
Moody Insurance Notes Large Dividend for Colorado Roofing Assoc.
Nov 19 2003 // Moody Insurance Agency, which specializes in bonding services for contractors, risk management, and insurance, announced a $475,236 dividend for 17 members of its Colorado Roofing Association Workers’ Compensation...
ACIC Commends Gov. Schwarzenegger for Addressing WC Issues
Nov 19 2003 // Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has displayed strong leadership in addressing workers’ compensation issues by calling the California Legislature into special session to enact further cost-saving reforms to the...
PIACT Launches New Workers Comp Program for Members
Nov 19 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc. has launched its new “NumberONE Comp program,” which it described as “a monoline workers’ compensation market available to members, for their...
Calif. Commissioner Looking Forward to Working with Gov. for WC Reform
Nov 18 2003 // Calif. Insurance Commissioner penned the following letter to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on the day of his induction into office: Dear Governor-Elect Schwarzenegger: Congratulations on your upcoming inauguration! In...
Task Force Created to Expand Markets in Louisiana
Nov 17 2003 // The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of Louisiana (IIABL) has established a Markets Task Force to bring insurance company markets back to Louisiana. According to the IIABL, the mission of the task force is to...
Dallas Worker Pleads Guilty to Double-Dipping
Nov 14 2003 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Ruben Perez of Dallas pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges and received a two-year deferred adjudication sentence. The court ordered him pay...
Venture Programs Partners with Discover Re for Technology and Life Sciences
Nov 13 2003 // Venture Programs (www.ventureprograms.com), a provider in the design and underwriting of select industry-focused insurance packages, announced an underwriting partnership with Discover Re for its Venture Technology and...
Fla. Advises Construction Industry: Apply for New Workers’ Comp Exemptions by Nov. 30
Nov 13 2003 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher has urged current workers’ compensation exemption-holders in the construction industry to take the necessary steps to file for a new exemption by Nov. 30. All...
Nev. Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rates to Decrease
Nov 13 2003 // Nevada’s employers should see a drop in their 2004 premiums for workers’ compensation as a result of the filing submitted by the National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. approved by Nevada Insurance...
ISO to Provide Kentucky Employers Mutual Insurance Data-Reporting Services for Workers’ Comp
Nov 12 2003 // Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO) has entered into an outsourcing agreement with Kentucky Employers Mutual Insurance (KEMI) to collect the insurer’s workers’ compensation data. ISO will collect KEMI’s...
Fla. PEO Files Counterclaim Against CNA
Nov 12 2003 // Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based professional employer organization services provider Certified Services Inc. announced that its primary operating subsidiary, Cura Inc., has filed an answer and counterclaim against Continental...
Maine Gov. Hails Proposed Reduction in WC Rates
Nov 11 2003 // Maine Governor John Baldacci recently announced that the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) has filed a request to decrease workers’ compensation loss costs for policy year 2004 by an average of 3.3...
State Orders Calif. Restaurants to Close Due to Lack of WC Coverage
Nov 10 2003 // State Labor Commissioner Art Lujan ordered the closure of nine International House of Pancakes (IHOP) restaurants in Sacramento and Fresno because the restaurants did not have a valid workers’ compensation insurance...
Calif. Commissioner’s Revision to WC Advisory Rate Excessive, Premature, Says ACIC
Nov 10 2003 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi’s recommendation for a 14.9 percent decrease in pure premium rates for workers’ compensation insurance is both excessive and premature, according to the...
Garamendi Drops Workers’ Comp Advisory Pure Premium Rate 14.9 Percent
Nov 7 2003 // In an effort to provide relief to skyrocketing workers’ compensation premiums in California, Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi lowered the advisory pure premium rate by 14.9 percent, a shift that would return...
Outlook Stable for LUBA Workers’ Comp
Nov 7 2003 // A.M. Best assigned an initial financial strength rating of “A-” (excellent) to Louisiana United Businesses Self Insurers Fund, also known as LUBA Workers’ Comp based in Baton Rouge, La. The outlook is...
Panel Says Attracting Private Specialty Carriers to Calif. Will Stabilize WC Crisis
Nov 6 2003 // The California workers’ compensation system is broken with employers under immense financial strain due to continually rising premiums and employees feeling their legitimate claims being tarnished by the increasing...
Calif. Workplace Fatalities Decline by 8% in 2002
Nov 3 2003 // The number of workplace fatalities in California declined by 8 percent in 2002 according to the Department of Industrial Relation’s (DIR) Division of Labor Statistics and Research. The number of workers who died on...
