Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
CLEAR AS MUD
Mar 10 2003 // According to the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), unless a claim is filed, workers’ compensation insurers would not know if an insured employee’s name is included in the infamous Specialty...
Workers’ Comp Second Injury Fund Sunset Extension Moves to Iowa Senate
Mar 7 2003 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) said today that it strongly supports a five-year extension of the law that allows insurer assessments for Iowa’s workers’ compensation second injury fund to be based on...
Truck Driver Charged in $78,500 Workers’ Comp Fraud
Mar 7 2003 // New York State Insurance Department Superintendent Gregory Serio, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, and New York State Workers’ Compensation Fraud Inspector General John Burgher Jr., announced that a truck...
AIA Tells Maine Legislators to Protect Workers’ Comp Reforms
Mar 6 2003 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) testified before Maine legislators Wednesday, urging them to reject a number of bills that would increase the cost of workers’ compensation for Maine employers. “Now is...
Calif. Commissioner Enlists Help of DAs to Reform WC System
Mar 5 2003 // Calif. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi pushed his workers’ comp reform agenda further along by enlisting the help of the state’s 58 county district attorneys (DA) in combating employee and employer...
New Workers’ Comp Company Authorized in Texas
Mar 5 2003 // The Texas Department of Insurance has issued a Certificate of Authority for a new property-casualty insurance company to be located in Tyler, Texas, named Old Glory Insurance Company. The new company will operate as a...
Utah Resident Charged in $1M Workers’ Comp Scheme
Mar 4 2003 // Kevin T. Brough, a Kaysville, Utah resident, was charged with 20 felonies as a consequence of an investigation by the Utah Insurance Department’s Fraud Division. Brough, a Farmers Insurance agent, pleaded guilty to...
Calif. Commissioner Orders SCIF to Reduce Broker Commissions
Mar 4 2003 // Calif. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi held a press conference March 3 addressing the workers’ compensation crisis in California. Specifically, Garamendi proposed a seven point plan to return State Compensation...
Calif. Commissioner Enlists Help of DAs to Reform WC System
Mar 4 2003 // Calif. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi pushed his workers’ comp reform agenda further along by enlisting the help of the state’s 58 county district attorneys (DA) in combating employee and employer...
N.D. Work Comp to Cover Smallpox Vaccine Reactions
Mar 3 2003 // North Dakota Workers’ Compensation (NDWC) plans to cover potential health-care workers’ and emergency responders’ adverse reactions to the smallpox vaccine during phase two of the national program to...
Calif. Commissioner Orders SCIF to Reduce Broker Commissions
Mar 3 2003 // Calif. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi held a press conference March 3 addressing the workers’ compensation crisis in California. Specifically, Garamendi proposed a seven point plan to return State Compensation...
AIA Approves Calif. Commissioner’s WC Reform Ideas
Feb 28 2003 // Calif. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has correctly identified many of the serious problems plaguing the state’s workers’ compensation system and the critical solutions that are vital to improving the...
Calif. Commissioner will Not Appeal BOE Premium Tax
Feb 28 2003 // Calif. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced he is not appealing the Board of Equalization’s unanimous decision that overturned former Commissioner Low’s determination that the gross premium tax...
Florida Firm Fined $54,000 For Workers’ Comp Violation
Feb 28 2003 // The Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation fined a Port Charlotte engineering firm more than $54,000 for failing to provide workers’ compensation coverage for its employees. The division took the action...
Calif. Commissioner Targets Ailing Workers’ Comp System
Feb 27 2003 // Based on recommendations from two stakeholder advisory panels, Calif. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi is proposing immediate action in seven areas to restructure California’s ailing workers’ compensation...
Missouri Work Comp Reform Bill Passes First Test
Feb 24 2003 // A Missouri bill that would tighten the state’s workers’ compensation rules has won first-round approval from the House of Representatives on a 79-62 vote. HB321 would only cover occupational injuries if work is...
Perry Names Smith as TWCC Chairman
Feb 24 2003 // Governor Rick Perry appointed Employer Commissioner Richard Smith to serve as chairman of the Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission (TWCC). He replaces Employee Commissioner Rebecca Olivares, who served as chairman...
Woman Arrested on Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Feb 24 2003 // Kathryn Marie Corso, 53, was arrested at her residence and charged with two felony counts of insurance fraud, one count of grand theft and one count of perjury. Investigators reported that Corso filed a workers’...
COURT SAYS NO DOUBLE-DIPPING
Feb 24 2003 // The Amarillo Court of Appeals upheld a law preventing injured workers from collecting benefits for a work-related injury from two different sources. According to the Texas Mutual Insurance Company, the court ruled that a...
Md. Legislative Session at Halfway Point
Feb 21 2003 // The 2003 Maryland legislative session is at the halfway point, with a crop of insurance-related bills still working their way through the process, including legislation on no pay/no play, insurers’ use of credit,...
