Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Florida’s Connie Mack Proposes Workers’ Comp Bill
Jan 17 2003 // Florida State Representative Connie Mack (R, District 91) announced he plans to file legislation to reform Florida’s worker’s compensation system by increasing benefits to injured workers, while reducing the...
TWCC Rulebook Supplement 2002-06 Available Online
Jan 16 2003 // The Workers’ Compensation Act and Commission Rulebook Supplement 2002-06 of workers’ compensation rules is now available online from the Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission. The rulebook can be updated...
Sierra Health Serv. Seeks Alternatives for WC Sub.
Jan 16 2003 // Nev.-based Sierra Health Services Inc. announced that it has retained Banc of America Securities to explore strategic alternatives for the company’s workers’ compensation company, CII Financial Inc. Such...
Garamendi Seeks Problem Solving
Jan 13 2003 // Last Monday, John Garamendi was sworn in as California’s third elected Commissioner of Insurance. Many in California’s industry think this is round two of an ongoing battle with Garamendi. I am not one of them....
Fraud, Leaving its Prints on the Industry
Jan 13 2003 // Fraud, in all forms, is as old as the industry itself. Given a struggling economy, the temptation to create fraud against or within the industry has been on the upswing recently. According to Jim Quiggle, director of...
Fraud, Leaving its Prints on the Industry
Jan 13 2003 // Fraud, in all forms, is as old as the industry itself. Given a struggling economy, the temptation to create fraud against or within the industry has been on the upswing recently. According to Jim Quiggle, director of...
Calif. Man Arrested for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jan 9 2003 // Ralph Taeger, 66, of Placerville, Calif. was arrested for workers’ compensation premium fraud on Jan. 2, 2003. Taeger surrendered to California Department of Insurance (CDI) investigators and was booked into the El...
GUARD Rating Upgraded to ‘A-‘
Jan 8 2003 // GUARD Insurance Group, a Wilkes-Barre, Pa.-based workers’ compensation insurer, announced that A.M. Best upgraded the ratings of it and its subsidiaries, AmGUARD, EastGUARD, and NorGUARD, to “A-” in...
Calif. Commissioner Delivers Inaugural Speech
Jan 8 2003 // Calif. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi recently delivered his inaugural speech on Jan. 6, 2003, as he took the Oath of Office in a ceremony at the Assembly Chambers California Capitol Building. The following is the...
New Bills Go Live in Calif.
Jan 1 2003 // Gov. Gray Davis and the Democratic-controlled state Legislature came to agreement on 1,168 bills during the last session, making it the most bills Davis has signed in a single year since taking office in 1999. A couple of...
Calif. Man Surrenders on Fraud Charges
Dec 31 2002 // A Lodi, Calif. man was arrested on numerous felony charges as a result of a joint investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division, the San Joaquin County...
Security Fund Takes Over Eel River Workers Comp Payments
Dec 27 2002 // California Department of Industrial Relations (CDIR) Acting Director Chuck Cake has ordered the state’s Self Insurers’ Security Fund to take over payment of Eel River Sawmill’s workers’ compensation...
Santa Claus Issued Special Two Day ND Workers Comp Certificate
Dec 24 2002 // The following press bulletin was received from Mark Armstrong of North Dakota Workers Compensation. Due to the timely nature of the dispatch, and the hope that regulators in other states will take notice, we are taking the...
MO Dept. of Insurance Takes Over two KC-based Workers Comp Companies
Dec 23 2002 // Cole County Circuit Judge Thomas Brown granted the petition of Scott B. Lakin, the Director of the Missouri Department of Insurance (MDI), and placed two Kansas City-based workers compensation insurers in receivership as...
WCRI Says Wide Variations in State Workers’ Comp Medical Fee Schedules Unrelated to Provider Costs
Dec 20 2002 // The substantial variation in workers’ compensation medical fee schedules among the states is not related to the different costs health care providers incur delivering medical services to injured workers, according to...
W. Va. Plans Cuts in Workers’ Comp Expenses
Dec 20 2002 // Officials with the West Virginia Workers’ Compensation division revealed plans reduce their operating expenses by $125 million to $136 million. According to the Charleston Daily Mail, the agency also intends to seek...
Pa. Supreme Court: Workers’ Comp Payments Recoupable from Malpractice Suit Proceeds
Dec 19 2002 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a ruling stating that insurers can recoup workers’ compensation payments from malpractice suit proceeds made to injured employees who sue their lawyers for mishandling their...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Deductibles Not Subject to Premium Tax
Dec 19 2002 // The California Board of Equalization (BOE) ruled Dec. 18 that workers’ compensation deductibles are not subject to a proposed retroactive state premium tax. In an appeal brought by three companies, Employers...
Calif. DOI’s Retroactive Tax Bad for Workers, Business, Alliance Says
Dec 18 2002 // The Alliance of American Insurers urged the California Board of Equalization (BOE) to overrule the state Department of Insurance’s (DOI) efforts to impose a retroactive premium tax upon companies writing...
Alabama to Hold Jan. Workers’ Comp Hearing
Dec 17 2002 // The Alabama Department of Insurance announced it will hold a public hearing on Jan. 14, 2003, to consider the proposed loss costs and rating values for the workers compensation voluntary market and the assigned risk rates...
