Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Workers’ Comp Insurers Must Check Criminal List When Claim is Filed
Feb 19 2003 // Unless a claim is filed, workers’ compensation insurers reportedly would not know if an employee’s name is included in the infamous Specialty Designated National (SDN) list of criminals and terrorists targeted...
APCapital Reports Fewer Losses, Sees 2003 Profits
Feb 14 2003 // American Physicians Capital Inc. reported a net operating loss of $1.1 million, or 12 cents per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of 2002, compared to a net operating loss of $14.5 million, or $1.38 per diluted share,...
Fla. Construction Owner Charged With Workers’ Comp Fraud
Feb 14 2003 // A Brevard County, Fla., construction company owner has been charged with workers’ compensation insurance fraud after investigators with the Florida Department of Financial Services made an unannounced visit to one of...
Soda Delivery Driver Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud
Feb 14 2003 // Armando M. Villesca Sr. of Fort Stockton, Texas, pleaded guilty to charges of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. A Travis County District Court judge ordered Villesca to submit to three years of community...
Illinois Court Rules Employee Injured at Company Picnic Can File for Workers’ Comp
Feb 13 2003 // An Illinois appeals court has decided that an employee who injured his knee playing basketball at a company picnic can file a workers’ compensation claim. The decision overturned a ruling by an arbitrator who ruled...
Wash. L&I Cracks Down on Unregistered Residential Wood Framers
Feb 12 2003 // Inspectors from the Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) will be out in force in Pierce, Jefferson, Kitsap and Clallam counties this month, making sure residential wood framers are working safely and are...
Missouri May Tighten Workers’ Comp Rules
Feb 10 2003 // A bill before the Missouri legislature would narrow the kinds of injuries covered by the state’s workers’ compensation system, according to the Associated Press. The state has lost 90,000 jobs in the last 20...
Credit, Privacy Top Agenda for 2003 Mont. Legislature
Feb 10 2003 // The Montana legislature will consider several insurance-related bills this session, covering topics including use of credit, prompt claims payment, stacking of motor vehicle liability coverages, consumer privacy, producer...
SW Florida Drywall Company Fined $361,000
Feb 10 2003 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher announced the state’s Division of Workers’ Compensation fined a Naples drywall contractor more than $361,000 for failing to provide workers’ compensation...
Workers’ Comp. Examiner Arrested
Feb 10 2003 // Investigators with CDI Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud arrested Elisa I. Guillermo, 38, of Concord, California and her sister, Juliet I. Armstrong, 41, also of Concord, who are both charged with felony grand...
TX WORKERS’ COMP COSTS RISE
Feb 10 2003 // A new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute shows that workers’ compensation costs per claim in Texas continued to increase at double digit rates during recent years. According to WCRI, workers’...
CDI Cracks Down on Failure to Report Work Injuries
Feb 7 2003 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) has issued a notice to remind insurers, employers and physicians about required reporting procedures. State law requires any physician who treats an injured worker to complete a...
Former Florida Insurance Lobbyist Passes Away
Feb 7 2003 // William “Buddy” McCue, former workers’ compensation lobbyist for the Florida Insurance Council (FIC) and former president of the Florida Association of Insurance Agents, died recently in Tallahassee after...
TX Court Upholds Law Against Double Collecting
Feb 6 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...
Zenith Announces 4th Q Results
Feb 5 2003 // Zenith National Insurance Corp. reported a net loss for the fourth quarter of 2002 of $7.8 million, or $0.42 per share, compared to a net loss for the fourth quarter of 2001 of $9.4 million, or $0.52 per share. Net income...
N. Dakota Has Lowest Workers’ Comp Premiums
Feb 5 2003 // North Dakota employers paid the lowest workers’ compensation premiums in the nation, according to a new survey by the Oregon Department of Consumer & Business Services. National premium rates ranged from North...
Calif. Adopts Regs on Worker Occupational Safety
Feb 4 2003 // Last year’s workers’ compensation benefit increase bill (AB 749) eliminated the state’s loss control certification unit as of Dec. 31, 2002, replacing it with a new “Worker Occupational Safety and...
Workers’ Comp Coverage Varies for Civilian Workers Injured in Acts of War
Feb 3 2003 // Military personnel depend on the U.S. government for compensation, but for civilians who may be subject to war risk while living or traveling abroad, the issue is not so cut-and-dried, according to the National Association...
Workers’ Comp
Jan 30 2003 // Nuts & Bolts: PMC Insurance Group has available a program for workers’ compensation. Dollars: Policy limits are statutory. Minimum premiums of $5,000. Carrier: AIG, Kemper, Zurich, Crum & Forster, Hartford....
PIANY to Expand “NumberONE” Workers Comp Program for Members
Jan 30 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State announced that it has obtained approval to expand its NumberONE Comp program, “a monoline workers’ compensation market available to members, for their clients...
