Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
AIA Praises KY Supreme Court Decision on WC Exclusive Remedy Doctrine
Jan 28 2003 // The Kentucky Supreme Court, overturning a lower court ruling, voted 4 to 3 to maintain the longstanding exclusive remedy doctrine underpinning the state’s workers’ compensation system. The court’s...
TX Workers’ Comp Costs Per Claim Keep Rising
Jan 27 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’...
NEW BILLS GO LIVE IN CALIF
Jan 27 2003 // California 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...
Workers’ Comp: System Having Negative Impact on Calif.
Jan 27 2003 // If you are a commercial insurance broker in California, you know first-hand the frustration and concern of your customers when you offer quotes for workers’ compensation coverage. Average employers with good claims...
TWCC To Hold Jan. 22 Public Meeting
Jan 21 2003 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission will hold a scheduled public meeting in Austin at 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 22. Included on the agenda are: 1. Discussion, consideration and possible action on re-adoption of rules...
The AMVISTA Group Opens Workers’ Comp Program in Mich.
Jan 20 2003 // The AMVISTA Group, a unit of American Workers Assurance, made its Michigan debut recently by opening an operation in Grand Rapids. The AMVISTA Group offers a high value workers’ compensation insurance product through...
Texas Mutual Launches New Pharmacy Program
Jan 20 2003 // Workers’ compensation insurer Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced the initiation of a new Pharmacy Benefit Manager program. The program should help offset the rising costs of health care in the Texas...
Travelers Pursues Implementation of Web-Based Med. Billing, Reporting for Workers’ Comp Business
Jan 17 2003 // Travelers Property Casualty Corp. is pursuing implementation of web-based medical billing and reporting for its workers’ compensation business. This connectivity, enabled by services from P2P Link LLC, will mark...
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...
