Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
OKLA. WC COVERAGE QUESTIONED
Dec 16 2002 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher warned employers in his state that certain workers’ compensation policies sold by American Insurance Managers (AIM) of Atlanta, Ga. may not actually exist. According to...
8 is Enough – Programs That Caught Our Eye
Dec 16 2002 // For this end-of-the year edition of Insurance Journal, we looked at some unique or interesting programs and found eight that grabbed our attention. Obviously they do not represent a comprehensive list, which is admittedly...
8 is Enough – Programs That Caught Our Eye
Dec 16 2002 // For this end-of-the year edition of Insurance Journal, we looked at some unique or interesting programs and found eight that grabbed our attention. Obviously they do not represent a comprehensive list, which is admittedly...
New Orleans Cop Indicted in Workers’ Comp Case
Dec 12 2002 // A New Orleans police officer who allegedly schemed to collect unauthorized workers’ compensation payments for eight months last year was charged with 18 counts of mail fraud. According to the New Orleans Times...
N.Y. Woman Arrested on Charges of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Dec 12 2002 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio announced the arrest of Linda Ellis of Elmira, N.Y. on a charges of violating the Workers’ Compensation Law, committing fraudulent practice, offering a false...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Claims Examiner Arrested
Dec 10 2002 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI), Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division arrested Elisa I. Guillermo, 38, of Concord, Calif., and her sister, Juliet I. Armstrong, 41, also of...
N. Dak. Construction Compliance Task Force Deemed a Success, Program Will Continue
Dec 10 2002 // A report, issued jointly by North Dakota’s Workers Compensation Executive Director and CEO Brent Edison and Secretary of State Al Jaeger, indicates that the inter-agency effort, the Construction Compliance Task...
Okla. Employers May Be Without Workers’ Comp Coverage
Dec 9 2002 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher warned employers in his state that they might have non-existent workers’ compensation policies, after learning that a series of unauthorized certificates were issued in...
Calif. Insurance Commissioner-Elect Creates Advisory Team
Dec 6 2002 // Calif. Insurance Commissioner-Elect John Garamendi announced the creation of two advisory teams to assist him during his transition in formulating solutions to California’s pressing insurance issues. One team will be...
Wash. L&I Names Illinois Ins. Veteran to Head WC System
Dec 3 2002 // Robert Malooly, a 30-year veteran of the insurance industry, has been selected to run Washington State’s industrial insurance system. Malooly, 54, who rose from claims adjudicator to chairman and CEO of the...
Workers’ Compensation
Dec 2 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: PMC Insurance Group is offering a program for workers’ compensation. Dollars: Policy limits are statutory. Minimum premiums of $5,000. Carrier: AIG, Kemper, Zurich, Crum & Forster, Hartford....
Workers’ Compensation
Dec 2 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Gaslamp Insurance Services Inc. is offering a program for workers’ compensation. Dollars: Policy limits of $1,000,000/$1,000,000/$1,000,000. No minimum premium. Carrier: PEO. Admitted...
