Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Republic Indemnity Co., StrataCare Partner for Paperless Workers’ Comp Bill Review
Oct 31 2002 // Republic Indemnity Co. of America (RICA) announced the implementation of a paperless workers’ compensation claims and bill review system. Republic’s system was developed over the last year in partnership with...
AAI Releases Updates on Two Workers’ Comp Publications
Oct 31 2002 // The latest editions of two workers’ compensation publications are now available from the Alliance of American Insurers. The first, Workers Compensation Insurance: Profiles of the State’s System, provides...
PMA Partners with PMSI for Workers’ Comp Pharmacy Benefits
Oct 31 2002 // The PMA Insurance Group, a Blue Bell, Pa.-based property/casualty insurer specializing in workers’ compensation, announced an alliance with PMSI®, a unit of AmeriSource Bergen, to provide online pharmacy benefits...
Calif. Casualty’s Brown Elected Second Vice Chair of NAII
Oct 31 2002 // Thomas Brown, chairman of the board and CEO of the California Casualty Management Company, was elected second vice chair at the National Association of Independent Insurers’ (NAII) Annual Meeting this week. Brown...
TWCC Sets Ag Payroll Requirements and Maintenance Tax Rates
Oct 30 2002 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission announced both the annual payroll requirement of an employer for the coverage of seasonal workers and the maintenance tax rate for gross premiums for 2002. The adjusted...
W. Va. Woman Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Oct 30 2002 // Peggy Ann Cox of West Virginia has pled guilty in federal court on two counts of fraud. According to The Charleston Gazette, Cox made the plea to Chief U.S. District Judge Charles Haden II, admitting that between December...
Former Insurance Journal Editor Passes Away
Oct 30 2002 // John P. McCann, 59, a former editor of the Insurance Journal and a co-founder of the Workers’ Comp Executive, died Oct. 28 following a five-year struggle with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. McCann’s...
Colo. Workers’ Comp Loss Costs to Decrease
Oct 28 2002 // Beginning Dec. 1, 2002, workers’ compensation loss costs for Colorado will decrease an average of 10.5 percent. Although individual employer workers’ compensation premiums are affected by other rating factors,...
Candidates Make Last Pitch for Commissioner’s Office
Oct 28 2002 // While John Garamendi and Gary Mendoza figure to be the front-runners in the race for California Insurance Commissioner, they are not the only candidates on the ballot. Recently, Insurance Journal offered the three other...
Calif. Workers’ Comp: The Road to Rehabilitation
Oct 28 2002 // We all know what the problems are in the California workers’ compensation market, and now it’s time for the solutions. With the upcoming election well underway, California will soon see a new Insurance...
ALLEGED FRAUD IN GUN BARREL CITY
Oct 28 2002 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that a Travis County Grand Jury indicted Stan and Cynthia Doze, operators of Doze Construction Co. Inc., on a second-degree felony charge related to workers’ compensation premium...
High Medical Costs, Big Losses Hinder Workers’ Comp Market
Oct 28 2002 // Workers’ compensation, affected both by the capacity shortage across commercial lines after Sept. 11 and ever-increasing health insurance costs, remains an extremely difficult cover to place, and is likely to stay...
NAII Supports Maine Workers’ Comp Threshold Increase
Oct 21 2002 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) announced support for an actuarial report urging an increase of the threshold of access to permanent workers’ compensation benefits by Maine employees. During...
TWCC Chairman Awarded
Oct 21 2002 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission (TWCC) announced that Chairman Rebecca Olivares was awarded the Samuel Gompers Award by the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions (IAIABC)...
Additional Workplace Safety Workshop Offered to Pa. Business Owners
Oct 18 2002 // A fourth safety workshop conducted by the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) and the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will be offered to small business owners and manager Oct. 22...
Heart & Hypertension Workers’ Comp Network Launched in Fla.
Oct 17 2002 // CHOICE Medical Management Services Inc. of Tampa, Fla., unveiled its new specialty workers’ compensation network for heart and hypertension at the 2002 Florida PRIMA State Conference. CHOICE indicated its program is...
Workplace Fatalities Rise 12 Percent in Florida
Oct 17 2002 // The Florida Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation, released a census report revealing that workplace fatalities in Florida rose by 12 percent in 2001, marking the first increase in three years....
Texas Construction Co. Indicted for Fraud
Oct 16 2002 // A Travis County (Texas) Grand Jury indicted Stan and Cynthia Doze, operators of Doze Construction Co. Inc., on a second-degree felony charge related to workers’ compensation premium fraud. The Doze Construction Co....
No. Dakota Approves Plan for Workers Comp in Minnesota
Oct 14 2002 // The North Dakota Workers Compensation (NDWC) announced that the Budget Section of the Legislature has given its approval to a proposal to allow the employers of North Dakota the flexibility to obtain workers’...
Simon Says Davis Worsened WC
Oct 14 2002 // “California’s workers’ compensation system, quite simply, is broken,” said Republican Gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon. “How else could you describe a system in which employers pay the...
