Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Court Upholds Decision in Downs Workers’ Comp Case
Sep 19 2002 // The Texas Supreme Court denied a motion for rehearing in the case of Downs v. Continental Casualty Co., Cause No. 04-99-00111-CV, letting stand a previous decision in the case, which concerns the timing of a...
ACE Risk Management Creates New Excess Workers’ Comp Unit
Sep 19 2002 // ACE Risk Management (ARM), part of ACE USA, announced the creation of a new unit, ARM Excess Workers’ Compensation. The ARM Excess Workers’ Compensation unit offers risk managers and brokers the ability to...
A.M. Best Affirms Zenith National Ratings
Sep 17 2002 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) of Zenith National Insurance Group of Woodland Hills, Calif. The financial strength rating applies to three intercompany pool members and is based...
Santa Maria, Calif. Man Arrested on Multiple Counts of Felony Workers’ Comp Fraud
Sep 17 2002 // Juan Antonio Acuna, 41, of Santa Maria, Calif. surrendered to authorities on Sept. 12, 2002, and was charged with seven felony counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud, three counts of perjury, and one count...
CIGA Implements 2 Percent Increase
Sep 16 2002 // The California Insurance Guarantee Association (CIGA) will impose a 2 percent increase on all polices under its some 850 member carriers effective Jan. 1, 2003. “For the year 2003, it will be applied to all...
INDUSTRY COMMENDS OSHA ERGONOMIC PLAN
Sep 16 2002 // Six major insurance industry trade groups announced unified support for the ergonomics guidelines issued earlier this year by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). In a joint resolution,...
Expanding the Pie
Sep 16 2002 // We have all heard the old adage that to succeed we need to do one thing and do it well. That might be one formula for success, but it is not the only one. There are two main types of growth—vertical and horizontal....
C&D ORDER ISSUED IN ARKANSAS
Sep 16 2002 // Arkansas State Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens issued a Cease and Desist Order to AMS Staff Leasing NA Inc., a company that the insurance department alleges had been illegally offering workers’ compensation...
Expanding the Pie
Sep 16 2002 // We have all heard the old adage that to succeed we need to do one thing and do it well. That might be one formula for success, but it is not the only one. There are two main types of growth—vertical and horizontal....
Workers’ Comp
Sep 14 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: PSA Insurance is offering a workers’ compensation program. Available on appointment only basis. Over 300 classes, including some contractors classes. Dollars: Minimum premiums of $1,000 to $10,000...
Small Businesses Offered Fourth Safety Workshop
Sep 13 2002 // A fourth safety workshop conducted by the insurance industry and the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will be offered to small business owners in Erie, Pa. Wednesday, Sept. 25. The session,...
Wash. L&I Announces 40.5 Percent Boost in WC Rates in 2003
Sep 12 2002 // The Washington Department of Labor and Industries has proposed increasing industrial insurance premiums by 40.5 percent in 2003. It is the agency’s first general rate increase in eight years. If adopted, the proposal...
Calif. Gov. Davis Approves Legislation to Safeguard Solvency of Workers’ Comp Guaranty Fund
Sep 12 2002 // California Governor Gray Davis has signed a measure that guarantees employers and injured workers will continue to receive workers’ compensation benefits if an insurance carrier becomes insolvent, according to the...
Is TWCC Headed Back to the Fee Guideline Drawing Board’
Sep 11 2002 // The new medical fee guideline approved by the Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission (TWCC) last spring that was scheduled to go into effect Sept. 1 was recently stayed by a Travis County judge as part of a lawsuit...
Texas Man Gets Time for Alleged Workers’ Comp Fraud
Sep 10 2002 // James Webb of Houston was sentenced to 18 months in state jail by the Travis County, Texas, District Court for allegedly defrauding the workers’ compensation system by collecting workers’ comp benefits for...
ManagedComp Distributes $5M in Workers’ Comp Surplus
Sep 6 2002 // ManagedComp Inc., a Woburn, Mass.-based national worker’s compensation underwriter and third party administrator, plans to distribute $5,432,000 in surplus to four self-insurance groups (SIGs) in...
Oakland Woman Surrenders on Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Sep 6 2002 // An Oakland woman was arraigned as a result of an investigation by the California Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division. Jeanette Deran, 52, surrendered to the Alameda County Superior...
SOME COLO. WORKERS’ COMP LOSS COSTS TO DECLINE
Sep 2 2002 // Workers’ compensation costs for some Colorado employers may decrease on average about 10.2 percent later this year. Insurance Commissioner William J. Kirven III announced that the National Council on Compensation...
FITCH REPORTS CONTINUED WORKERS’ COMP CHALLENGES
Sep 2 2002 // A new report published by Fitch Ratings states that the workers’ compensation market continues to face challenges following further deterioration in underwriting performance in 2001. Despite significant pricing...
WORKERS’ COMP PROBLEMS ADDRES-SED IN REGULATIONS
Sep 2 2002 // Modifications to a final medical privacy rule issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stopped short of resolving concerns that workers’ compensation carriers and employers have with the...
