Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Taliant Software, LLP Goes Live at The Amerisure Companies
Aug 20 2002 // Taliant Software, LLP announced that The Amerisure Insurance Companies, one of the nation’s regional property and casualty insurance groups, has officially gone live with their new multi-state workers’...
Calif. Pizza Owners Arrested for Alleged Workers’ Comp Fraud, Tax Evasion
Aug 20 2002 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division and the California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) announced the arrests of Benito Storniolo, 44, Laura...
Fla. Department Clarifies who is Exempt under New Workers’ Comp Law
Aug 20 2002 // A key administrative rule has been published clarifying which tradespeople must have workers’ compensation coverage in order to work on commercial construction projects valued at $250,000 or more, according to...
Orange County, Calif., Man Arrested on 19 Counts of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Aug 19 2002 // Nasir Husain, 59, was arrested by investigators from the California Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division. Husain was arrested at his home in Westminster on 19 felony counts of...
WCIRB Updates Cost Impact Evaluation of AB 749
Aug 19 2002 // The California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) recently released an updated evaluation of the cost impact due to benefit changes included in Assembly Bill 749. The bill, which was signed into...
Bay Area Residents Arrested in Alleged Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
Aug 19 2002 // Four Bay Area residents have been arrested on multiple counts of grand theft and insurance fraud among other charges. Investigators allege that Elisa Guillermo, a billing clerk for Fremont Compensation Insurance Company,...
NAII Lauds HIPPA Change on Workers’ Comp in Final Rule
Aug 15 2002 // The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released its final privacy standard that has been modified to recognize that the rule should not impede administration of state workers’ compensation...
Calif.’s DIR Opposes Injured Workers Settling Claims in Bankruptcy Court
Aug 15 2002 // The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) and its Office of Self Insurance Plans (SIP) is reportedly opposing the bankrupt Henry Mayo Hospital’s reported attempt to force injured workers to resolve...
Amerisure Mutual Receives AWCC’s Outstanding Carrier Award
Aug 13 2002 // Michigan-based Amerisure Mutual Insurance Company received the 2001 Outstanding Carrier Award, presented by the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission (AWCC). Amerisure has received this award four times in the...
SCC Sets Hearing on Va. Workers’ Comp Premium Level Adjustments
Aug 13 2002 // The State Corporation Commission (SCC) has scheduled a November hearing to consider a request filed by the National Council on Compensation Insurance, Inc. (NCCI) to adjust the premium levels charged for workers’...
Workers’ Comp Loss Costs Expected to Decrease for Some Colo. Employers
Aug 12 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...
WCF Takes Industry Best of Show
Aug 8 2002 // The Workers Compensation Fund (WCF) received a Best of Show award at the Insurance Marketing Communications Association (IMCA) Showcase Awards, the largest competition of its kind in the property and casualty insurance...
Fitch Reports Continued Challenges in Workers’ Comp Market
Aug 7 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...
Neb. Makes Changes to Workers’ Comp Rules
Aug 6 2002 // The Nebraska Department of Insurance announced that the state’s legislature has made a significant change to workers’ compensation statutes regarding executive officers of a corporation who own 25 percent or...
Presidion Solutions Renews Workers’ Comp Program
Aug 5 2002 // Presidion Solutions Inc., a privately held Professional Employer Organization (PEO) based in Troy Mich., announced that it has renewed its workers’ compensation insurance program with First Commercial Mutual...
WCIRB Votes to Increase Workers’ Comp Rates 11.9 Percent
Aug 5 2002 // California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s (WCIRB) Governing Committee approved the filing of a proposed 11.9 percent increase in pure premium rates effective Jan. 1, 2003 for new and renewal...
Reynolds Urges Insurers to Get Active in Workers’ Comp Litigation Issues
Aug 5 2002 // Calling the medical fee guideline the most important element of the workers’ compensation legislation passed by the 77th Texas Legislature—House Bill 2600—Richard F. (Dick) Reynolds, executive director of the...
TWCC LAUNCHES ONLINE SYSTEM
Aug 5 2002 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission (TWCC) unveiled a new online tool, the Online Occupational Injury Custom Reports System. The Web-enabled database system allows safety and health professionals, insurance...
Presidion Solutions Renews Workers’ Comp Program
Aug 2 2002 // Presidion Solutions, Inc., a privately held Professional Employer Organization (PEO), has renewed its workers’ compensation insurance program with Florida- based First Commercial Mutual Insurance Company. First...
N.Y. Dept. Charges Nine with Fraud
Jul 30 2002 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio, along with Nassau County District Attorney Denis Dillon announced the filing of charges against nine individuals accused of insurance fraud. Those charged are as follows:...
