Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Workers’ Comp Fraud Investigation Leads to Felony Arrest of Calif. Police Dispatcher
Jul 30 2002 // Lenette Weishaar, 42, of Vallejo, Calif., was arrested and charged with three counts of felony insurance fraud in one of the largest individual workers’ compensation fraud cases in the city of Vacaville. Weishaar was...
Texas Workers’ Comp Commission Schedules Safety Seminar
Jul 26 2002 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission’s Worker’s Health and Safety division will host a one-day seminar on general industrial safety from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 7 at the Victorian Condo Hotel &...
TWCC Launches Online Injury Report System
Jul 26 2002 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission (TWCC) has unveiled a new online tool, the Online Occupational Injury Custom Reports System, to assist safety and health professionals, insurance carriers, and other...
WCIRB Votes to Increase Workers’ Comp Rates 11.9 Percent
Jul 26 2002 // California’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s (WCIRB) Governing Committee approved the filing of a proposed 11.9 percent increase in pure premium rates effective January 1, 2003 for new and...
AIA Says Mo. Injured Workers Lose under Department’s Managed Care Proposal
Jul 26 2002 // Changes proposed by the Missouri Department of Insurance to the state’s workers’ compensation managed care rules would add significant costs and confusion to the system, ultimately undermining the quality of...
AMCOMP Council Issues 9/11 Workers’ Comp Mental Stress Claims Report
Jul 25 2002 // In the wake of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, the American Society of Workers Comp Professionals Inc. (AMCOMP) assembled the Workers’ Compensation Mental Stress Council to study the...
WC Guidelines Under Fire
Jul 22 2002 // The Texas Medical Association (TMA) and the Texas AFL-CIO have filed a lawsuit to prevent adoption of new workers’ compensation guidelines by the Texas Workers Compensation Commission (TWCC). The Houston Chronicle...
LWCC Upgraded
Jul 22 2002 // Louisiana’s largest workers’ compensation insurance company, Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) announced that A.M. Best has upgraded LWCC’s financial strength rating from an...
WC Guidelines Under Fire
Jul 22 2002 // The Texas Medical Association (TMA) and the Texas AFL-CIO have filed a lawsuit to prevent adoption of new workers’ compensation guidelines by the Texas Workers Compensation Commission (TWCC). The Houston Chronicle...
LWCC Upgraded
Jul 22 2002 // Louisiana’s largest workers’ compensation insurance company, Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) announced that A.M. Best has upgraded LWCC’s financial strength rating from an...
AIA Praises N.Y. Department’s Approval of Catastrophe Loads for Workers’ Comp
Jul 16 2002 // New York Insurance Superintendent Gregory V. Serio’s decision to allow insurers to build “catastrophe loads” into their workers’ compensation reserves is a positive step toward dealing with...
N.Y. Department Notes No Change in Average Workers’ Comp Rate
Jul 15 2002 // New York Department of Insurance Superintendent Gregory Serio announced that there will be no change in the average workers’ compensation rate in New York State. Combined with a 1.2 percent decrease in assessments,...
Ohio Brewery Receives Workers’ Comp Award
Jul 15 2002 // Miller Brewing Co.’s Trenton, Ohio brewery was the only Governor’s Excellence in Workers’ Compensation Award winner for self-insuring employers who insure nearly 40 percent of Ohio’s workforce. The...
HNC Software Forms Agreement with OneBeacon
Jul 9 2002 // San Diego-based HNC Software Inc., a provider of high-end analytics and decision management software, announced that OneBeacon Insurance Group has selected HNC Outsourced Bill Review Services to assess and reprice its...
Mo. Sees 2002 Workers’ Comp Rate Hikes in Private Market
Jul 9 2002 // Missouri workers’ compensation rates for most businesses have risen an average of 6.7 percent this year, based on data through mid-June, according to the Missouri Department of Insurance. Filings with that agency...
GOLDEN EAGLE WITHDRAWS FROM WORKERS’ COMP:
Jul 8 2002 // “Golden Eagle Insurance will non-renew the company’s small book of workers’ compensation policies, starting with policies that have an effective date of August 1, 2002,” wrote Golden Eagle Insurance...
After the Mold Rush: Montemayor Looks at Future of Texas Markets
Jul 8 2002 // Considering Texas has one of the most difficult insurance markets in the country right now, Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor comes across not at all as one might expect—an embattled public official scrambling to...
Former S.A. Councilman Sentenced
Jul 8 2002 // District Court Judge Lee H. Rosenthal sentenced Houston attorney Bernardo Eureste to three years probation for workers’ compensation fraud-related charges, according to Texas Mutual Insurance Company. Eureste, a...
TX Man Guilty in $3M Scheme
Jul 8 2002 // A federal bankruptcy court ruled that Dallas businessman Aharon Chen and A.C. Painting Inc., his now-bankrupt company, defrauded more than $3 million from Texas Mutual Insurance Co., a workers’ compensation provider....
Workers’ Comp
Jul 8 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: ACE Risk Management, part of ACE USA, introduced a new Split Deductible Limit(SM) Workers’ Compensation product. It is designed to meet the needs of large risk management clients and is a flexible...
