Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Doctor Files Fraudulent Workers’ Comp Claims
May 27 2002 // The CDI arrested a Redding man on six felony counts of insurance fraud, six counts of grand theft and one count of conspiracy. Richard W. Powell, M.D., 43, was arrested at his office in Redding, Calif. and booked into the...
LA Civilian Employee Convicted for Workers’ Comp Fraud
May 27 2002 // A former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) civilian employee, pled no contest to one count of felony insurance fraud for allegedly filing a false workers’ compensation claim. Richard Montellano...
Insurers Focused on Credit Scoring During 2002 Missouri Legislative Session
May 27 2002 // Outside of credit-based insurance scoring, which was the subject of extensive negotiations, the state legislative session that concluded last week passed few matters of concern to the insurance industry, according to the...
Court Cripples Insurers’ Med. Bill Audits
May 27 2002 // A Texas appellate court has ruled that insurers have no authority to audit medical bills, a move that could hobble their ability to prevent fraud and keep down workers’ compensation costs, according to the American...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Trends Increase
May 22 2002 // A study by the Washington-based National Academy of Social Insurance revealed that California’s workers’ compensation benefits have increased 13.9 percent to $8.9 billion in 2002, signaling the end of a decline...
Oakland Man Accused of Workers’ Comp Fraud
May 22 2002 // William Hall, 65, of Oakland, surrendered to authorities on 23 counts of insurance fraud. Hall was arrested and booked into the Alameda County Jail, but later released on $10,000 bail, according to the California...
Study Says Mich. Retailers Fund Outperforms Other Workers’ Comp Insurers
May 17 2002 // The Michigan Retailers Association (MRA), based in Lansing, Mich., announced that its self-funded workers’ compensation insurance program, Retailers Fund, is doing a significantly better job than other workers’...
Travelers Completes Workers’ Comp Information Update
May 16 2002 // Travelers’ Property Casualty has finished its second phase in offering information on workers’ compensation directly to injured workers—via the Internet at www.mywcinfo.com. With its introduction last...
Ventura Co., Calif. Man Arrested on Workers’ Comp Fraud
May 16 2002 // Following an investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division, Todd Owen Balcom was arrested at his residence in Port Hueneme pursuant to an arrest warrant...
NCCI Holdings Inc. Says Workers’ Comp Market Remains Difficult
May 14 2002 // NCCI Holdings, Inc., delivered its “State of the Workers Compensation Insurance Line” presentation to an estimated 500 insurance executives at the NCCI Annual Issues Symposium (AIS) in Orlando, Fla., claiming...
AAI Labels Calif. Workers’ Comp Rating Bill ‘Regulatory Overkill’
May 13 2002 // A bill working its way through the California Assembly that would give the insurance commissioner greater authority over workers compensation rates is contrary to the state’s open competition rating law and will only...
TX HOME EXTERIORS CHARGED
May 13 2002 // A Travis County, Texas grand jury indicted Texas Home Exteriors Inc. and its vice president Derek Baker for falsifying a workers’ compensation claim to Texas Mutual Insurance Company—a third-degree felony. Texas...
TWCC Cuts Medical Reimbursements
May 13 2002 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission adopted a new medical fee guideline (MFG) that cuts doctor reimbursement fees by an average of 15 percent to reduce claims for care of injured workers. Both the Houston...
Workers’ Comp
May 13 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Confluent Insurance is offering a workers’ comp program on a “Pay-As-You-Go” program that calculates premium each time an employer issues payroll. Effectively the workers’ comp...
State Fund Withdraws from Best’s Rating Process
May 13 2002 // “In essence, we’d like to assure all of our policyholders that we are solvent, that we’re still financially strong,” said Jim Zelinski, spokesperson for California State Compensation Insurance Fund,...
Committee Approves Bill for Protecting Solvency of Calif. Workers’ Comp Guaranty Fund
May 7 2002 // The California Assembly Insurance Committee unanimously approved a measure late last week that would retain the surcharge on workers’ compensation insurance premiums and protect an important safety net for injured...
Zenith Notes 1stQ Results
May 6 2002 // California-based Zenith National Insurance Corp. reported operating income after tax of $3.3 million, or $0.18 per share, for the first quarter of 2002 compared to an operating loss after tax of $0.2 million, or $0.01 per...
Study Finds Conn. Workers Comp Costs Among the Highest
May 1 2002 // A new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) reported that the average prices for medical services to injured workers in Connecticut are among the highest of the eight states analyzed. The study...
Nev. Contractors Insurance Expands to Offer More Workers’ Comp
Apr 30 2002 // Nevada Contractors Insurance has expanded its operations to offer workers’ compensation to contractors in New Mexico. The company, which is Nevada’s second largest insurer for workers’ comp insurance,...
News Analysis: Commentary on Full Year 2001
Apr 29 2002 // The property/casualty insurance industry reported a statutory rate of return of negative 2.7 percent in 2001, down from 6.5 percent return for the year 2000. The results were released by the Insurance Services Office, Inc....
