Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Calif. Governor Signs Bill to Raise Benefits for Injured Workers
Feb 18 2002 // Governor Gray Davis on Feb. 15 signed into law a measure, AB 749, sponsored by Assembly Insurance Committee Chairman Tom Calderon (D-Montebello), that will raise workers’ compensation benefits in California by $3.5...
Workers’ Comp Insurers Grapple with Market Changes after 9/11
Feb 13 2002 // Both small and large workers’ compensation insurers are experiencing unsettling challenges to their business thanks to the lack of reinsurance coverage in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks according to the...
Workers’ Comp Rating Organization Agrees to 4.6 Percent Increase
Feb 13 2002 // Hawaii Insurance Commissioner Wayne Metcalf announced that the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) has received approval for a 4.6 percent overall increase in workers’ comp insurance loss costs in...
Zenith Reports Year-End Net Loss of $23.8M
Feb 13 2002 // California-based Zenith National Insurance Corp. reported a net loss for the year ended Dec. 31, 2001 of $23.8 million, or $1.35 per share, compared to a net loss for the year ended Dec. 31, 2000 of $46.8 million, or $2.72...
NAII Urges Calif. Gov. to Veto Workers’ Comp Bill
Feb 11 2002 // To avoid further crippling California’s weakened economy, Gov. Gray Davis should veto workers’ compensation legislation that is significantly out of balance according to the National Association of Independent...
Texas Workers’ Comp Fraud
Feb 11 2002 // A Travis County District Court sentenced Liza Fortune on charges of insurance fraud and ordered her to pay $15,013.89 in restitution to Texas Mutual Insurance Company. Fortune’s two-year sentence was suspended for...
Calif. Legislature Approves Bill to Raise Benefits for Injured Workers
Feb 6 2002 // California legislators ushered in a measure to raise workers’ compensation benefits for injured workers through both houses Feb. 4. The bill now awaits signature by Gov. Gray Davis according to the American Insurance...
Workers’ Comp Struggling without Terrorism Exclusion
Feb 5 2002 // Insurers feeling the effects of Sept. 11 have taken desperate measures to stay afloat by increasing rates and rewriting policies with little room for loss. Workers’ compensation continues to have a hard time keeping...
Workers’ Comp Benefits May Increase in Calif.
Feb 5 2002 // Gov. Gray Davis has reached an agreement with organized labor, trial lawyers, and Democratic lawmakers to increase benefits for injured workers, while at the same time, restricting employers’ costs for providing...
Minn. Workers’ Comp Costs Flatten
Jan 30 2002 // After five years of decline, workers’ compensation costs in Minnesota leveled-off in 2000, according to a report released by the state’s Department of Labor and Industry (DLI). The Workers’ Compensation...
Calif. Legislators Craft Tentative Agreement on Workers’ Comp Reform
Jan 28 2002 // After vetoing SB 71 last fall, California Gov. Gray Davis made a pledge that he would reach out to legislators and others to comprise a reform bill addressing workers’ compensation. Now, it appears Davis and...
Former Washington Resident Owes State $209,000
Jan 25 2002 // Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) ordered a former Yakima resident to pay back more than $209,000 for allegedly collecting workers’ compensation benefits illegally. Jesus Nunez Vargas,...
Workers’ Compensation A Thorn in Side of U.S. Companies
Jan 24 2002 // Workers’ compensation, one of the insurance lines most acutely affected by the terrorism of 2001 and by the continued absence of government backstop insurance for terrorism events, is fast becoming a high-priced...
NH Court Ruling Restores Sanity Says NAII
Jan 23 2002 // The New Hampshire Supreme Court’s January 11 decision has effectively overturned a decision made in 1999, that allowed an injured employee to collect both workers compensation benefits and sue for damages under the...
California Man Arrested for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jan 23 2002 // Investigators from the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigation Branch’s Fraud Division arrested a San Bernardino man on seven counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. According...
Auto Dealers Become First to Self-Insure Under Calif. DIR Plan
Jan 21 2002 // The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) announced that it had recently approved a plan allowing some private sector groups to self-insure workers’ compensation liabilities. California Motor Car...
Calif. Gov., Legislative Leaders Crafting Tentative Agreement on Workers’ Comp Reform
Jan 18 2002 // California Gov. Gray Davis and legislative leaders are crafting a tentative agreement addressing workers’ compensation reform, with hopes of passing a workers’ compensation benefits bill by Jan. 25. Davis, who...
AIA Optimistic about Bush Administration Ergonomics Announcement
Jan 15 2002 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) has reiterated its strong opposition to any new federal ergonomics rule that would require mandated compensation levels or any other provision that would conflict or supercede the...
Verdict Secure in Workers’ Comp Charges
Jan 14 2002 // Jeffrey Rene Pilon, 41, of Oxnard, Calif., was sentenced on Jan. 9, in Ventura County Superior Court to three years in state prison for his conviction on 14 counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. Pilon was...
For richer, for poorer
Jan 14 2002 // CDI investigators recently arrested a Rancho Cucamonga husband and wife for alleged insurance fraud. Richard and Janey Bonet were booked into the West Valley Detention Center with six counts of workers’ comp premium...
