Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Study Analyzes Effects of 9/11 on Nationwide Workers’ Comp Insurers
Jan 11 2002 // According to a Standard & Poor’s study released Jan. 9, the effects of the Sept. 11 attacks are taking a toll on workers compensation insurers. Rates are ready to rise and it has become increasingly difficult...
S&P Reports Insurers to Cut Coverage for Losses
Jan 10 2002 // Several commercial insurers will cut coverage for losses caused by acts of terror, allowing 2001 policies to go unrenewed for 2002, Standard & Poor’s reported. It added that the withdrawal from the market will...
New Kansas Workers’ Comp Rates in Effect
Jan 7 2002 // New workers’ compensation rates that include an overall four per cent rate decrease became effective in Kansas on Jan. 1. In late December, Kansas Insurance Commissioner Kathleen Sebelius approved the rates, which...
Alliance Says New Mexico Privacy Rules Violate State Law
Jan 3 2002 // The Alliance of American Insurers has questioned the legality of recently adopted privacy regulations in New Mexico. “Earlier this year, the New Mexico Legislature directed the superintendent of insurance to adopt...
ISO to Offer Proof of Coverage Services to Workers’ Comp Insurers
Dec 31 2001 // In expanding its workers’ compensation services, Insurance Services Office Inc. (ISO) has signed a definitive agreement to enter into an exclusive and perpetual licensing arrangement with HNC Software Inc. to offer...
Parker Services LLC Announces OSHA and DOT-Related Safety Seminars
Dec 31 2001 // Parker Services L.L.C., Stevens Point, a member of the Sentry Insurance Group, and the Wisconsin Council of Safety, Madison, are offering OSHA and DOT-related safety seminars for businesses in January. “Confined...
WCRA Reducing Reinsurance Rates
Dec 28 2001 // The Workers’ Compensation Reinsurance Association (WCRA) announced it is reducing the reinsurance rates it charges to self-insured Minnesota employers and insurance companies by an average of 12 percent. The rate...
Welcome to the 3rd Annual “Top Ten Stories of the Year”
Dec 24 2001 // In what became one of the most significant, traumatic and challenging years in U.S. history, the insurance industry, along with the rest of the nation, has had to come to terms with the terrorist attacks perpetrated...
CDI Arrests Husband and Wife on Alleged Workers’ Comp Fraud
Dec 24 2001 // Investigators from the California Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division arrested a husband and wife recently for workers’ compensation premium fraud. Richard and Janey Bonet...
Michigan Retailers Association Workers’ Comp Program Plans Cut
Dec 19 2001 // Retailers Fund, the workers’ compensation insurance program of the Michigan Retailers Association (MRA), plans an overall rate cut of 3.51 percent for 2002. The rate cut, the fifth such reduction in nine years was...
NY Charges Nine in Workers Comp Fraud Case
Dec 17 2001 // Following a nine-month investigation, New York authorities have charged nine individuals and one corporation on various counts of defrauding the State’s Workers’ Compensation Fund. The persons involved all...
Top 10 Stories of 2001
Dec 17 2001 // Recollections and Renewal: Looking Back at 2001 with an Eye to the Future This is the year that was. It is one that many people will be glad to see come to an end because the new year always brings hope—for a rebirth,...
Calif. Fund Pays More than $11M in Defaulted Workers’ Comp Claims
Dec 14 2001 // California Department of Industrial Relations Director Stephen Smith has ordered the state’s Self Insurers’ Security Fund to take charge of payment of HomeBase Inc. and San Francisco French Bread Company...
Conn. Approves Workers’ Comp. Rate Hike
Dec 13 2001 // The Connecticut Insurance Department has approved an 11.9 percent average overall rate increase for policies in the workers’ compensation assigned risk plan, and a 15 percent “differential charge” which...
Seminar Discusses Reducing Losses and Lowering Workers’ Comp Costs
Dec 11 2001 // In a seminar attended by leading Las Vegas construction company executives, Jack Schreiner of S & C Claims Services outlined how aggressive claims handling can reduce their losses and lower worker’s compensation...
Calif. Industry Said to Be Prepared for Future Disasters
Dec 6 2001 // Representatives of the insurance industry testified Wednesday before the California Assembly Insurance Committee concerning insurance and reinsurance after the attack on America. They noted that the Sept. 11 attack was...
AIA Reacts to Filings of Workers’ Comp Ballot Initiatives
Dec 4 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) reacted Dec. 3 to the filings of two proposed ballot initiatives that would raise workers’ compensation costs in California without including systemic reforms. “It is...
NAMIC Comments on Leading Issue Trends Among Year’s New P/C Laws
Dec 3 2001 // New state laws concerning workers’ compensation, automobile insurance, financial and other regulatory requirements account for over half of the property/casualty-related insurance laws enacted by state legislatures...
ART Insurance Services Announces New TPA Offering for Workers’ Comp Claims
Dec 3 2001 // Advanced Risk Technologies (ART) Insurance Services, a leader in providing risk management services including loss control, first aid claims administration, and claims management services, announced a new third party...
Idaho Hearing Officer Rejects Petition
Nov 28 2001 // A hearing officer appointed by the Idaho Department of Insurance (IDI) has rejected a petition to allow competing insurance companies and trade associations to intervene in a license hearing for Advantage Workers...
