Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Eastern Casualty Puts a Moratorium on New Mass. Workers’ Comp. Coverage
Jun 18 2001 // According to a report in The Boston Globe, Marlborough-based Eastern Casualty Insurance Co., Massachusetts’ third largest writer of workers’ compensation coverage, has informed its agents in the state that it...
Alliance, AFACT Ask Governor to Veto WC and Litigation-Cost Control Bills
Jun 18 2001 // The Alliance of American Insurers is on record as having asked Texas Gov. Rick Perry to veto two insurance-related bills One of the bills, SB 1654, is also opposed by the Association of Fire and Casualty Companies of...
New Hampshire Governor Signs Mental Stress Bill
Jun 14 2001 // New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen signed into law a bill to restrict workers’ compensation claims for mental stress caused by an unfavorable job performance review. The bill (House Bill 232) reverses a recent...
Dept. of Labor Schedules Ergonomics Hearings for July
Jun 13 2001 // The U.S. Department of Labor announced plans for three ergonomics hearings to be held in July. The Labor Department will hold three public forums — one on July 16 in the District of Columbia, a second on July 20 in...
Nevada Legislature Wraps Up 2001 Session on Positive Note
Jun 12 2001 // The Nevada State Legislature adjourned last week following several important victories for the insurance industry, according to lobbying groups. Passage of measures benefiting insurers and the defeat of several trial...
HNC Software Acquires EDI Reporting Software for Workers’ Comp from ecDataFlow.com
Jun 12 2001 // San Diego-based HNC Software Inc., a provider of Customer Insight software, has acquired the workers’ compensation compliance reporting products and related customer base of ecDataFlow.com Inc. The agreement is...
Misrahy Takes Helm at Fremont
Jun 11 2001 // Mary-Lou Misrahy was recently named president of Fremont Compensation Insurance Co. Misrahy, with more than two decades of corporate leadership experience, knows she has some big challenges ahead of her, but she is ready...
Oregon Supreme Court Quashes Exclusive Workers’ Comp Remedy
Jun 11 2001 // In the multi-decade card game that is the Oregon workers’ compensation system, the state Supreme Court trumped the Legislature (and employers) by issuing a unanimous decision that erodes the exclusive remedy...
Argonaut Exec Michael Nolan Named President of CWCI
Jun 8 2001 // J. Michael Nolan, senior vice-president, general counsel and secretary of Argonaut Insurance Company, was named the new president of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute. The CWCI is an Oakland-based...
AIA Seeks Exemption for Workers’ Comp Managed Care Programs
Jun 6 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) is calling on the Massachusetts Legislature’s Joint Health Care Committee to approve an AIA-filed bill (HB 3310) to exempt workers’ compensation programs from new...
Riverside, Calif., Woman Charged with Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jun 5 2001 // Martha Rodriquez of Riverside, Calif. woman was arrested on workers’ compensation fraud and perjury charges June 1. Rodriquez, 37, also known by the name of Graciela Castro, was booked into Riverside County Jail on a...
State Fund To Become Texas Mutual Insurance Company
Jun 4 2001 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Insurance Fund will become the Texas Mutual Insurance Company Sept. 1 if Gov. Rick Perry signs the bill authorizing the change. The governor has 20 days from the Legislature’s...
Highlights of Actions by the Texas Legislature Affecting Texas Insurance
Jun 4 2001 // Following is an overview of the 77th Texas Legislature offered by Bo Gilbert, CPCU, IIAT Director of Governmental Affairs. For a complete analysis of these bills as well as other bills that passed this legislative session,...
Kemper, The Mechanic Group to Provide New Workers’ Comp Coverage
Jun 1 2001 // Kemper Insurance Companies appointed The Mechanic Group Inc. as program administrators for security company workers’ compensation business throughout the U.S. Kemper and The Mechanic Group are providing security...
Two Okla. Auto Bills Fail to Pass
May 30 2001 // Two bills that would have increased the cost of auto insurance in Oklahoma died in the state House/Senate conference committees as the 2001 legislature adjourned on May 25. The National Association of Independent Insurers...
NAII Notes Penn. Privacy Reg Corrects ‘Opt-Out’ Problem, But Still Includes Workers’ Comp May 25, 2
May 25 2001 // According to the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), the Pennsylvania Insurance Department’s revised draft regulation on consumer privacy remedies an “opt-out” provision that may have...
Md. Governor Signs AIA’s Workers’ Comp Bill
May 24 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) reported that legislation allowing undisputed workers’ compensation claims to be handled out-of-state was signed recently by Governor Parris Glendening (D). SB 592, which was...
Employers Ins. Co. of Nevada Selects HNC Software for Workers’ Comp Claims
May 21 2001 // A bill by Assemblyman Thomas M. Calderon (D-Montebello) that would prohibit insurance carriers from refusing to issue or renew an auto insurance policy based solely on an individual’s credit rating was approved by...
Jockey Couldn’t Stay on His Steed
May 21 2001 // CDI investigators arrested Carlos Cristo, 31, of Santa Ana, Calif., on charges of insurance fraud. Cristo was arrested pursuant to a warrant issued by the Orange County Central Court and transported to Orange County...
GE ERC Moves Facultative Workers’ Compensation to PnC Re Americas
May 18 2001 // Employers Reinsurance Corporation (ERC), a GE company, announced it has moved its facultative workers’ compensation product line to its P&C Re Americas business unit. The P&C Re facultative unit will now be...
