Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
ePolicy Aligns with Republic Indemnity to Provide Online Workers’ Comp
May 17 2001 // ePolicy.com Insurance Services, Inc., announced it has signed an agreement with Republic Indemnity Company, a subsidiary of American Financial Group, which is a member of the Great American Insurance Group, to offer...
State Fund Withdraws from Best’s Rating Process
May 13 2001 // “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,...
Gov. Davis Names Commissioners to Workers’ Comp Appeals Board
May 10 2001 // California Governor Gray Davis announced the appointments of James C. Cuneo and Janice M. Jamison Murray as commissioners of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board. The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board is a...
N.Y.’s Operation Goldbrick III Leads to 11 Workers’ Comp Fraud Arrests
May 9 2001 // Acting Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio, the Suffolk County District Attorney James M. Catterson Jr., and New York State Insurance Fraud Executive Director Henry Neal Conolly announced the arrest of 11...
Calif. Jockey Arrested for Insurance Fraud
May 8 2001 // Investigators for the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Investigators arrested a Santa Ana, Calif. resident Carlos Cristo, 31, on charges of insurance fraud. Cristo, arrested at his residence pursuant to an arrest...
The Hartford Expands Internet Processing/Payment System for Workers’ Comp
May 4 2001 // The Hartford, which has piloted a complete workers’ compensation e-bill system for a year, is expanding the program into more U.S. states and additional provider organizations. e-bill, an Internet processing and...
Alliance of American Insurers Supports “Thoughtful Approach” to Ergonomic Rule
May 1 2001 // In regards to the ergonomic hearing held yesterday by the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Service, the Alliance of American Insurers called for a thoughtful and practical approach to creating...
Texas Supreme Court WC Decision Concerns NAII
Apr 30 2001 // The Texas workers’ compensation system faces a serious threat if the state legislature does not act to fix a loophole that allows employers to opt out of the system while requiring their employees to waive the right...
ISO Forms Alliance with HNC Insurance Solutions
Apr 17 2001 // Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO) and HNC Insurance Solutions, a division of HNC Software (HNC), formed a strategic alliance to provide insurers with a comprehensive workers’ compensation data-reporting...
High Court Approves Use of Waivers Under Current Workers’ Comp Law
Apr 16 2001 // On its surface, a March 29 Texas Supreme Court ruling could look to some as though the court is in favor of employers opting out of the state’s workers’ compensation system. But upon closer inspection, it is...
Recent Court Decision Rocks WC System
Apr 16 2001 // On March 29, 2001, the Supreme Court of Texas decided a consolidated case of enormous importance to insurance intermediaries. In Lawrence v. CDB Services Inc., the high court said by a vote of 6-2, that employees could...
AIA Negotiates New York Dole Assessment Resolution
Apr 12 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) and New York State officials reached a fair, reasonable settlement which will return a substantial portion of a state assessment on workers’ compensation insurers that was...
ERC Acquires, Reactivates New ‘GE CyberComp’ Brand
Apr 9 2001 // On March 29, Employers Reinsurance Corporation (ERC), a GE company, acquired and reactivated Cyber-Comp through its subsidiary Westport Insurance Corporation. Westport will use “GE CyberComp” as the brand name...
Two Calif.-Domiciled Workers’ Comp Companies Conserved by CDI
Apr 9 2001 // The toll from the ongoing adverse streak for the California workers’ compensation market just keeps rising. The California Department of Insur-ance (CDI) recently conserved two more insurance companies domiciled in...
Australian Insurer HIH Seeks Bankruptcy Protection as Losses Mount
Apr 9 2001 // HIH Insurance Ltd., following in the footsteps of ReAC and GIO, became the latest Australian insurance company to be forced to the wall by mounting losses. Rumored to be in deep trouble for the last six months, the...
Four New Insurers to Enter Hawaii’s Workers’ Comp Market
Apr 4 2001 // Wayne Metcalf, the Hawaii Insurance Commissioner, announced in March that the Insurance Division has authorized four new insurers to write workers’ compensation insurance in Hawaii. The authorization for General...
Workers’ Comp Reform: Ten Years from Ground Zero
Apr 2 2001 // It’s been 10 years since legislation revamp the Texas workers’ comp system. Most insurers, regulators and legislators agree that the system has improved dramatically, but they also say there is still room for...
Artificial Intelligence Technology Transforms Software Solutions
Apr 2 2001 // For many people not directly involved in the development of software for the insurance industry, any discussion of new technology can rapidly swell into a serious information overload. Compounding this problem is the...
WC REFUNDS FOR TEXANS
Apr 2 2001 // Texas workers’ compensation insurance companies are trying to locate nearly 29,000 employers in order to refund a surcharge started in 1992 that will result in an average refund of more than $500 per employer....
Refining Workers’ Comp
Apr 2 2001 // In 1989 the Legislature jettisoned the generations-old Texas hybrid system and substituted a new workers’ comp system. In the mid-19th century it dawned on European social designers that the cost of goods sold should...
