Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Fremont Cuts P/C Staff, Focuses on Thrift & Loan Profits
Nov 27 2000 // As part of a cost-cutting initiative, Santa Monica, Calif.-based Fremont General Corp. has reduced the production and claim service offices of Fremont Compensation Insurance Group from 41 to 24. Of these remaining offices...
Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Approves Two Workers’ Comp Filings
Nov 21 2000 // Insurance Commissioner Susan F. Cogswell approved two workers’ compensation filings submitted by the National Council on Compensation Insurance, both effective Jan. 1, 2001. The voluntary market advisory loss costs...
Commercial P/C Rates Continue to Harden
Nov 20 2000 // Property/casualty rates for small, medium and large commercial lines continued to rise between July 1 and Sept. 30, according to The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers’ Commercial Insurance Market Index for the...
MOLD in Buildings
Nov 20 2000 // Creates New Frontier in Construction Defect Litigation, Definition of Pollution At the center of what could become one of the fastest growing areas of both construction defect litigation and toxic tort litigation is an...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Puts Damper on American Financial Group 3Q Results
Nov 14 2000 // American Financial Group Inc. (AFG) announced a $10.8-million loss ($.18 per share) for third quarter 2000. The loss includes $22.8 million, after-tax ($.39 per share), for strengthening the loss reserves of its California...
Madera County Calif. Woman Arrested for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Nov 13 2000 // A Madera County, Calif. woman was arrested last week on workers’ comp fraud charges. Jennelle Nanleen Allen, 38, was arrested by the California Department of Insurance and Madera District Attorney’s Office...
Glamour & Risk: Insuring HollywoodProduction Companies
Nov 13 2000 // For many film lovers, the holiday season is synonymous with the release of Hollywood’s latest screen confections. As production companies scramble to satiate the consumer appetite for thrilling visual effects and...
Masquerading as a Cal/OSHA Inspector
Nov 13 2000 // Mark Dwayne Jackson, a paroled felon, was recently arrested in a joint Cal/OSHA sting operation conducted by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Major Crimes Unit. Jackson allegedly victimized several...
Illinois Electrical Employees WC Self-Insurance Pool Liquidated
Nov 7 2000 // Illinois Electrical Workers’ Compensation Association Inc. was placed under an order of liquidation on Nov. 4. The Circuit Court of Cook County granted Illinois Insurance Director Nathaniel S. Shapo’s petition...
Bakersfield Residents Arrested on Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Nov 2 2000 // California Department of Insurance Investigators in conjunction with Kern County District Attorney’s Office arrested Bakersfield residents Lonzoe Richard Hart, 64, and Barbara Jean Cornelius, 52, on workers’...
Liquidation Ordered For Illinois Earth Care Workers Compensation Self-Insurance Pool
Nov 1 2000 // The Circuit Court of Cook County, Ill. has granted Insurance Director Nathaniel S. Shapo’s petition to place Illinois Earth Care Workers Compensation Trust into liquidation. The Illinois group workers’...
Commissioner Approves California W/C Rate Increase
Oct 30 2000 // On Oct. 20, Insurance Commissioner Harry Low took a much-needed first step to improve the dire state of California’s workers’ comp market. Low approved the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of...
Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation Evaluate Proposal
Oct 27 2000 // The California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation (CHSWC) is evaluating a proposal that it undertake a study of the California Hospital Fee Schedule. The study would include the following:...
Paroled Felon Caught Impersonating a Cal/OSHA Inspector
Oct 24 2000 // Mark Dwayne Jackson, a paroled felon, was recently arrested in a joint Cal/OSHA sting operation conducted by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Major Crimes Unit. Jackson allegedly victimized several...
Calif. Commissioner Approves 10 Percent Workers’ Comp Rate Increase
Oct 24 2000 // On Oct. 20, Insurance Commissioner Harry Low took his first step to improve the dire state of California’s workers’ comp market. Low approved the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of...
17 New Yorkers Charged with Workers Comp Fraud
Oct 23 2000 // Seventeen individuals have been charged with bilking the New York Insurance Fund and other carriers of over $130,000 in workers’ comp benefits by falsely claiming they were disabled, said New York Superintendent of...
Survey Reveals Insurers Top Fraud Concerns
Oct 20 2000 // According to a recent survey compiled by the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), medical fraud rings, staged auto accidents, arson, and workers’ comp scams top the list of fraud concerns for the...
ErgoWeb.com Launches OSHA Ergonomics Resource Web Page
Oct 19 2000 // In an effort to inform people about ergonomics and OSHA’s involvement, ErgoWeb Inc. added The Standards Watch, a resource page dedicated to providing companies with complete information and understanding of the...
State Compensation Insurance Fund Rewards Policyholders with Projected $82-Million Dividend
Oct 19 2000 // Despite the generally poor workers’ comp marketplace conditions throughout California, San Francisco-based State Compensation Insurance Fund announced projected dividends totaling $82 million for policyholders...
N.Y. Workers Comp Assessment System Altered
Oct 16 2000 // New York Gov. George Pataki has signed a law changing how insurers are assessed by the state for six special workers compensation funds. Assessments under the new law will be made based on the amount of premium written....
