Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Missouri Property, Liability Insurance Profitable
Jan 8 2001 // Virtually all lines of Missouri property and casualty insurance, including liability coverage, remained profitable in 1999, although margins fell slightly from the previous year, based on data from the National Association...
Welcome to our First Ever
Jan 8 2001 // The demarcation between years always seems to take on a contemplative aspect. We look back to where we’ve been, and then look forward to weigh our expectations. Will the market continue to harden? Will the dot-coms...
Palmdale Man Convicted of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jan 2 2001 // Jesus Evaristo Gonzalez, 39, plead guilty to workers’ compensation insurance fraud on Dec. 26, 2000. A sentencing hearing in Los Angeles County Superior Court will be held in February 2001; Gonzalez could face up to...
Workers’ Comp Claims Higher Among Those Who Have Filed Previously
Dec 26 2000 // Workers who return to work after a lost-time injury are more than twice as likely to file another workers’ compensation claim for a subsequent injury than other workers at the same company, according to a study by...
Michigan Offers Workers’ Comp Info Online
Dec 21 2000 // Michigan Department of Consumer & Industry Services Director Kathleen Wilbur announced that current workers’ compensation coverage information is now available on the department’s website. The website...
California’s Workers’ Comp System: On the Verge of Collapse
Dec 19 2000 // At the beginning of 2000, the Insurance Journal described the California workers’ compensation market as “crazy,” “turbulent” and “chaotic.” Now, at the end of the year, a more...
Claim-Coding Mistakes Found, Confirmed by Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation
Dec 14 2000 // As many as 23,000 workers’ comp claims filed in 1999 were miscoded or lacked a code that helps determine the premiums paid by businesses. So found a study released Monday by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’...
HIH Sells Renewal Rights to Argonaut, Alaska National
Dec 11 2000 // In the latest action in the volatile workers’ compensation arena, Argonaut Insurance Company announced it will acquire the renewal rights and other tangible assets associated with the workers’ comp business of...
Insurers File Challenge To OSHA Ergo Rule
Dec 11 2000 // The Nov. 14 release of Occupational Safety Health Administration’s (OSHA) new ergonomic rule, approved by President Clinton, has sparked one of the largest backlashes in the 30-year history of the organization....
New Jersey Workers’ Comp Rates to Decline 2.3 Percent in 2001
Dec 8 2000 // Workers’ comp premiums will be reduced by an overall 2.3 percent next year, New Jersey Banking and Insurance Commissioner Karen L. Suter announced yesterday. At the same time, weekly benefits to injured workers for...
HNC Software Releases Three Web-Enabled Tools for EDI in Workers’ Comp
Dec 7 2000 // HNC Insurance Solutions, a division of San Diego, Calif.-based HNC Software, and a provider of solutions for electronic data interchange (EDI) for the workers’ compensation insurance industry, released two new...
MDI, Industry Group Recommend Further Cuts in 2001 Workers’ Comp Rates
Nov 30 2000 // Both the Missouri Department of Insurance and a key industry group are recommending that several years of workers compensation rate reductions continue into 2001. “We have been prepared for this long cycle of rate...
HIH Sells W/C Book, Ceases Writing New Business
Nov 29 2000 // San Francisco-based HIH America Compensation and Liability Insurance Company is selling the renewal rights and other tangible assets associated with its large account California workers’ compensation business to...
Ohio Workers’ Comp System Looking Better, WCRI Study Says
Nov 28 2000 // Significant changes in Ohio have enhanced the performance of the state’s workers’ comp system, particularly in speeding the payments of benefits to injured workers, but there are opportunities for further...
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...
