Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Florida Packing Plant Workers Face Workers’ Compensation Fraud Charges
Aug 12 2014 // Workers from a Naples, Fla. vegetable and fruit packing plant were headed back to court to face charges related to alleged workers’ compensation fraud. The case stems from the raid of a packing plant where more than...
Female Bank Robbery Conspirator Charged With Workers’ Comp Fraud
Aug 11 2014 // Aurora Barrera, 33, of Downey was arrested on charges related to her allegedly submitting a fraudulent workers’ compensation claim for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder associated with a robbery, she...
Oklahoma AG: Workers’ Comp Commission Broke Open Meeting Act
Aug 7 2014 // The commission that oversees Oklahoma’s system for compensating injured workers repeatedly violated the state’s Open Meeting Act, including when its members met privately with a potential vendor, an assistant...
Kaprinay Named Workers’ Comp Practice Leader at IMPG in Illinois
Aug 7 2014 // St. Charles, Ill.-based Insurance Program Managers Group (IPMG) promoted Nathan Kaprinay practice leader of IPMG’s brokerage division for workers’ compensation. Kaprinay will coordinate marketing and production...
OSHA: Safety Violations Continue at Oklahoma Oil Refinery
Aug 6 2014 // U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited an Oklahoma oil refinery with five repeat and three serious violations for continuing to expose workers to unsafe conditions. As a...
Virginia Sets Hearing on Workers’ Comp Premium Level Adjustments
Aug 6 2014 // Virginia’s State Corporation Commission (SCC) has scheduled an October hearing to consider a request filed by the National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. (NCCI) to adjust the premium levels charged for...
Iowa Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Godfrey Resigning
Aug 6 2014 // Iowa Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Christopher J. Godfrey will resign to take a federal position, but will continue pursuing a lawsuit alleging Gov. Terry Branstad and aides illegally bullied him, he...
More Problems at Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Commission
Aug 4 2014 // Members of a new state agency charged with overseeing Oklahoma’s system for compensating injured workers may have to vote again on several issues because of possible violations of a law requiring certain state...
Observations on TRIA
Aug 4 2014 // U.S. insurance markets, like the rest of the nation, were caught off guard by the Sept.11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Loss of life and property led to an estimated $32.5 billion dollars in insured losses – $43 billion in...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Agency Settles Overcharges Lawsuit
Aug 4 2014 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation has reached an agreement in principle to settle the San Allen case, a class action lawsuit filed in 2007 against the BWC over the pricing of workers’ comp policies that...
California Workers’ Comp Officials Continue to Praise Reforms
Aug 4 2014 // Touting California’s still-young workers’ compensation reform law as a “pragmatic middle” compromise that seems to be working, two of the top officials responsible for the system talked up some of...
Illinois Workers’ Comp Rate Set to Fall in 2015
Aug 1 2014 // Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says the state’s workers’ compensation insurance rates will drop 5.5 percent next year. Quinn announced the cut in rates is being recommended by the National Council on Compensation...
Kentucky School Districts Being Assessed for Insurance Trust Gone Bust
Aug 1 2014 // Some Kentucky school districts have started getting bills over the past couple of weeks to help offset insurance claims against the failed Kentucky School Boards Insurance Trust. The trust announced last year that it would...
Brannan Appointed New Texas Workers’ Comp Commissioner
Jul 29 2014 // Gov. Rick Perry appointed Ryan Brannan of Austin as commissioner of Workers’ Compensation at the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), effective Aug. 1, 2014, for a term to expire Feb. 1, 2015. Brannan replaces Rod...
Judge OKs Ohio Workers’ Comp Settlement
Jul 28 2014 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation will pay out $420 million to state employers that were overcharged for insurance premiums under a settlement approved by a judge. Cuyahoga County Judge Richard McMonagle said the...
Insurers File for 9.1% West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Loss Cost Decrease
Jul 25 2014 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) has filed a proposed reduction in workers’ compensation loss cost rates in West Virginia – the tenth reduction in 10 years. NCCI, West Virginia’s rating...
Campbell Named South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commissioner
Jul 24 2014 // Gov. Nikki Haley has appointed Mike Campbell to serve on the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission. Haley cited Campbell’s business experience and community involvement in the appointment. Campbell, a...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Agency Settles Overcharges Lawsuit
Jul 23 2014 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation has reached an agreement in principle to settle the San Allen case, a class action lawsuit filed in 2007 against the BWC over the pricing of workers’ comp policies that...
Texas Homebuilder Workers’ Comp Group Distributing $500K to Members
Jul 23 2014 // Texas Homebuilder Workers’ Compensation Group (THB) announced that 2014 dividend payments to policyholders will total more than $500,000. The program is available only to homebuilders in Texas. Founded in 2004 by...
Declarations
Jul 21 2014 // Brewing Brewer “The ruling is especially disturbing given the current influx of illegal aliens, a crisis President Obama created and escalated.” —Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer upset over a U.S. Court of Appeals...
