Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
AmTrust to Acquire Florida Workers’ Comp Insurer OptaComp
Jun 30 2014 // AmTrust Financial Services Inc. announced that it has agreed to purchase Comp Options Insurance Co. Inc., a Jacksonville, Florida-based workers’ compensation insurer and a subsidiary of Blue Cross & Blue Shield...
Del. Lawmakers Approve Bill Aimed at Lowering Workers’ Comp Medical Costs
Jun 27 2014 // Delaware lawmakers have given final approval to legislation aimed at lowering workers’ compensation insurance rates in Delaware. The bill approved unanimously by the Senate on Wednesday calls for a 33 percent...
ICW Group Offering Workers’ Comp Insurance in Georgia, Indiana, New Jersey
Jun 26 2014 // ICW Group Insurance Cos., a multiline property/casualty insurer based in San Diego, Calif., announced it has begun writing workers’ compensation insurance in Georgia, Indiana and New Jersey. ICW Group said its...
Walls Named VP – Communications, Strategic Analysis at Safety National
Jun 26 2014 // Safety National Casualty Corp., a St. Louis, Mo., provider of excess workers’ compensation and large casualty insurance offerings, announced that Mark Walls has joined the company as vice president of communications...
Safety Is Paramount for Texas Mutual CEO Gergasko
Jun 25 2014 // Richard Gergasko Richard Gergasko, CEO of workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., describes himself as an insurance geek. Trained as an actuary, he’s been involved in the insurance business...
Kansas Court: Travel ‘Intrinsic’ to Oil Field Work, Comp Benefits Apply
Jun 19 2014 // Kansas highest court reversed a state appeals court finding that an oil field worker was not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits after he was injured while riding home from his workplace. The nature of oil...
Firing Fear Among New Predictors of Workers’ Comp Outcomes: WCRI
Jun 19 2014 // Workers’ compensation researchers have identified anxiety over being fired and other new predictors of worker outcomes that they say can help public officials, payors and health care providers improve the treatment...
Top Loss Leaders in the Oil Patch? Commercial Auto, Workers’ Comp
Jun 18 2014 // There’s no doubt that new advancements in the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, are driving the current production boom in the oil patch. The technique, which is used to retrieve oil and gas reservoirs...
N.H. Gov. Hassan to Appoint Workers’ Comp Task Force
Jun 16 2014 // N.H. Gov. Maggie Hassan N.H. Gov. Maggie Hassan announced on May 22 that she plans to appoint a task force “of workers, businesses, insurers and members of the health care community” to make recommendations to...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau Opening New North Canton Location
Jun 11 2014 // The Hoover District site will soon become the new location for the area’s Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Service Office. The office, located at 339 E. Maple Street in North Canton, will house...
Texas Doctor Convicted Again on Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Jun 10 2014 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that a Travis County jury convicted Howard T. Douglas III, M.D. of Frisco, Texas, on felony workers’ compensation fraud-related charges for overbilling Texas Mutual for functional...
Texas Moves Forward in Becoming an NCCI State
Jun 10 2014 // In late March 2014, Texas Insurance Commissioner Julia Rathegeber approved a staff petition to adopt the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) Basic Manual, with Texas exceptions, and the national and...
Court Reinstates Iowa Work Comp Commissioner’s Defamation Claim
Jun 10 2014 // Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and top aides could be held personally liable if a jury decides that they defamed the workers’ compensation commissioner and improperly cut his salary during an attempt to force his...
Texas Workers’ Comp Commissioner to Resign Aug. 1
Jun 9 2014 // Texas Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Rod Bordelon plans to resign from his post effective Aug. 1, the Insurance Council of Texas reported. Bordelon has served as Commissioner for the past six years. Insurance...
OSHA Investigates Death of Georgia Roofing Business Owner
Jun 9 2014 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the death of the owner of a roofing company. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Ron Crist died in an incident at the Paulding County business....
N.J. Roofing Company Exec Gets Jail Time for Misleading Workers’ Comp Carrier
Jun 6 2014 // New Jersey authorities said the president of a New Jersey roofing company was sentenced to jail Friday for providing false and misleading information to the company’s workers’ compensation insurance carrier to...
Conn. Fines Apple Store Contractors for Lacking Workers’ Comp Coverage
Jun 6 2014 // The Connecticut Department of Labor is fining three out-of-state contractors working at an Apple Store in West Hartford for not having worker’s compensation insurance coverage for their employees. The case has...
Tennessee Targets Workers’ Comp Fraud in Construction Industry
Jun 6 2014 // The Tennessee Department of Labor has been expanding efforts to uncover employer fraud within the construction industry. The efforts, aided by recent legislation, will help identify employers who are paying workers under...
Maine Man Sentenced to 1 Year in Jail, $50K Restitution for Comp Fraud
Jun 5 2014 // A Maine man was sentenced this week in Aroostook County Superior Court to serve 42 months in jail, with all but one year suspended for workers’ compensation fraud. Workers’ comp insurer MEMIC — whose...
Opting Out of Texas Workers’ Comp Doesn’t Have to Mean Going Bare
Jun 5 2014 // While Oklahoma recently adopted legislation under which employers may choose an alternative to the statutory workers’ compensation system in certain circumstances, Texas still the only state in which participation in...
