Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Texas Work Comp Enforcements for November Include Fines Up to $60K
Dec 15 2010 // Final disciplinary actions taken by the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) for November 2010 include fines of up to $60,000. Final orders for November 2010: American Zurich...
Federal Tax Case Leads to Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges in New York
Dec 15 2010 // A federal tax fraud case against a Bronx tax preparer touched off a workers’ comp fraud case against the woman who is now charged with wrongly collecting over $135,000 in benefits, officials said. Rosa Rivera has...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Indemnity Claim Costs Significantly Higher
Dec 14 2010 // California’s workers’ comp insurers wrote approximately 10 percent more premium the first nine months of 2010 compared to 2009, according to the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of...
Arkansas Court Upholds Workers’ Comp for Smoke-Break Injury
Dec 13 2010 // The Arkansas Supreme Court has ruled that an employee who was injured when she fell down and broke her arm during a cigarette break is entitled to workers’ compensation. The Court sided with Ronna Woods, who sought...
Cal/OSHA Implements Updated Heat Safety Regulations
Dec 9 2010 // Cal/OSHA has implmented a new standard to protect employees who work with diacetyl, a chemical commonly used to give food flavorings a buttery taste. Cal/OSHA, a division of the California Department of Industrial...
Court: Missouri Can Lay Off Workers’ Comp Judges to Cut Costs
Dec 9 2010 // A Missouri appeals court has ruled that the state can lay off three workers’ compensation administrative law judges who challenged the state’s decision to scrap their positions as part of state budget cuts. The...
Calif. Division of Workers’ Comp Names Appointees to Ethics Advisory Committee
Dec 8 2010 // California Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) acting Administrative Director Carrie Nevans has appointed the Hon. Alice Vilardi as chair of the workers’ compensation ethics advisory committee, and...
E-Comp Offers Pay-As-You-Go Workers’ Comp Program
Dec 7 2010 // Pleasanton, Calif.-based E-Comp has released a wholesale broker program called E-Comp that allows brokers to compete in the pay-as-you-go marketplace with a workers’ compensation insurance program. Workers’...
Texas High Court Reverses Denial of Work Comp for at Home Worker
Dec 7 2010 // An insurance company improperly denied workers’ compensation coverage for a woman injured while traveling in a company car from one workplace to another, the Texas Supreme Court has ruled. Liana Leordeanu, a...
Texas Supreme Court Declines to Review Workers’ Comp Stop-Loss Case
Dec 6 2010 // The Texas Supreme Court has put an end to a case involving the amount some hospitals marked up workers’ compensation-related bills under rules in effect until 2008, Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced. In June 2010,...
New York Eases Some Workers’ Compensation Policy Rules
Dec 5 2010 // New York has eased some workers’ compensation insurance requirements for out-of-state businesses that do only occasional, non-construction work in the Empire State. The rule change comes after years of lobbying by...
Audit: South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Board Delayed Deposits
Dec 5 2010 // The South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission broke state law by not depositing fines because it worried legislators would use the money for something else, according to a state audit. The commission collected...
California Self-Insured Group Declared in Default
Dec 5 2010 // The Contractors Access Program of California (CAP), a self insured group, has been declared in default due to insufficient funding required for continued operation, California’s Department of Industrial Relations...
Calif. Commissioner Rejects Increase in Workers’ Comp Cost Benchmark
Dec 5 2010 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has rejected – for the third consecutive time – a workers’ comp rate filing submitted on behalf of insurers by the Workers’ Compensation Insurance...
Illinois Workers’ Comp Commissioners Assigned to Panels
Dec 3 2010 // The chairman of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission announced commissioner panel assignments that become effective Jan. 1, 2011. Chairman Mitch Weisz realigned two panels: Panel A will consist of...
Retailers Casualty Insurance to Offer Workers’ Compensation in Texas
Dec 2 2010 // Baton Rouge, La.-based workers’ compensation insurer Retailers Casualty Insurance Co. announced it will begin offering workers’ compensation coverage in Texas. Retailers Casualty, which is managed by Summit...
New York Eases Some Workers’ Compensation Policy Rules
Nov 30 2010 // New York has eased some workers’ compensation insurance requirements for out-of-state businesses that do only occasional, non-construction work in the Empire State. The rule change comes after years of lobbying by...
Calif. Regulators Announce 2011 Workers’ Comp Assessment Rates
Nov 30 2010 // The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) has calculated the 2011 assessments that state law requires workers’ compensation insurers collect from policyholders to cover the budget of the state Division...
Audit: South Carolina Workers’ Comp Board Delayed Money Deposits
Nov 29 2010 // The state’s Workers’ Compensation Commission broke state law by not depositing fines as it worried legislators would use the money for something else, according to a state audit. The commission collected but...
Gov.-Elect Kasich Names Sen. Buehrer to Head Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau
Nov 24 2010 // Ohio Governor-elect John Kasich named Senator Steve Buehrer as administrator of the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation. Buehrer, a Republican from Delta, becomes the fourth agency director of the Kasich...
