Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
SUNZ Offers Workers’ Comp in More States
Aug 19 2010 // SUNZ Insurance Co. of St. Petersburg, Fla., has gained the rights to provide workers’ compensation in four more states within the southern half of the country. The added states are Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and...
Calif. Employers Face New Workers’ Comp Posting Requirements
Aug 18 2010 // As of Oct. 8, California employers must begin distributing an updated version of the workers’ compensation new hire pamphlet to all employees hire on or after that date; post revised workers’ comp employee...
North Dakota Workers’ Comp Director Says Reviews Too Frequent
Aug 17 2010 // North Dakota’s workers’ compensation director says outside reviews of his agency are too frequent and expensive. North Dakota law says the performance reviews of Workforce Safety and Insurance must be done...
Report: Improve Benefits for Injured North Dakota Workers
Aug 16 2010 // An unusual North Dakota workers’ compensation law provides reduced benefits when a job injury worsens a medical problem the employee already has, and a consultant told state lawmakers on Friday they should repeal...
2010 Education & Training Directory
Aug 16 2010 // Insurance Journal is pleased to publish the 2010 Education and Training Directory. This exclusive resource directory has been designed to help independent agents and brokers find educational and training opportunities to...
Schwarzenegger Opposes 30% Workers’ Comp Rate
Aug 13 2010 // California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he is concerned that the recommended 30 percent increase in the workers’ compensation claims cost benchmark will adversely affect state businesses. In a letter he sent to...
Ex-North Dakota Workers’ Comp Director Wants to Reopen Case
Aug 13 2010 // The attorney for a former North Dakota official who was convicted of misusing public funds says he will ask that the case be reopened because of a prosecutor’s questionable conduct. Mike Hoffman, an attorney for...
California Commissioner Asked to Raise Workers’ Compensation Rate
Aug 12 2010 // The California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s Governing Committee has approved the recommendation to allow the pure premium rate in the state to rise by 29.6 perent, as was expected and widely...
West Virginia Lowers Workers Comp Rates
Aug 11 2010 // Workers’ compensation costs for many employers in West Virginia will drop later this year. Insurance Commissioner Jane Cline’s office recently approved new loss cost rates that are an average 2.9 percent lower...
Denials of Workers’ Comp Claims Jump in North Dakota
Aug 10 2010 // A review of North Dakota’s workers’ compensation program shows claim denials jumped between 2005 and 2009. Still, the review found claim practices were generally sound. In the reviewed period, denied claims...
Thompson Appointed to Workers’ Comp Commission
Aug 10 2010 // Clifton E. Thompson has been appointed a commissioner of Connecticut’s Workers’ Compensation Commissioner. Thompson is a former Army sergeant, Hartford police officer and private practice lawyer who specialized...
Groups Earn Combined $840K in Dividends from Texas Mutual
Aug 6 2010 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced that four purchasing groups have earned a combined $839,151 in workers’ compensation dividends. The dividends were based largely on each group’s premium volume and loss...
California Bureau May Ask for 30 Percent Workers’ Comp Increase
Aug 6 2010 // California’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau is considering requesting a 30 percent increase in pure premium rates for 2011 policies. The news that California’s Workers’ Compensation...
Honolulu Man Convicted in Hawaii’s First Workers’ Comp Theft Case
Aug 5 2010 // Llorente SIU announced the conviction of an Ewa Beach, Hawaii, man on theft and perjury charges resulting from a suspect workers’ compensation claim. Jacob Belaski, the owner of Teixeira Trucking Inc. misrepresented...
October Hearing Set on Virginia Workers’ Comp Premiums
Aug 2 2010 // Virginia regulators are planning to hold a hearing in October on proposed adjustments in premiums charged for workers’ compensation insurance. The State Corporation Commission said Friday that it has set an Oct. 26...
Industry Balks as Democrats Press for Mine Safety, OSHA Changes
Aug 2 2010 // Prompted by the deadly explosion in April that killed 29 coal miners in West Virginia, a House of Representatives committee recently approved sweeping mine and workplace safety reforms. The 30-17 vote came over the...
Texas Public Entities Earn $200K from Work Comp Dividend Plan
Jul 30 2010 // The Board of Trustees of Texas Political Subdivisions JSIF has voted to approve $200,000 in workers’ compensation insurance dividend payments to member local government entities throughout Texas. Each public...
Texas Mutual Successful on Appeal in Workers’ Comp Bad Faith Case
Jul 29 2010 // A Houston Court of Appeals has dismissed a case involving workers’ compensation benefits claim disputes with Texas Mutual Insurance Co. in a move that according to the insurer resolves “significant”...
Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. Promotes Buffone, White
Jul 23 2010 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. (LWCC) has promoted two key executives. Paul Buffone is now senior vice president of Risk Management Services, and David T. White is now vice president of Internal Audit. Buffone...
Jury Convicts South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Consultant
Jul 22 2010 // After a two day trial, a South Carolina workers’ compensation consultant and former state representative has been found guilty of mail fraud for fabricating payroll figures in order to obtain lower premiums for a...
