Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Colen Joins Keenan & Associates as Senior VP
Jul 7 2010 // Keenan & Associates,a privately held brokerage and consulting firm based in Torrance, Calif., announced that Bernard Colen has joined the company as senior vice president in the public agencies property/casualty...
UPMC WorkPartners Offers Workers’ Compensation in Pennsylvania
Jul 7 2010 // UPMC WorkPartners, part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, has announced a new workers’ compensation product line offering dollar one coverage for Pennsylvania companies. “Health care reform is...
Pratt Joins NSM Insurance in Pennsylvania
Jul 7 2010 // Geoff Pratt is joining NSM Insurance Group as director of Workers’ Compensation Programs. Pratt brings 23 years of underwriting and risk management experience in monoline workers compensation. He last served as vice...
Some Question Campaign Run by Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Judge
Jul 7 2010 // The presiding judge of the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Court has created a furor by choosing to retain his post while running for a job as an Oklahoma County district judge. Some attorneys say Judge Kent Eldridge...
Midlands to Provide Work Comp Program for Oklahoma Restaurants
Jul 6 2010 // Oklahoma City-based Midlands Management Corp. announced it has been selected as the endorsed workers’ compensation program provider for members of the Oklahoma Restaurant Association (ORA). In choosing Midlands as...
Liberty Mutual Wins Dismissal of Workers’ Comp Claim for Injured Massachusetts Carpenter
Jul 5 2010 // Judge: Endorsement Must Be Requested by Insured Liberty Mutual was right to deny workers’ comp benefits for a self-employed carpenter who severely injured his hand, the Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled. The...
Oklahoma Placing Pegasus Insurance into Rehabilitation
Jul 5 2010 // A district court judge has authorized Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland to place Pegasus Insurance Co. into rehabilita-tion. Pegasus specializes in workers’ compensation for professional employer...
CMTA and CompWest Form Workers’ Compensation Partnership
Jul 2 2010 // The California Manufacturers and Technology Association (CMTA) and CompWest Insurance Company have formed a partnership to provide a group workers’ compensation program for California’s manufacturing sector....
Washington Closer to Eliminating Workers’ Comp Insurance Monopoly
Jul 2 2010 // A campaign to end the state’s monopoly on workers’ compensation insurance appears to have enough support to qualify for the November ballot, adding to a busy initiative season in Washington politics. Initiative...
NetComp Opens Workers Comp Program to Agents in 5 States
Jul 1 2010 // NetComp Insurance, a newly-formed program manager based in Columbia, S.C., has opened its online program (www.netcompinsurance.com) for small to-mid size workers’ compensation business to all independent agents in...
New York Looking to Clamp Down on Self-Insured Trusts
Jun 30 2010 // New York Gov. David Paterson wants to rein in the use of self-insured trusts in the Empire State, following the recommendation of task force formed in the wake of several high-profile trust collapses over the last several...
Liberty Mutual Wins Dismissal of Claim for Injured Mass. Carpenter
Jun 25 2010 // Liberty Mutual was right to deny workers’ comp benefits for a self-employed carpenter who severely injured his hand, the Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled. The decision upholds an earlier ruling by an...
SeaBright Launches New Managed Care Claims Program
Jun 25 2010 // SeaBright Holdings, Inc.’s subsidiary, SeaBright Insurance Co., has launched a new managed care new program called “BrightCurePDQ”, which stands for Physician-Directed Quality. Starting in June, upon...
Equipment Dealers Dividend Grows 436% in 3rd Year with Texas Mutual
Jun 24 2010 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced a $471,031 dividend to the Texas Machinery and Equipment Dealers (TM&E) workers’ compensation purchasing group. The group’s third annual dividend grew $383,228 over last...
Calif. Temporary Disability Workers’ Comp Claim Costs Down 6.1%
Jun 22 2010 // Temporary disability outcomes in California’s $8 billion workers’ compensation system have continued to improve since the enactment of 2004 reform legislation, new research from the California Workers’...
FAIA’s Grady: Florida Needs to Improve Its Insurance Reputation
Jun 21 2010 // The following are excerpts from a wide-ranging interview by Insurance Journal’s Andy Simpson with Jeff Grady, president and CEO, Florida Association of Insurance Agents, from Grady’s Tallahassee...
OSHA: Iowa Railroad Wrongly Censured Train Conductor
Jun 17 2010 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ordered the Iowa Interstate Railroad, headquartered in Cedar Rapids, to make amends for censuring a train conductor who was disciplined...
Texas Work Comp Enforcements Include Suspensions, Insurer Fines
Jun 16 2010 // Final disciplinary actions taken in March and April by the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) include removal of providers from Designated Doctors list and insurance company...
California Seeks Workers’ Comp Claims E-Filers
Jun 16 2010 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is seeking more participants for its e-forms trial, which allows filers to electronically submit forms and documents directly into its Electronic...
Revamp of Oklahoma Workers’ Comp System Signed by Governor
Jun 15 2010 // Legislation intended to improve the Oklahoma workers’ compensation system for injured workers was signed into law June11 by Gov. Brad Henry. The governor’s signature on the measure also reduces by one the...
