Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Weisz Named Acting Chair of Illinois Work Comp Commission
Mar 26 2010 // Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has appointed workers’ compensation attorney Mitchel R. Weisz as acting chairman of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission. Amy Masters, who has been heading the organization...
Califonia Seeks Comments on Workers’ Comp Medical Treatment Utilization Schedule Regs
Mar 26 2010 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation has posted an online forum for members of the public to review and comment on a draft of proposed regulations to update the medical treatment utilization schedule...
Texas Approves 9 Companies to Self-Insure for Workers’ Comp
Mar 25 2010 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) approved the renewal of the Certificates of Authority for nine companies to self-insure for workers’ compensation claims for a...
Texas Mutual Adds New Purchasing Group for Agriculture Industry
Mar 25 2010 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company has launched a new workers’ compensation purchasing group for the agriculture industry, AgriComp. Any licensed Texas agent can submit qualifying clients for consideration. AgriComp is...
Ohio Supreme Court Upholds 2005 Law Limiting Injured Worker Suits
Mar 24 2010 // In two separate decisions, the Supreme Court of Ohio upheld as constitutional a 2005 state law that limits the ability of workers who are injured on the job to sue their employers for a “workplace intentional...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Advisers Wanted Recommendation, Didn’t Get It
Mar 23 2010 // The director of an embattled legislative panel bucked the position held by panel advisers when she declined to make a recommendation on a bill with sweeping consequences for the nation’s largest state-run injured...
Police: Mass. Temp Agency Paid Cash to Avoid Taxes, Insurance
Mar 22 2010 // Two former owners of a temporary employment agency in Massachusetts have been charged with paying more than $24 million in unreported cash to employees as part of a conspiracy to avoid paying more than $7 million dollars...
It Figures
Mar 22 2010 // 4.6% Nebraska’s unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.6 percent in January, still less than half the national rate of 9.7 percent, according to state officials. The preliminary December rate of 4.7 percent...
Clashes Led to Firings, Discrimination Claims at Ohio Work Comp Council
Mar 22 2010 // Internal pressure was mounting for months ahead of the February firings of the staff of an agency charged with protecting the well-being of Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers. Public records obtained by The...
Pinnacol Assurance Offers Colorado $330 Million to Become Private Insurer
Mar 19 2010 // Pinnacol Assurance, Colorado’s quasi-governmental workers’ compensation insurer, has submitted a potential separation agreement to Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter that would establish Pinnacol as a domestic mutual...
Oklahoma GOP Forges Ahead With Workers’ Comp Overhaul
Mar 18 2010 // Oklahoma Senate Republicans are continuing their push to completely overhaul Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation laws, arguing the system is too expensive for businesses. The Senate Judiciary Committee has...
Michigan Legislator Seeks Workers’ Compensation for Illegal Immigrants
Mar 18 2010 // A Michigan state representative has filed a bill to give illegal aliens in the state access to workers compensation benefits if they are injured on the job. State Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Detroit, has introduced legislation...
Appeals Court Sides with Texas Mutual on Sanctions in Work Comp Case
Mar 18 2010 // The Texas Fifth District Court of Appeals in Dallas issued an opinion on March 16, 2010, ruling that sanctions imposed against Texas Mutual Insurance Company related to a workers’ compensation case were improper. The...
Commercial Insurance Prices Stayed Flat in 4th Quarter: Towers Watson
Mar 18 2010 // A competitive market landscape perpetuated flat commercial insurance prices during the fourth quarter of 2009, according to the latest market survey. After nearly five years of steady price decreases, findings from...
Ohio House Review of Worker’s Comp Council Firings Begins March 24
Mar 17 2010 // A state House of Representatives committee will review a council created to protect Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers in the wake of the firing of the council’s three-member staff. House Insurance...
Report: Calif. Workers’ Comp Insurance Market Still Needs Improvement
Mar 16 2010 // California workers’ compensation claims and disability costs have dropped significantly since the state’s workers’ compensation system was overhauled in 2003 and 2004. Yet “many of the same...
Trucking Led To $480 Million in Calif. Workers’ Comp Payments
Mar 15 2010 // Injuries in the trucking industry led to more than $480 million in workers’ compensation medical and indemnity payments, according to the California Workers’ Compensation Institute. The group, which released a...
Starr, Chubb Form Workers Compensation Underwriting Agreement
Mar 15 2010 // Starr Indemnity & Liability Co., Inc., an indirectly wholly owned subsidiary of Starr International Company, Inc., and Chubb & Son, a division of Federal Insurance Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Chubb, have...
Calif. Makes Appointments to Workers’ Comp Insurance Rating Bureau
Mar 12 2010 // Calif. Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced that he has reappointed Lee Pearson of Rancho Murieta, and Bruce Wick of San Bernardino, to the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau Governing Committee....
Calif. Workers’ Comp Insurer Records $143 Million Net Income for 2009
Mar 12 2010 // The California State Compensation Insurance Fund, reported it ended 2009 with $1.25 billion in net premium earned, and $143 million in net income, compared with $75 million in net income earned in 2008, Doug Stewart,...
