Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
OSHA Fines Massachusetts Firm over Ice Machine Death
Nov 12 2009 // A New Bedford, Massachusetts seafood processing plant faces $66,800 in fines following a probe into the death of a worker who became caught in an industrial ice-making machine. The federal Occupational Safety and Health...
California’s SCIF Announces Five Percent Rate Increase
Nov 11 2009 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund today announced it has filed a 5 percent rate increase in collectible premium. The revised rate will apply to new and renewal workers’ compensation policies...
California’s Poizner Rejects Workers’ Comp Increase Request, Again
Nov 10 2009 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has rejected for the second time this year an insurance industry request for a large increase in the workers’ compensation benchmark premium rate. The Workers’...
Oklahoma Pair Charged with Embezzling More Than $1M From Clients
Nov 9 2009 // A 21-month investigation has culminated in charges against a Tulsa, Okla., attorney and a former attorney on allegations that they embezzled more than $1.1 million from clients in insurance-related cases, Oklahoma Attorney...
American Empire Surplus Unveils E&O Cover for Medicare Compliance
Nov 6 2009 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based American Empire Surplus Lines Insurance Company, a member of the Great American Insurance Group, has launched an errors and omissions liability insurance product for Medicare Statutory...
Montana Courts Uphold Workers’ Comp Cutoff Age
Nov 5 2009 // The Montana Supreme Court has upheld a state law that allows insurance companies to cut off worker’s compensation payments for those suffering permanent total disability when the disabled party is of retirement...
Maine Workers’ Comp Rates Drop
Nov 4 2009 // Maine’s Insurance Bureau says workers’ compensation rates will decrease by an average of 7 percent. Insurance Superintendent Mila Kofman said Monday that an industry request for a decrease has been approved. It...
Colorado Workers’ Comp Rates to Drop
Nov 4 2009 // Colorado employers will be looking forward to additional financial relief next year by paying lower premiums for workers compensation insurance due to the announcement that a significant component of workers compensation...
2010 Agricultural Payroll Amount for Texas Workers’ Comp Set at $49K
Nov 4 2009 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation has set the adjusted annual payroll requirement for the coverage of seasonal workers at $49,127. The TDI-DWI said the established gross payroll...
Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Comp Lowers Group Discount Rate
Nov 3 2009 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) has lowered the discount available to employers who participate in a group-rating system. Beginning July 1, 2010, the maximum available discount for businesses in a...
BP Refinery in Texas Hit with Record $87 Million Fine for Safety Violations
Nov 2 2009 // U.S. safety regulators on Friday hit oil giant BP with a record $87.4- million fine for failing to fix safety violations at its Texas City, Texas, refinery after a deadly 2005 explosion. In announcing the fines, U.S. Labor...
North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Rates Cut 9.6%
Nov 2 2009 // North Carolina workers’ compensation rates paid by employers are going down. The state has agreed to a 9.6 percent decrease to the voluntary market loss costs and no change (zero percent) for the assigned risk...
Florida Approves 6.8% Workers’ Compensation Rate Cut
Nov 1 2009 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has given the green light to an overall statewide average workers’ compensation rate decrease of 6.8 percent. The decrease, which was proposed by the industry’s...
Study: Workers’ Compensation Public Options Outperform Private Industry
Nov 1 2009 // State funds blunt the impact of bigger losses through concerted loss prevention efforts. An insurance industry think tank has concluded that 25 public and quasi-public workers’ compensation insurance plans perform...
Colorado’s Workers’ Comp Fund Pinnacol: Swagger and Success Invite Scrutiny
Nov 1 2009 // If there is one thing that Colorado’s quasi-public workers compensation provider, Pinnacol Assurance, has not been accused of being, it is being timid. When the state government tried early this year to tap the...
Declarations
Nov 1 2009 // Driving Innovation “Pay as you drive is an innovative way to give California motorists financial rewards for driving less, leading to lower-cost auto insurance, less air pollution and a reduced dependence on foreign...
Endurance Reports $153.8 Million Q3 Net Income; Conference Call Today
Oct 30 2009 // Bermuda-based Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. reported net income of $153.8 million and $2.51 per diluted common share for the third quarter of 2009, compared to a net loss of $99.4 million and $1.79 per diluted common...
California Pizzeria Owner Pleads to Insurance Fraud
Oct 30 2009 // Two Southern California men who were arrested on Oct. 15 for workers’ compensation insurance fraud in Orange County. The state Insurance Commissioner, Steve Poizner, said that Sanjiv Mahendra Shah, 53, of Placentia...
Investigation: Ohio Work Comp Fund Lost $20M in Pharmacy Program
Oct 30 2009 // The state watchdog says the Ohio insurance fund for injured workers is out $20 million because of problems with its prescription drug program. Inspector General Tom Charles says the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation...
California to Update Workers Compensation Regulations
Oct 30 2009 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations has proposed an update to regulations for the Workers’ Compensation Information System. The update is part of the Division of Workers’ Compensation’s...
