Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Workers’ Comp Wholesaler Unisource Expands Nationwide
Sep 25 2009 // Unisource Program Administrators (UPA), a workers’ compensation wholesaler, has expanded services to all 50 states. In addition, the company named Barbara Drollinger, a 20-year workers’ compensation expert,...
October 7th Lunch Discussion: The State of California Workers’ Compensation…. not for the Faint of Heart
Sep 24 2009 // SAN DIEGO – The Insurance Brokers & Agents of San Diego along with the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation of San Diego will be hosting a lunch discussion on October 7, 2009 with guest speaker Linda Smith,...
Washington Workers’ Compensation Rates Could Rise 7.6 Percent
Sep 23 2009 // The state of Washington yesterday announced higher workers’ compensation insurance premiums for 2010 than earlier forecasted. In June, the state’s Department of Labor and Industries advised the Workers’...
Texas Sets Workers’ Comp Weekly Benefit Rates
Sep 22 2009 // The Texas Department of Insurance has announced the weekly benefit rates for workers’ compensation insurance for Oct. 1, 2009, through Sept. 30, 2010. In accordance with the Texas Labor Code (TLC) §408.047, the...
Florida’s Newly-Formed Ascendant to Rescue First Commercial Policies
Sep 21 2009 // The new company will use independent agents and brokers for sales. Florida officials announced that a new Miami-based insurance company will pick up the insurance for about 15,000 of the policyholders now with First...
Hawaii Workers’ Compensation Coststo Drop Again for Fifth Year in a Row
Sep 21 2009 // Workers’ compensation insurers in Hawaii have filed to reduce by 4.1 percent the loss cost factor that goes into the rates charged to employers. This marks the fifth year in a row that workers’ compensation...
Florida’s Newly-Formed Ascendant to Rescue First Commercial Policies
Sep 21 2009 // The new company will use independent agents and brokers for sales. Florida officials announced that a new Miami-based insurance company will pick up the insurance for about 15,000 of the policyholders now with First...
Midwest-based Agent ‘Walks the Walk’ to Control Work Comp Costs
Sep 21 2009 // Carl Zeutzius has walked his share of floors over the past four years. But they were miles well traveled. As a Certified Work Comp Advisor (CWCA) and director of Sales and Marketing for UNICO Group, an insurance, risk...
Bengals Want Workers’ Comp Cases Moved to Ohio
Sep 21 2009 // The Cincinnati Bengals have filed a lawsuit asking that the workers’ compensation claims of 31 former players be moved from California to Ohio. In its lawsuit filed in Cincinnati, the professional football team says...
Indiana Appeals Court Affirms Work Comp Coverage for Obesity Surgery
Sep 21 2009 // An Indiana appeals court has upheld the ruling of the state workers’ compensation board that an employee at a pizza restaurant is eligible for treatment for obesity under a workers’ compensation policy. The...
Declarations
Sep 21 2009 // Not Wasting Time “I will not waste time with those who have made the calculation that it’s better politics to kill this plan than improve it.” —President Barack Obama, in a Sept. 9 speech before...
Colorado’s Pinnacol Defends Actions
Sep 21 2009 // Executives from Colorado’s state-chartered workers’ compensation insurance company defended themselves against accusations of lavish spending and excess profits during a legislative hearing and they told...
California Workers’ Compensation Drug Costs Up, Despite Reforms
Sep 21 2009 // Despite the adoption of California workers’ compensation medical reforms in 2004, a new study finds that both the average number of prescriptions and average prescription drug payments per claim are on the rise...
Workers’ Compensation System Failing Lower Wage Workers
Sep 21 2009 // Study Finds Few Workers File for Benefits Even When Seriously Injured Only 8 percent of lower wage workers injured on the job receive workers’ compensation benefits, according to a new report. Also, lower wage...
A.M. Best: New Regulations, Market Conditions and Financial Crisis Wreak Havoc on Workers’ Comp Line
Sep 21 2009 // Challenging market conditions, the financial crisis and the recession drove profitability downward for the U.S. workers’ compensation market in 2008. Changing regulatory conditions and reforms have also impacted the...
Employers Must Keep Company Picnics and Team-Building Activities Voluntary
Sep 21 2009 // When Fun ‘n Games at Work Take a Bad Turn Phyllis Young and her co-worker and friend, Sarah Bales, won the hula-hoop contest and the balloon toss, making them the favorites to also win the three-legged sack...
New York Carpenter Arrested for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Sep 18 2009 // The owner of a Long Island carpentry business has been charged with fraud for failing to disclose over $900,000 in sales to his workers’ comp insurer – a move which lowered his insurance premiums by...
Massachusetts Allows Public to Verify Workers’ Comp Coverage
Sep 17 2009 // Massachusetts has introduced a new Web site that allows anyone to see if a business has workers’ compensation insurance. The Web site was launched by the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development. The site...
Pitts Named Florida Workers’ Compensation Judge by Gov. Crist
Sep 17 2009 // Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has appointed Neal P. Pitts of Orlando as judge of Compensation Claims, succeeding Ivy Cream Harris in the Jacksonville district. Pitts, 55, has been a sole practitioner since 1987 and from 1983...
Monroe Employer Arrested in Louisiana Workers’ Comp Crackdown
Sep 15 2009 // The Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) announced a third arrest this month as part of the the agency’s statewide crackdown on employers who are alleged to have committed workers’ compensation fraud. Agents...
