Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Declarations
Apr 20 2009 // Chinese Drywall Concerns “I believe you’re going to see this is widespread. Anytime you have mounting evidence of potentially toxic goods you have an obligation to act quickly to protect...
California Reconsiders En Banc Decisions
Apr 20 2009 // The California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board has decided to reconsider its earlier en banc decisions in Ogilvie v. City and County of San Francisco, Almaraz v. Environmental Recovery Services and Guzman v....
Colorado Senate Panel Looks at Workers’ Comp to Fund Higher Ed
Apr 20 2009 // Colorado lawmakers are looking at a plan to take $500 million from the state-created workers’ compensation insurance company to reverse deep cuts in higher education. The Senate Appropriations Committee reviewed the...
Idaho Workers Comp Bill Resurfaces, Won’t Impact Lawsuit
Apr 17 2009 // The Idaho Senate resurrected a bill to reform how the State Insurance Fund pays dividends to its workers compensation policy holders, but this new version won’t affect a lawsuit alleging the fund’s managers...
Texas Bill Aims to Reverse State High Court Ruling in Work Comp Case
Apr 17 2009 // Texas lawmakers, unhappy with a recent state Supreme Court decision in a high profile workers’ compensation case, have passed out of committee a measure its sponsors say will overturn the Court’s ruling in...
Oregon Reports Nine Fatalities Receive Workers’ Comp Benefits in Q1
Apr 16 2009 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services has released the Quarterly Fatality Report for the first quarter of 2009. DCBS has received notification of nine compensable fatalities accepted for workers’...
Colorado Senate Votes to Take $500 Million from Workers’ Comp Insurer
Apr 15 2009 // The Colorado Senate has backed two measures aimed at taking $500 million from a state-created workers compensation insurance company to balance next year’s budget over the objections of Pinnacol Assurance and the...
Florida’s Patriot Forms Private Label Workers’ Compensation Unit
Apr 15 2009 // Fort Lauderdale-based wholesale insurance broker Patriot Risk Management, Inc. has formed Patriot Underwriters, Inc. to help expand its insurance distribution and policyholder services business. Patriot Underwriters will...
Colorado Attorney General: Workers’ Comp Assets Off Limits
Apr 13 2009 // The Colorado solicitor general says tapping a state-created workers’ compensation insurance company for money to balance the state budget would be unconstitutional. The analysis from Solicitor General Dan Domenico...
Lawmakers Won’t Bail Idaho Workers’ Comp Fund Out of ‘Pickle’
Apr 10 2009 // Idaho’s Senate Commerce and Human Resources Committee voted 5-4 on April 7 to kill a bill that trial lawyers insisted was aimed at scuttling their three-year-old class-action lawsuit against the Idaho State Insurance...
California Workers’ Comp Appeals Board to Reconsider En Banc Decisions
Apr 10 2009 // The California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board has decided to reconsider its earlier en banc decisions in Ogilvie v. City and County of San Francisco, Almaraz v. Environmental Recovery Services and Guzman v....
Colorado Senate Panel Looks at Workers’ Comp to Fund Higher Ed
Apr 9 2009 // Colorado lawmakers are looking at a plan to take $500 million from the state-created workers’ compensation insurance company to reverse deep cuts in higher education. The Senate Appropriations Committee reviewed the...
Houston Cleaning Company, OSHA Settle Whistleblower Suit
Apr 8 2009 // The U.S. Department of Labor reported a settlement with Triple B Cleaning Inc. in Houston to resolve U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) findings that the company illegally...
Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Costs Continue to Decline
Apr 7 2009 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Jay Bradford has announced a decrease in workers’ compensation costs effective July 1, 2009. The overall loss cost decrease in the voluntary market is 7 percent, while the overall...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Permanent Disability Ratings Not Bound by AMA Guides
Apr 7 2009 // The California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board recently ruled on two permanent disability (PD) workers’ compensation insurance cases that physicians are not necessarily bound by the American Medical...
Ohio Work Comp System Study Released
Apr 7 2009 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) recently announced the release of a year-long comprehensive study of Ohio’s workers’ compensation system. The study, conducted by actuarial insurance experts...
Texas High Court Reaffirms Controversial Entergy Workplace Ruling
Apr 6 2009 // After agreeing to a rare rehearing, the Texas Supreme Court on April 3 upheld its decision that – despite what some lawmakers say – a “premises owner” cannot be sued by injured employees of a...
Economic Downturn Presents Mixed Results for Workers’ Comp Market
Apr 6 2009 // The economic and financial downturn will have a mixed impact on the workers’ compensation insurance market, say industry analysts. Harry Shuford, chief economist for the National Council on Compensation Insurance...
Workers’ Compensation Group Trusts: E&O Friend or Foe?
Apr 6 2009 // Agents Advised to Know How Trusts Differ From Typical Insurance Companies To start off, what exactly is a workers’ compensation group trust? Per the New York State Insurance Department Web site, it is: “[A]...
Workers’ Compensation Group Trusts: E&O Friend or Foe?
Apr 6 2009 // Agents Advised to Know How Trusts Differ From Typical Insurance Companies To start off, what exactly is a workers’ compensation group trust? Per the New York State Insurance Department Web site, it is: “[A]...
