Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Commercial P/C Insurers’ Stocks Down 14%; M&A Activity at Historic Highs
Nov 2 2008 // Stock Prices: The turbulent stock market is not sparing commercial property/casualty insurers. Through the first nine months of the year stocks are down 14 percent in the sector. M&A Activity: Despite the current...
Advocates: Governor to Have Authority at N.D. Workers’ Comp Agency
Oct 31 2008 // Advocates for injured workers say an initiative that gives the governor power to hire North Dakota’s workers’ compensation director is only one of many changes needed in the system. “First of all,...
Florida Approves Another Rate Decrease for Workers’ Comp
Oct 30 2008 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty approved the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s amended rate filing for workers’ compensation insurance rates that will become effective Jan. 1. The rate...
Former North Dakota Workers’ Comp Director Wants Trial Moved
Oct 30 2008 // A former North Dakota workers’ compensation director is asking a judge to move his criminal trial from Bismarck to Fargo. Sandy Blunt faces two felony charges that accuse him of misspending Workforce Safety and...
New York Hotel Worker Charged with Workers Compensation Fraud
Oct 28 2008 // A 49-year-old Nassau County, New York woman has been arrested on charges of fraudulently collecting $20,000 in workers’ compensation benefits, the New York State Insurance Department reported. Maria Escobar, of...
Arkansas High Court Won’t Rule on Workers’ Comp Fairness Issue
Oct 28 2008 // The Arkansas Supreme Court has reversed the state Workers’ Compensation Commission’s denial of an injured worker’s claim, but said it wouldn’t address his argument that the panel is...
Texas EMT Sentenced in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Oct 27 2008 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Travis County district court sentenced Michael J. Rosenberg of McAllen, Texas, on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. Rosenberg’s sentence included two...
Florida Supreme Court Overturns Workers’ Comp Attorney Fee Limits
Oct 24 2008 // The Florida Supreme Court announced its final ruling in Murray v. Mariners Health/ACE USA, reinstating hourly attorneys’ fees in workers compensation cases. In response to the announcement, William Stander, assistant...
California Commissioner Announces 5% Workers’ Comp Rate Increase
Oct 24 2008 // Rejecting the Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s (WCIRB) call for a 16 percent increase in the benchmark for determining workers’ compensation costs, California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner...
Maryland ‘Value Proposition’ for Injured Workers Gets Middle Grade
Oct 23 2008 // When employers pay more for medical care for injured workers, workers should experience better outcomes. Otherwise, the logical question becomes: “Why are employers paying more?” Comparing Outcomes for Injured...
Audit: N.J. Workers Comp Board Head Spent $55K on Travel, Candy
Oct 23 2008 // Auditors say the head of New Jersey’s Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau charged $55,000 on a state credit card for travel, meals and chocolates over 21 months. The audit is the first for the agency that helps...
North Dakota Workers’ Comp Law Deemed ‘Conservative’ on Claims
Oct 22 2008 // North Dakota’s workers’ compensation law is relatively tightfisted in paying claims from workers whose job injuries can be blamed on previous hurts and natural body aging, a consultant says. The state’s...
North Dakota Auditor Disputes Payment to Former Workers’ Comp Director
Oct 21 2008 // A new report says North Dakota’s former workers’ compensation director may have been ineligible for a $150,000 severance package because he resigned before the agency’s board of directors approved the...
South Carolina Residents Sentenced in Workers’ Comp Scam
Oct 20 2008 // Two South Carolina residents will each spend up to 10 years in prison for scamming West Virginia’s workers’ compensation system for more than 15 years. Prosecutors said 60-year-old Harriett Miller and...
Texas Supreme Court Revisits Workplace Injury Case
Oct 20 2008 // The Supreme Court of Texas recently held a rare rehearing of a unanimous decision listening to arguments about whether it erred last year in ruling that a contract employee who suffered on-the-job injuries couldn’t...
Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Sean Dilweg
Oct 20 2008 // From tornadoes, hail and flooding to the impact of the AIG bailout and the federal versus state regulation debate, Sean Dilweg has a lot on his plate as Wisconsin’s insurance commissioner. Appointed by Wisconsin...
Ark. Court to Consider Fairness of Workers’ Comp System
Oct 20 2008 // The Arkansas Supreme Court has agreed to consider an injured man’s argument that the state Workers’ Compensation Commission operates unfairly in violation of the constitution. Arkansas Chief Justice Jim Hannah...
California Approves Legislation To Transform Workers’ Comp Insurer
Oct 20 2008 // Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed Assembly Bill 1874 and Senate Bill 1145 into law to help increase transparency and strengthen corporate governance at the Golden State’s workers’ compensation...
Colorado Orders 16% Decrease in Workers’ Comp Loss Costs
Oct 20 2008 // Colorado employers may be paying lower premiums for workers’ compensation insurance in 2009, because a significant component of workers’ compensation premiums, known as loss costs, will drop 16 percent, the...
Cross-Border Trucking, Competitiveness Concerns in Arizona
Oct 20 2008 // Being the sixth-largest state in the nation, and one of the fastest-growing, makes Arizona an attractive place to live and do business. And that means the state is desirable from an insurance perspective, too, according to...
