Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Launches Workers’ Comp Enforcement Program
Jun 16 2008 // The California Department of Industrial Relations has launched an Insurance Coverage Program, an enforcement program designed to identify and target employers who fail to carry workers’ compensation insurance. DIR...
Exclusive Survey, Part 1: Strengths and Weaknesses – What Agents Think of Regional and National P/C Insurers
Jun 16 2008 // Where Regional P/C Insurers Beat Out Nationals … and Where Nationals Outperform Regionals Regional carriers rate better in underwriting experience, relationships and stability as well as in customer service and agency...
Feds Propose $193K in Fines for Mississippi Manufacturer
Jun 13 2008 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing fines of $193,000 for 54 violations of federal safety laws at two Howard Industries locations in Laurel, Mississippi. OSHA officials cited the electrical power...
Tennessee Man Arrested for Workers’ Comp Fraud in Virginia
Jun 11 2008 // A Tennessee trucker faces 193 charges for workers’ compensation fraud in Virginia, according to Virginia authorities. Virginia State Police special agents detained William Douglas Pickel on May 21 as Big Sandy...
Workers’ Comp Insurer AmCOMP Fights Excess Profits Charge in Florida
Jun 11 2008 // Florida-based workers compensation insurer AmCOMP Inc. has asked for a hearing to dispute Florida officials’ claim that its profits have been excessive. According to AmCOMP’s request for the hearing, the...
Liberty Mutual, Negley Offer Behavioral Health Care Agency Package
Jun 10 2008 // Retail and wholesale brokers working with Negley Associates can now add workers compensation coverage to their clients’ professional liability, general liability, directors and officers liability, excess liability...
Reduced Okla. Supreme Court Caseload Attributed to Reforms, Mediation
Jun 10 2008 // Legislative reforms and mediated lawsuits are responsible for a decline in the number of appeals and court actions handled by the Oklahoma Supreme Court over the past few years. The Tulsa World examined eight years of...
California Receives $6.3 Million in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Jun 10 2008 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced Cover All, Inc., a 15-year old flooring and carpet installation company headquartered Chatsworth, pled no contest to one count of insurance fraud in Los Angeles...
California Launches Workers’ Comp Enforcement Program
Jun 6 2008 // The California Department of Industrial Relations has launched an Insurance Coverage Program, an enforcement program designed to identify and target employers who fail to carry workers’ compensation insurance. DIR...
California Appeals Court Upholds Cap on Workers’ Comp Treatments
Jun 5 2008 // A Court of Appeal in California has rejected a constitutional challenge to the number of visits a worker is entitled to for chiropractic, physical therapy or occupational therapy visits under the state’s...
North Dakota Workers’ Comp Disability, Survivor Benefits to Rise
Jun 4 2008 // Some North Dakota workers’ compensation benefit recipients will see a 5.6 percent increase next month. Workforce Safety and Insurance says it is the largest yearly inflation adjustment in at least 20 years. The...
Texas Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Resigning
Jun 4 2008 // Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Albert Betts will resign his post effective Aug. 31, 2008, the insurance department announced. Betts was appointed as the first...
Administrator CRM Goes Bust with New York Workers’ Comp Trusts
Jun 4 2008 // CRM Holdings, which had been a major third party administrator for self-insured workers’ compensation trusts in New York, will surrender its trust license by the end of the summer as part of a settlement reached with...
Mass. High Court Bars Recovery of Workers’ Comp Costs in Tort
Jun 4 2008 // A Massachusetts employer is not entitled to recover any increased workers’ compensation costs from a third party responsible for injuring its employee. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the...
Case Watch
Jun 2 2008 // Exclusions United Fire & Casualty Co. v. Keely & Sons, Inc. Ill. App. May 2, 2008 Commercial policy does not provide coverage to policyholder for claims of spoliation of evidence. A policyholder was sued when...
Tenn. Reforms Moderate Workers’ Comp Costs
Jun 2 2008 // Tennessee experienced a moderation in average workers’ compensation costs per claim among 14 study states, after two consecutive years of rapid cost growth and in the wake of reforms enacted in 2004, according to a...
FBI Says Fighting Financial Crimes a Priority; Insurance Cases Top 200
Jun 2 2008 // Feds Focus on Arson, Hurricane Katrina, Corporate Fraud, Premium Diversion and Workers’ Compensation The Federal Bureau of Investigation pursued 529 financial crime cases in its most recent fiscal year, including 209...
New Hampshire Cracking Down on Workers’ Comp Misclassifications
May 30 2008 // Four New Hampshire agencies are working together to catch companies that illegally misclassify workers as independent contractors to avoid paying workers’ compensation insurance and unemployment taxes. The...
Texas Approves 10 Companies to Self-Insure for Workers’ Comp
May 30 2008 // Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Albert Betts approved 10 companies, employing approximately 31,400 employees in Texas, to self-insure for workers’ compensation claims for a one-year period under the Texas...
California Workers’ Comp Insurer Files for 3.5 Percent Rate Decrease
May 28 2008 // California State Compensation Insurance Fund announced it filed a July 1, 2008, revision to its rating plan, which it anticipates will result in a 3.5 percent reduction in collectible premium. While base rates will remain...
