Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mass. Construction Worker Charged with Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Mar 25 2008 // A Brockton, Mass. man was arraigned on charges he collected over $9,000 in workers’ compensation benefits while he worked at two different jobs, according to the attorney general’s office. Officials said John...
Dinallo Says N.Y. Needs Better Workers Comp Data
Mar 24 2008 // New York State should centralize its workers’ compensation data in an information bank that could be used to analyze and improve the system, Insurance Superintendent Eric Dinallo says. The information bank would...
West Virginia Workers’ Comp Insurer Reports $185 Million Profit for 2007
Mar 24 2008 // BrickStreet Insurance’s profit from running West Virginia’s workers’ compensation program more than doubled to $185 million last year. The Charleston-based insurer earned $70.7 million in 2006, its first...
Arizona House Considers Workers’ Comp Bills
Mar 24 2008 // Arizona lawmakers are considering two workers’ compensation bills that would change how benefits are calculated and awarded, and allow more communication with the doctors of injured workers. House Bill 2828,...
Vt. Workers’ Comp Rates Drop
Mar 24 2008 // Most Vermont employers for the second straight year will see lower workers’ compensation premiums become effective April 1. Rates for loss costs in the voluntary market will decrease by an average of 4.2 percent,...
S&P: U.S. Workers’ Comp Insurers Face Weakening Rates
Mar 24 2008 // The U.S. workers’ compensation insurance business is not for the faint of heart, according to an article published by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services. The article, titled “Weakening Rates Could...
Furness Starting as Interim North Dakota Workers’ Comp Director
Mar 24 2008 // Bruce Furness, who helped resolve some festering city personnel problems as mayor of Fargo, North Dakota was named the interim chief executive of North Dakota’s troubled workers’ compensation agency. The...
Vermont Supreme Court: Workers’ Comp Benefit Doesn’t Bar Damage Suit
Mar 24 2008 // The Vermont Supreme Court has reinstated the negligence claim of a man whose hand was crushed when an acetylene tank fell on it, saying his acceptance of workers’ compensation benefits from his employer didn’t...
Texas Supreme Court Continues Onslaught of Coverage Decisions
Mar 24 2008 // Since last August, the Texas Supreme Court has issued a half dozen major insurance cases, many on issues pending for years. The Court recently heard argument in key cases involving the insurability of punitive damages in...
Study: Massachusetts Workers Comp Claims Costs Grew Rapidly
Mar 24 2008 // Workers’ compensation costs per claim in Massachusetts were typical among 14 study states, but grew rapidly in four out of five study years, including a nearly 10 percent increase in 2005 claims evaluated in...
Gov. Patrick’s Appointment to Mass. Workers’ Comp Board Delayed
Mar 21 2008 // An expected vote on the nomination of a former senator to be a judge at the Department of Industrial Accidents was delayed this week after one member of the Governor’s Council accused her of lacking the necessary...
Wyoming To Study Workers’ Compensation
Mar 21 2008 // Wyoming’s Joint Labor, Health and Social Services Interim Committee is set to study Wyoming’s workers’ compensation program this year. According to the state legislature, the committee will conduct a...
Are Punitive Damages Insurable in Texas? High Court: Definitely Maybe
Mar 20 2008 // In Fairfield Insurance Co. v. Stephens Martin Paving, LP, the Texas Supreme Court addressed, for the first time, whether punitive damages were insurable in Texas. No. 04-0728, 2008 Tex. LEXIS 123 (Tex. Feb. 15, 2008). The...
S.C. Workers’ Comp Nominees Vow to Go by Law, not Gov.’s Orders
Mar 20 2008 // South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s nominees to the Workers’ Compensation Commission say they would follow what the law requires and not bow to executive orders issued by a governor. The Senate Judiciary...
Mass. Insurers Seek 2.3% Workers’ Comp Hike; Hearing Scheduled
Mar 19 2008 // Massachusetts officials will conduct a public hearing on April 3 to consider an industry request for an average 2.3 percent increase in workers’ compensation rates. The Workers Compensation Rating and Inspection...
Louisiana Work Comp Rates Dropping
Mar 18 2008 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced that rates for workers’ compensation insurance are decreasing in Louisiana, based on a recent report from the National Council on Compensation Insurance...
Six Seek Interim Director Position at North Dakota Workers’ Comp Agency
Mar 18 2008 // Six people, including a one-time Fargo mayor and a former vice president at Montana’s workers’ compensation fund, have applied to be the interim chief executive officer of North Dakota’s Workforce Safety...
N. D. Workers’ Comp Report: Details of Management Turmoil Overlooked
Mar 17 2008 // When a consultant’s report about the management of North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency was published, legislators welcomed its conclusions that it was generally doing well at serving its injured...
3 Top Officials at N. D. Workers’ Comp Agency Dismissed in Shakeup
Mar 14 2008 // Three top officials in North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency have been fired and the jobs of two others eliminated as part of a shake-up at Workforce Safety and Insurance, attorneys and agency officials...
S&P: U.S. Workers’ Comp Insurers Face Weakening Rates
Mar 14 2008 // The U.S. workers’ compensation insurance business is not for the faint of heart, according to an article published by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services. The article, titled “Weakening Rates Could...
