Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Texas Work Comp Division: Job Injuries, Illnesses Increased in 2006
Feb 29 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation reported that the number of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses involving days away from work in private industry in Texas increased in...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division Reports Disciplinary Actions for Dec., Jan.
Feb 29 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) announced final disciplinary actions taken by Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Albert Betts in December 2007 and January 2008....
Court: Conn. Widow Can’t Pursue Claim Husband Was Worked To Death
Feb 27 2008 // The widow of a Connecticut Superior Court judge cannot pursue a lawsuit claiming the state worked her husband to death, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled. The high court struck down a special act of the legislature,...
Oregon Regulators Implement Workers’ Comp Changes
Feb 27 2008 // March 24, 2008, is the last day that the Oregon Insurance Division is accepting public comment on its proposed rulemaking to implement 2007 legislation related to workers’ compensation insurance. The proposed...
OSHA Fines Wis. Company for Safety Violations after 4 Workers Die
Feb 27 2008 // A federal agency has cited Lakehead Blacktop & Materials for safety violations in the deaths last fall of four men who were overcome by toxic fumes after going in a manhole at the company’s landfill. The...
Kentucky Woman Sentenced in Workers’ Comp Case
Feb 26 2008 // A Floyd County, Ky., woman pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor insurance fraud charge after lying about her husband’s employment history during a workers’ compensation hearing, according to the Kentucky Office of...
Declarations
Feb 24 2008 // Media Alert “In an attempt to goad the media into writing another article about their suit, State Farm continues to add more irrelevant, inflammatory and frivolous allegations. I hope the learned members of the media...
S.C. Gov. Sanford, Workers’ Comp Panel Payment Spat Reaches Court
Feb 24 2008 // A struggle between South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and a commission that determines how much money injured workers receive is now in federal court. A restraining order blocking the state Workers’ Compensation...
Case Watch
Feb 24 2008 // Bad Faith Texas Mut. Ins. Co. v. Ruttiger Texas App. 1st Dist. Jan.17, 2008 Bad faith cause of action lies against workers’ compensation carrier. An individual was injured on the job. The workers’ compensation...
Calif. Bill Seeks to Ban Alleged Bias in Workers’ Comp Awards
Feb 24 2008 // A Democratic lawmaker is pushing legislation in California that would prohibit doctors from considering age, race or genetic factors in determining the size of workers’ compensation benefits for employees who suffer...
People
Feb 24 2008 // San Diego-based Barney & Barney LLC named Jim O’Connell principal. He also will serve as director of development for programs, specialty insurance solutions. In that role, he is responsible for both regional and...
Pay Raise Suggested for Interim N.D. Workers’ Comp Director
Feb 22 2008 // The interim director of North Dakota’s workers compensation agency should get a 3.4 percent pay raise when he returns to his former job, some board members believe. The performance evaluation committee of the...
Texas Workers’ Comp Educational New Rules Sessions Set for March 13
Feb 22 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation will present two educational sessions, Newly Revised 2008 Hospital Fee Guidelines and Newly Revised 2008 Medical Fee Guidelines, sponsored by the...
OSHA Fines Contractors $464K for Safety Hazards in WTC Tower Fire
Feb 21 2008 // The federal government fined two contractors hired to dismantle a condemned ground zero skyscraper $464,500 on Tuesday for more than 40 safety hazards at the building, where two firefighters died in a fire last summer. The...
Bird Joins Midlands Management as EVP, Chief Operating Officer
Feb 20 2008 // Midlands Management Corporation announced that Richard Jonathan Bird has joined the company as executive vice president and chief operating officer. Bird reports to Midlands’ President and Chief Executive Officer...
Workers’ Comp: S.C. Gov. Stretches the Limits of Authority
Feb 20 2008 // As South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s drive to give his successors more power gains little traction among state legislators, he’s taking the quest to where some of his predecessors have gone before: the third...
6 Fla. Workers’ Comp Cos. Ordered to Refund ‘Excess’ Profits
Feb 20 2008 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has ordered six workers’ compensation insurance companies to return $4.2 million in what his agency says are excessive profits to their policyholders. By law,...
3 Convicted in Florida Workers’ Compensation Scheme
Feb 19 2008 // Three Florida business owners have been convicted in Jacksonville in a workers compensation scheme. Authorities say all three face life in prison and fines totaling $17 million. They’ve been identified as 54-year-old...
W. Va. Insurance Commissioner Says Employer Owes the State Money
Feb 15 2008 // W. Va. Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline announced that a West Hamlin man who was indicted on several felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud, pleaded guilty to the charges in Kanawha County Circuit...
Former Workers: S.C. Poultry Company’s Safety Record a Charade
Feb 15 2008 // The House of Raeford boasts that its plant in Greenville, S.C., has gone more than 7 million hours without having a worker miss an entire shift because of injury. But the North Carolina-based company has met that mark by...
