Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Legislature Considers Changes to State Workers’ Comp Insurer
Apr 2 2008 // California’s Legislature will hear testimony today regarding operations of the state’s largest workers’ compensation insurer. Senate Bill 1145 will be heard by the Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance...
Nebraska Bill would Expand Workers’ Comp Coverage to Mental Illness
Apr 1 2008 // Employees who witness violent acts and suffer mental illnesses as a result would be eligible for workers’ compensation benefits under a bill discussed Thursday by state lawmakers. Several senators raised concerns...
California Appeals Court: SCIF Erred in Denying Access to PPN
Apr 1 2008 // A California Court of Appeals has ruled that the state’s primary workers’ compensation insurer cannot deny an occupational medical clinic from its preferred provider network because it impaired the...
Ohio Allows 5% Rate Cut on Workers’ Comp Insurance
Mar 31 2008 // Ohio state officials on Friday approved a 5 percent overall rate reduction in premiums for businesses participating in Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers, the first reduction since 2001. The decrease, which...
Former Mass. Sen. Jacques Approved as Mass. Workers’ Comp Judge
Mar 28 2008 // A former state senator has been confirmed to be a judge at the Department of Industrial Accidents, despite questions about her qualifications and concern about a political account she plans to maintain on the bench. The...
California Workers’ Comp Insurance Rating Bureau Not Filing Mid-Year Rate Change
Mar 28 2008 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has announced it has decided not to file for a mid-year pure premium rate change. Accepting a recommendation made by the WCIRB Actuarial Committee, the...
Arizona Court: Off Duty Officer Injury Qualifies for Workers’ Comp
Mar 26 2008 // Arizona’s Court of Appeals has ruled that an administrative law judge erred in finding that an off-duty police officer’s gunshot injury in the course of protecting a friend was not due workers’...
Preferred Employers Introducers Medical Provider Network for California Businesses
Mar 26 2008 // San Diego-based Preferred Employers Insurance Co., which specializes inworkers’ compensation insurance for small employers in California, has created a medical provider network for treatment of work related injuries....
West Virginia Man Pleads Guilty to Workers Compensation Fraud
Mar 25 2008 // A Wyoming County, W. Va. man pleaded Monday guilty to one misdemeanor count of wrongfully seeking workers compensation benefits in an amount less than $1000, according to West Virginia Insurance Commissioner, Jane L....
West Virginia’s Workers Comp Insurer May not See Huge Profits Again
Mar 25 2008 // BrickStreet Insurance’s profit from running West Virginia’s workers’ compensation program more than doubled in its second year of business, but those heady days could be ending. In July, the company will...
West Virginia Invites Workers’ Comp Insurers to Open Market Forum
Mar 25 2008 // On the verge of an open competitive environment in West Virginia’s workers’ compensation insurance market, the state’s insurance commission scheduled a forum for insurers seeking information. Insurance...
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...
