Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Workers’ Comp Insurer Names Program Manager
Dec 19 2007 // California State Compensation Insurance Fund has named Gary Dunlap program manager for the organization’s Customer Service Center. Dunlap has spent 34 years at SCIF, starting in 1971 as a claims adjuster. His most...
Okla. Work Comp Hearing Rescheduled
Dec 18 2007 // A public hearing on the revision of Oklahoma’s Workers’ Compensation Schedule of Medical and Hospital Fees has been rescheduled for Dec. 19, 2007, the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Court announced. The...
California Workers’ Comp Insurance Rating Board Reports Q3 Results
Dec 18 2007 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Board of California has reported the third quarter results summarizing insurer loss and premium experience through Sept. 30, 2007. “California statewide written...
N.D. Workers’ Comp Agency to Use Own Judges in Benefit Appeals
Dec 18 2007 // North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency has begun hiring its own hearing officers to referee benefit disputes, a move critics say could tilt decisions against employees who are injured on the job. The move...
IBA West Offers Workers’ Comp Specialty Programs
Dec 17 2007 // IBA West Service Corp. and AmWINS Access have teamed to offer a specialty workers’ compensation program for IBA West member brokers and agents and their construction, trucking and security guard clients. Coverage is...
California Workers’ Comp Insurer Names Regional Assistant Real Estate Manager
Dec 17 2007 // Luis Borovinsky has been named regional assistant real estate manager for California State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Southern California operations. Borovinsky joined the organization’s Santa Ana District...
Companies Suing West Va. Insurer BrickStreet Over Agent Commissions
Dec 17 2007 // Two companies are suing West Virginia’s workers’ compensation writer BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. over agent commissions. Aero-Fab Inc. and The Bunch Co. allege that Brickstreet is billing companies for the...
California Court Rules Workers’ Comp Benefits Don’t Apply at Conference
Dec 17 2007 // The family of an employee is not entitled to workers’ compensation death benefits if the death occurs while the employer is attending an educational conference, the Court of Appeal in California has ruled. In City of...
OSHA Fines 4 Companies in Deadly Mississippi Bridge Collapse
Dec 14 2007 // A bridge collapse in Mississippi that killed two workers and injured seven others was a “preventable” tragedy and four companies share the blame in the deadly mishap, the Occupational Safety and Health...
California Store Director Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Dec 14 2007 // Roseville, Calif., Bel Air Market Store Director Nichole Leddy and Assistant Store Director Amy Looper have been sentenced each to one count of workers’ compensation insurance fraud in Placer County, Calif., Superior...
Lawmaker Suggests Review of Denied Workers Comp Claims
Dec 14 2007 // North Dakota’s workers compensation agency should undertake a new review of some denied benefit claims from injured workers, a lawmaker says. Rep. George Keiser, R-Bismarck, said the review is needed because of...
W. Va.’s Brickstreet Hosts New Zealand Workers’ Comp Leadership
Dec 14 2007 // The Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of New Zealand’s monopolistic Accident Compensation Corp. are visiting West Virginia’s BrickStreet Mutual Insurance to learn the state’s...
OSHA Investigating Trench Collapse In Pittsburgh
Dec 14 2007 // The federal Occupational Safety & Health Administration is investigating a trench collapse that briefly trapped a worker in Pittsburgh. Authorities say 50-year-old Robert Reynolds, of Pittsburgh, was able to dig...
Kentucky Woman Charged with Workers’ Comp Fraud
Dec 12 2007 // Kentucky Insurance officials charged a Shelbyville woman with insurance fraud as a result of collecting more than $3,000 in workers’ compensation benefits. Tanya Garitty, 38, told her employer she was unable to work...
La. Workers’ Comp Insurer Promotes Jorgensen
Dec 12 2007 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) has promoted Geoff Jorgensen to business unit manager for the company’s small accounts production team. In this position, Jorgensen will be responsible for...
Texas Lawmakers, Workers Criticize Court’s Liability Ruling
Dec 12 2007 // Four state lawmakers and the Texas AFL-CIO have asked the Texas Supreme Court to reverse its decision in a case they say incorrectly expands liability protections for employers under state workers’ compensation...
N.Y. Laundry Business Faces Hefty OSHA Fines
Dec 12 2007 // Federal officials say an industrial laundry faces more than $160,000 in fines for failing to correct previously cited hazards and for additional workplace safety violations. The Occupational Safety and Health...
Long Island Roofer Pays $40K for Cheating Workers Comp
Dec 12 2007 // A 53-year-old Hampton Bays roofer repaid the New York State Insurance Fund $40,000 after he pleaded guilty to trying to cheat on his workers compensation premium. Investigators said Thomas McNamara, who identified his...
N.H. Man Sentenced for Workers’ Compensation Theft
Dec 11 2007 // A 52-year-old New Hampshire man has pleaded guilty to theft in a workers’ compensation case. Attorney General Kelly Ayotte says Philip Rice of Derry was sentenced to serve six months in jail with the sentence...
N.Y. Board Seeks Major Change in Workers Comp for Self-Insured
Dec 11 2007 // The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board has issued a new report that calls on lawmakers to make “sweeping changes” in the way self-insured claims are secured in the Empire State. The report...
