Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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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...
Wells Named Workers’ Comp Administrative Law Judge in Ark.
Feb 15 2008 // Eric Paul Wells, an attorney from Paris, is the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission’s newest administrative law judge, the agency announced. Since March 2004 he has been the deputy prosecuting attorney...
Citgo Refinery in La. Hit by Proposed OSHA Fine of $169K
Feb 14 2008 // Federal safety investigators have proposed $169,000 in fines against Citgo Petroleum Corp.’s refinery in Lake Charles, La., on allegations of failing to protect employees from hazardous working conditions. The...
Neb. Bill Would Expand Workers’ Comp Coverage for Some Mental Illnesses
Feb 13 2008 // Nebraska lawmakers are considering a big change in workers’ compensation law that could cost millions but that supporters say would provide needed help for injuries that often go unseen. Under the bill (LB1082) from...
Ark. Company Fined $13,500 in Fire that Killed 1, Injured 2
Feb 13 2008 // Deltic Timber Corp. has been fined $13,500 for three safety violations at its sawmill near Waldo, Ark., after a fire caused the death of one worker and injured two others. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
Pennsylvania Lowers Workers Comp Rates 10%
Feb 13 2008 // Pa. Gov. Edward G. Rendell announced a 10.22 percent average decrease in workers compensation insurance costs, a move that he said will result in $250 million in savings for employers in the state. The move follows...
Auditor to Probe N.D. Workers’ Comp Safety Grants, Medical Reviews
Feb 12 2008 // An outside auditor will examine whether the board of directors of North Dakota’s workers compensation agency is following its own rules, a state audit manager says. The review also will examine the Workforce Safety...
OSHA Fines North Texas Company $210K for Safety Violations
Feb 12 2008 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reported it has proposed penalties of $210,000 against Kaufman, Texas-based Metroplex Masonry Inc. for allegedly failing to protect...
Calif. Bill Seeks to Ban Discrimination in Workers’ Comp Awards
Feb 12 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...
OSHA Hit for Lack of Safety Rules on Deadly Dust Explosions
Feb 11 2008 // Top federal safety officials urged the Labor Department in 2006 to adopt critical regulations to prevent deadly dust explosions– like the one suspected in the deadly blast in a Georgia sugar plant last...
