Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Agents Brace for Rising WC Rates, Sluggish Economy
Jan 18 2008 // In the largest survey of its kind, fewer than half of California’s 10,000 business insurance agents see California’s business economy improving – either for themselves or for their clients – in...
Tennessee Restaurant Owners Looking at $4.8M Worker’s Comp Bill
Jan 18 2008 // Restaurant owners across Tennessee may have to pay thousands each to shore up a workers’ compensation fund that the state says was mismanaged. The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance is suing Ronnie Hart,...
In Major Upstate Speech, Spitzer Lauds Workers’ Comp Reform
Jan 16 2008 // In his first ever State of Upstate address this morning, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer praised last year’s passage of the Empire State’s landmark workers’ compensation insurance reform as a key victory for...
Ariz. Court Goes Against State Farm in Uninsured Motorist Case
Jan 15 2008 // An Arizona Supreme Court ruling issued late last week blocks insurance companies from lowering underinsured motorist payments to injured people who have received workers’ compensation. The ruling against Bloomington,...
OSHA: No Violations in New York Roadway Blast Mishap
Jan 14 2008 // Workplace-safety regulators have cleared a construction company in a dynamite mishap that shattered windows, sent people running for cover and flung chunks of granite as far as a half-mile into a Westchester County, N.Y....
Fatality Leads to Safety Violation Penalties for Texas-based Company
Jan 14 2008 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) proposed $118,350 in penalties against Round Rock, Texas-based TECO-Westinghouse Motor Co. for the alleged failure to protect...
Study: Making Workers’ Comp Medical Fee Schedules More Effective
Jan 14 2008 // The primary finding in a National Council on Compensation Insurance study is that fee schedules are effective at controlling workers’ compensation medical costs. NCCI also shows that most schedules work well for...
S.D. Legislature Rejects Revision of Workers’ Compensation Law
Jan 14 2008 // Rejected in the Legislature Friday was an attempt to revise state workers’ compensation law so injured employees who drink or use illegal drugs on the job must prove that those things were not substantial factors in...
N.D. House Majority Leader Says Panel Will Review Workers’ Comp Agency
Jan 14 2008 // North Dakota’s House Republican leader says a legislative committee will look into the operation of the state’s workers compensation agency, which he says has suffered from a lack of public trust. The House...
People
Jan 13 2008 // Dallas-based regional insurer, The Republic Group, appointed Jim Drawert to the new position of vice president – Industry Relations. Additionally, Cathy Link has joined Republic as chief underwriting officer. Drawert...
Texas Establishes Performance Incentives for Workers’ Comp Carriers, Providers
Jan 13 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation now has in place a rule establishing incentives for performance-based oversight for workers’ comp carriers and health care providers. The...
Montana High Court Rules in Favor of Employees in Workers’ Comp Cases
Jan 13 2008 // The Montana Supreme Court has ruled in favor of two employees in recent workers’ compensation decisions, saying they are due insurance for injuries received while on break and at a company party. In one case, a woman...
What the Reauthorization of TRIA Means to the P/C Industry
Jan 13 2008 // On Dec. 26, President George W. Bush signed the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 to reauthorize the federal backstop for seven years. First and foremost, reauthorization of TRIA means it is...
Aiming to Improve Alaska
Jan 13 2008 // A small state like Alaska sometimes has trouble convincing the property/casualty insurance industry of creating opportunities in its state. So Alaska Director of Insurance Linda Hall relies on her experiences as a former...
Workers’ Comp Writer Employers Holdings to Acquire AmCOMP
Jan 11 2008 // Employers Holdings, Inc. of Reno, Nev., reports it has agreed to acquire AmCOMP Inc. for approximately $230 million, including the assumption of $37 million in debt. The acquisition will expand Employers’...
Texas Medical and Hospital Fee Guideline Rules Updated
Jan 11 2008 // Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Albert Betts signed rules to update a medical fee guideline for health care providers, to establish a hospital outpatient fee guideline and to update a hospital inpatient...
OSHA Alleges Health, Safety Violations at W. Va. VA Hospital
Jan 10 2008 // Federal inspectors found three alleged health and safety violations at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center near Martinsburg, W. Va., including two deemed serious. The Occupational Health and Safety Administration issued a...
Mass. Horse Farm Charged with Workers’ Comp Premium Fraud
Jan 10 2008 // Update: On Nov. 3, 2008, Christopher Mersereau and his corporation, Stoneymeade Farm LLC, located in Concord, Mass., entered into an agreement with the office of Attorney General Martha Coakley resolving charges originally...
N. D. Workers’ Compensation Agency Chairman Resigns
Jan 9 2008 // The chairman of North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency has resigned, less than three weeks after his Bottineau County employers requested an investigation of Robert Indvik’s use of county...
13 Companies Approved to Self-Insure for Workers’ Comp in Texas
Jan 9 2008 // Thirteen companies with approximately 183,200 employees in Texas were approved to self-insure for workers’ compensation claims for a one-year period under the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), Division of...
