Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Workers’ Comp Writer MEMIC Enters N.Y.; Opens Albany Office
Aug 21 2007 // Workers’ compensation insurer MEMIC has begun operating in the New York market for the first time. The company opened an office in Albany for its MEMIC Indemnity Co. subsidiary in June, and has begun offering its...
N.Y. Woman Pays Steep Price for Workers Comp Fraud
Aug 16 2007 // A 37 year old Ronkonkoma, New York woman has paid $41,160 in restitution and faces five years probation after pleading guilty in a case of workers’ compensation fraud against the New York State Insurance...
Insurers Oppose Proposed Calif. Workers’ Comp Deductible
Aug 16 2007 // Some California insurers are asking the Legislature to reconsider a proposal that they say will boost workers’ compensation temporary disability payments to injured workers dramatically. The American Insurance...
Former N.Y. Mail Carrier Lied to Get Workers’ Comp Benefits
Aug 15 2007 // A former New York postal worker who said he suffered a back injury on the job 16 years ago has admitted to bilking the government out of nearly $400,000 in workers’ compensation benefits. David VanDeusen, 56, of...
N.Y. Extends Workers’ Comp Eligibility Deadline for 9/11 Responders
Aug 15 2007 // World Trade Center responders now have another year — until August 14, 2008 — to file the paperwork needed to claim workers’ compensation benefits if they become ill in the future. The registration deadline would...
Wis. Workers’ Comp Rates Drop 2.47%
Aug 15 2007 // Wisconsin’s commissioner of insurance has announced a 2.47 percent decrease in the overall worker’s compensation rate for the upcoming year, effective October 1. “A rate decrease for worker’s...
Calif. Modifies Benefit Notice Rules
Aug 15 2007 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation has issued a 15-day notice of revisions to proposed workers’ compensation benefit notice and medical provider network regulations. The DWC has modified its...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division Assesses $153K in Fines in June, July
Aug 14 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announced final disciplinary actions taken by Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Albert Betts during June and July 2007. The final...
OSHA Proposes Fines Against 16 Firms Working at Miss. Steel Plant
Aug 13 2007 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed $72,775 in penalties against 16 companies involved in the construction of a SeverCorr steel plant near Columbus,...
Sept. Workers’ Comp Conference Scheduled in West Virginia
Aug 13 2007 // The Offices of the Insurance Commissioner, in conjunction with the National Council on Compensation Insurance will hold a forum specifically designed to provide workers’ compensation carriers with the information...
Maine Court Rules Employer May Offset Workers Comp by Disability Sum
Aug 10 2007 // An employer may use a payment to an injured worker under its group life and disability plan to offset its workers’ compensation benefit payment, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court has ruled. The plaintiff had argued...
Judge Delays Trial Order for N. D. Workers’ Comp Director
Aug 9 2007 // A judge has delayed his ruling on whether the director of North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency should face trial on charges that he misspent more than $18,000 in public money. Sandy Blunt, director of...
Workers’ Compensation Compliance Sweep Nabs 23 Fla. Employers
Aug 8 2007 // Florida workers’ compensation compliance investigators conducted a recent sweep of 177 businesses in two Panhandle counties that resulted in 23 Stop Work Orders against employers found to be operating without the...
2 W. Va. Employers Indicted on Fraud Charges
Aug 8 2007 // A Kanawha County Grand Jury indicted two West Virginia employers on multiple charges relating to failing to subscribe to the former Workers’ Compensation Commission. On the indictment of Susan Borman and Leonard Cox,...
Calif. Appeals Court Says Workers’ Comp Sole Remedy in Workplace
Aug 8 2007 // The California Court of Appeals has ruled that claims of assault and battery and emotional distress are barred by the workers’ compensation exclusivity rule, meaning that workers’ compensation is the only...
Calif. Commissioner Vows To Continue Cleaning Up State Fund
Aug 8 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner pledged to continue improving the state workers’ compensation insurer, California State Compensation Insurance Fund. Speaking at the joint Chartered Property Casualty...
Minn. groups sue AIG for $100 million in damages for fraud, violations
Aug 6 2007 // The Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Reinsurance Association (WCRA) and the Minnesota Workers’ Compen-sation Insurers Association (MWCIA) filed suit on July 17, 2007, against American International Group Inc....
Declarations
Aug 6 2007 // Good drivers “It neither affirms the status quo nor jumps headlong or without controls into the Wild West of competition. The idea is to advantage good drivers and make sure we are not harming good drivers wherever...
Commercial lines insights of top agencies
Aug 6 2007 // While much of the talk about the current commercial and professional lines market turns to insurers lowering their prices, the soft market is requiring agents to raise their agencies’ level of attention paid to...
Declarations
Aug 6 2007 // Declarations Good drivers “It neither affirms the status quo nor jumps headlong or without controls into the Wild West of competition. The idea is to advantage good drivers and make sure we are not harming good...
