Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
News Currents
Jun 18 2007 // Study: Calif. workers’ comp reforms are working Yet risk managers say keeping workers safe and costs down still major concerns California employers and insurers have started to see — and should continue to see...
News Currents
Jun 18 2007 // Calif. commissioner seeks additional workers’ comp reforms California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner said even after the workers’ compensation reforms of 2005, there still are systemic and structural...
Maximizing your value by asking the right questions
Jun 18 2007 // Price, all too often, is the single factor in an agent’s choice of workers’ compensation insurance coverage for his or her clients. An effective way to differentiate your agency from your competitors is to shop...
People
Jun 18 2007 // Countrywide Insurance Group named Steve Cardinal president and chief operating officer of Countrywide Insurance Services. As a member of Countrywide Insurance Group’s executive team, Cardinal will oversee all aspects...
News Currents
Jun 18 2007 // Arizona aims to raise workers’ compensation benefits limits Arizona is proposing to increase the caps on workers’ compensation benefits received by employees hurt on the job. Under a freshly rewritten...
Workers’ comp writers report best underwriting results in decades
Jun 18 2007 // The workers’ compensation calendar year combined ratio stands at 96.5 percent — the best underwriting result in at least 30 years and the first underwriting profit for the line since 1995, according to the...
Workers Comp Directory 2007
Jun 18 2007 // Searching for a quality workers’ compensation market? Look no further than Insurance Journal’s 2007 Workers’ Comp Directory, a comprehensive listing of intermediaries and carriers offering workers’...
Top 25 workers’ comp insurers represent nearly half of market
Jun 18 2007 // Workers’ compensation direct premiums written for calendar year 2006 exceeded $47 billion. At year-end 2002, it was nearly $34 billion. This represents an increase of 40 percent. However, over the same period, the...
Top 25 workers’ comp insurers represent nearly half of market
Jun 18 2007 // Workers’ compensation direct premiums written for calendar year 2006 exceeded $47 billion. At year-end 2002, it was nearly $34 billion. This represents an increase of 40 percent. However, over the same period, the...
Selling workers’ comp like it’s not a commodity
Jun 18 2007 // Everybody needs workers’ compensation coverage and to some that translates to a commoditization of the product line. But to be successful at selling workers’ comp, producers have to change the way they sell the...
Texas Approves 14 Companies to Self Insure for Workers’ Comp Claims
Jun 15 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation announced that 14 companies with approximately 47,600 employees in Texas recently were approved to self-insure for workers’ compensation...
Utah’s Workers Compensation Fund Announces Promotions
Jun 13 2007 // The Workers Compensation Fund in Salt Lake City has made several promotions. Ray Pickup has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer. Pickup has been with WCF for 14 years and most recently served as...
W. Va. Woman Jailed for Committing Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Jun 13 2007 // An Upshur County woman was sentenced to serve time in a West Virgina correctional facility after pleading guilty to worker’s compensation insurance fraud. Stacie L. McLean, age 34 of Buckhannon, W. Va., pleaded...
Mo. Employers Paying Less to Cover Injured Workers
Jun 13 2007 // Two years after lawmakers tightened eligibility for benefits to injured workers, the insurance premiums businesses must pay to care for injured workers have dropped to 1994 levels. In 2005, Gov. Matt Blunt and the...
Texas Will Change Workers’ Comp Disability Management Requirements
Jun 13 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced that a workers’ compensation rule to require treatment planning for injured employees (28 Texas Administrative Code §137.300) will be repealed. This rule was adopted along...
Senate Approves Bill to Hike Arizona Workers’ Injury Benefits
Jun 13 2007 // The Arizona Senate approved a workers’ compensation bill to carry out a business-labor compromise to increase Arizona’s caps on benefits received by employees who are hurt on the job. The Senate’s 24-2...
S.C. Passes Workers’ Comp Anti-Fraud, Injury Reporting Bill
Jun 12 2007 // Employers who lie about what their workers do to save money on insurance premiums would face fines and prison time under an agreement South Carolina legislators reached to overhaul the state’s workers’...
Fla. Eases Eligibilty for Workers’ Comp Benefits for Police, Fire
Jun 12 2007 // Florida police, firefighters, paramedics and other first responders would have an easier time becoming eligible for workers compensation benefits, and would get a better package of benefits under legislation Gov. Charlie...
Travelers Targets Public Entities with Workers’ Comp Solution
Jun 12 2007 // Travelers expanded its workers compensation coverage tailored to the needs of public entities during the Public Risk Insurance Management Association (PRIMA) 28th annual conference. “Our expanded appetite builds on...
