Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
House Republicans in N.D. Back Party Fund for Workers’ Comp Agency
Apr 5 2007 // North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency should have $50,000 set aside for employee gifts, parties and training, House Republicans decided, ignoring Democratic complaints that the kitty was a “slush...
Mass. Employer Sentenced to Read Book for Lying About Work Safety
Apr 5 2007 // Worcester (Massachusetts) Superior Court Judge Francis Fecteau has sentenced a Templeton man to two and one-half years for committing perjury in a workers’ compensation claim proceeding at the Department of...
Kentucky Mine Owner Pleads Guilty to Workers Comp Fraud
Apr 3 2007 // Harold Simpson, owner and operator of Simpson Mining Co. in Perry County, Ky., pleaded guilty to mail fraud in U.S. District Court after special investigators with Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance discovered...
Concentra Sells Workers’ Comp Network Services to Coventry
Apr 3 2007 // Addison, Texas-based Concentra Operating Corporation reported it has completed the previously reported sale of its workers’ compensation managed care services business units to Maryland-based Coventry Health Care...
Fla. Tree Service Owner Charged with Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 2 2007 // The owner of Don Estlund’s Tree Service in Florida is facing a charge of operating without workers’ compensation insurance. Donald Robert Estlund allegedly admitted to operating for eight years without the...
Ga. Supreme Court Cites ‘Continuous Employment’ in Workers Comp Award
Apr 2 2007 // In a narrow margin to approve workers compensation benefits for the family of deceased Florida resident Howard King, the Georgia Supreme Court cited a doctrine of “continuous employment” in its 4-3 decision,...
Contractor Ordered to Pay $129,000 to Calif. State Fund
Mar 30 2007 // San Diego County Superior Court Judge David Danielsen has ordered the owner of a San Diego area tree service company to pay $129,000 in restitution to California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund as a result of a...
Workers’ Comp CEO Alleges Alabama Officials Wrecked His Business
Mar 30 2007 // A former campaign supporter of Alabamam Governor Bob Riley is suing him and other present and former state officials, accusing them of conspiring to drive him out of the insurance business. John W. Goff of Montgomery filed...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Bureau Approves 11.3 Percent Rate Decrease
Mar 29 2007 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California Governing Committee has approved the filing of a 11.3 percent decrease in advisory pure premium rates, effective July 1, 2007 on new and renewal...
S.C. Audit: Phase Out Workers’ Compensation 2d Injury Fund
Mar 29 2007 // Part of South Carolina’s workers’ compensation system should be phased out because it fails to lower businesses’ insurance costs, according to a state audit. The Legislative Audit Council report found...
First Montana Company to Offer Workers Comp Coverage Opens
Mar 28 2007 // The first private company based in Montana to offer workers compensation insurance has opened. Victory Insurance Company Inc. held an open house Wednesday, marking the opening of its headquarters on the top floor of the...
Two Indicted on Workers’ Compensation Fraud Charges
Mar 27 2007 // An Albuquerque couple has been accused of defrauding the New Mexico Workers’ Compensation Administration. Rafael and Elvia M. Herrera, owners of Rafa’s Roofing Inc., were indicted on charges of forgery; fraud;...
Swiss Re Launches Workers’ Comp Plan in Texas
Mar 27 2007 // Swiss Re’s Commercial Insurance introduced its workers’ compensation coverage for small business owners in Texas to be delivered via its exclusive CyberComp platform. According to the company’s...
West Virginia Preparing for Workers’ Comp Competition in 2008
Mar 27 2007 // One insurer, Brickstreet Mutual, now dominates West Virginia’s workers’ compensation market but that should change by the end of next summer. “We are working on being able to open the market to other...
Editor’s Note: Working in New York
Mar 26 2007 // New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is off to a tremendous start on insurance issues, having helped engineer a major reform of the state’s workers’ compensation laws. Framing it as critical to restoring the...
Wash.’s Gregoire declares “rate holiday”
Mar 26 2007 // Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire announced that a partial “rate holiday” has been finalized by the Department of Labor and Industries, designed to save workers and employers about $315 million in workers’...
Jane Cline, West Virginia, Office of Insurance Commissioner
Mar 26 2007 // Jane L. Cline was first appointed West Virginia Insurance Commissioner in January 2001 and reappointed by current Gov. Joe Manchin. In addition to her responsibilities as Insurance Commissioner, Cline serves as...
Colo. House Approves Bill Expanding Workers Comp Choices
Mar 26 2007 // The Colorado House approved and sent to the Senate a bill that would require companies to allow injured workers to choose between two doctors for workers compensation care. It also would allow workers to change doctors if...
La. lawmakers support overhaul of Citizens Insurance Company
Mar 26 2007 // Two Louisiana lawmakers said they support a plan to overhaul the state-backed insurance company by opening much of its business to bidding among private firms. Sen. James David Cain, chairman of the Senate Insurance...
People
Mar 26 2007 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) hired William B. Bangs IV as vice president of agency relations. In this position, Bangs will plan, direct and coordinate agency relations with insurance agents...
