Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Figures
Mar 26 2007 // $47.5 million The total damages ordered to be paid by Merck & Co. after an Atlantic City, N.J., jury found its painkiller Vioxx contributed to an Idaho postal worker’s heart attack, reversing the verdict in the...
It Figures
Mar 26 2007 // $47.5 million The total damages ordered to be paid by Merck & Co. after an Atlantic City, N.J., jury found its painkiller Vioxx contributed to an Idaho postal worker’s heart attack, reversing the verdict in the...
UCLA study indicates most Calif. workers OK with workers’ comp care
Mar 26 2007 // The vast majority of injured workers in California have access to quality medical care, yet a majority still suffer from injuries even after a year of care, according to a study conducted by the UCLA Center for Health...
Workers’ compensation bills head to House floor in Colorado
Mar 26 2007 // The Colorado House Business Affairs and Labor Committee has approved two workers’ compensation bills: one affecting employee’s choice of physician and another affecting firefighters. House Bill 1176 would...
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’...
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...
The Commissioners: Jane Cline
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...
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...
Workers’ compensation bills head to House floor in Colorado
Mar 26 2007 // The Colorado House Business Affairs and Labor Committee has approved two workers’ compensation bills: one affecting employee’s choice of physician and another affecting firefighters. House Bill 1176 would...
UCLA study indicates most Calif. workers OK with workers’ comp care
Mar 26 2007 // The vast majority of injured workers in California have access to quality medical care, yet a majority still suffer from injuries even after a year of care, according to a study conducted by the UCLA Center for Health...
Workers’ Comp, Identity Theft Bills Pass Texas House
Mar 23 2007 // Texas State Rep. Helen Giddings announced that four bills she sponsored that deal with workers’ compensation and identity theft passed the House of Representatives and will proceed to the Senate. The first of the...
Eleven AIG Companies Fined by Okla. Insurance Department
Mar 22 2007 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland announced the largest fine of an insurance company in state history – $400,000 – against eleven AIG insurance companies doing business in the state. The companies...
Four Indicted in Texas on Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Mar 22 2007 // Workers’ compensation insurer Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that four people were indicted, in separate cases, in Travis County, Texas, on charges of workers’ compensation fraud. The company’s...
Texas Work Comp Rulebook Supplement 2007-01 Available Online
Mar 21 2007 // Rulebook Supplement 2007-01 containing rules adopted by the Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation is available online from the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), Division of Workers’ Compensation. The...
