Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
2006:a big year for P&C buyers and sellers of all shapes and sizes
Dec 24 2006 // JANUARY Hallmark Acquires Fort Worth, Texas-based Hallmark Financial Services Inc. has completed its acquisition of Aerospace Holdings LLC, which markets general aviation insurance products. Hallmark underwrites...
N.D. Workers’ Comp Directors Ask Legislature for Additional Staff
Dec 22 2006 // The directors of North Dakota’s workers compensation agency have agreed to ask the Legislature for 15 new employees, a request Gov. John Hoeven left out of his budget recommendations to the 2007...
Oregon Bakery Fined $6,240 After Worker Trapped in Dough
Dec 22 2006 // The owners of a Franz Bakery where a worker nearly suffocated after he was trapped face down in a giant trough of dough have been fined $6,240 for safety violations. Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division...
The One That Didn’t Get Away: Maine Man Trapped By Lobsters
Dec 21 2006 // Crustaceans and clams starred as unlikely informants in a workers’ compensation fraud case in Hancock County, Maine. An almost three-year case of “something’s fishy” finally ended this week with the...
Houston Nurse Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Dec 20 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Houston nurse has pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The Travis County 299th Judicial District Court sentenced Brenda Hernandez to five years...
Workers’ Comp Loss Costs, Assigned Risk Rates Going Down in N.H.
Dec 20 2006 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department has approved a workers’ compensation voluntary loss cost decrease of 0.9 percent on average along with a reduction in assigned risk rates of 0.6 percent. The new figures go into...
California Workers’ Comp Reforms Continuing to Bring Costs Down
Dec 20 2006 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has completed its report summarizing insurer loss and premium experience through Sept. 30, 2006. The data seems to verify that workers’...
Mich. Accident Fund Names Cooper Vice President of Claims Operations
Dec 19 2006 // Lansing, Mich.-based Accident Fund Insurance Company of America recently announced that Stephan Cooper has been named vice president of Claims Operations. In his new role, Cooper directs Accident Fund’s...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau Too Lax in Kickback Probes, Report Says
Dec 19 2006 // The Ohio state’s scandal-plagued fund for injured workers failed to aggressively investigate allegations of kickbacks and other schemes by managed care providers, The (Toledo) Blade reported recently. Since 2004, the...
Engineers Urge Better Safety for Public Workers After Fla. Explosion
Dec 15 2006 // Seventy-six-year Florida resident, American Society of Safety Engineers’ professional member and chemist Edwin Granberry Jr., urged officials to provide the same level of workplace safety protection for the estimated...
Vermont Temporarily Delays New Workers Comp Rehab Rules
Dec 15 2006 // The Vermont Labor Department has put off plans to change the way injured workers are evaluated for workers’ compensation claims. Stephen Monahan, director of the Workers Compensation & Safety Division, on...
Seven Indicted for Workers’ Compensation Fraud in Texas
Dec 15 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that seven individuals were indicted, in separate cases, in Travis County on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The individuals allegedly collected a combined $31,358...
N.Y. Drywall Contractor Charged with Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Dec 15 2006 // A New York business owner faces charges of insurance fraud following his arrest by Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau’s office for allegedly defrauding the New York State Insurance Fund of more than...
Ohio Injured Workers Felt Pressure by Lawmakers, Businesses, Records Say
Dec 15 2006 // Employees at Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers struggled with pushy lawmakers and threats by businesses to involve the governor as they decided premium rates for certain Ohio businesses, newly released...
NCCI Proposes Increase for Workers’ Compensation Loss Costs
Dec 15 2006 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance has submitted a filing for an average increase of 3.4 percent for workers’ compensation voluntary insurance loss costs, according to Nevada Insurance Commissioner Alice...
Calif. State Fund Receives More Than $3 Million in Fraud Restitution
Dec 15 2006 // San Diego Superior Court Judge William H. McAdam has ordered the owners of a San Diego area roofing company to pay $3 million in restitution to California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund, $81,649 in investigation...
Conn. Approves Slightly Lower Workers’ Comp Loss Costs
Dec 15 2006 //
Texas Work Comp Division Revises Training, Scheduling for Doctors
Dec 14 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation announced it has approved new training for designated doctors in the Texas workers’ compensation system while improving the scheduling of...
Palm Beach Man Accused of Underreporting Workers’ Comp Payroll
Dec 12 2006 // Ronald Salvatore Mauro, 64, of South Palm Beach, was arrested last week following an investigation by the Florida Department of Financial Services, Division of Insurance Fraud, according to officials. Officials said the...
California Sets New Workers’ Comp Medical Mileage and Ambulance Service Rates
Dec 12 2006 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has announced that the mileage rate that workers’ compensation claims administrators pay injured workers for travel related to medical treatment or...
