Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Contingent commissions, court rulings highlight 2006
Dec 25 2006 // In 2006, the Midwest experienced the impact of contingent commission settlements based on the actions of several attorneys general and a myriad of court rulings on insurers’ use of credit, liquor liability and...
Insurance issues have been key in Southeast’s ongoing recovery
Dec 25 2006 // While Mother Nature was nicer to the Southeast and the insurance industry in 2006 than she was in 2005, her potential for destruction was never far from the minds of those living and rebuilding in the Southeast. Insurance...
Top 10 Stories of the Year – West
Dec 24 2006 // In the era when cowboys and gold panners roamed, the West was characterized as a wild yet adventurous place to live. Judging by 2006’s insurance industry headlines, those sentiments don’t seem to have...
National Council on Compensation Insurance proposes increase for workers’ comp loss cost rates
Dec 24 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 in Nevada, according to state Insurance...
Top 10 Stories of the Year – South Central
Dec 24 2006 // It was difficult to get away from natural catastrophes in 2006, even though the year was relatively unscathed by those types of events. Back-to-back 2005 Hurricanes Katrina and Rita continued to wreak havoc on insurance...
Top 10 Stories of the Year – Southeast
Dec 24 2006 // While Mother Nature was nicer to the Southeast and the insurance industry in 2006 than she was in 2005, her potential for destruction was never far from the minds of those living and rebuilding in the Southeast. Insurance...
2006 New Markets Report
Dec 24 2006 // New insurance products seemed to be in great supply in 2006 as the market for most lines continued to turn toward softer times. No market was as robust as professional and management liability lines, according to a review...
2006 New Markets Report
Dec 24 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management Liability New P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically...
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...
