Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Power shift in the political landscape
Nov 19 2006 // With Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, we’ll likely see action on a number of insurance issues. Although it took a little time for all the votes to be counted, the 2006 midterm elections saw a wave of...
Power shift in the political landscape
Nov 19 2006 // With Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, we’ll likely see action on a number of insurance issues. Although it took a little time for all the votes to be counted, the 2006 midterm elections saw a wave of...
Washington employers to save $315 million in workers’ compensation
Nov 19 2006 // Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire announced that the state’s employers and workers could save an estimated $315 million in workers’ compensation premiums next year as the result of a six-month partial suspension...
Power shift in the political landscape
Nov 19 2006 // Although it took a little time for all the votes to be counted, the 2006 midterm elections saw a wave of Democratic candidates wrest control of both houses of Congress, gain a majority of the governorships and take control...
News Currents
Nov 19 2006 // Alaska, Idaho could face new insurance regulators The insurance commissioner posts in Alaska and Idaho are likely to change, following November’s mid-term elections. In Idaho, U.S. Rep Butch Otter, R, defeated...
OSHA Offers More Advice on Bird Flu
Nov 15 2006 // The Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration is recommending that workers practice good hygiene, including wearing gloves and washing hands, and, in some cases, donning respiratory protection,...
Pa. Creates Fund for Injured Workers of Employers Without Workers’ Comp
Nov 15 2006 // Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has signed legislation creating a fund to pay injured workers whose employers lack workers compensation coverage. The same bill — HB 2738 — increases the minimum amount an injured worker...
Online Workers’ Comp Kit Helps Employers Track and Cut Costs
Nov 10 2006 // Workers’ Comp Kit is the first online cost-containment program that gives employers tools they can use to cut workers’ compensation costs as much as 20 percent to 50 percent, according to Amaxx Risk Solutions,...
Best Rates Finland’s Tapiola ‘A’
Nov 10 2006 // A.M. Best Co. has assigned a financial strength rating of “A” (Excellent) and an issuer credit rating of “a” to Finland’s Tapiola General Mutual Insurance Company (also known as Keskinainen...
Industry Expects New Commissioners in Mass., Md., N.Y.
Nov 9 2006 // Newly-elected Democratic governors in Massachusetts, New York and Maryland are expected to name their own insurance commissioners, although the identity of any successors is unknown at this time, according to insurance...
Fla. orders 15.7% workers’ comp cut
Nov 6 2006 // A significant drop in workers’ compensation claims frequency and a reduction in the cost of claims have triggered a larger-than-recommended decrease in rates, at the bidding of Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin...
Golden State Division of Workers’ Compensation proposes penalties against laggard insurers
Nov 6 2006 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation has issued a revised proposal of regulations that would penalize insurers and self-insurers that show a pattern of denying or delaying workers’ compensation...
New Mexico workers compensation rates are cut an average of 4.2 percent
Nov 6 2006 // Rates are being cut for New Mexico workers’ compensation insurance premiums. The state Insurance Department has approved overall workers’ compensation rate reductions of 4.2 percent for the voluntary market and...
Open claims files handled by California Insurance Guaranty Association drop
Nov 6 2006 // The number of open claims files being handled by the California Insurance Guaranty Association (CIGA) has dropped from a high of 85,000 to around 48,000, of which more than 40,000 are the result of workers’...
The virtual, global economy humbles insurance leaders
Nov 6 2006 // Insurance agents and executives have a lot to worry about as the fast-paced virtual economy takes hold. According to futurist Edie Weiner, they are right to be worried. She says there are a lot of risks ahead and given the...
L&I adds hearing on proposed workers’ comp rates
Nov 6 2006 // The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) is planning to install 8,000 smoke alarms in First Nations households in Arizona through the fall. Funded by a Fire Prevention and Safety Grant from the Department of...
UNDER Construction: The Green Property Insurance Market
Nov 6 2006 // Douglas G. Hotchkiss, owner of the Dallas, Texas-based Hotchkiss Insurance Agency, hadn’t thought much about building “green” or environmentally-friendly structures. But he now says, “it’s a...
Fla. orders 15.7% workers’ comp cut
Nov 5 2006 // A significant drop in workers’ compensation claims frequency and a reduction in the cost of claims have triggered a larger-than-recommended decrease in rates, at the bidding of Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin...
The virtual, global economy humbles insurance leaders
Nov 5 2006 // Insurance agents and executives have a lot to worry about as the fast-paced virtual economy takes hold. According to futurist Edie Weiner, they are right to be worried. She says there are a lot of risks ahead and given the...
News Currents
Nov 5 2006 // First Nations homes to receive smoke alarms The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) is planning to install 8,000 smoke alarms in First Nations households in Arizona through the fall. Funded by a Fire Prevention and...
