Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Utah Workers’ Comp Fund Evaluates Worker Elegibility
Oct 4 2006 // Utah’s Workers Compensation Fund recently came under fire for propsing workers’ eligibility to benefits be evaluated. Based on its proposal, some in the mainstream media interpreted WCF’s actions as...
OSHA Seeking $84K Fine in Pa. Workplace Elevator Death
Oct 3 2006 // A contractor faces $63,000 in federal workplace safety fines for an accident in which a subcontractor’s employee was decapitated by an elevator. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed the...
Masonry Firm Faces OSHA Fines in Deadly Mass. Scaffolding Collapse
Oct 3 2006 // A masonry contractor faces $119,000 in fines for alleged safety violations that led to a scaffolding collapse at a downtown construction site that killed three last spring, according to federal officials. The U.S....
Calif. Workers’ Comp Rating Bureau Releases Cost Monitoring Report
Oct 3 2006 // California’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau has released its 2006 Legislative Cost Monitoring Report. According to the report, physician fees have been reduced by about 4 percent since...
N.Y. Business Owner Caught Forging Insurance Certificate
Sep 29 2006 // A 54-year-old business owner pleaded guilty to issuing a false certificate of insurance claiming to have workers’ compensation insurance with the New York State Insurance Fund, according to the NYSIF. NYSIF said that...
Project Manager Indicted in Texas for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Sep 29 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Travis County, Texas, grand jury indicted Higgie Highsmith of San Antonio on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. Highsmith allegedly collected $7,112 in...
California Anticipates Lowering Workers’ Comp Rates
Sep 29 2006 // Califiornia Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced he will likely recommend a further reduction in workers’ compensation insurance rates of at least an additional 6.3 percent. Based on pre-reform trends, the...
Court Rules Hurt Prison Guard Not Entitled to Workers’ Comp
Sep 28 2006 // A California correctional officer who was hurt while helping at an accident while on his way to work is not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits, the Third Appellate District Court of Appeal has ruled. It...
Oregon Employers To Pay Less for Workers’ Comp in 2007
Sep 28 2006 // Oregon will reduce the workers’ compensation “pure” premium rate by 2.1 percent for 2007, Governor Ted Kulongoski announced, maintaining Oregon’s streak of not raising the rate in 16...
AIG to Refund $14 Million in Florida Settlement
Sep 27 2006 // Under a consent order issued by Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty, AIG Insurance Company will be required to refund or credit approximately $13.6 million in workers’ compensation, and approximately...
York Insurance Services Invests in Southern California Risk Management
Sep 27 2006 // York Insurance Services Group Inc., a Parsippany, N.J.-based insurance services provider, has acquired Eventide Risk Management LLC, a provider of workers’ compensation and medical cost containment services in...
Texas Announces Workers’ Comp Discount and Interest Rates for Q4
Sep 27 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation announced it has determined that any interest or discount provided for in the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act shall be at the rate of 8.53...
Fla. to Hear Industry’s Bid to Cut Workers Comp Rates 13%
Sep 26 2006 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance filed a proposed 13.3 percent decrease in Florida workers compensation rates that will face a public hearing next month in Tallahassee. According to the Florida Office of...
Insurers Reject Notion of TRIA Renewal for Nuclear-Biological Terrorism Risk Only
Sep 26 2006 // A new federal government report concludes that a totally private market solution to insuring against certain terrorist attacks is unlikely in the near future. The report covers the risk of nuclear, biological, chemical or...
Texas Reports Workers’ Comp State Average Weekly Wage for FY 2007
Sep 26 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation reported that the workers’ compensation state average weekly wage for Fiscal Year 2007 is set at $673.80 and is effective for dates of injury...
The Commissioners
Sep 25 2006 // Hawaii:Perfectly poised for insurers in the Pacific Rim Although it is undeniably one of the 50 United States, Hawaii’s location at the edge of the Pacific Rim yields creative business opportunities throughout the...
Construction Industry and the Latino Workforce
Sep 25 2006 // In the next 10 years, the construction business will need to fill more than 180,000 jobs. As the rush to fill these positions advances, workers’ compensation professionals will be challenged along with the...
Hawaii, Washington, Wyoming bringing down workers’ comp rates
Sep 25 2006 // Hawaii, Washington and Wyoming proposed lowering workers’ compensation rates in their states from 2 percent to 12.3 percent. The Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs’ Insurance Division announced...
Specialized care network found to reduce workers’ comp costs
Sep 25 2006 // In workers’ compensation cases, management of injured workers by a specialized network of health care providers without third-party utilization review can reduce missed work days and lower health care costs, reports...
California State Compensation Insurance Fund appoints Tudor president
Sep 25 2006 // The California State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Board of Directors appointed James C. Tudor as the organization’s president. Tudor’s appointment caps an extensive four month national search for a...
