Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Junkin Named to Seat on Miss. Workers’ Comp Commission
Oct 17 2006 // Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour has named Johnny Junkin, of Natchez, to the Workers’ Compensation Commission (MWCC) for an unexpired term ending January 1, 2007 and for a six-year term beginning January 1, 2007...
Truck Driver Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud in Texas
Oct 16 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Travis County court sentenced Jerry S. Amaya of Cedar Creek, Texas, on workers’ comp fraud-related charges. The court sentenced Amaya to one year of probation and...
California State Fund to Host Safety Training Seminars
Oct 16 2006 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund will sponsor a comprehensive safety seminar in Redding, Calif., on Oct. 18, and a restaurant supervisor safety-training program in Monterey Park, Calif., on Oct. 18. The...
S.C. Workers’ Comp Said to be in Crisis as Rates Rise Again
Oct 13 2006 // Workers compensation loss costs may increase by 18.4 percent for businesses in South Carolina effective Dec. 1, 2006. Robert Herlong, vice president and regional manager for Property Casualty Insurers of America, said...
Mass. Panel Urges Jail Time for Worker Safety Failures
Oct 13 2006 // A legislative panel in Massachusetts is recommending that company officials face criminal charges if they have recklessly failed to protect workers who are killed on construction sites, according to a published report. The...
OSHA Fines Ala. Firm for Death of Worker in Trench Collapse
Oct 13 2006 // OSHA cites company for Gulfport death Received by Newsfinder from AP Oct 12, 2006 1:01 Eastern Time GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) _ The Occupational Health and Safety Administration penalized a company whose worker died in a trench...
Utah Officials Plan No Changes in Workers’ Comp
Oct 13 2006 // The Utah Workers Compensation Fund, an insurance pool that pays people who are injured on the job, has dropped plans to restrict benefits. Fund officials considered asking for a change in state law to tighten eligibility...
Long Island Roofer Sentenced in Workers’ Comp Case
Oct 10 2006 // A Long Island, N.Y. business owner has been sentenced to six months in jail after pleading guilty to attempted violation of the workers’ compensation law, and other unrelated charges, following his arrest in a case...
Texas Green Industry Workers’ Comp Group Gets $297K Dividend
Oct 10 2006 // Hotchkiss Insurance Agency Inc. announced a $297,098 dividend to the Texas Green Industry (TGI) Workers’ Comp purchasing group. The announcement marked the second dividend payment for the group by Texas Mutual...
Texas Mutual Launches Group for Machinery and Equipment Dealers
Oct 10 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced its newest workers’ compensation purchasing group: Texas Machinery and Equipment Dealers (TM&E). State law allows employers in similar industries to reduce their...
Texas Workers’ Comp Rulebook Supplement 2006-05 Available Online
Oct 10 2006 // Rulebook Supplement 2006-05 containing rules adopted by the Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation is available online from the Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation. The supplement can...
ICT Announces Line Up for Workers’ Compensation Seminars
Oct 10 2006 // The Insurance Council of Texas is hosting workers’ compensation seminars on Nov. 7 and Nov. 15 that focus and provide training on the new rules adopted by the Division of Workers’ Compensation to implement...
California anticipates lowering workers’ compensation insurance rates 6.3 percent
Oct 9 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced on Sept. 28 that he will likely recommend a further reduction in the state’s workers’ compensation insurance rates of at least an additional 6.3...
COURT RULES HURT PRISON GUARD NOT ENTITLED TO WORKERS’ COMP
Oct 9 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. The...
Alaska workers’ comp reforms helping to lower rates
Oct 9 2006 // Alaska Gov. Frank H. Murkowski has announced he is pleased that workers’ compensation system reforms proposed by the administration and enacted last year by the Legislature have led to a proposed 10.5 percent...
California governor vetoes workers’ compensation bills
Oct 9 2006 // Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed two bills that he said would have undermined the bipartisan workers’ compensation reforms passed by the legislature in 2004. “When I ran for office, skyrocketing...
Oregon employers to pay less for workers’ compensation in 2007
Oct 9 2006 // Oregon will reduce the workers’ compensation pure premium rate by 2.1 percent for 2007, maintaining Oregon’s streak of not raising the rate in 16 years, Gov. Ted Kulongoski recently announced. “No other...
Report calls nation’s workers’ comp programs ‘colossal failure’
Oct 9 2006 // A new report released by consumer rights group Center for Justice & Democracy (CJ&D), is criticizing workers’ compensation programs throughout the country, saying they have been devastating for injured...
Workers’ comp claim frequency and size continue downward trend
Oct 9 2006 // A recent study based on data collected through 2004 shows that workers’ compensation claims frequency is down — yet costs continue to rise. The lowered frequency of claims includes large claims and small claims...
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Oct 9 2006 // Workers’ comp claim frequency and size continue downward trend A recent study based on data collected through 2004 shows that workers’ compensation claims frequency is down—yet costs continue to rise. The...
