Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Texas Workers’ Compensation Network Expansions Approved
Aug 22 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company and Concentra announced that the Texas Department of Insurance has approved the expansion of Texas Mutual’s Texas Star Network and Concentra’s Health Care Network (HCN). Texas...
Every W. Va. employer targeted for workers’ comp audit
Aug 21 2006 // West Virginia’s workers’ compensation insurance provider has a lofty goal: to audit every one of West Virginia’s 38,000 employers this year. That would require an unprecedented 200 audits a day, and may...
Major League Baseball scores with workers’ comp cost reduction program
Aug 21 2006 // Workers’ compensation claims could foul up any company, and Major League Baseball is no exception. After recognizing that injured players were one of the biggest exposures for its baseball teams, MLB decided to...
Rough riding for workers’ comp on the racetrack
Aug 21 2006 // The problem of providing workers’ compensation insurance for jockeys and backstretch workers, such as grooms and exercise riders, in the horse racing industry is a complicated one. Only four states —...
Motor sports coverage: garage risks on speed
Aug 21 2006 // The high-value of even the lowest-priced racing cars and the likelihood of calamity drive up overall insurance costs and make liability coverage for motor sports particularly difficult to find, according to motor sports...
Rough riding for workers’ comp on the racetrack
Aug 21 2006 // The problem of providing workers’ compensation insurance for jockeys and backstretch workers, such as grooms and exercise riders, in the horse racing industry is a complicated one. Only four states —...
Every W. Va. employer targeted for workers’ comp audit
Aug 21 2006 // West Virginia’s workers’ compensation insurance provider has a lofty goal: to audit every one of West Virginia’s 38,000 employers this year. That would require an unprecedented 200 audits a day, and may...
Major League Baseball scores with workers’ comp cost reduction program
Aug 21 2006 // Workers’ compensation claims could foul up any company, and Major League Baseball is no exception. After recognizing that injured players were one of the biggest exposures for its baseball teams, MLB decided to...
Motor sports coverage: garage risks on speed
Aug 21 2006 // The high-value of even the lowest-priced racing cars and the likelihood of calamity drive up overall insurance costs and make liability coverage for motor sports particularly difficult to find, according to motor sports...
Insurer’s injured workers’ data stolen; sold on Internet
Aug 21 2006 // Personal information on 72 workers’ compensation claimants was stolen from Wisconsin-based Sentry Insurance and later sold over the Internet, the company said. The data sold included names and Social Security numbers...
Rough riding for workers’ comp on the racetrack
Aug 21 2006 // The problem of providing workers’ compensation insurance for jockeys and backstretch workers, such as grooms and exercise riders, in the horse racing industry is a complicated one. Only four states —...
California Workers’ Comp Rate Filing Submitted
Aug 18 2006 // California’s Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau has submitted its Jan. 1, 2007 pure premium rate filing to the California Department of Insurance (CDI) recommending changes to the California...
N.Y. Gov. Vetoes Workers’ Comp Bill
Aug 18 2006 // New York Gov. George Pataki has vetoed a bill (A.8713-B) that insurers say would have increased costs in the state’s workers compensation system. “New York’s businesses and workers need comprehensive...
Ark. Work Comp Commission Updates Mileage and Compensation Rates
Aug 17 2006 // The Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission recently announced updates for mileage reimbursements for claimants, compensation rates for injured employees and forms for child support obligations. Claimant mileage...
Employers Insurance Doubles Workers’ Comp Market Share
Aug 17 2006 // Employers Insurance Group based in Reno, Nev., announced it has more than doubled its share of the Montana’s workers’ compensation insurance market since the start of the current year. Workers’...
N.Y. Looks to Speed Comp Benefits to Ill 9/11 Rescue Workers
Aug 15 2006 // New York State has adopted a trio of laws designed to speed workers’ compensation benefits for workers and their families with claims related to 9/11 rescue efforts. The first new law enables many workers who became...
Ill. Director Says Worker’s Comp Fraud Is $300 Billion National Problem
Aug 14 2006 // The Illinois State Insurance Department receives reports of six alleged cases of workers’ compensation insurance fraud each week, according to insurance Director Michael McRaith. McRaith commented recently on a stop...
In R.I., Beacon Mutual 16% Workers’ Comp Rate Cut Approved
Aug 14 2006 // Beacon Mutual Insurance Co., the state’s dominant workers’ compensation insurer, plans to reduce rates by an average of 16 percent. The company, which has roughly 14,500 policyholders, says it expects the rate...
Jacksonville, Fla. Tree Service Business Owner Charged with Workers’ Comp Fraud
Aug 11 2006 // A Jacksonville, Fla. tree service business owner has been arrested after the electrocution of one of his employees and charged with workers’ compensation fraud, first degree, for failure to provide workers’...
N.D. Workers’ Comp Agency Wants Records on Delinquent Employers
Aug 10 2006 // North Dakota’s workers compensation agency wants permission to publish a list of employers who haven’t paid their insurance premiums. Members of the Workforce Safety and Insurance agency’s board have...
