Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
News Currents
Aug 7 2006 // Former claims director indicted in Oklahoma Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson reported that the former claims director for CompSource Oklahoma is accused of one count of workers’ compensation fraud in a...
Julie Benafield Bowman, Arkansas, Commissioner of Insurance
Aug 7 2006 // Like insurance commissioners in other states, Arkansas Insurance Commis-sioner Julie Benafield Bowman, is keeping an eye on catastrophe issues and the availability of insurance related to them. Unlike commissioners in...
Colorado workers’ comp premium holds steady
Aug 7 2006 // Colorado employees are likely to see their workers’ compensation costs remain unchanged for 2007. State Insurance Commissioner David Rivera said the National Council on Compensation Insurance will not be filing for...
Employers’ workers’ comp costs rose faster than benefit payments in 2004
Aug 7 2006 // News Currents Employers’ costs for workers’ compensation grew faster than combined cash benefits for injured workers and medical payments for their treatment, according to a new study issued by the National...
Protecting your most valuable assets overseas
Aug 7 2006 // A business has many valuable assets, but perhaps none as critical to success as its employees. Businesses depend on their senior management, leading sales executives and other top talent to guide the company, plan for the...
N.Y. Gov. Pataki Names Ferrara to Chair Workers Comp Board
Aug 6 2006 // Former state Assemblywoman Donna Ferrara has been elevated by Gov. George Pataki to chairwoman of the 13-member state Workers’ Compensation Board, a post that will pay the Long Island Republican $120,800 a...
Associated Builders and Contractors Members Receive $200,000
Aug 4 2006 // Members of Associated Builders & Contractors’ Sierra chapter received premium refunds from Builders Insurance Company as part of the workers’ comp insurer’s “retro” plan. A retrospective...
Texas Workers’ Comp Conference to Focus on Reform Legislation
Aug 2 2006 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) will host its 2006 Workers’ Compensation Conference in Austin on Sept. 20 at the Hyatt Regency. Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Albert Betts will be the conference...
Washington Employers Invited to Join Workers’ Comp Pilot
Aug 1 2006 // The Washington Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) has begun enrolling employers who want to participate in a new way of reporting claims for workplace injuries and occupational diseases. Injured workers in...
OSHA to Probe Death at Kentucky Steel Mill
Aug 1 2006 // The federal Occupational, Safety and Health Administration will investigate the death of a worker at a steel mill construction site in Mississippi’s Lowndes County. County Coroner Greg Merchant said Tony Vic...
BrickStreet Vows to Audit Every W. Va. Employer for Workers’ Comp
Aug 1 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...
W. Va. Begins Tagging Firms Lacking Workers’ Comp
Jul 30 2006 // West Virginia businesses that choose to operate without workers’ compensation insurance will be tagged with yellow signs. Investigators with the state Insurance Commission started posting yellow warning signs on the...
Avila to Represent MedRisk Inc. in Tampa, Fla.
Jul 28 2006 // King of Prussia-based MedRisk Inc. has announced that Michele Avila has joined the firm as director of client strategies based in Tampa, Fla. She will work closely with sales, marketing and account management to design and...
California State Fund Hosts Heat Illness Prevention Seminars
Jul 27 2006 // In light of recent heat waves throughout the state, California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund announced that it will increase the number of its free “Heat Illness Prevention” seminars and also open...
Colorado Workers’ Compensation Premium To Remain Unchanged
Jul 26 2006 // Colorado employees are likely to see their workers’ compensation costs remain unchanged for 2007. State Insurance Commissioner David Rivera said the National Council on Compensation Insurance will not be filing for...
Businessmen Pay Restitution to N.Y. Workers Comp Fund
Jul 26 2006 // Two Suffolk County, N.Y. business people who pleaded guilty in cases involving workers’ compensation fraud have paid The New York State Insurance Fund a total of more than $7,800 in restitution. Robert Ristenpadt,...
Ireland Named Calif. Workers’ Comp Institute Associate Research Director
Jul 26 2006 // John Ireland has been named associate research director of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute, the Oakland-based nonprofit organization that serves as the research arm of the California workers’...
Employers’ Costs for Workers’ Comp Rose Faster than Benefit Payments, Study Reveals
Jul 26 2006 // Employers’ costs for workers’ compensation grew faster than combined cash benefits for injured workers and medical payments for their treatment, according to a new study issued today by the National Academy of...
Lax Record-keeping at Ohio’s Worker’s Comp Bureau Lowered Benefits
Jul 26 2006 // Hundreds of injured workers temporarily received less in state benefits than they deserved because of poor record-keeping at a scandal-plagued state insurance fund, according to a memo released Monday. The disclosure was...
Broker Security Breach Puts N.Y. Workers’ Comp Clients at ID Risk
Jul 26 2006 // The names, addresses and Social Security numbers of as many as 540,000 injured workers have been lost, and the state and a contracted company are trying to protect the workers from identity theft. In New York, company and...
