Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Work Comp Groups Select Texas Mutual’s Health Care Network Option
Apr 14 2006 // Dallas-based Hotchkiss Insurance Agency Inc. (HIA) announced that Texas Home Builders (THB) Workers’ Compensation Purchasing Group and Texas Green Industry (TGI) Workers’ Compensation Purchasing Group members...
Hawaii Workers’ Compensation Claims Often Involve Lost Time
Apr 14 2006 // The Workers’ Compensation Research Institute recently studied Hawaii’s workers’ comp system and found a strikingly high proportion of claims that involved lost time. However, the insititute also...
R.I.’s Beacon Mutual Hit for Cozy Culture Favoring Insiders, Big Accounts and Elite Agents
Apr 13 2006 // Rhode Island’s largest workers compensation carrier, Beacon Mutual Insurance Co., has engaged in a pattern of favoritism benefiting select clients and agents; won and retained employer accounts by cheating on pricing...
Mass. Considers State OSHA
Apr 13 2006 // Concerned that the current system to regulate safety at construction sites puts too much responsibility on the federal government, Massachusetts lawmakers are considering developing a plan that would transfer more power to...
Univ. of Central Okla. Insurance Coordinator Charged with Comp Fraud
Apr 12 2006 // The University of Central Oklahoma’s (UCO) Risk and Insurance Coordinator was charged in Oklahoma County District Court with five felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud, the state attorney general’s...
Study says Hanford Workers’ Compensation System Meets Standards
Apr 11 2006 // A study commissioned by the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) has concluded that the Hanford Site’s workers’ compensation system meets state standards for self-insurers but could be...
S.C. Legislature Passes ‘Watered Down’ Workers’ Comp Bill to Senate
Apr 10 2006 // The American Insurance Association is calling H. 4427, passed by the South Carolina Legislature, a “watered down” version of workers’ compensation reform and “reform in name only;” while the...
Neyrey Named Southwest Region Director at Summit
Apr 7 2006 // Summit, which provides workers’ compensation insurance services, announced it has hired Chris Neyrey to fill the company’s new position of Southwest Region director of Sales and Agency Relations. Neyrey will...
Workers’ Comp Seminar to be Offered in San Angelo, Texas
Apr 7 2006 // Workforce Solutions and the Angelo State University Small Business Development Center will sponsor a one-day educational seminar on Workers’ Compensation 101 and Return To Work presented by the Texas Department of...
Calif. Corrections Sergeant Arrested for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 7 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced the arrest of Sacramento resident and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Correctional Sergeant Steven Michael Shadden, 32, on April 4, 2006,...
Sipe Named Summit SVP, General Manager
Apr 7 2006 // Carol Sipe has been named senior vice president and general manager of operations for Summit, a provider of workers’ compensation insurance services in the Southeast. The new position is part of a reorganization...
The Hartford Teams Up with Blue Cross of California Affiliate
Apr 6 2006 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., a workers’ compensation insurance provider, announced that it will team up with BC Life & Health Insurance Co., an affiliate of Blue Cross of California, to better...
OSHA, State Oversight Questioned Following Boston Scaffolding Accident
Apr 6 2006 // Court rulings have left state inspectors powerless to enforce safety standards at construction sites like the one where three people died this week in a scaffolding accident, forcing Massachusetts to rely on a voluntary...
Ind. Supreme Court Addresses Attack on Compensation Rating Bureau
Apr 5 2006 // The Insurance Institute of Indiana and the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies applauded the decision by the Indiana Supreme Court to deny transfer on a case filed against the Indiana Compensation Rating...
W.Va. Schedules April Workers’ Comp Informational Meetings
Apr 5 2006 // Informational meetings describing West Virginia’s transition to the National Council on Compensation Insurance system of workers’ compensation have been scheduled in eight locations from April 10 to 20,...
Public Entity Business Product Introduced in S.E.
Apr 5 2006 // A new public entity business product to provide workers’ compensation for cities, towns, counties, and water and sewer districts has been announced by Key Risk Insurance Company. Coverage is available in North...
Insurance Journal Reports on How Zurich Pacts Affect Agents; Promise of Mid-Sized D&O Market
Apr 4 2006 // Independent agents representing Zurich Insurance in the U.S. will have to disclose their income before binding any commercial lines policies for Zurich and some Zurich agents may be denied contingency compensation under...
Workers’ Comp Widow’s Issue Going to W.Va. Supreme Court
Apr 4 2006 // The West Virginia Supreme Court will decide next month whether the state’s workers’ compensation insurer can cut off benefits to widows and widowers when their deceased spouses would have reached retirement...
Workers’ Comp Educational Session Offered in El Paso on April 13
Apr 4 2006 // The El Paso Field Office of the Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is hosting a brown bag educational session on the Prospective Review of Medical Care Not Requiring...
Small Business California finds employers concerned about workers’ comp
Apr 3 2006 // A recent survey conducted by California Small Business, San Francisco, found that most small businesses are still very concerned about workers’ compensation. In the survey, 83 percent of the respondents consider...
