Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
N.C. Adult-Care Provider Careamerica Lost Needed Insurance
Feb 1 2006 // One of North Carolina’s largest providers of long-term care for adults may not have the insurance required to pay workers hurt on the job and is being investigated for not paying employees on time. The state...
AIA ‘Takes Issue’ With S.C. Workers’ Compensation Story
Jan 30 2006 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) takes issue with the AP article that appeared on Insurance Journal’s Web site Jan. 30, for it shows once again the extent to which opponents of workers’ compensation...
R.I. Senate Passes Beacon Mutual Bill
Jan 26 2006 // The Rhode Island Senate on a vote of 34-3 passed legislation to reduce the number of public appointees to the board of Beacon Mutual and free the state’s dominant workers’ compensation insurer to cover...
R.I. Senate to Vote on Beacon Mutual Bill Opposed by Governor Today
Jan 25 2006 // Legislation to amend the charter of the Beacon Mutual Insurance Co. to reduce the number of public appointees on the workers’ compensation carrier’s board and clear the way for it to write out-of-state accounts...
Mass. Man Sentenced to Jail for Perjury, Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jan 24 2006 // A Gloucester, Massachusetts man has been sentenced to jail for committing perjury in relation to a workers’ compensation scheme, Attorney General Tom Reilly announced. Timothy Hayes, 39, pleaded guilty this month to...
Texas DWC Posts Updated Forms and Notices Online
Jan 24 2006 // Forms and notices used by Texas workers’ compensation system participants recently were updated to reflect the new administration of the system by the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), Division of Workers’...
Texas Workers’ Comp Brown Bag Session Scheduled for Feb. 8
Jan 24 2006 // The Bryan/College Station Field Office of the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI), Division of Workers’ Compensation is hosting a Brown Bag Educational Session for health care providers, employers, human resource...
Legislators, Business Owners Question S.C. Insurance Department Leadership
Jan 23 2006 // Some legislators and business owners are questioning leadership at the South Carolina Insurance Department, which has seen a staff shake-up and is preparing for the possibility of major changes in rates and the...
Ark. Workers’ Comp 2006 Education Conference to be Held in March
Jan 23 2006 // Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission announced that its Annual Educational Conference, being held for the first time in conjunction with the Arkansas Self-Insurers Association’s 2006 Spring Fling, is...
San Diego Man Convicted of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jan 23 2006 // A former employee of a San Diego custom kitchen cabinet company was sentenced in San Diego County Superior Court on one count of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. Superior Court Judge Timothy Walsh ordered...
Health care networks coming soon to Texas workers’ comp system
Jan 23 2006 // Health care costs in the Texas workers’ compensation system are among the highest in the nation. Furthermore, studies suggest that one out of every four injured employees does not return to work. In an effort to...
NCCI criticizes AP’s report on S.C. workers’ comp as ‘factually incorrect’
Jan 23 2006 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. has criticized recent Associated Press articles about NCCI’s review of the South Carolina Governor’s Workers Compensation Task Force proposal as being...
Fla. Insurance Council predicts hurricane coverage utmost concern
Jan 23 2006 // Florida Insurance Council Executive Vice President Sam Miller predicts hurricane insurance will be the most significant property and casualty issue in 2006, just as it was in 2005, on the state level. “Congress, at a...
W.Va. mine survivor Randall McCloy Jr., families of deceased, eligible for benefits
Jan 23 2006 // Randal McCloy Jr., the only survivor of the recent tragedy at the the 260-foot-deep Inter-national Coal Group Mine in West Virginia, will be eligible for medical benefits and wage replacement benefits immediately, and will...
W.Va. claimant pleads guilty of workers’ compensation fraud
Jan 23 2006 // Terry Lee Villers of Wirt County, W.Va. has been sentenced to two felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud according to Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline. Villers was sentenced Dec. 16 in the Circuit Court of...
Workers’ compensation reform tops PCI’s legislative agenda in S.C.
Jan 23 2006 // Comprehensive reform of South Carolina’s workers’ compensation system, including repeal of the Second Injury Fund are top legislative priorities of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America during...
Colo. legislators to tackle auto insurance in 2006 session
Jan 23 2006 // The 2006 legislative agenda for property/ casualty insurers in Colorado will be dominated by automobile insurance and regulatory issues, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI), based in...
BIG ‘I’S S.C. AGENDA: WORKERS’ COMP
Jan 23 2006 // Improving the state’s workers’ compensation system, developing coastal property insurance markets and increasing consumer awareness and educating them about insurance issues are key 2006 goals of the South...
Kentucky Miner’s Family Wins Increased Death Benefits
Jan 23 2006 // The family of an underground coal miner killed in a rock fall is entitled to increased death benefits because the company he worked for had violated several mine safety laws, the Supreme Court ruled last week. Ronnie...
Multiline Productivity Poll: Agents play key role in understanding risk
Jan 23 2006 // Insurance buyers see increasing value from reducing their total cost of risk across multiple lines of commercial insurance, according to a new survey commissioned by property and casualty insurer Wausau Insurance, Wausau,...
