Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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,...
News Briefs
Jan 22 2006 // N.Y. shuts comp trusts Two of New York’s 70 workers compensation self-insurance trusts are being shut down by state officials. The two trusts are the Provider Agency Trust for Human Services and the Manufacturing...
N.Y.’s workers’ comp system’s not working
Jan 22 2006 // Many suits formerly brought under the employers liability section of the workers’ compensation policy are now brought under the contractual liability section of the general liability policy. This shift has...
Productivity Poll
Jan 22 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 Wausau Insurance. Eighty-one percent (up from 70 percent...
R.I.’s Beacon Mutual pursues rate cuts, restructuring plan
Jan 22 2006 // Beacon Mutual, Rhode Island’s biggest workers’ compensation writer with about 90 percent of the business, has some big plans. First is its plan to lower the loss cost portion of premiums for most employers by...
W.Va. mine survivor Randall McCloy Jr.,families of deceased, eligible for benefits
Jan 22 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...
Big ‘I’s S.C. agenda: Workers’ comp
Jan 22 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...
Health care networks coming soon to Texas workers’ comp system
Jan 22 2006 // In certain situations, employees may seek care outside the network. An employee who has a pre-existing relationship with an HMO doctor may receive treatment for a workers’ compensation injury from that...
News Currents
Jan 22 2006 // Colo. legislators to tackle auto insurance in 2006 session The 2006 legislative agenda for property/ casualty insurers in Colorado will be dominated by automobile insurance and regulatory issues, according to the Property...
Spotlight: Counseling Buyers
Jan 22 2006 // Multiline Productivity Poll: Agents play key role in understanding risk Insurance buyers see increasing value from reducing their total cost of risk across multiple lines of commercial insurance, according to a new survey...
Bill Filed in Okla. to Protect ‘Exclusive Remedy’ of Workers’ Comp Court
Jan 20 2006 // Noting that a recent Oklahoma State Supreme Court ruling could effectively eliminate the state’s “exclusive remedy” of workers’ compensation court, Oklahoma State Rep. Ben Sherrer filed legislation...
Employers Insurance Group Makes Corporate Reorganization
Jan 20 2006 // Nevada-based Employers Insurance Group (EIG) reported a corporate reorganization designed to position the group of companies for expansion in commercial property and casualty insurance beyond its position as the...
As Rates Rise, Delaware Solicits Changes to Workers’ Comp Classes
Jan 20 2006 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn has asked Delaware businesses to submit requests for classification changes under the workers’ compensation insurance system if they believe that changes would make more...
Missouri Workers’ Comp Reform in Effect, Despite Drafting Error
Jan 19 2006 // Missouri’s Cole County Circuit Court has ruled that despite a legislative drafting error, the workers’ compensation reforms enacted last year have been in effect since Senate Bills 1 and 130 became effective in...
13 Companies Approved to Self-Insure Workers’ Comp in Texas
Jan 19 2006 // Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Albert Betts recently approved the reapplications for Certificates of Authority to Self-Insure covering a one-year period for 13 private employers in Texas. Commissioner...
