Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Two N.Y. Workers’ Comp Trusts to Close as Board Toughens Standards
Jan 2 2006 // Two of New York’s 70 workers compensation self-insurance trusts are being shut down for their inability to meet financial standards set by state officials. The two trusts are the Provider Agency Trust for Human...
Missouri Workers’ Comp Penalties at All Time High
Jan 2 2006 // The Missouri Attorney General’s office recently released a statement saying that a record number of Missouri businesses were ordered to obtain workers’ compensation insurance in 2005. According to the Attorney...
Pa. Insurers Propose 8.5% Decrease for Workers’ Comp
Jan 2 2006 // Pennsylvania workers’ compensation insurers are recommending a decrease in what they charge to cover loss costs. The Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau has filed for an overall 8.58 percent decrease in...
CONN. BOOSTS ITS WORKERS’ COMP RATES
Jan 2 2006 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Susan Cogswell has approved a slight boost in workers’ comp insurance rates effective Jan. 1. She accepted the recommendations from the industry’s National Council on...
MAINE ALLOWS SMALL WORKERS’ COMP HIKE
Jan 2 2006 // The Maine Bureau of Insurance has modified the request of the industry’s National Council on Compensation Insurance for an average 1.8 percent increase in workers’ compensation rates for policy year 2006 to 1.2...
Workers’ Comp
Jan 2 2006 // Nuts & Bolts: PointSure Insurance Services launched several new specialty products, broadening its workers’ compensation capabilities and offering standard market coverage for risks often neglected due to size...
Okeechobee Contractor Alleged to Have Filed Fake Workers’ Comp Claims
Jan 2 2006 // Okeechobee building contractor Merle Dee Johnson bonded out of the Okeechobee County Jail on $30,000 bond, after Florida investigators charged him with workers’ compensation fraud and grand theft. Johnston was...
Florida ‘draws a line in the sand,’ tightens workers’ comp enforcement
Jan 2 2006 // In October, 2003, when the Florida Legislature approved an updated workers’ compensation program, legislators “drew a line in the sand,” and decided to go after employers not paying their fair share into...
Four claim types common at Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Jan 2 2006 // Premium fraud, working without workers’ compensation coverage, fraudulent certification and claimant fraud are common types of fraud encountered by the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Fraud, Vincent Mazzara,...
Workers’ comp benefits can stop at retirement age, Mont. judge rules
Jan 2 2006 // A Montana judge recently ruled that insurers don’t have to pay lifetime benefits to injured workers who are permanently disabled on the job, according to the Billings Gazette. State Fund insures more than 20,000...
AUTO DEALERS COMPENSATION OF CALIF. RETURNS $9.6 MILLION
Jan 2 2006 // The trustee board of the Auto Dealers Compensation of California Inc. has announced an equity distribution of approximately $9.6 million to its auto dealership members. AD-COMP is a private workers’ compensation...
Calif. court decision expected to lower workers’ comp rates
Jan 2 2006 // In Star Roofing Company Inc. v. The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB), the California Insurance Commissioner recently issued a ruling that could affect the way workers’ compensation premiums...
Workers’ Comp
Jan 1 2006 // Nuts & Bolts: PointSure Insurance Services launched several new specialty products, broadening its workers’ compensation capabilities and offering standard market coverage for risks often neglected due to size...
Calif. court decision expected to lower workers’ comp rates
Jan 1 2006 // In Star Roofing Company Inc. v. The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB), the California Insurance Commissioner recently issued a ruling that could affect the way workers’ compensation premiums...
People
Jan 1 2006 // Crump Insurance Services of Texas Inc. appointed three new members to the Dallas property/casualty brokerage team: Brent Jenkins, Stephanie Murillo and Matt Sheehan. Additionally, Elizabeth Wafer has joined the P/C team at...
Four claim types common at Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Jan 1 2006 // Premium fraud, working without workers’ compensation coverage, fraudulent certification and claimant fraud are common types of fraud encountered by the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Fraud, Vincent Mazzara,...
Florida ‘draws a line in the sand,’ tightens workers’ comp enforcement
Jan 1 2006 // In October, 2003, when the Florida Legislature approved an updated workers’ compensation program, legislators “drew a line in the sand,” and decided to go after employers not paying their fair share into...
FLORIDA
Jan 1 2006 // The Florida Division of Insurance Fraud has released a list of arrests, convictions and ongoing investigations showing that 32 people have been arrested, eight convicted and 84 are being actively investigated. According to...
Santa Barbara Hotel Housekeeper Pleads Guilty to Fraud
Dec 30 2005 // Fabiola Rosas DeArzate, aka Blanca Estela Garcia DeArzate, 35, of Santa Barbara, Calif., has plead guilty to insurance fraud and was sentenced to 120 days in county jail, five years formal probation, and ordered to pay...
From New England to Virginia, Courts Made Insurance Headlines in 2005
Dec 30 2005 // From Maine to Virginia, many of the insurance headlines in 2005 dealt with compensation and reinsurance probes, just as they did across the country, casting the industry’s reputation in a bad light. But much of the...
