Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
News Briefs
Oct 17 2005 // California Judge throws out $700 million jury award in Executive Life Suit A federal judge has thrown out a $700 million (euro586 million) award for punitive damages won by the state of California in a lawsuit stemming...
N.C. Former Panthers Players Score Touchdown In Workers’ Comp Court
Oct 14 2005 // A handful of former Carolina Panthers players who were injured playing football have won their cases before the North Carolina Court of Appeals and one before the North Carolina Supreme Court. Jim Lore, a Raleigh attorney...
W.Va. School Bus Driver Pleads Guilty to Two Counts of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Oct 13 2005 // Terry Lee Villers of Wirt County, W.Va. has pleaded guilty in Kanawha County Circuit Court of two felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud. According to Insurance Commissioner Janet L. Cline, Villers knowingly...
W.Va. Indicts Employer, Employee for Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Oct 12 2005 // West Virginia Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline, announced one employer, Brett A. Starr was indicted last month by a Kanawha County Grand Jury on the felony offense of Workers’ Compensation Fraud. At the same...
ICT Workers’ Comp Seminars Set for Austin and Dallas
Oct 12 2005 // The Insurance Council of Texas announced it will present its 2005 Workers’ Compensation Seminars in Austin on Nov. 10 and in Dallas on Nov. 15. Brian C. Newby, Gov. Rick Perry’s general counsel will be the...
Ark. Announces 2006 Comp Rates
Oct 12 2005 // The Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission (AWCC) released its annual revision of Advisory 2000-1, which announces the amounts to be paid to injured workers under the state’s workers’ compensation...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Head Moving to New Position
Oct 12 2005 // Andrea Hoch, who has served as director of the California’s workers’ compensation program since 2004, has been named by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as his legal affairs secretary. Hoch, whose tenure as head of...
Consumer Advocate Criticizes NCCI Recommendation; Suggests 22 Percent Workers’ Compensation Decrease
Oct 11 2005 // Even though the National Council on Compensation Insurance has doubled to 7.2 percent its suggested rate reduction in Florida, Allan Schwartz, an actuary hired by Steve Burgess, an Insurance Consumer advocate says the...
Nev. Comp Provider Returns Premiums, Pays Dividends to Employers
Oct 11 2005 // Builders Insurance Co., one of Nevada’s two largest workers’ comp insurers, and the state’s largest contractor-only workers’ comp provider, has paid out a set of safety-related dividends and...
Marine Business State Act Workers’ Comp Program Introduced
Oct 11 2005 // A State Act Workers’ Compensation program designed for marinas, boat dealers, boat repairers, boat yards and boat builders that only require State Act coverage has been introduced by LIG Marine Managers of St....
Hotchkiss Notes Launch of Texas Home Builders Workers’ Comp Group
Oct 11 2005 // Hotchkiss Insurance Agency Inc. (HIA) announced its newest workers’ compensation purchasing group: the Texas Home Builders Workers Compensation Group (THB-WC Group). The group includes home builders for whom specific...
Conn. Workers’ Comp Filing Seeks Small Boost
Oct 6 2005 // The organization representing Connecticut’s workers’ compensation insurers has filed for revised loss costs for the voluntary and involuntary markets for January, 2006. The National Council on Compensation...
Aetna Expanding Workers’ Comp Network; Now Covers 17 States
Oct 5 2005 // Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna is expanding its Aetna Workers’ Comp Access network into six additional markets, adding to the more than 190,000 physicians and health care professionals and 900 hospitals currently...
Fla. CFO Calls for Added $500M in Savings for State’s Small Businesses
Oct 5 2005 // Tom Gallagher, Florida’s chief financial officer, this week called for greater savings for Florida’s small businesses based on an independent review of proposed workers’ compensation rates for the...
Cooper Re-Appointed to Texas Mutual Board of Directors
Oct 4 2005 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced that Texas Gov. Rick Perry re-appointed Richard Cooper to serve on the Texas Mutual board of directors. Cooper will serve another six-year term, which will end in July...
JUDGE UPHOLDS JOINT, SEVERAL LIABILITY
Oct 3 2005 // Franklin Circuit Court Judge William L. Graham has ruled in Frankfort, Ky., that members of the failed workers’ compensation self-insured group AIK Comp are liable for the deficit in its fund. The ruling affirms the...
‘CONCERNS’ REMAIN IN WORK COMP SYSTEM
Oct 3 2005 // The Workers’ Compensation Research Institute reported that Ar-kansas’ workers’ compensation system has experienced a period of stability after extensive reforms were passed in 1993, but maintained that...
TDI STAFF ASSISTING STORM VICTIMS
Oct 3 2005 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced that beginning Sept. 26, staff members were deployed to its Houston Insurance Assistance Center to assist Hurricane Rita victims with their insurance questions and claims,...
IIABA of W.Va. Conference and Expo in Shepherdstown
Oct 3 2005 // West Virginia Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline and leading West Virginia insurance instructors, experts and officials will address the Oct. 7 to 10 annual Professional Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of...
News Briefs
Oct 3 2005 // ALABAMA Ala. Commissioner Asks Carriers for 60 Day Grace Period Alabama Insu-rance Commissioner Walter Bell has asked all carriers to provide a 60-day grace period for customers who have claims related to Hurricane Katrina...
