Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines

FLORIDA

Oct 3 2005 // The Prosecutor’s Office has charged five St. Petersburg residents with filing false claims and defrauding two car insurance companies after a May 2004 two-car wreck in Pinellas Park, Fla. Zlatan Ramic, Alija...

People

Oct 3 2005 // RISC Inc. in Dallas, announced the appointment of Pat Mulady, to the position of vice president in the Brokerage Department. Mulady’s focus will primarily be tough casualty risks. Mulady joins RISC with over 12 years...

News Briefs

Oct 3 2005 // ARKANSAS 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...

News Briefs

Oct 3 2005 // CALIFORNIA ACIC OPPOSES PROPOSED CDI REGULATIONS: The Association of California Insurance Companies recently testified on proposed Department of Insurance regulations. According to Jeff Fuller, executive vice president and...

Wash. Contractor Cited for Fraudand Safety Violations

Oct 3 2005 // To combat fraud and protect workers from serious injury and death, the Washington Department of Labor and Industries has cited a Tacoma roofing contractor for workers’ compensation fraud and multiple safety...

Oct 3 2005 // Seattle-based Physicians Insurance A Mutual Company has announced that Leslie Mallonee has been named senior vice president and chief information officer. Mallonee’s history in information technology includes his...

Spitzer Issues St. Paul Travelers Subpoena on Workers’ Comp Premiums

Sep 28 2005 // New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer turned his attention to St. Paul Travelers Cos. recently, as the company noted Wednesday that it was served with a subpoena from Spitzer’s office. The subpoena was reportedly...

SUNZ Insurance Implements Phase 1 of Delphi Technology OASIS System

Sep 28 2005 // SUNZ Insurance Company of St. Petersburg, Fla. has selected Delphi Technology Inc.’s OASIS ASP system to manage its workers’ compensation line and help it provide insurance products and services to professional...

R.I. Workers’ Comp Rate Cut to be Heard at Nov. 16 Hearing

Sep 28 2005 // Workers’ compensation carriers have filed for a slight 2.3 percent overall reduction in loss costs in Rhode Island. The Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation has scheduled a public hearing for Nov. 16 on the...

W.V. Woman Indicted for Cashing Husbands’ Checks After His Death

Sep 27 2005 // Karen Manley Richards has been indicted in Fayette County, W.V. on a felony offense of workers’ compensation fraud according to an announcement in Charleston, W.V. by Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline. Richards...

W.V. Big ‘I’ Convention: Commissioner Cline, Experts to Discuss Workers’ Comp Issues

Sep 27 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...

Ky. Councilman Pleads Guilty in Workers’ Comp Scheme

Sep 27 2005 // Danny W. Miller, a Central City, Ky. Councilman, has pleaded guilty to bilking the federal government out of more than $100,000 in workers’ compensation benefits during a four-year period. Miller appeared in the...

TDI Staff Available in Houston to Assist Victims of Hurricanes Rita and Katrina

Sep 26 2005 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced that beginning Sept. 26, staff members are being deployed to its Houston Insurance Assistance Center (IAC) to assist Hurricane Rita victims with their insurance questions and...

Oregon Says Employers will Pay $33.4M Less in Workers’ Comp Fees

Sep 25 2005 // Employers will pay $33.4 million less in state worker compensation fees in Oregon next year, officials said Thursday. Employers also can expect average worker compensation insurance rates to remain at the same level in...

R.I. Nightclub Owners’ Bankruptcy Filing Stays Workers’ Comp Court Trial

Sep 25 2005 // The owners of a Rhode Island nightclub where a fire killed 100 people filed for bankruptcy last Friday, saying they faced a staggering amount of debt and could no longer pay off their creditors. Jeffrey and Michael...

Hawaii Workers’ Comp Claims Declining

Sep 22 2005 // State of Hawaii officials say the number of workers’ compensation claims filed in the state is on the decline. Preliminary figures show 2004 saw 2,347 fewer workers’ comp claims filed than in 2003, a drop of...

TDI Prepared to Help Those Impacted by Hurricane Rita

Sep 22 2005 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced it is preparing staff and resources to be ready for the aftermath of Hurricane Rita, wherever the storm makes landfall. TDI said it is maintaining staff at the Division of...

WCRI: Despite Improvements ‘Concerns’ Remain in Ark. Workers’ Comp System

Sep 22 2005 // The Workers’ Compensation Research Institute reported that Arkansas’ workers’ compensation system has experienced a period of stability after extensive reforms were passed in 1993, but maintained that...

CA Division of Workers’ Comp Hosting Spanish Workshop for Workers

Sep 21 2005 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) will conduct its first Spanish-language workshop for injured workers on Wed., Sept. 21. At the free, one-hour workshop, workers will learn about their right to...

Calif. State Fund to Collect $66,355 in Fraud Case

Sep 20 2005 // Superior Court Judge Christopher G. Wilson ordered the owner of three Humboldt County bars to pay State Compensation Insurance Fund $66,355.00 in restitution for defrauding the workers’ compensation insurance...