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Gubernatorial Hopefuls in New York: Spitzer vs. Weld

Oct 17 2005 // Part 2: Spitzer Stresses Enforcement as Key to Fair Competition New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has made a name for himself exposing fraudulent and anti-competitive business practices in the securities, mutual fund...

WORKERS’ COMP CUT WEIGHED:

Oct 17 2005 // Workers’ compensation carriers have filed for a slight 2.3 percent reduction in loss costs in Rhode Island beginning in January. The Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation has scheduled a hearing for Nov. 16...

WCIRB Survey Indicates California Workers’ Comp Reform is Working

Oct 17 2005 // State workers’ compensation claims and disability costs have dropped significantly since California’s workers’ compensation system was overhauled in 2003 and 2004, according to the Workers’...

OSHA, HOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATION SIGN HOME SAFE PARTNERSHIP

Oct 17 2005 // A partnership between the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Home Builders Association (HBA) of Metro Denver will reportedly identify and abate home construction site hazards and prevent hazards...

Gubernatorial Hopefuls in New York: Spitzer vs. Weld

Oct 17 2005 // New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has made a name for himself exposing fraudulent and anti-competitive business practices in the securities, mutual fund and insurance industries. Now he is running for governor in New...

Oct 17 2005 // Willis Group Holdings has appointed Vincent D. Liotta as executive vice president and production director of the Willis Re U.S. Specialty Practice. Earlier this year Willis Re merged its Global Marine, Aviation, Retro and...

News Briefs

Oct 17 2005 // MASSACHUSETTS All Signs Point Down: Massachusetts auto rates will be going down in 2006, although by how much is not yet known. Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler received her third recommendation, this one calling for...

OSHA Hits Mo. Manufacturer with $159,000 Fine

Oct 17 2005 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued citations to Industrial Steel Fabrication Inc., Hazelwood, Mo., proposing penalties totaling $159,200 for alleged failure...

News Briefs

Oct 17 2005 // OHIO Hospital Group Sues WC Bureau: The Ohio Hospital Association and a member hospital sued the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation in September on claims the state did not follow legal processes for a $50 million...

California Workers’ Comp Overhaul Sets Stage for Nationwide Reforms

Oct 17 2005 // The broad reforms in California’s workers’ compensation system serve as an example for the nation, as employers and insurers in the state are getting sizeable financial relief from runaway workers’...

Managing Co-Owner Dismissed

Oct 17 2005 // Man Fined For Workers’ Comp Fraud A San Diego County Superior Court judge has sentenced Kevin Vint, 50, of Del Mar, Calif., to three years formal probation for conspiracy to commit workers’ compensation...

WCIRB Survey Indicates California Workers’ Comp Reform is Working

Oct 17 2005 // State workers’ compensation claims and disability costs have dropped significantly since California’s workers’ compensation system was overhauled in 2003 and 2004, according to the Workers’...

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...