Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
News Briefs
Jul 4 2005 // ILLINOIS Feds Subpoena CNA on Finite Reinsurance: Chicago-based commercial insurer CNA Financial Corp. has received a subpoena from New York federal prosecutor David Kelley relating to his investigation of finite...
A Roundup of Fraud Activities Reported Across the Southeast
Jul 4 2005 // Carmelo Sanfei and William Paul Crouse, accused by Florida’s Department of Financial Services of bilking more than 7,000 Floridians of more than $2.5 million in unpaid insurance bills, have pleaded guilty to charges...
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Jul 4 2005 // ALABAMA Arlene’s Timing Perfect for Referral List When Tropical Storm Arlene blew through Alabama it made the timing ideal for the release of a homeowners insurance referral list providing area homeowners with the...
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Jul 4 2005 // Louisiana Three Arrested for Accident Staging The Louisiana State Police Insu-rance Fraud Unit arrested three Ville Platte residents on felony insurance fraud related warrants. The state police said the arrests were the...
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Jul 4 2005 // ACIC OPPOSES CREDIT BILL: The Association of California Insurance Companies is opposing legislation which would eliminate rather than regulate credit-based insurance scoring, according to ACIC President Sam Sorich. The...
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Jul 4 2005 // ACIC OPPOSES CREDIT BILL: The Association of California Insurance Companies is opposing legislation which would eliminate rather than regulate credit-based insurance scoring, according to ACIC President Sam Sorich. The...
WORKERS’ COMP REFUNDS EXPECTED:
Jul 4 2005 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department reported that a number of businesses should be getting workers’ compensation insurance refunds beginning next month. The workers compensation rating organization, the National...
Indoor Soccer League’s Goal: Pa. Team’s Workers’ Comp Payments
Jun 30 2005 // The Major Indoor Soccer League has sued the company that operated the now-defunct Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) Heat franchise for $192,000 in dues, workers’ compensation insurance payments and other costs. The federal...
CNC Cards Survive Repeal of CNC Program; Labor Department to Remain Open Late
Jun 30 2005 // The Oklahoma Department of Labor reported that its legal interpretation of recently passed Certificate of Non-Coverage (CNC)legislation is that CNC cards remain in effect until the expiration date printed on the cards. The...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Rate Regulation Bill Fails Passage
Jun 30 2005 // The California Assembly Insurance Committee said June 29 now is not the time for rate regulation and it was too early to judge the impact of the historic workers’ compensation reforms (SB 899) on rates, reported the...
Father, Son Charged With Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Jun 30 2005 // A father and his son are facing workers’ compensation fraud charges in Jacksonville, Fla. for allegedly not having the required workers’ compensation coverage for employees, resulting in more than $1 million in...
AIA: Insurers Lowering Rates, Price Controls Damage California Workers’ Comp System
Jun 29 2005 // California’s workers’ compensation insurers have been filing historic rate decreases with the Department of Insurance, demonstrating that the 2003-2004 reforms are working, according to the American Insurance...
AIA Throws Support Behind Mass. Workers’ Comp Competitive Rating Bill
Jun 29 2005 // A bill that would bring a competitive rating system to the Massachusetts workers’ compensation system would be good for the state’s economy, according to the American Insurance Association (AIA). AIA testified...
Vt. Governor Signs Bills for Firefighters’ Workers’ Comp, Fire-Safe Cigarettes
Jun 27 2005 // Vermont Gov. James Douglas has signed into law two bills, one designed to prevent cigarette-related fire deaths and the other to financially protect firefighters who suffer heart attacks in the line of duty. One law calls...
LWCC Declares $15.8 Million Dividend
Jun 27 2005 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation announced that for the second year in a row its Board of Directors has declared a dividend and this year will return $15.8 million to qualifying policyholders. The company...
Wyo. Workers’ Comp Rates to Stay the Same, for Now
Jun 27 2005 // Wyoming officials have, for now, declined to change the amount businesses pay for workers’ compensation insurance. “The issue was not dropped,” said Wendy Tyson, administrator of the Employment Tax...
Transition Team Begins Planning for Texas Workers’ Comp Reforms
Jun 24 2005 // A transition team composed of Texas Department of Insurance and Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission staff has begun planning implementation of the organizational and policy changes to the Texas workers’...
Ky. Workers’ Comp Self-Insured Fund Showing a Deficit
Jun 24 2005 // One of the seven workers’ compensation self-insured groups doing business in Kentucky has been ordered to provide a $6.5 million letter of credit to the Kentucky Office of Insurance (KOI) to serve as additional...
Montana Worried About Pending Work Comp Ruling
Jun 22 2005 // A case before the Montana Workers’ Compensation Court could potentially create a $300 million deficit for the state workers’ compensation insurance system. The case before Workers’ Compensation Judge Mike...
Texas Truck Driver Indicted for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jun 22 2005 // The Travis County grand jury indicted Jerry Amaya of Cedar Creek, Texas, on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges, according to Texas Mutual Insurance Company. Amaya filed a workers’ compensation claim...
