Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
CAS Attendees Hear of Positive Trends from California Workers’ Comp Reforms
Jun 21 2005 // Insurers, and especially self-insurers, are seeing positive trends as a result of the workers’ compensation reforms in California, experts on the subject told attendees at the recent Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS)...
COMP RATES TO RISE 2%
Jun 20 2005 // The agency that manages North Dakota’s monopoly workers’ compensation system announced that premium rates will rise an average of 2 percent beginning July 1, 2005. The agency, Workforce Safety & Insurance,...
FLORIDA CHOICE AWARDS JUDGES SELECTED; ENTRY DEADLINE IS JUNE 24
Jun 20 2005 // Nine judges have been selected for the third annual Florida CHOICE Awards for Workers’ Compensation. The program, produced by CHOICE Medical Management Services LLC, recognizes outstanding physicians who treat...
WORKERS’ COMP EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM
Jun 20 2005 // West Virginia workers’ compensation reforms, including the privatization of the Workers’ Compensation Commission, are a mystery to residents according to the results of a poll released by RMS Strategies. In a...
Woman Pleads Guilty to Felony Charge
Jun 20 2005 // Sandra Canas, a resident of Daly City, California, pleaded guilty on May 11 to a felony charge of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. Canas was arrested on Nov. 10, 2004 by investigators from the California...
NEVADA LEGISLATURE WRAPS UP SESSION:
Jun 20 2005 // The Nevada Legislature wrapped up its session recently, passing a number of insurance-related bills. Bills signed into law include: AB 137, signed into law on June 6, requires an insurance company to give a claimant a...
PINNACOL ASSURANCE PRESIDENT PON TO RETIRE:
Jun 20 2005 // Pinnacol Assurance, Colorado’s largest provider of workers’ compensation insurance, announced that President and CEO Gary Pon will retire this summer. Pon has served as the company’s CEO since 1986....
News Briefs
Jun 20 2005 // MASSACHUSETTS CAR NAMES COMMERCIAL CARRIERS: Commonwealth Auto Reinsurers has advanced its new commercial auto limited servicing carrier program by selecting the six carriers that will service this residual market business...
Return-to-Work to Become Challenge as Workforce Continues to Mature
Jun 20 2005 // The workers’ compensation system must prepare for a big boom in older workers, a population that is less likely than younger workers to return to work after an injury. Workers over the age of 55 are 12 to 35 percent...
News Briefs
Jun 20 2005 // INDIANA Commissioner Withdraws Controversial ‘Sole-Use’ Bulletin Indiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Atterholt has withdrawn a bulletin that interpreted the “sole-use” provision of the state’s...
People
Jun 20 2005 // Jennifer Fahrenkrug has been promoted to territory manager at Sheboygan, Wis.-based regional property/casualty insurer ACUITY and will handle the company’s Michigan and Northern Ohio territories. Meanwhile, Kelly...
News Briefs
Jun 20 2005 // ALABAMA DOI Lists Insurance Providers A list of insurance companies, agencies and agents writing property insurance in coastal areas of Alabama, including Mobile and Baldwin counties became available June 13, thanks to the...
Okla. Workers’ Comp Reform Passes in Special Session
Jun 20 2005 // Oklahoma lawmakers passed workers’ compensation reform legislation, Senate Bill 1X, in a special legislative session that began May 31, the end date for the regular session. The bill was sent to Gov. Brad Henry who...
Insurers Decrease Calif. Workers’ Comp Rates as Reforms Take Effect
Jun 20 2005 // Many workers’ compensation insurers doing business in California are decreasing their rates, evidence that the major reforms enacted last year are taking effect. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi recently...
News Briefs
Jun 20 2005 // WASH. CLIENTS ELIGIBLE FOR $14M FROM MARSH: More than 15,000 Washington businesses, associations, individuals and other organizations reportedly qualify for nearly $14 million in restitution offered by the nation’s...
Insurers Decrease Calif. Workers’ Comp Rates as Reforms Take Effect
Jun 20 2005 // Many workers’ compensation insurers doing business in California are decreasing their rates, evidence that the major reforms enacted last year are taking effect. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi recently...
News Briefs
Jun 20 2005 // WASH. CLIENTS ELIGIBLE FOR $14M FROM MARSH: More than 15,000 Washington businesses, associations, individuals and other organizations reportedly qualify for nearly $14 million in restitution offered by the nation’s...
Workers’ Comp Code Corrections in N.H. Lead to Refunds
Jun 19 2005 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department reported that a number of businesses should begin getting workers’ compensation insurance refunds beginning next month. The workers compensation rating organization, the...
AIK COMP Members Assessed $97M
Jun 16 2005 // Frankfort, Ky.-based AIK COMP. has announced it plans to assess former members more than $97 million in an attempt to cover its debts. AIK intends to recover the money in retroactive premiums in an attempt to keep injured...
N.Y. Reschedules Workers’ Comp Rate Hearing to June 27
Jun 16 2005 // The New York State Insurance Department has rescheduled a public hearing to consider the application of the New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board (NYCIRB) for a workers’ compensation insurance increase of 16.1...
