Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Workers’ Comp Varies Widely; Reforms Slow to Enact, Enforce
Mar 21 2005 // Employer responsibility for the expense of accidents and in some cases occupational illnesses, varies from state to state. Em-ployers must provide reasonable information, rules, supervision, training and safety. The word...
Workers’ Comp Loss Prevention: Going Beyond the Safety Dance
Mar 21 2005 // You work hard, yet you’re frustrated. Why is your client still suffering from employee injury problems and escalating workers’ compensation insurance cost regardless of your efforts? So, is the solution to do...
Purchasing Group Helps Auto Dealers Cope with Workers’ Comp
Mar 21 2005 // Workers’ compensation insurance is problematic across the nation and legislatures in many states, including Texas and Oklahoma, are currently considering bills aimed at increasing the quality of workers’ comp...
Roofing Contractors, Workers’ Compensation Insurance and Profits
Mar 21 2005 // Making the Puzzle Pieces Fit Begin a conversation with any roofing contractor with the words workers’ comp insurance and profits in the same sentence and you’ll probably be met with a confused look. By all...
Texas Workers’ Comp Bill Moves On
Mar 21 2005 // The Texas Senate State Affairs Committee finished work on Senate Bill 5, which would drastically change Texas’ workers’ compensation system, and the committee substitute SB 5 now goes to the full Senate for...
Nev. Man Charged for Work Comp Fraud
Mar 21 2005 // Following a guilty plea, Nevada District Judge Steven Kosach sentenced Dennis Dean Hogue to 12 to 34 months in the Nevada State Prison for one count of workers’ comp claimant fraud. Hogue was also ordered to make...
Calif. Small Business Owners Optimistic About Growth, UBOC Survey Says
Mar 21 2005 // Almost 71 percent of California small business owners polled are expecting 2005 to be an overall better year than 2004, according to the fifth annual statewide survey released by Union Bank of California, N.A. The...
From the Fraud Wire … Outrageous Stories Hit the Headlines
Mar 21 2005 // A California Department of Insurance Fraud Division investigation allegedly caught a former Folsom, Calif., prison correctional officer on surveillance video riding a jet ski, using a water slide, and doing back-flips off...
CIGA Executive Director Announces Retirement
Mar 21 2005 // The California Insurance Guarantee Association, an organization that pays the claims of insolvent insurance carriers, recently announced that Executive Director Lawrence Mulryan will retire after 13 years of...
Safety in Numbers
Mar 21 2005 // Workplace injuries don’t make headlines despite the fact they cost about $1 billion a week in wage and medical payments alone. The true total annual cost of on-the-job injuries is $146.6 billion, or $1,060 per...
Okla. Governor’s Workers’ Comp Reform Measure Passed by Senate
Mar 18 2005 // Workers compensation reforms proposed by Governor Brad Henry passed through the Oklahoma State Senate on a straight party-line vote, according to the Senate Communications Office. With Democrats backing the...
Insurance Group Staying out of California Workers’ Comp Confirmation Fight
Mar 17 2005 // A major insurance industry group is staying out of the Senate confirmation fight over Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s workers’ compensation director, another possible indication the appointment could be in...
Pa. Sees Slower Growth in Workers’ Compensation Claim Costs, According to WCRI Study
Mar 15 2005 // Costs per workers’ compensation claim in Pennsylvania rose 6 percent between 2001 and 2002, according to a new report by the Cambridge, Mass.-based Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). This contrasts with...
Jury Finds County Employee Not Guilty of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Mar 14 2005 // After a two-day trial, an Indian River County. Fla. jury found a former county employee not guilty this week on charges of workers’ compensation fraud, perjury in an official proceeding and third-degree grand...
Texas Child Care Worker Sentenced for Comp Fraud
Mar 14 2005 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Minerva Davila of New Braunfels pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The Travis County 147th District Court sentenced Davila to two years’...
CWCI Presents Workers’ Comp Seminar
Mar 10 2005 // The California Workers’ Compensation Institute has announced that it will conduct a one-day case law seminar in May in San Francisco and in Long Beach. The program will examine trends in workers’ compensation...
OSHA Identifies 14,000 Workplaces with High Injury, Illness Rates; Letter Looks to Proactive Steps
Mar 10 2005 // Approximately 14,000 employers have been notified that injury and illness rates at their worksites are higher than average and that assistance is available to help them fix safety and health hazards, the Occupational...
San Antonio Man Pleads Guilty to Comp Fraud
Mar 9 2005 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Kevin Savage of San Antonio has pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. According to Texas Mutual, the Travis County 147th District Court sentenced...
Texas Workers’ Comp Bill Moves to Senate Floor
Mar 8 2005 // The Texas Senate reported that the Senate State Affairs Committee finished work on Senate Bill 5, which would make drastic changes to the state’s workers’ compensation system. Sen. Todd Staples of Palestine,...
Texas Mutual Launches Provider Referral Line
Mar 8 2005 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced the launch of its health care provider referral service for policyholders. The toll-free phone number, (800) 381-8067, provides a list of network health care providers for...
