Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Supreme Court Rules Big Dig Dredge a Vessel for Purpose of Allowing Injured Worker to Sue Owner
Feb 23 2005 // The United States Supreme Court has ruled that workers injured on dredges like one used in the Big Dig construction are not limited to workers compensation but may also sue the vessel’s owner for negligence. Writing...
Staples Presents Texas Workers’ Comp Bill to State Affairs Committee
Feb 23 2005 // On Jan. 21, Texas State Sen. Todd Staples presented recommendations on reforming the state’s workers’ compensation system to the Senate State Affairs Committee in the form of Senate Bill 5. The legislation...
Calif. Small Business Owners Optimistic About Growth, UBOC Survey Says
Feb 23 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 today by Union Bank of California, N.A. The...
Pa.-based Harleysville Insurance In Transition to Restore Historic Results
Feb 22 2005 // Several events stand out in the history of Harleysville Insurance. There was its launch as an auto theft protection association in 1915 in the Pennsylvania community whose name it shares and there was its debut as a public...
W.V. Workers’ Compensation Commission Terminates Beckley Doctor
Feb 22 2005 // The West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission in Charleston has terminated a Beckley physician from the program, “for providing health care that is excessive, medically unreasonable and...
Nominations Open for Third Annual CHOICE Workers’ Compensation Awards
Feb 21 2005 // A call for nominations for the third annual Florida CHOICE Awards for Workers’ Compensation has been issued by CHOICE Medical Management Services LLC of Tampa, Fla. The program recognizes physicians who deliver...
WORKERS COMP FUND BROKE:
Feb 21 2005 // The fund that pays New York injured workers whose workers’ compensation carriers have gone belly up is itself nearly bankrupt, according to state officials. The New York Workers Compensation Security Fund has about...
AIA: PROPOSED WORKERS’ COMP REFORMS A START
Feb 21 2005 // The American Insurance Association termed proposed reforms by Gov. Rod Blagojevich to Illinois’ troubled workers’ compensation system a “good beginning,” but added that more work remains in order to...
GOVERNOR UNVEILS WORKERS’ COMP PLAN
Feb 21 2005 // Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry rolled out his plan for reforming the workers’ compensation system. He follows Democratic and Re-publican lawmakers in both houses of Oklahoma’s legislature in announcing workers’...
CDI Fines Agents over Work Comp Policies
Feb 21 2005 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has imposed discipline upon two agents and the companies they work for over their marketing of an illegal tribal-based insurance product. The actions taken by the...
Calif. Man Arrested on Workers' Comp, Embezzlement Charges
Feb 21 2005 // On Jan. 31, Gregg Leo Curwick, of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., surrendered himself in Bakersfield to investigators from the CDI’s Fraud Division and the Kern County District Attorney’s Office. Curwick was taken...
LAPD Cop Nabbed in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Feb 21 2005 // A Los Angeles Police Department officer who worked as an armed security guard at Staples Center and Dodger Stadium while collecting disability benefits for on-duty injuries was convicted of workers’ comp fraud, the...
Broker Fee Regulations to Dominate 2005 Legislative Session in California
Feb 21 2005 // Three issues will dominate California’s 2005 legislative session–broker fee regulations and fiduciary duties; homeowners insurance, and workers’ compensation, according to IBA West lobbyist John...
Some California Doctors Leaving Workers’ Comp System
Feb 21 2005 // Francis Pecoraro is trading a San Francisco Bay area medical practice that mainly serves injured workers for one in Wilmington, N.C., that he believes will be friendlier to doctors and doctors’ families. Pecoraro,...
N.Y. Workers Comp Insolvency Fund Could Survive Until End of March; Quick Action in Albany Sought
Feb 18 2005 // The New York State Workers Compensation Security Fund, which officials last month predicted would run out of money by the end of this month, could go on paying claims until the end of March, thanks to early access to funds...
Calif. DWC Updates Program for Injured Workers
Feb 18 2005 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has reportedly reinvigorated a state program, which provides information and assistance to injured workers through monthly workshops at local DWC...
TWCC Approves Self-Insure Certificates of Authority for 18 Companies
Feb 18 2005 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission reported it approved the initial application for a Certificate of Authority to Self-Insure for a one-year period by one private employer and the reapplications for...
Okla. Workers’ Comp Reform Bill Passes Committee
Feb 18 2005 // In a bipartisan vote, an Oklahoma House of Representatives committee moved a comprehensive workers’ compensation reform package past its first hurdle, the House Media Services Division reported. The House Judiciary...
Pa.’s Insurance Chief Koken Performs Balancing Act at Home and On the Road for NAIC
Feb 16 2005 // The nickname probably won’t be showing up anytime soon on the state’s license plates but Pennsylvania could be the Land of Stable Insurance Markets. Not that things are perfect but, according to Insurance...
PCI Supports Legislation to Reform Workers’ Comp System in Texas
Feb 16 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) reported it testified before the House Business and Insurance Committee in support of legislation to overhaul the Texas workers’ compensation...
