Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
State Fund Files 2004 Financial Statement with CDI
Mar 2 2005 // In an annual statement filed Wednesday with the California Department of Insurance, State Compensation Insurance Fund documented that its policyholder surplus — assets minus claims reserves and other liabilities...
Workers’ Comp Bill Substitute Filed in Texas Senate
Mar 2 2005 // The media services division of the Texas Senate reported that State Sen. Todd Staples of Palestine has laid out a substitute for Senate Bill 5, the comprehensive workers’ compensation reform bill. Staples filed the...
Utah Court Rules in Favor of Workers Comp Fund
Mar 2 2005 // On Feb. 2, 2005, Utah Third District Judge Leslie A. Lewis ruled in favor of Workers Compensation Fund, dismissing an action brought by the Utah State Auditor. In that action, the State Auditor asserted that WCF was a...
Mass. Workers’ Comp Writers Seek 1% Hike
Mar 1 2005 // The Workers Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau of Massachusetts (WCRIB) has recommended to the state Division of Insurance that average rates for workers’ compensation insurance be increased by 1.0 percent...
Lemac General Agency Offers Workers’ Comp
Feb 28 2005 // Lemac General Agency in Orange, Calif., has recently added a new market for workers’ compensation. Eligible classes include but are not limited to: agricultural operations, building operations, contractors (no...
N.Y. Court Rules ‘No Pay, No Protection’ from Suits Under Workers’ Comp Law for Scofflaw Employers
Feb 24 2005 // New York State’s highest court has ruled that employers that fail to purchase workers compensation coverage cannot hide behind the workers’ compensation protection against being sued by employees. In reversing...
Okla. Governor’s Workers’ Comp Proposal Passes Senate Committee
Feb 24 2005 // Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry’s workers’ compensation reform bill passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 5 to 4 vote, according to the Senate Communications Office. The vote split upon party lines with...
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...
