Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Oct 25 2004 // For years, Illinois employers and insurers have complained about the state’s workers’ compensation system. Illinois’ workers’ comp rates have regularly exceeded those of neighboring states such as...
Workers’ Compensation
Oct 25 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Workforce Safety and Insurance announced that North Dakota employers can now purchase a workers’ compensation policy to cover their employees who work temporarily outside the state. In partnership...
Illinois Comp Reform Bill Won’t Deliver On Its Promise
Oct 25 2004 // Despite engaging in the longest session in Illinois history, state legislators headed home this summer leaving a crucial bill to reform the state’s workers’ compensation system in limbo. Lawmakers may consider...
TWCC OFFERS ONLINE REPORTING:
Oct 25 2004 // For the first time in Texas, workers who are injured on the job can report the injury to the Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission via the Internet. The online reporting, available in both Spanish and English, was...
ARK. WORKERS’ COMP SUPPLEMENT:
Oct 25 2004 // The Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission announced the availability of a 2004 supplement to The Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Laws and Rules Annotated, published by LexisNexis. The 2004 supplement...
Will the Texas Workers’ Comp System Go Under the Knife’
Oct 25 2004 // Employers, employees, medical providers and insurers may not agree on how to fix the Texas workers’ compensation system but all have long complained that it is in dire need of repair. Still, many stakeholders were...
A Class Act: Understanding the Texas Workers’ Comp Classification System
Oct 25 2004 // Workers’ compensation is a very complicated insurance. I know. I’ve worked for Texas Mutual Insurance Company’s premium audit department for 10 years. Prior to that, I was the director of the...
Workers’ Comp Loss Prevention, Going Beyond the Safety Dance
Oct 25 2004 // 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...
Workers’ Compensation
Oct 25 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Appleby & Sterling Inc. is now offering workers’ comp insurance. Dollars: Minimum premium of $3,000, 36 classifications. Carrier: Rated “B++” VIII, admitted. States Available:...
Small Businesses Struggle to Stay Afloat in Hawaii’s Tumultuous Workers’ Comp Market
Oct 25 2004 // The issues surrounding Hawaii’s workers’ compensation system have been a topic of debate for agents, brokers, politicians and small businesses over the past several months as reform attempts to fix the troubled...
Ark. WCC Releases 2005 Compensation Rates
Oct 22 2004 // The Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission (AWCC) recently released its annual revision of Advisory 2000-1, which announces the amounts to be paid to injured workers under the state’s workers’...
RemedyTemp to Fight Calif. Workers’ Comp Case Decision Following Appeal Court Ruling
Oct 21 2004 // RemedyTemp Inc., which operates as Remedy Intelligent Staffing and RemX Specialty Staffing, said it will ask the California Supreme Court to review the ruling by a California Court of Appeal panel that the insurers that...
Former TWCC Employee Commissioner O.D. Kenemore Passes Away
Oct 21 2004 // O.D. Kenemore, a former commissioner for the Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission, passed away Oct. 18, 2004 at M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston. Commissioner Kenemore was appointed as an Employee Commissioner in...
Fla. DFS Reminds Construction Contractors of Workers’ Comp Requirements
Oct 20 2004 // In response reportedly to hundreds of calls from homeowners and construction contractors, both in and out-of-state, concerned about Florida requirements for workers’ compensation insurance coverage, the Florida...
GAB Robins to Provide Workers’ Comp Claims Services for Folksamerica
Oct 19 2004 // GAB Robins, an international claims services firm, has been selected to provide workers’ compensation claims services for Folksamerica Holding Company Inc. in nine western and mid-western states. GAB Robins has...
Wash. Business Costs Rising; Workers’ Comp Problems Among Items Singled Out
Oct 19 2004 // The WashACE annual report that lists key indicators of the state’s business climate in relation to other states reportedly shows that, despite signs of the slowly recovering state economy, Washington has fallen in...
Safeco Unveils Q3 Numbers, Notes Hurricane Impact
Oct 19 2004 // Seattle-based Safeco on Tuesday reported third-quarter results, reflecting strong fundamentals in a period with substantial hurricane losses and the loss on the sale of Life & Investments. The company posted a net...
AWCC Offers Spanish Language Forms on Web Site
Oct 18 2004 // The Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission (AWCC) announced the availability on its Web site of Spanish translations of two forms, AWCC Spanish Form AR-P (poster of instructions) and Spanish Form AR-N (employee...
Judges Uphold TWCC’s Removal of Doctors from ADL
Oct 18 2004 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission (TWCC) reported that a District Court Judge in Ector County has turned down a request for a temporary injunction from a Odessa-area doctor who was denied admission to...
AWCC Names Douthit as Administrative Law Judge
Oct 15 2004 // The Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission (AWCC) appointed Dale Douthit, a Russellville attorney, as its newest Administrative Law Judge (ALJ). The AWCC, administrator of the state’s workers’...
