Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
S&P Affirms Zenith National Ratings
Oct 5 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has affirmed its ratings on Zenith National Insurance Corp. (Zenith; see ratings list) and its operating subsidiaries. At the same time, Standard & Poor’s revised...
Mass. Indicts ‘Big Dig’ Workers for Comp Fraud
Oct 4 2004 // Four men, including three “Big Dig” workers, were indicted last week in Massachusetts in unrelated cases for allegedly receiving workers compensation payments totaling more than $300,000 while holding down...
OSHA Cites N.H. Contractor for Cave-In Hazard
Sep 30 2004 // An Ashland, New Hampshire contractor’s alleged failure to supply cave-in protection at a Woodstock jobsite has resulted in $29,650 in proposed penalties from the U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and...
No 2005 Work Comp Increase for Oregon
Sep 30 2004 // Oregon workers’ compensation insurance rates will not increase in 2005, Gov. Ted Kulongoski said September 28. The announcement marks the third straight year without an increase following 12 consecutive years of rate...
Conn. Workers’ Comp Writers File for Decrease
Sep 29 2004 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Susan F. Cogswell will hold a public hearing on Thursday, Oct. 21 to consider two workers’compensation filings submitted by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) on...
TWCC Initiates Online Reporting of Worker Injuries
Sep 29 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...
CompWest Launches Workers’ Comp Ops in California
Sep 27 2004 // CompWest Insurance Company announced that it has been licensed as a workers’ compensation insurer by the California Department of Insurance, responding to the significant capacity shortage in the California market....
Sloan Mason Announces Workers’ Comp/USL&H Product
Sep 27 2004 // Sloan Mason Insurance Services announced a Workers’ Compensation/USL&H product for California companies with longshore exposures. Domestic US Insurance Carrier – AM Best ‘A’ ++ XV Rated. The...
Workers’ Comp Rate Factor Approved in Oklahoma
Sep 27 2004 // The Oklahoma Department of Insurance announced that the State Board for Property and Casualty Rates has approved a proposal to increase a key component of workers’ compensation rates by 5.5 percent beginning Jan. 1,...
ACE USA Expands DBA Workers’ Comp Coverage; House Named to Lead DBA Product Initiative
Sep 24 2004 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of The ACE Group of Companies, announced the expansion of its Defense Base Act (DBA) product offerings. The new coverages includes “risk control and claims management...
CWCI: New State Law Mandates Bilingual Fraud Language with TD Checks
Sep 23 2004 // Last week, Governor Schwarzenegger signed SBX4-2 (Speier), a workers’ compensation fraud bill that, among other things, revises the fraud notice that insurers and self-insured employers must include on or with an...
Sen. Schumer Seeks N.Y. Nuke Workers’ Compensation
Sep 23 2004 // Standing with former nuclear workers from western New York, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) took the federal government to task for not processing claims of 525 former nuclear workers or their survivors, and...
AWCC Says Workers’ Comp Conference Almost Full
Sep 22 2004 // The Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission announced recently that although reservations can still be made for the 17th Annual Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference Oct. 13-15, planners are...
Husband and Wife Arrested for Alleged Insurance and Workers’ Comp Fraud
Sep 22 2004 // Modesto residents Dr. Kyon Maung Teo, D.D.S. and his wife, Kin Thor Pang were arrested as part of a sweep conducted from Sacramento to San Diego to apprehend 21 people suspected of defrauding the state’s Medi-Cal...
Private Schools Band Together to Save on Workers’ Comp Costs
Sep 22 2004 // Facing ever-increasing workers’ compensation costs, a group of Northern California private schools submitted an application to the state to form a self-insurance group and is inviting private and parochial schools...
WCRI November Conference to Have a Texas Focus
Sep 21 2004 // The Workers’ Compensation Research Institute announced that it’s annual Issues & Research Conference, to be held Nov. 10-11, 2004, in Cambridge, Mass., will feature a session on the Texas workers’...
WORK COMP RATE HIKE NOT NEEDED:
Sep 20 2004 // Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry urged state regulators to reject a proposed increase in workers’ compensation insurance rates, citing a new actuarial report that indicates a rate hike is not necessary. Oklahoma Attorney...
Restaurant Package
Sep 20 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Venture Programs Inc. added a restaurant package through Alea North America Ins. Co. to its Venture Hospitality program. The restaurant package includes property, general liability, liquor liability,...
CALIFORNIA WORK COMP FRAUDSTERS TO BE POSTED ON WEB:
Sep 20 2004 // Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently signed into law AB 2866, legislation that requires individuals and companies convicted of workers’ compensation insurance fraud to be posted on the Web, according to the Gilroy...
Study Says Pa. Injured Workers Satisfied
Sep 20 2004 // More than 83 percent of injured workers report they are satisfied with the medical care they receive from Pennsylvania’s workers’ compensation system, according to Labor and Industry Secretary Stephen M....
