Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines

All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Ga. Workers’ Comp Board Appoints Imahara

Aug 9 2004 // Georgia’s State Board of Workers’ Compensation announced the appointment of David Imahara, current Appellate Division Director, to the position of Administrative Law Judge effective Aug. 15. Imahara will become...

MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL COSTS STAY LOW:

Aug 9 2004 // The average medical payment per claim for the care of injured workers in Massachusetts rose 13 percent in the most recent period but still remained the lowest of the 12 states analyzed in a study by the Cambridge-based...

COMMISSIONER SAYS CALIF. WORK COMP RATES ARE GOING DOWN:

Aug 9 2004 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced that workers’ compensation rate filings illustrate a downward trend, but still fall short of his pure premium rate advisory of minus 20.9 percent issued on...

N.D. Man Pleads Guilty in Comp Case

Aug 9 2004 // A Mandan, N.D., man was ordered to pay more than $40,000 in back premium and penalties to Workforce Safety & Insurance (WSI) after pleading guilty to a charge of failure to secure workers’ compensation coverage...

Fla. Construction Co. Owner Charged

Aug 9 2004 // An Indian Harbor, Fla., construction company owner was charged with workers’ compensation fraud after jeopardizing the coverage of at least one employee, according to investigators with the Department of Financial...

Calif. State Fund Awarded $135,000

Aug 9 2004 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund will collect $135,000 in restitution from a San Diego County-based construction firm as part of the sentence in a workers’ compensation insurance fraud case. San...

WCRI: Pennsylvania Comp Medical Costs Per Claim Continue Growth

Aug 9 2004 // The average medical payment for workers’ compensation claims in Pennsylvania rose nearly 14 percent during the most recent period studied, according to the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The study...

Joint Investigation Nabs Louisiana Workers’ Comp Fraudster

Aug 9 2004 // Louisiana’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Administration (OWCA) reported recently that an attempt to cheat the state’s workers’ compensation insurance program has resulted in a prosecution and...

California State Fund Fraud Program Nets $5 Million from Convictions

Aug 9 2004 // State Compensation Insurance Fund’s anti-fraud program has enabled California district attorneys to win more than $5 million in restitution orders. The restitution judgments are reportedly a direct result of 155...

Rhode Island Wants Nightclub Owners Held Personally Liable for Failure to Carry Workers’ Comp

Aug 6 2004 // The owners of The Station nightclub of Warwick should be held personally liable for failing to have workers’ compensation insurance for their employees, the state of Rhode Island argued this week in Workers’...

OSHA Urges Federal Employees to Buckle Up

Aug 6 2004 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in partnership with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will hold a motor vehicle safety symposium to drive...

ACIC Comments on Workers’ Comp Rates

Aug 6 2004 // Sam Sorich, president of the Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) issued a statement in response to calls for price controls on workers’ compensation insurance. “Now is not the time to...

Texas Lt. Gov. Calls for Study on Workers’ Comp Pricing

Aug 6 2004 // On the heels of new numbers from the Texas Department of Insurance showing that workers’ compensation insurance carriers are charging higher premiums even though claim costs are decreasing, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst...

W. Va. WCC Receives Record Premiums

Aug 6 2004 // The West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission on Monday received more than $52 million in premiums, a new single-day record that exceeds the previous mark by nearly a half-million dollars. Deposits by check or...

NCCI Requests Work Comp Rate Hikes in Okla.

Aug 5 2004 // Worker’s compensation insurers operating in Oklahoma want a significant increase in the premiums they charge for coverage, the Associated Press and The Oklahoman reported. An industry group representing the companies...

TWCC Imposes Penalties for Late Benefit Payments

Aug 5 2004 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission announced it has started a new enforcement strategy to ensure the prompt and timely initiation of Temporary Income Benefits (TIBs) to injured workers. The new strategy is in...

CWCI to Hold Seminar on Permanent Disability Rating

Aug 5 2004 // The California Workers’ Compensation Institute will present a seminar titled “Impairment Rating in California Workers’ Compensation: AMA Guides 101”, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, October 5 at...

Texas Assoc. of Business Backs Revamp of Workers’ Comp System

Aug 4 2004 // The Texas Association of Business (TAB) is calling for major organizational reform of the Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission, saying the agency’s current leadership structure undermines its ability to...

Okla. Republicans Vow to Keep Pushing Comp Reform

Aug 4 2004 // The minority leaders of the Oklahoma Senate and House of Representatives issued an announcement stating that legislative action during the state’s last legislative session could have staved off the higher...

PCI Backs Ky. Governor’s Action on WC Funds

Aug 3 2004 // A decision by Gov. Ernie Fletcher to have the Office of Insurance take over regulation of the group self-insured workers’ compensation funds in Kentucky is reportedly supported by the Property Casualty Insurers...