Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Three Suspects Arrested for Alleged Auto, Work Comp Insurance Fraud
Aug 3 2004 // Investigators arrested three people August 3 on numerous felony charges after a 3-year California Department of Insurance investigation into a chiropractic office, which uncovered numerous alleged auto insurance and...
ICT to Hold Fall 2004 Workers’ Compensation Seminars
Aug 2 2004 // The Insurance Council of Texas announced the schedule for its Fall 2004 workers’ compensation seminar, Managing Disabilities and Other Benefit Issues in the Texas Workers’ Compensation System. The seminar will...
Oregon Newspaper: Documents Detail Goldschmidt Work for SAIF
Aug 2 2004 // New documents reviewed by a Salem newspaper map out how former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt’s deal-brokering helped shape a plan on medical malpractice insurance for obstetricians in rural Oregon. The former governor was...
Fla. Employer of Killed, Injured Workers Ordered to Halt Work Actions
Aug 2 2004 // The employer of two workers killed and at least three who were injured last month in a construction accident on a Hobe Sound work site has been ordered to cease all business operations in Florida. The order was issued...
NAMIC Issues P/C Legislative Analysis
Aug 1 2004 // One-fifth of the 251 property/casualty bills enacted in the states so far this year relate to the regulation of automobile insurance, according to an analysis by the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies...
Maine Supreme Court Rules on Workers’ Comp Board Evidence Admission Standards
Jul 30 2004 // The Maine Workers Compensation Board is not subject to the more strict rules of evidence governing other courts and should be open to evidence from a variety of sources so long as it is sufficiently reliable, the state...
Dunlap Joins Collier Shannon Scott as Gov’t Relations Advisor
Jul 30 2004 // Washington, D.C.-based law firm Collier Shannon Scott announced that John Dunlap joined the firm as a Government Relations Advisor. Based in Sacramento, Dunlap will help clients navigate California’s political and...
Harleysville Cites Improved Second Quarter
Jul 29 2004 // Harleysville Group Inc. (Nasdaq: HGIC ) in Harleysville, Pa., reported net income of $0.32 per share in the second quarter of 2004, compared to $0.33 per share in the second quarter of 2003. For the six months ended June...
Calif. WCIRB Makes 2005 Regulatory Filing
Jul 29 2004 // On July 28, 2004, the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) submitted its annual regulatory filing to the California insurance commissioner. In its filing, the WCIRB proposed advisory premium rates...
Bridium Unveils WCIRS for Workers’ Comp Claims
Jul 28 2004 // Atlanta-based Bridium, a technology provider and custom services company for the insurance industry, has introduced WCIRS (Workers’ Compensation Injury Reporting System). Bridium developed WCIRS with features that...
BWC Offering Safety Classes for Ohio Employers
Jul 28 2004 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) will offer several classes designed to teach the basics of health and safety in the workplace. “Safety education is an essential element in the overall success of...
Tenn. Commissioner Orders Workers’ Comp Savings
Jul 28 2004 // Gov. Phil Bredesen’s reform of Tennessee’s workers’ compensation insurance system is reportedly already paying off for Tennessee employers, who stand to save an estimated $69.4 million in premiums...
Joint Investigation Nabs La. Workers’ Comp Fraudster
Jul 26 2004 // Louisiana’s Workers’ Compensation Administration reported recently that another attempt to cheat the state’s workers’ compensation insurance program has resulted in a prosecution and serves as a...
Fla. Resident Charged in Workers’ Comp Case
Jul 25 2004 // A former employee with a Spring Hill, Florida, rehabilitation center was caught performing manual labor while collecting workers’ compensation benefits for an alleged injury sustained on the job in...
Restitution Ordered in Okla. Workers’ Comp Case
Jul 23 2004 // A Tishomingo, Oklahoma, man will pay more than $8,000 in restitution after pleading no contest in Oklahoma County District Court to one count of workers’ compensation fraud, Attorney General Drew Edmondson...
Fla. Sen. Bill Nelson Continues to Fly New Missions for Sunshine State
Jul 23 2004 // Bill Nelson Florida Senator As his bio notes growing up as a child, Florida Senator Bill Nelson never imagined that one day he would both catapult into space from a NASA launch site just miles from his grandfather’s...
Ark. DOI Issues Fairness Directive to P/C Insurers
Jul 22 2004 // Acknowledging that Arkansas law imposes minimal restrictions on underwriting, the Arkansas Insurance Department nevertheless announced that it expects property and casualty insurers to give proper attention to the explicit...
Houston Man Indicted for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jul 21 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Travis County’s 147th District Court grand jury indicted Henry Prince of Houston for workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The insurer said Prince allegedly...
Mass. Workers’ Comp Medical Costs Rise But Still Remain Among Lowest in WCRI Study
Jul 21 2004 // The average medical payment per claim for the care of injured workers in Massachusetts rose 13 percent in the most recent period studied, according to a new report by the Cambridge-based Workers Compensation Research...
Zenith Announces Second Quarter Results
Jul 21 2004 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Zenith National Insurance Corp. reported net income of $24.8 million for the second quarter of 2004 compared to net income of $18.4 million for the second quarter of 2003. Net income for the...
