Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Vermont Workers’ Comp Changes Reduce Savings
Apr 7 2004 // A Vermont state Senate panel is putting the final touches on a bill designed to lower workers’ compensation insurance costs, as business lobbyists complained the measure would raise them instead. The Senate Committee...
Blunt Takes N.D. Comp Job
Apr 7 2004 // Charles “Sandy” Blunt has accepted an offer to become the new executive director/CEO of North Dakota Workforce Safety and Insurance, the group announced. Blunt expects to be on the job no later than May...
CDI Files Lawsuit Against State Fund
Apr 7 2004 // Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi and the California Department of Insurance (CDI) filed a suit against State Compensation Insurance Fund (State Fund), California’s workers’ comp insurer of last resort, in...
Tenn. Senate Republicans Reportedly Ready for Workers’ Comp Reform
Apr 6 2004 // Tennessee Senate Republicans reportedly stand ready to move the Volunteer State forward with a comprehensive workers’ compensation reform bill sponsored by Senator Mark Norris (R-Collierville). The bill, Senate Bill...
HIA Names Green Industry Workers’ Comp Board
Apr 6 2004 // Hotchkiss Insurance Agency Inc. (HIA), a provider of insurance services to building contractors and specialty industries in Texas, announced that Johnette Taylor, Greg Walsh and Candy Atkins will make-up the...
Small Business Workers’ Compensation
Apr 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: InsureVianet introduced a new Internet-based small business workers’ compensation insurance program for agencies in Indiana and Michigan. This technology allows agents and brokers to enter...
Terrorism Tops List of Concerns for Workers’ Comp Professionals
Apr 5 2004 // Industry executives in the workers’ compensation field from across the nation gathered in Las Vegas recently for the 5th Annual AMCOMP (American Society of Workers’ Comp Professionals Inc.) Meeting &...
The ‘Red Flag’ That Isn’t There
Apr 5 2004 // Starting from an early age, I was always interested in the subject of magic. I would watch the great magicians of the day, read books about Houdini and others, and haunt my local magic shop on Saturday afternoons. It...
Agents Learn about Opportunities, Challenges at Agribusiness Conference
Apr 5 2004 // The Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West (IBA West) and Insurance Skills Center sponsored the 17th Annual Agribusiness Conference held March 17 and 18 in Sacramento. The nation’s largest agricultural conference...
State Fund Awarded $800,000 in Fraud Case
Apr 5 2004 // State Compensation Insurance Fund will collect $800,000 in restitution from two former owners of a San Diego County-based construction company. The award followed their guilty plea on felony workers’ compensation...
Wash. L&I Suspends Registration of Contractors
Apr 5 2004 // Two Vancouver, Wash.-area construction companies and a Port Angeles contractor are the first to lose their registration as a result of action taken by the Wash. Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) for failure to...
One TPA Says it Has the Secret to Reining in Comp’s Transition Costs
Apr 5 2004 // At first glance, Jeffrey McDaniel does not seem disabled. He is built like a football player, and in his mesh green and gold jersey he looks like one too. A pat on the back reveals his muscled frame, the one that helped...
Ga. Set to Repeal Workers’ Comp Subsequent Injury Trust Fund
Apr 2 2004 // The Georgia Senate on Thursday passed and sent to the governor legislation eliminating the reported outdated and costly state-sponsored workers’ compensation Subsequent Injury Trust Fund (SITF). H.B. 1579, introduced...
CDI Sets Hearing Date In Anticipation of Additional Workers’ Comp Reform
Apr 2 2004 // On April 1, 2004, in anticipation of enactment of workers’ compensation reform legislation in the near future, the California insurance commissioner issued a Notice of Proposed Action and Notice of Public Hearing,...
Sierra Health Services Closes Transaction to Sell Workers’ Comp Subsidiary
Apr 1 2004 // Sierra Health Services Inc. announced that effective March 31, 2004, and after receipt of applicable regulatory approval, it has closed the transaction to sell its workers’ compensation subsidiary, California...
Former Ky. State Policeman Found Guilty on Charges of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 1 2004 // West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission Executive Director Gregory Burton announced that a former Kentucky state police officer has been convicted in Kanawha County Circuit Court of felony workers’...
Insurex, Frontier General Launch New Calif. Workers’ Comp Product with ACE Casualty Risk
Apr 1 2004 // San Diego-based insurance brokerage Insurex Inc. and Oakland, Calif.-based Frontier General announced the release of a new workers’ compensation product in California with ACE Casualty Risk, a division of ACE USA....
Dozens Arrested for Auto Body Insurance Fraud in Northern California
Apr 1 2004 // A multi-agency enforcement unit conducted a sweep April 1 that has to date resulted in the arrests of 27 suspects following a year-long undercover investigation into auto body insurance fraud. Warrants were issued by the...
N.D. Offers Comp Fund Job to Former Md. Chief
Apr 1 2004 // The former head of the Maryland’s workers’ compensation fund has been offered the job to run North Dakota’s insurance program. Thomas Cleary was offered the position to become the new executive...
W. Va. Workers’ Comp Board of Managers Gives Approval to New Rules, Resolutions
Apr 1 2004 // Executive Director Gregory Burton said four measures approved this week by West Virginia’s Workers’ Compensation Board of Managers represent important building blocks for the Commission’s future...
