Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Hike Requested for S.C. Workers’ Comp Rates
Nov 22 2002 // Workers’ compensation rates in South Carolina would rise by an average of 20.3 percent if a rate hike request filed by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) is approved by the South Carolina...
Meadowbrook to Offer Workers’ Comp through Dodson Group
Nov 22 2002 // Michigan’s Meadowbrook Insurance Group, Inc. announced that it has reached an agreement to offer workers’ compensation coverage to select group and association clients of the Kansas City-based Dodson Group,...
Truck Drivers Arrested for WC Fraud
Nov 20 2002 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division announced the arrest of two truck drivers this week. Both cases are being prosecuted by the...
Calif. Thoroughbred Trainers Form Own WC Captive
Nov 20 2002 // The California Thoroughbred Trainers have finalized a plan with American International Group (AIG) to form a captive that will provide their some 800 members with an affordable workers’ comp program. The captive, to...
N.Y. Woman Arrested on Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Nov 19 2002 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio announced the arrest of Garifalia Christea, 48, of Flushing, New York. She is charged with grand larceny, insurance fraud, falsifying business records and violation of the...
N. Dak. Man Sentenced for Workers Comp Violations
Nov 19 2002 // The Northeast Judicial Court of Devils Lake, North Dakota sentenced Myron Wittwer to serve 30 days in the Bottineau County Jail with 30 days suspended for a period of 1 year, and placed him on unsupervised probation for a...
Converium Gives Details on Reserves, Plans to Raise $200 Million
Nov 19 2002 // Swiss-based Converium Group announced details of the $70.3 million in additional reserves it expects to fund for Converium North America during the fourth quarter. It also plans to raise an additional $200 million through...
Aon Unveils Two New Workers Comp Models for Earthquakes and Terrorism + James Bond
Nov 18 2002 // Aon Corp.’s subsidiary, Aon Re Inc., has unveiled two timely new models for workers’ compensation catastrophes. One covers all significant U.S. earthquake regions, and the second analyzes terrorism exposures...
Florida to See WC Premiums Hikes
Nov 15 2002 // Workers’ compensation premiums may rise by an average of 15 percent next year for many Florida employers, with some employer groups paying as much as a 42 percent rate increase, according to Florida Treasurer and...
Liquidation of Miami Company Sought
Nov 12 2002 // Florida State Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner Tom Gallagher wants Aries Insurance Company to consent to liquidation as a result of an arbitration panel ruling that determined the company is deeper in debt than...
COLO. WORKERS’ COMP LOSS COSTS TO DECREASE
Nov 11 2002 // Beginning Dec. 1, 2002, workers’ compensation loss costs for Colorado will decrease an average of 10.5 percent. Although individual employer workers’ compensation premiums are affected by other rating factors,...
Federal Terrorism Backstop a Good Public/Private Fit
Nov 11 2002 // Benjamin Franklin wore many hats: statesman, inventor, publisher—even firefighter. In fact, it was his experience fighting fires that made him realize the need to pool financial resources to protect properties and found...
AAI UPDATES WORKERS’ COMP PUBS
Nov 11 2002 // Updated editions of two workers’ compensation publications are now available from the Alliance of American Insurers. The first, Workers Compensation Insurance: Profiles of the State’s System, provides...
Federal Terrorism Backstop a Good Public/Private Fit
Nov 11 2002 // Benjamin Franklin wore many hats: statesman, inventor, publisher—even firefighter. In fact, it was his experience fighting fires that made him realize the need to pool financial resources to protect properties and found...
Texas Workers’ Comp Rule Supplements Available
Nov 7 2002 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission announced the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act and Commission Rulebook Supplement 2002-04 is now available online at...
NAII Decries N.H. Court Ruling on Workers’ Comp Interest Payments
Nov 5 2002 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) objected to a recent New Hampshire Supreme Court ruling determining that interest on workers’ compensation payments run from the date of loss rather than the...
Dental Assistant Arrested for WC Fraud
Nov 4 2002 // In the evening of Oct. 30, 2002, California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud Division Investigators and Windsor Police Officers arrested Judith Lee Marciel (AKA Judith Lee Delgado, Judith Lee Douglas, Judith Lee Latch,...
Workers’ Comp
Nov 4 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Innovative Risk Services is offering a temporary staffing program for workers’ compensation. This is a brokerage business. Dollars: Policy limits of $1,000,000/ $1,000,000/ $1,000,000. Minimum...
Zenith National Pleased With Continued Improving Numbers
Nov 1 2002 // California-based Zenith National Insurance Corp. reported operating income after tax of $7.0 million, or $0.37 per share, for the third quarter of 2002 compared to an operating loss after tax of $22.8 million, or $1.30 per...
Okla. Workers’ Comp Hearing Set
Nov 1 2002 // The Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Court Administrator announced a public hearing on November 15, 2002 at 1:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Oklahoma Historical Society, 2100 N. Lincoln Boulevard, Oklahoma City,...
