Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Roofing Co. Engages in Fraudulent Activities
Sep 2 2002 // The death of a roofing company employee has resulted in the arrest of four Bay area residents on multiple felony counts including manslaughter, insurance premium fraud, unemployment insurance tax violations, labor code...
Is TWCC Headed Back to the Fee Guideline Drawing Board’
Sep 2 2002 // The new medical fee guideline approved by the Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission (TWCC) last spring and scheduled to go into effect September 1 was recently stayed by a Travis County judge as part of a lawsuit...
BIG WORKERS’ COMP AWARD IN OK.
Sep 2 2002 // A Mayes County, Okla., District Court jury ordered Transwood Inc., a national trucking company headquartered in Omaha, Neb., to pay its Pryor, Okla. office assistant/part-time driver $2.176 million in a wrongful...
Company Ordered to Cease Operations in Arkansas
Aug 30 2002 // Arkansas State Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens issued a Cease and Desist Order to AMS Staff Leasing, NA Inc., a company that the insurance department alleges had been illegally offering workers’ compensation...
A.M. Best Confirms Utah’s Workers’ Comp Fund Rating
Aug 29 2002 // A.M. Best Co. has reaffirmed Salt Lake City, Utah-based Workers Compensation Fund (WCF)’s ‘A-minus’ (excellent) rating. According to A.M. Best, WCF’s ‘A-minus rating’ reflects the mutual...
EPIX Links with AIG to Provide Workers’ Compensation Coverage
Aug 29 2002 // EPIX Holdings Corporation, a privately held Professional Employer Organizations (PEO) headquartered in Tampa, Fla., annouced it has established a relationship with American International Group Inc. (AIG) to provide...
TWCC Reschedules Public Hearing
Aug 28 2002 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission (TWCC) public hearing originally set for August 22 has been rescheduled Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 10:30 a.m. at the Southfield Building, Tippy Foster Room (Room 910), in...
TWCC Fee Schedule Halted by Travis County Judge
Aug 26 2002 // The new medical fee guideline approved by the Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission (TWCC) last spring and scheduled to go into effect Sept. 1 was temporarily stayed by a Travis County judge. According to the Austin...
Contractors Protest at Florida Workers’ Comp Commission Meeting
Aug 26 2002 // Florida contractors mounted a protest at a meeting with the Governor’s Commission on Workers’ Compensation, insisting that a new law requiring all workers to be covered by workers’ comp on commercial...
Calif. Legislature Approves Workers’ Comp Bills
Aug 23 2002 // The California Legislature is considering a package of three measures that will improve the delivery of workers’ compensation benefits in the state, according to the American Insurance Association (AIA). One measure...
SE Texas Doctors Threaten to Turn Away Workers’ Comp Patients
Aug 22 2002 // A number of doctors in Southeast Texas are threatening to stop treating workers’ compensation patients on Sept. 1, the effective date of recent changes to the Texas workers’ compensation fee guidelines....
Plaintiff Awarded $2.176M in Okla. Workers’ Comp Case
Aug 21 2002 // A Mayes County, Okla., District Court jury ordered Transwood Inc., a national trucking company headquartered in Omaha, Neb., to pay its Pryor, Okla. office assistant/part-time driver $2.176 million in a wrongful...
Taliant Software, LLP Goes Live at The Amerisure Companies
Aug 20 2002 // Taliant Software, LLP announced that The Amerisure Insurance Companies, one of the nation’s regional property and casualty insurance groups, has officially gone live with their new multi-state workers’...
Calif. Pizza Owners Arrested for Alleged Workers’ Comp Fraud, Tax Evasion
Aug 20 2002 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division and the California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) announced the arrests of Benito Storniolo, 44, Laura...
Fla. Department Clarifies who is Exempt under New Workers’ Comp Law
Aug 20 2002 // A key administrative rule has been published clarifying which tradespeople must have workers’ compensation coverage in order to work on commercial construction projects valued at $250,000 or more, according to...
Orange County, Calif., Man Arrested on 19 Counts of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Aug 19 2002 // Nasir Husain, 59, was arrested by investigators from the California Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division. Husain was arrested at his home in Westminster on 19 felony counts of...
WCIRB Updates Cost Impact Evaluation of AB 749
Aug 19 2002 // The California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) recently released an updated evaluation of the cost impact due to benefit changes included in Assembly Bill 749. The bill, which was signed into...
Bay Area Residents Arrested in Alleged Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
Aug 19 2002 // Four Bay Area residents have been arrested on multiple counts of grand theft and insurance fraud among other charges. Investigators allege that Elisa Guillermo, a billing clerk for Fremont Compensation Insurance Company,...
NAII Lauds HIPPA Change on Workers’ Comp in Final Rule
Aug 15 2002 // The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released its final privacy standard that has been modified to recognize that the rule should not impede administration of state workers’ compensation...
Calif.’s DIR Opposes Injured Workers Settling Claims in Bankruptcy Court
Aug 15 2002 // The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) and its Office of Self Insurance Plans (SIP) is reportedly opposing the bankrupt Henry Mayo Hospital’s reported attempt to force injured workers to resolve...
