Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Calif. Gov. Davis Approves Legislation to Safeguard Solvency of Workers’ Comp Guaranty Fund
Sep 12 2002 // California Governor Gray Davis has signed a measure that guarantees employers and injured workers will continue to receive workers’ compensation benefits if an insurance carrier becomes insolvent, according to the...
Is TWCC Headed Back to the Fee Guideline Drawing Board’
Sep 11 2002 // The new medical fee guideline approved by the Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission (TWCC) last spring that was scheduled to go into effect Sept. 1 was recently stayed by a Travis County judge as part of a lawsuit...
Texas Man Gets Time for Alleged Workers’ Comp Fraud
Sep 10 2002 // James Webb of Houston was sentenced to 18 months in state jail by the Travis County, Texas, District Court for allegedly defrauding the workers’ compensation system by collecting workers’ comp benefits for...
ManagedComp Distributes $5M in Workers’ Comp Surplus
Sep 6 2002 // ManagedComp Inc., a Woburn, Mass.-based national worker’s compensation underwriter and third party administrator, plans to distribute $5,432,000 in surplus to four self-insurance groups (SIGs) in...
Oakland Woman Surrenders on Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Sep 6 2002 // An Oakland woman was arraigned as a result of an investigation by the California Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division. Jeanette Deran, 52, surrendered to the Alameda County Superior...
SOME COLO. WORKERS’ COMP LOSS COSTS TO DECLINE
Sep 2 2002 // Workers’ compensation costs for some Colorado employers may decrease on average about 10.2 percent later this year. Insurance Commissioner William J. Kirven III announced that the National Council on Compensation...
FITCH REPORTS CONTINUED WORKERS’ COMP CHALLENGES
Sep 2 2002 // A new report published by Fitch Ratings states that the workers’ compensation market continues to face challenges following further deterioration in underwriting performance in 2001. Despite significant pricing...
WORKERS’ COMP PROBLEMS ADDRES-SED IN REGULATIONS
Sep 2 2002 // Modifications to a final medical privacy rule issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stopped short of resolving concerns that workers’ compensation carriers and employers have with the...
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...
