Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
CWCI Offers Training on Workers’ Comp Privacy Issues
Feb 25 2002 // The California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) will conduct a half-day seminars in Long Beach and San Francisco to help the workers’ compensation community understand federal and state medical privacy...
What Price Workers’ Comp’
Feb 25 2002 // As was widely expected, on Feb. 15, California Gov. Gray Davis signed a workers’ comp-related bill, AB 749 (Calderon & Burton), which had passed both the state’s House and Senate on Feb. 4. But while it...
HAWAII WORKERS’ COMP RATES INCREASE
Feb 25 2002 // Hawaii Insurance Commissioner Wayne Metcalf announced that the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) has received approval for a 4.6 percent overall increase in workers’ comp insurance loss costs in...
Workers’ Compensation
Feb 25 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Regency Pacific Insurance Services has available a workers’ compensation program. Appointment as a broker. Dollars: Various minimum premiums. Carrier: Everest National. Admitted. Rated “A+...
Workers’ Comp
Feb 25 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: ACE Tempest Re USA Inc. joined forces with The Hartford Financial Service Group’s HartRe subsidiary to offer workers’ compensation catastrophe coverage. Dollars: Limits offered are up to $20...
AAI Says New Calif. Workers’ Comp Law Takes Worker Safety to Higher Level
Feb 20 2002 // The California workers’ compensation reform bill signed into law Feb. 15 by Gov. Gray Davis (D) makes significant strides toward improving the safety of the state’s workers, according to the Alliance of...
Calif. Governor Signs Bill to Raise Benefits for Injured Workers
Feb 18 2002 // Governor Gray Davis on Feb. 15 signed into law a measure, AB 749, sponsored by Assembly Insurance Committee Chairman Tom Calderon (D-Montebello), that will raise workers’ compensation benefits in California by $3.5...
Calif. Governor Signs Bill to Raise Benefits for Injured Workers
Feb 18 2002 // Governor Gray Davis on Feb. 15 signed into law a measure, AB 749, sponsored by Assembly Insurance Committee Chairman Tom Calderon (D-Montebello), that will raise workers’ compensation benefits in California by $3.5...
Calif. Governor Signs Bill to Raise Benefits for Injured Workers
Feb 18 2002 // Governor Gray Davis on Feb. 15 signed into law a measure, AB 749, sponsored by Assembly Insurance Committee Chairman Tom Calderon (D-Montebello), that will raise workers’ compensation benefits in California by $3.5...
Workers’ Comp Insurers Grapple with Market Changes after 9/11
Feb 13 2002 // Both small and large workers’ compensation insurers are experiencing unsettling challenges to their business thanks to the lack of reinsurance coverage in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks according to the...
Workers’ Comp Rating Organization Agrees to 4.6 Percent Increase
Feb 13 2002 // Hawaii Insurance Commissioner Wayne Metcalf announced that the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) has received approval for a 4.6 percent overall increase in workers’ comp insurance loss costs in...
Zenith Reports Year-End Net Loss of $23.8M
Feb 13 2002 // California-based Zenith National Insurance Corp. reported a net loss for the year ended Dec. 31, 2001 of $23.8 million, or $1.35 per share, compared to a net loss for the year ended Dec. 31, 2000 of $46.8 million, or $2.72...
NAII Urges Calif. Gov. to Veto Workers’ Comp Bill
Feb 11 2002 // To avoid further crippling California’s weakened economy, Gov. Gray Davis should veto workers’ compensation legislation that is significantly out of balance according to the National Association of Independent...
Texas Workers’ Comp Fraud
Feb 11 2002 // A Travis County District Court sentenced Liza Fortune on charges of insurance fraud and ordered her to pay $15,013.89 in restitution to Texas Mutual Insurance Company. Fortune’s two-year sentence was suspended for...
Calif. Legislature Approves Bill to Raise Benefits for Injured Workers
Feb 6 2002 // California legislators ushered in a measure to raise workers’ compensation benefits for injured workers through both houses Feb. 4. The bill now awaits signature by Gov. Gray Davis according to the American Insurance...
Workers’ Comp Struggling without Terrorism Exclusion
Feb 5 2002 // Insurers feeling the effects of Sept. 11 have taken desperate measures to stay afloat by increasing rates and rewriting policies with little room for loss. Workers’ compensation continues to have a hard time keeping...
Workers’ Comp Benefits May Increase in Calif.
Feb 5 2002 // Gov. Gray Davis has reached an agreement with organized labor, trial lawyers, and Democratic lawmakers to increase benefits for injured workers, while at the same time, restricting employers’ costs for providing...
Minn. Workers’ Comp Costs Flatten
Jan 30 2002 // After five years of decline, workers’ compensation costs in Minnesota leveled-off in 2000, according to a report released by the state’s Department of Labor and Industry (DLI). The Workers’ Compensation...
Calif. Legislators Craft Tentative Agreement on Workers’ Comp Reform
Jan 28 2002 // After vetoing SB 71 last fall, California Gov. Gray Davis made a pledge that he would reach out to legislators and others to comprise a reform bill addressing workers’ compensation. Now, it appears Davis and...
Former Washington Resident Owes State $209,000
Jan 25 2002 // Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) ordered a former Yakima resident to pay back more than $209,000 for allegedly collecting workers’ compensation benefits illegally. Jesus Nunez Vargas,...
