Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Conn. Approves Workers’ Comp. Rate Hike
Dec 13 2001 // The Connecticut Insurance Department has approved an 11.9 percent average overall rate increase for policies in the workers’ compensation assigned risk plan, and a 15 percent “differential charge” which...
Seminar Discusses Reducing Losses and Lowering Workers’ Comp Costs
Dec 11 2001 // In a seminar attended by leading Las Vegas construction company executives, Jack Schreiner of S & C Claims Services outlined how aggressive claims handling can reduce their losses and lower worker’s compensation...
Calif. Industry Said to Be Prepared for Future Disasters
Dec 6 2001 // Representatives of the insurance industry testified Wednesday before the California Assembly Insurance Committee concerning insurance and reinsurance after the attack on America. They noted that the Sept. 11 attack was...
AIA Reacts to Filings of Workers’ Comp Ballot Initiatives
Dec 4 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) reacted Dec. 3 to the filings of two proposed ballot initiatives that would raise workers’ compensation costs in California without including systemic reforms. “It is...
NAMIC Comments on Leading Issue Trends Among Year’s New P/C Laws
Dec 3 2001 // New state laws concerning workers’ compensation, automobile insurance, financial and other regulatory requirements account for over half of the property/casualty-related insurance laws enacted by state legislatures...
ART Insurance Services Announces New TPA Offering for Workers’ Comp Claims
Dec 3 2001 // Advanced Risk Technologies (ART) Insurance Services, a leader in providing risk management services including loss control, first aid claims administration, and claims management services, announced a new third party...
Idaho Hearing Officer Rejects Petition
Nov 28 2001 // A hearing officer appointed by the Idaho Department of Insurance (IDI) has rejected a petition to allow competing insurance companies and trade associations to intervene in a license hearing for Advantage Workers...
New State Decisions Equal More Than Half of P/C Enacted Laws for 2001
Nov 20 2001 // New state laws concerning workers’ compensation, automobile insurance, financial and other regulatory requirements account for over half of the property/casualty-related insurance laws enacted by state legislatures...
Insuring Nonprofits as Markets Harden
Nov 19 2001 // As recession looms and claims costs associated with the terrorist attacks on September 11 add up, insurance markets are beginning to harden for the first time in nearly a decade. Many major property and casualty carriers,...
HCC to Exit Workers’ Comp
Nov 19 2001 // Citing claims from Sept. 11 and reserve charges for discontinued businesses, HCC Insurance Holdings Inc. posted a third-quarter net loss and announced it will exit the workers’ compensation insurance business written...
TX Mutual Complains of Gouging
Nov 19 2001 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company, formerly the Texas Workers’ Compensation Fund, filed a lawsuit accusing four pharmacy chains and two third-party billing companies with price gouging, claiming they overcharged the...
Fremont General Corp. Reports Net of $15,999,000 in Third Quarter
Nov 15 2001 // California-based Fremont General Corporation reported net income of $15,999,000 for the third quarter of 2001. This was comprised of net income from continuing operations of $14,619,000 and an after tax gain on the...
HCC Files 3Q Loss, Prepares to Exit Workers’ Comp
Nov 12 2001 // HCC Insurance Holdings Inc. posted a third-quarter net loss, citing claims from Sept. 11 and reserve charges for discontinued businesses. The company also announced it will also exit the workers’ compensation...
CALIF. W/C RATE HIKE APPROVED
Nov 12 2001 // Insurance Commissioner Harry W. Low approved an increase of 10.2 percent in California’s advisory pure premium rate for workers’ compensation insurance. The rate increase was recommended by the Workers’...
Suspicious Claims are ‘Pain in the…Neck’
Nov 12 2001 // Debra Rodriguez, 48, was arrested on four felony counts of insurance fraud while attending a pre-trial hearing at the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board in Sacramento. Rodriguez was transported and booked into the...
Roof Falls in on Alleged Fraud Attempt
Nov 12 2001 // The CDI announced the arrest of David Barthell Sr. of Richmond for workers’ compensation premium fraud. Barthell, owner of Barthell Construction and Roofing, was arrested at his residence/office and booked into...
No ‘El Dorado’ for This Fraud Attempt
Nov 12 2001 // James Kolesar of El Dorado County appeared in El Dorado County Court and pled guilty to one count of employer misrepresentation fraud. The El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office is prosecuting the case. Kolesar,...
WCRI Study Finds Rapid Comp Cost Rise in Mass.
Nov 9 2001 // The Workers Compensation Research Institute, based in Cambridge Massachusetts, reports that a new study shows that workers’ compensation claims costs rose by as much as 10.5 percent from 1997 to 1998, based on...
Calif. Commissioner Gives Approval to Advisory Pure Premium Rate
Oct 30 2001 // Insurance Commissioner Harry W. Low announced the approval of California’s advisory pure premium rate for workers’ compensation insurance, approving an increase of 10.2 percent in the advisory pure premium...
CIGA Bill Gets Approval in Calif. Legislative Session, SB 71 Falls Short
Oct 29 2001 // As the California Legislature wound up its 2001 session in mid-September, two workers’ compensation-related bills awaited their fate on the desk of Governor Gray Davis. AB 1183: CIGA Premium Surcharge In the case of...
