Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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,...
Workers’ Compensation A Thorn in Side of U.S. Companies
Jan 24 2002 // Workers’ compensation, one of the insurance lines most acutely affected by the terrorism of 2001 and by the continued absence of government backstop insurance for terrorism events, is fast becoming a high-priced...
NH Court Ruling Restores Sanity Says NAII
Jan 23 2002 // The New Hampshire Supreme Court’s January 11 decision has effectively overturned a decision made in 1999, that allowed an injured employee to collect both workers compensation benefits and sue for damages under the...
California Man Arrested for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jan 23 2002 // Investigators from the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigation Branch’s Fraud Division arrested a San Bernardino man on seven counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. According...
Auto Dealers Become First to Self-Insure Under Calif. DIR Plan
Jan 21 2002 // The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) announced that it had recently approved a plan allowing some private sector groups to self-insure workers’ compensation liabilities. California Motor Car...
Calif. Gov., Legislative Leaders Crafting Tentative Agreement on Workers’ Comp Reform
Jan 18 2002 // California Gov. Gray Davis and legislative leaders are crafting a tentative agreement addressing workers’ compensation reform, with hopes of passing a workers’ compensation benefits bill by Jan. 25. Davis, who...
AIA Optimistic about Bush Administration Ergonomics Announcement
Jan 15 2002 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) has reiterated its strong opposition to any new federal ergonomics rule that would require mandated compensation levels or any other provision that would conflict or supercede the...
Verdict Secure in Workers’ Comp Charges
Jan 14 2002 // Jeffrey Rene Pilon, 41, of Oxnard, Calif., was sentenced on Jan. 9, in Ventura County Superior Court to three years in state prison for his conviction on 14 counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. Pilon was...
For richer, for poorer
Jan 14 2002 // CDI investigators recently arrested a Rancho Cucamonga husband and wife for alleged insurance fraud. Richard and Janey Bonet were booked into the West Valley Detention Center with six counts of workers’ comp premium...
Study Analyzes Effects of 9/11 on Nationwide Workers’ Comp Insurers
Jan 11 2002 // According to a Standard & Poor’s study released Jan. 9, the effects of the Sept. 11 attacks are taking a toll on workers compensation insurers. Rates are ready to rise and it has become increasingly difficult...
S&P Reports Insurers to Cut Coverage for Losses
Jan 10 2002 // Several commercial insurers will cut coverage for losses caused by acts of terror, allowing 2001 policies to go unrenewed for 2002, Standard & Poor’s reported. It added that the withdrawal from the market will...
New Kansas Workers’ Comp Rates in Effect
Jan 7 2002 // New workers’ compensation rates that include an overall four per cent rate decrease became effective in Kansas on Jan. 1. In late December, Kansas Insurance Commissioner Kathleen Sebelius approved the rates, which...
Alliance Says New Mexico Privacy Rules Violate State Law
Jan 3 2002 // The Alliance of American Insurers has questioned the legality of recently adopted privacy regulations in New Mexico. “Earlier this year, the New Mexico Legislature directed the superintendent of insurance to adopt...
ISO to Offer Proof of Coverage Services to Workers’ Comp Insurers
Dec 31 2001 // In expanding its workers’ compensation services, Insurance Services Office Inc. (ISO) has signed a definitive agreement to enter into an exclusive and perpetual licensing arrangement with HNC Software Inc. to offer...
Parker Services LLC Announces OSHA and DOT-Related Safety Seminars
Dec 31 2001 // Parker Services L.L.C., Stevens Point, a member of the Sentry Insurance Group, and the Wisconsin Council of Safety, Madison, are offering OSHA and DOT-related safety seminars for businesses in January. “Confined...
WCRA Reducing Reinsurance Rates
Dec 28 2001 // The Workers’ Compensation Reinsurance Association (WCRA) announced it is reducing the reinsurance rates it charges to self-insured Minnesota employers and insurance companies by an average of 12 percent. The rate...
Welcome to the 3rd Annual “Top Ten Stories of the Year”
Dec 24 2001 // In what became one of the most significant, traumatic and challenging years in U.S. history, the insurance industry, along with the rest of the nation, has had to come to terms with the terrorist attacks perpetrated...
CDI Arrests Husband and Wife on Alleged Workers’ Comp Fraud
Dec 24 2001 // Investigators from the California Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division arrested a husband and wife recently for workers’ compensation premium fraud. Richard and Janey Bonet...
Michigan Retailers Association Workers’ Comp Program Plans Cut
Dec 19 2001 // Retailers Fund, the workers’ compensation insurance program of the Michigan Retailers Association (MRA), plans an overall rate cut of 3.51 percent for 2002. The rate cut, the fifth such reduction in nine years was...
