Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oregon Supreme Court Quashes Exclusive Workers’ Comp Remedy
Jun 11 2001 // In the multi-decade card game that is the Oregon workers’ compensation system, the state Supreme Court trumped the Legislature (and employers) by issuing a unanimous decision that erodes the exclusive remedy...
Argonaut Exec Michael Nolan Named President of CWCI
Jun 8 2001 // J. Michael Nolan, senior vice-president, general counsel and secretary of Argonaut Insurance Company, was named the new president of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute. The CWCI is an Oakland-based...
AIA Seeks Exemption for Workers’ Comp Managed Care Programs
Jun 6 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) is calling on the Massachusetts Legislature’s Joint Health Care Committee to approve an AIA-filed bill (HB 3310) to exempt workers’ compensation programs from new...
Riverside, Calif., Woman Charged with Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jun 5 2001 // Martha Rodriquez of Riverside, Calif. woman was arrested on workers’ compensation fraud and perjury charges June 1. Rodriquez, 37, also known by the name of Graciela Castro, was booked into Riverside County Jail on a...
State Fund To Become Texas Mutual Insurance Company
Jun 4 2001 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Insurance Fund will become the Texas Mutual Insurance Company Sept. 1 if Gov. Rick Perry signs the bill authorizing the change. The governor has 20 days from the Legislature’s...
Highlights of Actions by the Texas Legislature Affecting Texas Insurance
Jun 4 2001 // Following is an overview of the 77th Texas Legislature offered by Bo Gilbert, CPCU, IIAT Director of Governmental Affairs. For a complete analysis of these bills as well as other bills that passed this legislative session,...
Kemper, The Mechanic Group to Provide New Workers’ Comp Coverage
Jun 1 2001 // Kemper Insurance Companies appointed The Mechanic Group Inc. as program administrators for security company workers’ compensation business throughout the U.S. Kemper and The Mechanic Group are providing security...
Two Okla. Auto Bills Fail to Pass
May 30 2001 // Two bills that would have increased the cost of auto insurance in Oklahoma died in the state House/Senate conference committees as the 2001 legislature adjourned on May 25. The National Association of Independent Insurers...
NAII Notes Penn. Privacy Reg Corrects ‘Opt-Out’ Problem, But Still Includes Workers’ Comp May 25, 2
May 25 2001 // According to the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), the Pennsylvania Insurance Department’s revised draft regulation on consumer privacy remedies an “opt-out” provision that may have...
Md. Governor Signs AIA’s Workers’ Comp Bill
May 24 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) reported that legislation allowing undisputed workers’ compensation claims to be handled out-of-state was signed recently by Governor Parris Glendening (D). SB 592, which was...
Employers Ins. Co. of Nevada Selects HNC Software for Workers’ Comp Claims
May 21 2001 // A bill by Assemblyman Thomas M. Calderon (D-Montebello) that would prohibit insurance carriers from refusing to issue or renew an auto insurance policy based solely on an individual’s credit rating was approved by...
Jockey Couldn’t Stay on His Steed
May 21 2001 // CDI investigators arrested Carlos Cristo, 31, of Santa Ana, Calif., on charges of insurance fraud. Cristo was arrested pursuant to a warrant issued by the Orange County Central Court and transported to Orange County...
GE ERC Moves Facultative Workers’ Compensation to PnC Re Americas
May 18 2001 // Employers Reinsurance Corporation (ERC), a GE company, announced it has moved its facultative workers’ compensation product line to its P&C Re Americas business unit. The P&C Re facultative unit will now be...
ePolicy Aligns with Republic Indemnity to Provide Online Workers’ Comp
May 17 2001 // ePolicy.com Insurance Services, Inc., announced it has signed an agreement with Republic Indemnity Company, a subsidiary of American Financial Group, which is a member of the Great American Insurance Group, to offer...
State Fund Withdraws from Best’s Rating Process
May 13 2001 // “In essence, we’d like to assure all of our policyholders that we are solvent, that we’re still financially strong,” said Jim Zelinski, spokesperson for California State Compensation Insurance Fund,...
Gov. Davis Names Commissioners to Workers’ Comp Appeals Board
May 10 2001 // California Governor Gray Davis announced the appointments of James C. Cuneo and Janice M. Jamison Murray as commissioners of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board. The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board is a...
N.Y.’s Operation Goldbrick III Leads to 11 Workers’ Comp Fraud Arrests
May 9 2001 // Acting Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio, the Suffolk County District Attorney James M. Catterson Jr., and New York State Insurance Fraud Executive Director Henry Neal Conolly announced the arrest of 11...
Calif. Jockey Arrested for Insurance Fraud
May 8 2001 // Investigators for the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Investigators arrested a Santa Ana, Calif. resident Carlos Cristo, 31, on charges of insurance fraud. Cristo, arrested at his residence pursuant to an arrest...
The Hartford Expands Internet Processing/Payment System for Workers’ Comp
May 4 2001 // The Hartford, which has piloted a complete workers’ compensation e-bill system for a year, is expanding the program into more U.S. states and additional provider organizations. e-bill, an Internet processing and...
Alliance of American Insurers Supports “Thoughtful Approach” to Ergonomic Rule
May 1 2001 // In regards to the ergonomic hearing held yesterday by the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Service, the Alliance of American Insurers called for a thoughtful and practical approach to creating...
