Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
NAII Urges Congress to Overturn Ergonomics Standard
Mar 7 2001 // In a letter to members of the U.S. House and Senate, National Association of Independent Insurers senior vice president of Government Affairs Robert Dibblee urged Congress to overturn recent ergonomics regulation by voting...
ROC Study: Texas Workers’ Comp Claim Costs Topping the Charts
Mar 5 2001 // Texas has the highest average medical costs per workers’ compensation claim of nine states according to a survey recently released by the Texas Research and Oversight Council on Workers’ Compensation. The...
Temp Agency Owes Washington State Over $500,000 for Workers’ Comp Misclassifications
Mar 5 2001 // Tacoma-based Labor Ready owes the state close to $500,000 because it misclassified employees when calculating workers’ compensation premiums. Auditors for the Department of Labor and Industries say that the massive...
North Dakota Workers’ Comp Bureau Wants Budget Autonomy
Feb 26 2001 // The North Dakota Workers Compensation Bureau’s request to set its own budget without legislative oversight has critics saying the move would diminish public accountability. Supporters contend that removing the budget...
Workers’ Comp Hearing: Many Questions, Few Answers
Feb 26 2001 // On Feb. 14, lawmakers, insurers, employers and others gathered in Sacramento to discuss the troubled state of California’s workers’ compensation market. The Assembly Insurance Committee Hearing on...
Court Rules Against State Fund in Schaefer Ambulance Case
Feb 26 2001 // Seven years after an initial lawsuit was filed, the California Supreme Court made a ruling unfavorable to the California State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) in the case of State Compensation Insurance Fund,...
The Heart of the Matter
Feb 26 2001 // It was Valentine’s Day, but in Room 437 at the State Capitol, love was not in the air. We were there to hear some serious testimony about a serious issue: California workers’ comp. All the big players were...
States Strive for Consistency in Complying with New Privacy Provisions
Feb 26 2001 // The 2001 state legislative sessions are off and running. Among the more pressing challenges this year for a number of insurance commissioners and lawmakers is reaching compliance with the privacy provisions of the...
Workers’ Comp Hearing Reaches Consensus: There is a Problem, Now What’
Feb 20 2001 // On Feb. 14, lawmakers, insurers, employers and others gathered in Sacramento to discuss the troubled state of California’s workers’ compensation market. The Assembly Insurance Committee Hearing on...
Utah Legislature Passes Bill to Allow State Workers’ Comp Fund to Operate in Other States
Feb 13 2001 // The Utah State Legislature has passed HB 59, allowing subsidiaries of the state workers’ compensation fund to sell insurance to employers outside Utah, in direct competition with private insurance companies. If...
ARGONAUT REPORTS LOSS
Feb 12 2001 // For the 12 months ended Dec. 31, 2000, Argonaut Group Inc. reported a consolidated net loss of $83.3 million on total revenue of $209.9 million, compared with a consolidated net loss of $15.2 million on total revenue of...
Argonaut Group Announces 2000 Results
Feb 6 2001 // Menlo Park, Calif.-based Argonaut Group Inc. announced a consolidated net loss of $83.3 million ($3.77 per diluted common share) on total revenue of $209.9 million for the 12 months ended Dec. 31, 2000, compared with a...
Superior Access Adds Workers’ Comp Carrier
Feb 5 2001 // Online insurance aggregator Superior Access Insurance Services Inc. announced the addition of a new Workers’ Compensation Carrier offering instant online quotes via superioraccess.com. The new carrier is...
Anti-Fraud Efforts Become Top Priority For Departments of Insurance
Feb 5 2001 // In an effort to assist insurers and departments of insurance, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners has undertaken the daunting task of compiling a directory of how departments of insurance across the country...
N.H. House Bill Addresses High Court Interpretation
Jan 30 2001 // A hearing will be held tomorrow in the House Commerce Committee on a bill sponsored by the National Association of Independent Insurers. The bill is designed to address issues raised by 1999’s controversial...
W/C BILL UNVEILED
Jan 29 2001 // On Jan. 9, Senator John Burton (D-San Francisco) introduced and read for the first time Senate Bill 71, a workers’ compensation bill that may be an important piece in solving California’s workers’ comp...
United we stand’
Jan 29 2001 // The power struggle between the folks over at OSHA and the insurance industry has reached a new level. OSHA’s Ergonomic Program Standard which took effect on Jan. 16 with an implementation date of Oct. 15 is casting...
Illinois Workers’ Comp Self-insurance Pool Ordered into Liquidation
Jan 25 2001 // Illinois Insurance Director Nat Shapo received approval this week to place the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council Risk Management Association Workers Compensation Trust into liquidation. The company, referred to as...
Fund Eyed for Privatization; Industry Balks at Comptroller’s Recommendation to Sell TWCIF
Jan 22 2001 // As part of an effort to privatize government units, Texas State Comptroller Carole Keeton Rylander has recommended that the Texas Workers’ Compensation Insurance Fund be sold to the highest bidder. The...
N.H. Bill Tightens State Workers’ Comp Law
Jan 22 2001 // A new bill introduced in the New Hampshire House addresses a controversial state Supreme Court ruling that allowed a worker who became depressed after an unfavorable performance review to collect under her employer’s...
