Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Maryland House Passes Workers’ Comp Bill
Mar 29 2001 // Legislation allowing undisputed workers’ comp claims to be handled out of state was passed earlier this week by the Maryland House of Delegates. HB 1223, which would abolish an outdated rule requiring workers’...
Illinois Environmental Services Workers Comp Trust Liquidated
Mar 28 2001 // Illinois Environmental Services Workers Comp Trust Liquidated The Circuit Court of Cook County, Ill. has granted Illinois Insurance Director Nat Shapo’s petition to place the Illinois Environmental Services Workers...
Cracking Down on the Industry’s Fraud Problem
Mar 26 2001 // Fraud investigators in June busted a Tampa fraud ring that crashed cars at a private site, scooped up the debris and moved the wreckage to a public roadway. The members then called police so that they could file fraudulent...
Another Framer Framed
Mar 26 2001 // After a two-year investigation by the CDI Criminal Investigations Branch, Robert Joseph Cote, 57, owner of Grand Valley Framing, was arrested on two felony counts of insurance fraud. In 1996, SCIF conducted a routine...
WORKERS’ COMP IN CALIFORNIA: A Barren Landscape
Mar 26 2001 // Three months into the new year, the picture for the California workers’ comp market is not pretty, and it’s likely to get worse. Developments in recent weeks-including lowered ratings, carrier losses, declining...
It’s All in the Execution for Doomed OSHA Regulations
Mar 26 2001 // To the relief of employers and insurers, Congress overturned the ergonomic regulations adopted by OSHA last year. Despite all the caterwauling about the ergonomic regulations adopted by OSHA in November 2000, I think they...
Artificial Intelligence Technology Transforms Software Solutions
Mar 26 2001 // For many people not directly involved in the development of software for the insurance industry, any discussion of new technology can rapidly swell into a serious information overload. Compounding this problem is the...
Bush Signs Ergonomics Repeal; Draws IIAA Praise
Mar 22 2001 // Independent agents are hailing the finality of freeing small businesses from costly federal ergonomics rules following President Bush’s signing of a measure to repeal them, says Independent Insurance Agents of...
Sacramento Man Arrested for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Mar 21 2001 // A five-month investigation by the California Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Branch has led to the arrest of a Sacramento man for insurance fraud. Richard Wayne Bento, 30, was arrested earlier this week on...
WORKERS’ COMP WOES
Mar 19 2001 // The nation’s workers’ compensation insurers suffered an 86 percent decline in profits, to $144 million during the first nine months of 2000 from a $1 billion peak during the same period in 1998, according to...
Workers’ Comp Reinsurance Assoc. to Refund $310 Million
Mar 16 2001 // The Workers’ Compensation Reinsurance Association Board of Directors has approved a surplus distribution of $310 million to Minnesota employers and insurance companies. Including the current $310 million...
Workers’ Comp Hearings Continue in Sacramento
Mar 15 2001 // The dire condition of California’s workers’ comp market was reaffirmed Wednesday during the second in a series of hearings held by Assembly Insurance Committee Chairman Thomas Calderon. ABL Lobbyist John...
CDI Makes Workers’ Comp Fraud Arrest
Mar 14 2001 // Investigators from the California Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Branch on Tuesday arrested Jeffrey Ferguson of Tuolumne County, Calif. on charges of workers’ compensation fraud. Ferguson is being...
Workers’ Comp Insurers Suffer 86 Percent Profit Decline Since 1998
Mar 8 2001 // The nation’s workers’ compensation insurers suffered an 86 percent decline in profits, to $144 million during the first nine months of 2000 from a $1 billion peak during the same period in 1998, according to...
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,...
