The Montana House Business and Labor Committee has endorsed a bill to reform the state’s workers’ compensation system. Among other things, HB 334 workers’ comp reform bill aims to provide for the closure of claims, provide a process to reopen …
The Florida House Subcommittee on Insurance and Banking has approved a bill that would codify the Florida Workers’ Compensation Joint Underwriting Associations’ current rating plan and create the position of Worker’s Compensation Administrator within the Office of Insurance Regulation. Additionally, …
Reno, Nev.-based Employers Holdings Inc. (NYSE: EIG), whose subsidiaries are specialty providers of workers’ compensation insurance focused on small- and medium-sized businesses, will review the company’s fourth quarter and full year 2010 financial results during a conference call and Webcast …
San Diego, CA, 02/10/11 – Investigation Solutions, Inc., the subsidiary of American Claims Management, Inc. (ACM) that handles fraud and special investigations, announced its first fraud arrest for 2011. A suspicious workers’ compensation claim ultimately led to the arrest as …
Oregon’s private sector workers suffered work-related injuries and illnesses at a rate of 4.4 for every 100 full-time employees in the 2009 calendar year, the lowest ever recorded, according to a new report. Of the 48,304 total work-related injury cases …
Recent high-profile accident cases have put a regulatory spotlight on grain elevators. Speakers at the North Dakota Grain Dealers Association annual meeting in Fargo talked about a range of financial perils elevators must deal with today. Mike Maslowski, compliance assistance …
Oklahoma Labor Commissioner Mark Costello is asking lawmakers to overhaul the state’s workers’ compensation system. Costello appeared before the Oklahoma House’s Committee on Insurance. He’s proposing repeal of the state’s existing Workers’ Compensation Court system and replacing it with an …
A newspaper has found that state, municipal or private workers in Illinois have gotten thousands of tax-free dollars in workers’ compensation with largely nothing more than a doctor’s note. The Belleville News-Democrat reports such cases, many involving wrist or elbow …
A proposal to give workers’ compensation insurance coverage to emergency workers for mental stress has been defeated in the North Dakota House. North Dakota’s workers’ compensation law normally doesn’t cover a work incident that causes mental trauma – unless the …
California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC), a division within the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR), has sadly announced the passing of acting Administrative Director Carrie Nevans. She was appointed deputy administrative director (AD) and served the division as its acting …
