Michael G. Dileo has been promoted to the position of senior vice president of operations at Louisiana-based regional workers’ compensation underwriter Stonetrust Commercial Insurance Co. Dileo has almost 25 years of commercial lines experience including extensive executive level management experience …
Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced that rates for workers’ compensation insurance will decrease in Louisiana effective May 1, 2014. Commissioner Donelon recently approved a 5.1 percent decrease in workers’ compensation loss costs submitted by the National Council on …
For years newshounds have endeavored to figure out a way to predict what stories will prove most popular with readers. While a few web news aggregators have had some measure of success and have steadily drawn in readers with hot …
The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board recently announced it will transition the management of established Uninsured Employers’ Fund (UEF) claims to the Triad Group, LLC effective Jan. 13, 2014. Triad Group, based in Troy, N.Y., is a professional service …
CompWest Insurance Co., part of the Accident Fund Holdings family, has partnered with Align General Insurance Agency to write workers’ compensation insurance in California for high-quality risks with a debit experience modification, effective January 1, 2014. This new program is …
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced last Friday the state issued $370 million in bonds to assist businesses in failed group self-insured trusts fulfill their obligations to their injured workers. The bonding is made possible in Gov. Cuomo’s 2013 Business …
Authorities have charged the head of a central New Jersey roofing company with stealing more than $265,000 through alleged insurance fraud. The state attorney general’s office says Charles Kelcy Pegler Sr., was indicted on Dec. 19 for theft by deception, …
A 76-year-old Providence, Rhode Island, woman must pay $10,000 in restitution on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses for allegedly collecting workers’ compensation benefits while she was employed. The state attorney general and state labor department director said …
Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance Exchange filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of California against two radiological corporations and their owners for allegedly submitting false documentation to get paid for services they didn’t provide. The civil complaint seeks restitution for …
Tyson Foods Inc. has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for four workplace safety violations at the Hutchinson, Kan., prepared foods manufacturing plant after a worker’s hand was severed by an unguarded conveyor …
