Aging Workforce May Not Be So Bad for Workers’ Compensation, Says NCCI January 5, 2012 By Andrew G. Simpson The aging workforce may not have the negative impact on loss costs that workers’ compensation insurers have feared. New research...
Jay-Z Cleared of N.Y. Workers’ Comp Board Charge January 4, 2012 By Young Ha Jay-Z may have 99 problems, but missing workers’ comp insurance payments isn’t one of them. The judgement against the rapper...
Mississippi High Court to Hear Appeal Over $15M Award for Asbestos January 4, 2012 Conoco Phillips Corp. has appealed a $15.2 million jury award to an oil and well drilling worker who claimed have...
Lack of Workers’ Comp Closes Vermont Trucking Company December 31, 2011 A trucking company owned by a Vermont state senator and his son has been shut down for not having workers’...
Jones Announces Joint Effort to Fight California’s ‘Underground Economy’ December 29, 2011 The California Department of Insurance (CDI) is joining with the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) and other agencies to fight...
Members Added to Minnesota FAIR Plan, Workers’ Comp Association December 29, 2011 Two members have been added to the board of Minnesota’s FAIR plan and one new member has been added to...
Texas Work Comp Discount, Interest Rate Set for Q1 2012 December 29, 2011 The workers’ compensation interest and discount rate in Texas for the first quarter of 2012 has been set at 3.61...
Court OKs AIG’s $450M Settlement Over Underreported Workers’ Comp Premiums December 28, 2011 A federal judge has approved American International Group Inc.’s $450 million settlement with rival insurers to end litigation accusing AIG...
Ex-NFL Players Sue League Over Brain Injuries December 26, 2011 By Greg Bluestein and Jeff Martin Jamal Lewis, Dorsey Levens and two other former National Football League players have sued the league over brain injuries that...
Kansas Insurance Regulator Rebuffs Proposed Workers’ Comp Rate Increase December 22, 2011 Kansas’ top insurance regulator has refused a proposed workers’ compensation rate increase and actually got the rate to drop slightly,...