workers’ compensation News

KEMI to Offer Preferred Program to the Kentucky Restaurant Association

Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance (KEMI) and the Kentucky Restaurant Association (KRA) have launched a new workers’ compensation program. KEMI is partnering with KRA to make workers’ comp benefits affordable for KRA’s members, and to provide the resources and support that …

Texas Mutual Creates Work Comp Safety Group for Houses of Worship

Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced a new workers’ compensation safety group: Texas Church Group. The group is open to qualifying nonprofit, faith-based organizations operating houses of worship, such as churches and synagogues. Members of the Texas Church Group have access …

Exercise Programs Lead to Better Work Productivity, Study Finds

Taking time out of the work week for an employee exercise program may lead to increased productivity — despite the reduction in work hours, reports a new study. The new study, published in the August Journal of Occupational and Environmental …

Texas Mutual Rewards Medical Group with $874K Dividend

Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced an $873,522 dividend to the Texas Medical Group (TMG). The workers’ compensation safety group dividend was based largely on TMG’s overall loss ratio. TMG safety group members have shared in $2.6 million in Texas Mutual …

Texas Supreme Court: Bad Faith Claim Inconsistent with Worker’s Comp

The Texas Supreme Court has concluded that while bad faith claims against workers’ compensation carriers are not permissible under the state’s Insurance Code, claims made under the Code against insurers for policy misrepresentation are allowable. With its decision in Texas …

Florida Targets Check Cashing Firms for Aiding Workers’ Comp Fraud

Florida officials, law enforcement officers and trade groups are lining up in an effort to stop checking cashing companies from facilitating workers’ compensation fraud in the construction industry. Headed up by Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater, officials held the first …

Lawyers Claim Montana Workers’ Compensation Investigators Violate Privacy

Two Billings attorneys are asking the Montana Supreme Court to stop workers’ compensation investigators from practices that they say violate the privacy rights of workers’ comp claimants. The Billings Gazette reported that Gene Jarussi and Michael Eiselein, along with 10 …

Filing Aims to Reduce Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Rates

Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak announced the National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. (NCCI) has filed to reduce workers’ compensation insurance rates in Oklahoma by 1.7 percent effective Jan. 1, 2012. The commissioner says NCCI attributed the rate decrease to …

Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Rates Continue to Drop

Kentucky regulators have approved the sixth straight reduction in workers’ compensation loss cost rates. Kentucky Insurance Commissioner Sharon Clark has approved a statewide average 7.5 percent decrease in loss costs rates. The new rates mean that the state’s loss cost …

Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau Proposes Job Creation Plan

The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation has proposed an economic development initiative with the goal of creating jobs in that state. Under the proposal, BWC could offer new employers in Ohio a 50 percent or higher discount on their workers’ …