Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster has reached agreements with two companies who the attorney general’s office says violated Missouri’s workers’ compensation law by knowingly failing to report worker injuries to the Division of Workers’ Compensation within the prescribed time frame. …
Texas Gov. Rick Perry reappointed Rod A. Bordelon Jr. of Austin as commissioner of Workers’ Compensation at the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) for a term to expire Feb. 1, 2013. Bordelon has served as commissioner of Workers’ Compensation at …
The Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies (BHHC) now has the ability to provide workers’ compensation coverage to their clients in every state that allows private insurers to compete for business. Currently, BHHC has policies in force in 44 non-monopolistic states. BHHC …
A Montana senator believes the state might save money if part of the workers’ compensation program were administered by a private insurance company. Sen. Jim Keane urged members of the Senate Business, Labor, and Economic Affairs Committee to support Senate …
Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty is back in federal court looking to end a legal battle with the Texas-based Dallas National Insurance Co. and its owner Charles David Wood, who claims the commissioner denied his insurer a license to operate …
Berkley Life Sciences, LLC, an insurance underwriting company dedicated solely to the life sciences industry, has begun offering a full suite of commercial lines policies on an admitted basis. The admitted policies will be underwritten on behalf of Berkley National …
GreenWood International Insurance Services, Inc (GWI) is has chosen Cook & Co. of Marshfield, Mass. to provide claim and distribution support for police and fire injured on duty policies within the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Municipal markets. The selection of …
The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission announced that as of March 1, 2011, no case settlement contracts will be approved until the case has been assigned a case number and setting. The IWCC said that in the past, pro se settlement …
Liens are “choking” California’s workers’ compensation system, with employers and insurers spending roughly $200 million per year on loss adjustment expense to handle medical liens claims, according to a new liens report. In the Golden State’s workers’ compensation system, a …
The increased cost and more frequent use of medical care provided to injured workers in Wisconsin drove up the average medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in recent years, according to a new study by the Cambridge, Mass.-based Workers Compensation …
