On February 10, 2006, the Web site address for the TXCOMP system was changed to www.tdi.state.tx.us/wc/txcomp.html. Texas workers’ compensation system participants who use TXCOMP are urged to change Internet bookmarks to the new address and also to include the new …
Europe is facing an immense demographic challenge that will cuts its growth rate substantially and strain its public finances as its baby boomers retire and life expectancy increases, although some countries have taken steps to address the aging population. A …
Virginia House Republicans have offered a $2 billion, four-year financing plan that is underwritten partly by daunting new fines on lead-footed drivers. It provides only about half the additional revenue for roads, commuter rails and transit that competing plans by …
Investigators believe a pair of men in their 20s or 30s, likely “bosom buddies,” are responsible for a string of church fires in rural Alabama, as authorities confirmed the latest blaze at a Baptist church on Saturday afternoon was the …
Dozens of federally insured medical providers have been blocked from helping the Gulf Coast recover from Hurricane Katrina because their medical liability protection doesn’t apply outside their own states. Doctors and nurses from community health centers across the country, who …
New York Superintendent of Insurance Howard Mills released the agenda for a public hearing on the state’s current homeowners’ insurance marketplace that is scheduled for Monday, Feb. 27. The public hearing will consider issues arising in the wake of the …
Edward L. Bee, the owner of two Bartow, Fla. electric companies, Bee Corporation Inc. and Harris Electric, has been charged with workers’ compensation fraud by the Florida Department of Financial Services Fraud Unit. According to DFS, Bee has been charged …
A multimillion-dollar workers’ compensation scam that raked in its perpetrators more than $15 million has been cracked by state and local officials who have arrested six men in Boca Raton, Fla. and charged them with cheating hundreds of general contractors. …
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation will conduct public hearings Monday in Orlando, Fla. concerning rate filings by American Strategic Insurance Corporation/ASI Assurance Corporation. American Strategic is proposing a statewide average of 19 percent for homeowners insurance in one program …
