Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Martin Picked to Serve as CFO at LCTA Workers’ Comp
May 25 2016 // Louisiana-based insurance carrier, LCTA Workers’ Comp (LCTA), has hired Christine Martin as chief financial officer (CFO). A certified public accountant, Martin brings more than 20 years of financial management...
IIABNY Lauds New York Senate Committee’s Approval of Workers’ Comp Bill
May 24 2016 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York (IIABNY) applauded a New York Senate committee’s action to protect employers from surprise insurance premium increases in their workers’ compensation...
Investigation Solutions’ Scrutiny Leads Orange County DA to Allege $2 Million Workers’ Compensation Payroll Fraud
May 24 2016 // Irvine, CA, May 24, 2016- The Orange County District Attorney’s Office has charged an Irvine, California business owner and his bookkeeper with fraud for allegedly underreporting payroll to their workers’...
New York Auditors Find $3.45M in Faulty Workers’ Comp Claims
May 23 2016 // New York auditors report preventing 206 incorrect claims for $1.85 million in workers’ compensation and medical benefits last year while identifying 417 duplicate claims for $1.6 million paid over the past two...
Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Adds Lawyers PL Program, Plans Other Product Launches
May 23 2016 // Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies is now offering a lawyers professional liability policy in California, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, and the District of Columbia with ten more states planned in...
Another Part of Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Act Struck Down
May 23 2016 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court dealt another blow to the state’s 2013 workers’ comp overhaul by finding unconstitutional a provision of the Oklahoma Administrative Workers’ Compensation Act pertaining to the...
Workers’ Compensation Market Improved, Grew Premium in 2015: NCCI
May 23 2016 // The workers’ compensation market is healthy and profitable. This year’s “State of the Line” report, published by the National Council of Compensation Insurance (NCCI), indicates that the...
New Chief Donnell: Independence, Objectivity in Workers’ Comp Remain NCCI’s Core Values
May 23 2016 // For more than 90 years the National Council of Compensation Insurance (NCCI) has served the workers’ compensation industry as a provider of data and information. Its mission has been to “help enable a healthy...
CDI: Trucking Company Owners Cheated Workers’ Comp Carrier out of Millions
May 23 2016 // A pair of California trucking company owners were arrested for cheating their workers’ compensation insurer out of millions of dollars. Alvin Shin Chen, 54, and Fiona Xilin Chen, 46, both of La Canada Flintridge,...
Florida Construction Company Owner Nabbed in Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
May 22 2016 // The owner of a construction company in Naples, Fla., was arrested this month for an alleged workers’ comp scheme, according to an announcement from Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater. Raimundo...
Whistleblower Lawsuit Leads to $190.5K Penalty for Illinois Employer
May 20 2016 // Federal safety officials say an Illinois company has been ordered to pay $190,547 in back wages and damages to a safety manager in a whistleblower case stemming from a Lansing, Ill., facility. The U.S. Department of...
Morrison Tapped to Head Ohio’s Workers’ Comp Fund
May 19 2016 // Gov. John Kasich has appointed the chief legal officer to Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers as the agency’s new leader. Sarah Morrison takes over as administrator and CEO of the Ohio Bureau of...
California Workers’ Comp Reforms May Have Decreased Medical Payments
May 19 2016 // Elements of California’s workers’ compensation reform law passed in 2012 may have contributed to the state’s 2013 and 2014 decreases in medical payments per workers’ comp claim, according to a study...
Fitch Expecting P/C Commercial Insurance Business to Deteriorate
May 19 2016 // Underwriting performance for the commercial lines sector of the U.S. property/casualty (P/C) insurance industry is likely to deteriorate in 2016, according to a new report from Fitch Ratings. The expected decline would...
Alliant Names Umbright Workers’ Comp Claims Advocate in California
May 18 2016 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has named Jennifer Umbright to its Sacramento, Calif. office of as a workers’ compensation claims advocate within the company’s Alliant Americas division. Umbright will advise a...
Top 5 Workers Compensation Claims and Their Causes
May 18 2016 // Strains and sprains are the most common worker injury while worker injuries are most frequently the result of materials handling incidents, according to a review of more than 1.5 million workers compensation claims by The...
Minnesota Workers’ Compensation: A No-Fault System
May 18 2016 // Workers’ compensation is a no-fault system in Minnesota: the employee does not need to prove negligence on the part of the employer to establish liability and the employer cannot use negligence on the part of the...
Workers’ Compensation in Missouri: In the Middle of the Rate Pack
May 17 2016 // Missouri comes in at 21 for the highest workers’ compensation premium rates of the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, just under Minnesota, according to the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial...
Zenith to Provide Workers’ Comp for California Mutual Water Companies
May 16 2016 // Zenith Insurance Co. will serve as the workers’ compensation reinsurer and service provider for the California water system and water-related entities program recently formed by Alteris Insurance Services, Inc. and...
Ross Campesi Sr., Founder of Louisiana Workers’ Comp Insurer Passes
May 13 2016 // Ross Campesi Sr., founder of LCTA Workers’ Comp, died May 7 in his home. Campesi was 90 years old. “Ross’s passing is obviously a huge personal loss … he was the love of my life,” Melissa Campesi,...
