Virginia’s State Corporation Commission (SCC) announced on Jan. 8 that the commission has approved revisions to the premium levels charged for the state’s workers’ compensation insurance. The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) sought the revisions. The changes approved by …
The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) announced it has expanded the list of providers who can treat injured workers and strengthened certification requirements for those providers Rules that took effect at the BWC on Jan. 1 add a number …
Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart today announced action taken with respect to workers’ compensation insurance rates and loss costs effective Dec. 1, 2012. Commissioner Stewart approved an amended filing submitted by the Delaware Compensation Rating Bureau Inc. (DCRB) which …
The Department of Industrial Relations on Friday announced its new regulations implementing provisions of California’s workers’ compensation reform law. The law, Senate Bill 863, will take effect in several stages, and DIR was tasked with forming regulations to give the …
Midwestern Insurance Alliance LLC named Keith Laughlin vice president of underwriting for its California workers’ compensation division. Laughlin will be part of MWIA’s expansion into the California workers’ comp market. Laughlin will be located in MWIA’s San Diego office. Laughlin …
The Oklahoma State Chamber says shifting the state’s court-based workers’ compensation system to an administrative model will be one of its top priorities for the upcoming legislative session. The powerful lobbying group that represents hundreds of businesses and industries across …
A divided Montana Supreme Court says forcing a Hutterite religious colony to pay workers’ compensation insurance for jobs outside the commune is not an unconstitutional intrusion into religion. Monday’s 4-3 decision upholds a 2009 law requiring religious organizations to carry …
Dec. 21, 2012 came and went and the apocalypse was so lackluster as to be forgotten among the year’s myriad headlines. Now that we are all well and good, and past doomsday, here are Insurance Journal’s best headlines in the …
A judge’s ruling against the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation may end up costing the state hundreds of millions of dollars. The ruling issued Friday also could mean that more than 270,000 Ohio employers are due restitution after the judge …
A former police officer in a southwestern Illinois village is accused of collecting nearly $190,000 in fraudulent benefits. A Madison County grand jury indicted 43-year-old Richard Turner of Glen Carbon on Thursday of two counts apiece of theft and violating …
