Tennessee state officials, business groups, labor leaders and legal experts are lining up to study the state’s workers’ compensation system, although it may be 2013 before any legislative deals are struck. Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has decided that for now, …
Michigan workers’ compensation insurance regulators report that due to recent statutory changes some contested workers’ compensation claims will be assigned to mediation. Michigan Workers’ Compensation Agency announced that staff members have been instructed to assign the following contested workers’ compensation …
States without fee schedules have higher hospital outpatient costs for common surgeries compared to states with fee schedules, according to a workers’ compensation study. The study found that significant variations in hospital outpatient/ambulatory surgical center (ASC) costs were also found …
The aging workforce may not have the negative impact on loss costs that workers’ compensation insurers have feared. New research from the industry’s National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) also concludes that while loss costs are higher for older workers …
Jay-Z may have 99 problems, but missing workers’ comp insurance payments isn’t one of them. The judgement against the rapper and the court-ordered $18,000 fine will be vacated in a few days, according to a report from New York Post. …
Conoco Phillips Corp. has appealed a $15.2 million jury award to an oil and well drilling worker who claimed have gotten lung disease from exposure to asbestos. The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case on Jan. …
A trucking company owned by a Vermont state senator and his son has been shut down for not having workers’ compensation insurance. A court has granted a permanent injunction against Starrs United, Inc. Sen. Bobby Starr, a Democrat who represents …
The California Department of Insurance (CDI) is joining with the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) and other agencies to fight labor law and insurance-related violations in an “underground economy.” The collaboration was announced on Thursday by Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones. …
Two members have been added to the board of Minnesota’s FAIR plan and one new member has been added to the state’s workers’ comp insurance association. The FAIR Plan is Minnesota’s statutorily created limited property insurer for those properties not …
The workers’ compensation interest and discount rate in Texas for the first quarter of 2012 has been set at 3.61 percent. The rate will be effective beginning Jan. 1, 2012, through Mar. 31, 2012, the Texas Department of Insurance Division …
