Lieutenant Governor Mead Treadwell has filed the following regulations, proposed by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, and adopted by the Alaska Workers’ Compensation Board, regarding workers’ compensation: Appeal of Discovery Orders 8 AAC 45.065 Change of Physicians – Definition of a Month 8 AAC 45.082 Controversions 8 AAC 45.182 Hearing Continuances and Cancellations… [Read more]
Workers' Compensation
Windham Group Job Fit Analysis Solution Lands Several New Markets
Manchester, NH (PRWEB) – Windham Group, provider of Return to Work Solutions to the workers compensation/healthcare industry and directly to employers today announced that their proprietary Job Fit Analysis solution has successfully been introduced to several new key markets. With the help of Windham Group’s Job Fit Analysis (JFA) claims adjusters have resolved more than… [Read more]
ACIC: SCIF Wants Best of Both Worlds
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) wants the California Legislature to pass special rules that will let them keep their preferential tax status while enabling the entity to operate like a multi-state private carrier, says the Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC). AB 228 (Fuentes) would give SCIF the authority to provide… [Read more]
CA DWC Preps for Launch of JET File
The Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is preparing for the June 27 launch of JET File, a new fast, flexible and reliable electronic filing option for the workers’ compensation courts. Designed and built in conjunction with external users for those annually filing 100 or more of any one of the six most common court forms,… [Read more]
SUNZ Insurance Expands in North Carolina
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. /PRNewswire/ — SUNZ Insurance, specializing in underwriting workers’ compensation programs for mid-to-large employers, Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs) and Staffing Companies, is quickly expanding throughout the nation and is now writing policies in North Carolina. With this expansion, SUNZ is currently writing in 13 states, while eight additional states are pending approval. “SUNZ… [Read more]
NCCI Releases Residual Market Management Summary
NCCI recently announced the release of their Residual Market Management Summary for 2010 and described it as the best source for obtaining facts and figures to understand current situations in the workers compensation residual market plans and reinsurance pools that are serviced by the National Council on Compensation Insurance, Inc. (NCCI). NCCI stated that the… [Read more]
Annual Minnesota Workers’ Compensation System Report Released
The number of paid workers’ compensation claims has fallen 44 percent relative to the number of employees from 1997 to 2009, according to the 2009 Minnesota Workers’ Compensation System Report, just released by the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry (DLI). “Though each workplace accident is one too many, the report underscores that Minnesota’s workplaces… [Read more]
Data Analysis Exposes Workers’ Comp Billing Fraud
COLUMBUS – A pair of Illinois brothers who traveled to Columbus to practice psychiatry were sentenced for workers’ compensation fraud after an investigation showed they were conducting inadequate examinations of injured workers and submitting false bills to the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC). Muhammed S. Choudhry, M.D., owner and practitioner at Nehal Psychiatric Group,… [Read more]
Monument, LLC to Implement GettingHired, LLC’s FastTrack Return-to-Work Solutions
BEDMINSTER, N.J. /PRNewswire/ — Monument, LLC (Monument Administrators), headquartered in Malvern, PA, today announced it will implement FastTrack Return-to-Work Solutions to improve its claim triage and Return-to-Work programs. Available through GettingHired, LLC, FastTrack assists insurance companies and program administrators in the short-term disability, long-term disability and workers’ compensation sectors. FastTrack’s Transitional Services Tools Module is… [Read more]
CA WCIRB Releases Report on Losses & Expenses for Calendar Year 2010
San Francisco, CA – The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California (WCIRB), an unincorporated, private, nonprofit association comprised of all companies licensed to transact workers’ compensation insurance in California, has released its report on workers’ compensation losses and expenses for 2010. The report is prepared annually pursuant to Section 11759.1 of the California Insurance… [Read more]