News Digest 8/3/2007
New Report on Missouri’s Second Injury Fund Reaches Similar Conclusions Just a few months after criticizing the Missouri auditor’s analysis of the state’s Second Injury Fund, Gov. Matt Blunt’s administration …
New Report on Missouri’s Second Injury Fund Reaches Similar Conclusions Just a few months after criticizing the Missouri auditor’s analysis of the state’s Second Injury Fund, Gov. Matt Blunt’s administration …
Report Targets ‘Big Scam’ in Windy City Illinois and federal agencies are investigating allegations that Chicago-area construction companies deliberately misclassify employees as independent contractors in order to avoid financial obligations …
Poochigian’s Report on Workers’ Comp System State Sen. Chuck Poochigian, R-Fresno, author of SB 899, runs down the status of workers’ compensation in California. By Chuck Poochigian via KHTS AM …
Publisher Dale Debber was with Steve Poizner in Palo Alto as the race was won. Here is his report. PALO ALTO – With his campaign party in full swing at the Sheraton, it was a confident Steve Poizner who came to the podium as election returns continued indicating a commanding lead that had begun when …
SeaBright Shares Surge on Third Quarter Report Shares of SeaBright Insurance Holdings Inc., which has a wholly owned subsidiary that is a workers’ compensation underwriter, jump after the company reports …
Two new national studies report that Michigan’s workers’ compensation benefit payments have been stable in recent years and that its costs reside below the national average. The studies also indicate that workers’ comp insurers are performing ahead of the national average. The study by the National Academy of Social Insurance reports that workers’ comp benefit …
Empire State Workers’ Comp Overpriced: Report Despite paying the lowest maximum weekly benefits of any state in the country, the New York workers’ compensation system is among the most expensive …
California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced the June 1 arrests of Clyde and Jackie Sewell, both 52, the owners of residential framing contracting business North Pointe Enterprises, Inc., and their daughter, Toni Studer, 30, for allegedly failing to accurately report employee payroll to the State Compensation Insurance Fund and the Employment Development Department, in …