Workers' Compensation News
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Vermont Approves 4.2% Cut in Loss Costs
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03/04/2008
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State: VT | Segment: Regulatory | 0
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Vermont officials announced Monday they have approved a 4.2% cut in loss costs for the state's voluntary workers' compensation market and an identical cut in rates for the residual market -- marking the second consecutive year of reductions.The Department of Banking, Insurance, S...Read More
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Vermont Promotes Assistant Chief Examiner to Head Captive Unit
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03/04/2008
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State: VT | Segment: Regulatory | 0
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Vermont banking, insurance and securities Commissioner Paulette J. Thabault has named the assistant chief examiner of the state's Captive Insurance Division to replace veteran regulator Leonard Crouse at the helm of the division.Thabault said in a release that David F. Provost will r...Read More
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Vermont Logs 10 Highway Deaths in 2008
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03/04/2008
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State: VT | Segment: Safety | 0
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The Vermont Department of Labor (DOL) said ten workers have died in highway accidents so far in 2008, compared to overall, work-related traffic deaths of 67 last year.The agency released the totals as part of its electronic newsletter, Road-Safe Workplace, and said traffic deaths are the...Read More
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Va. Republicans Push Carve-Out Bill toward Defeat in the House
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02/28/2008
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State: VA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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An unusual workers' compensation bill that squeaked by in the Democrat-controlled Virginia Senate is headed for a tougher vote on the floor of the Virginia House of Delegates, following a parliamentary maneuver by Republicans in the House Rules Committee.One opponent of Senate Bill 1...Read More
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Valley Oak Appoints Taps TriStar Exec for Managed Care
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02/28/2008
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State: NA | Segment: Business | 0
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Valley Oak Systems, Inc., an Aon subsidiary that provides insurance-industry technology, announced Wednesday that Jacqueline Payne has joined the company as vice president of managed care.Payne's managed care expertise will enable a strategic expansion of iVOS Review Software and Ser...Read More
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Virginia Doc Pleads Guilty to Medicaid/Medicare Fraud
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02/27/2008
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State: VA | Segment: Fraud | 0
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A Dublin, Va., doctor who ran a pain management clinic has pleaded guilty to federal charges that she billed the Medicaid and Medicare programs for services she never performed.U.S. Attorney John L. Brownlee, chief federal prosecutor for the U.S. Western District of Virginia, said Dr. Li...Read More
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Virginia Dismisses Three Tenn. Claims in ROA Case
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02/22/2008
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State: VA | Segment: Regulatory | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Virginia State Corporation Commission has dismissed three Tennessee risk-retention groups that that bought reinsurance for Reciprocal of America (ROA) from the group awaiting payment of claims pending with Insurance Commissioner Alfred Gross.The commission ruled that Doctors Insuranc...Read More
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Valley Oak Sells iVOS Claims System to DaimlerChrysler Insurance
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02/20/2008
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State: NA | Segment: Business | 0 | Popular with Legal
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Valley Oak Systems announced Tuesday that DaimlerChrysler Insurance Co. has implemented its iVOS system as its "one-system" claims-management solution. DaimlerChrysler Insurance Co. (DCIC) is a specialty insurance company offering property and casualty insurance programs to automobile de...Read More
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Victoria Office Hosts Session on Change of Treating Doctor Feb. 27
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02/12/2008
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State: TX | Segment: Regulatory | 0
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The Victoria field office of the Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation host a “brown-bag” session on the change-of-treating-doctor process on Feb. 27.The free session will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Victoria Public Library at 302 N. Main....Read More
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Vermont Warns of Late Paymenst for Voc Rehab
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01/28/2008
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State: VT | Segment: Regulatory | 0
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The Vermont Workers' Compensation Division warned carriers and employers last week that there appears to be a "growing problem" with vocational rehabilitation payments, following the March 2007 adoption of the state's first fee schedules for those services.Vocational Rehabilitati...Read More
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