Quote of the day
"It's the first time I've ever gotten money back from an insurance company. I love it."
Bob Persons, owner of the Double Musky Inn in Alaska, on a $5,000 dividend check he received.
Freelance Writer’s Workers’ Comp Claim Denied
A split Wyoming Supreme Court denied a claim filed by a freelance writer for Outdoor magazine who injured his wrist while rock climbing, despite the fact that he’d secured a workers’ comp policy for his corporation that only employed himself. Associated Press via Billings Gazette
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Alaska Employers Get Dividends in Group Program
A three-year-old workers’ comp group program for restaurants, hotels and retailers that is growing rapidly paid out $413,000 in dividends this year to employers with good experience. The group is attracting more attention as employers look to shave costs in the Last Frontier. Melissa Campbell, Alaska Journal of Commerce
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Minnesota High Court Says Injured Workers Should Receive Speedy Examinations
Lower courts hearing Worker’s Compensation cases must grant timely requests for examination by a neutral medical professional, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled yesterday. Rob Luke, Legal Newsline.com
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Northern California College Professor Dupes Workers’ Comp Investigators
A college professor falsified payment invoices and deceived workers compensation investigators as part of an illegal partnership to grow and sell palm trees on campus. David Garrick, North County Times
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CRM’s Revenue Doubles
Workers’ compensation specialty company CRM Holdings Ltd last week posted revenues of $26.6 million for the fourth quarter of 2006, up 97.7 percent from the same quarter in 2005. Its earnings rose 113 percent during the same period. Craig Wolf, Poughkeepsie Journal
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Noe Starts His Transfer to Federal Pen in South Carolina
Former Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation manager Tom Noe, earlier convicted of stealing millions of dollars in a rare coin fund he managed for the Bureau, has transferred from the federal prison in Milan, Mich. to Oklahoma, but his ultimate destination is the federal penitentiary in Edgefield, S.C. James Drew, Toledo Blade
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