News Digest 5/13/2008

Judge Properly Cut Off Benefits, Keystone State Court Rules A workers’ compensation judge properly cut off a former Pennsylvania tube plant employee’s workers’ compensation benefits, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court rules. … Read More »

News Digest 3/3/2008

Arizona Appeals Court Rules on False Statements Lying to qualify for workers’ compensation benefits has a price under Arizona law, but not necessarily loss of all benefits, according to the … Read More »

News Digest 1/25/2008

Cirque du Soleil Benefits Manager Illuminates Her Unique Role How can an employer provide health insurance for workers who travel 100 percent of the time? How should it calculate risk … Read More »

News Digest 1/24/2008

Employers Direct Launches New Benefits Brokerage This Month Plenary Insurance Services is now in business. Find out about Employers Direct’s foray into benefits brokering. Can it find efficiencies where so … Read More »

Employers Direct New Benefits Brokerage Launched This Month

Employers Direct Insurance Company this month threw open the doors to its new employee benefits brokerage, Plenary Insurance Services. Employers Direct executives say that, to their knowledge, it’s the first offering of an efficient group health program that can work closely with the workers’ comp carrier if the client buys both coverages from the two … Read More »

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News Digest 1/23/2008

Wyoming Advocates Want System to Cowboy Up for Workers Last year, Wyoming’s workers’ compensation program paid out about $121 million in benefits to injured workers and, as of November, the … Read More »

News Digest 1/8/2008

Arizona Businesses Expect ‘Tough Year’ In Arizona, a minimum wage hike, a sharp rise in workers’ compensation benefits and a law that threatens to revoke licenses of employers who knowingly … Read More »

News Digest 11/6/2007

Critics: Death Benefits for Utah Miners Emblematic of Flawed System While spilled coffee or crude remarks by a basketball coach can trigger jury awards worth millions of dollars, death benefits … Read More »