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April Forum to Address Catastrophe Preparedness

The California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation plans an April 7, 2006 forum that will assemble homeland security, emergency response, and occupational safety and health leaders to discuss individual, worker and employer preparedness for catastrophic risks. The conference will be held at the South San Francisco Conference Center, 255 South Airport Boulevard … Read More »

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Zenith Declares Quarterly Dividend

Zenith National Insurance Corp. of Woodland Hills, Calif. yesterday declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.28 per share on its outstanding shares, an increase from $0.25 per share paid previously. The dividend is payable May 12, 2006 to stockholders of record at the close of business on April 28, 2006.

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New Website Spotlights DIR’s Fraud Convictions

California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announces the Department of Insurance’s new, regularly updated website dedicated to spotlighting the convictions of workers compensation cheats. The site is accessible from the agency’s homepage at www.insurance.ca.gov. The site is the result California Assembly Majority Leader Dario Frommer’s legislation, AB 2866. Commissioner Garamendi touts the site’s role in raising … Read More »

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State Fund to Host Sacramento Training Session

The California State Compensation Insurance fund will present a training session at the Second Annual Pacific Builders Safety Expo in Sacramento on February 6 and 7, 2006 at Cal Expo, from 9:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. The session, “Developing a Modified Work Program – Money in Your Pocket Later,” addresses how returning injured employees to … Read More »

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Garamendi Says Insurers Have Slashed Rates

California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announces last week that insurers have decreased the rates they file with the Department of Insurance by a cumulative 37.7 percent since the system reforms of 2004, but still need to pass on more of their savings to consumers. The state Division of Workers’ Compensation’s press release notes that a … Read More »

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Fraud Conviction Nets $117,000 Restitution Bill

In a case that first arose in 1999, a San Joaquin County, Calif., judge orders 39-year-old Lodi roofer Joseph C. Campbell to pay $117,000 in restitution to the State Compensation Insurance Fund as a result of his conviction on felony workers’ compensation fraud. Campbell filed a claim for a purported back injury in 1999 with … Read More »

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Ohio BWC Announces New Chief of Staff

The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation has announced the hiring of a new chief of staff, Catherine M. Moseley, who will be responsible for helping the bureau implement the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and a framework for management to evaluate internal controls. Moseley also will oversee internal auditing, ethics and risk management. The bureau touts Moseley’s more … Read More »

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DWC to Hold Free Spanish-Language Seminar in Los Angeles Next Week

The California Division of Workers’ Compensation will conduct a free, one-hour Spanish-language seminar on workers’ compensation benefits and laws in Los Angeles next Wednesday, January 11, at 6 p.m., at Bob Hope Patriotic Hall, 1816 S. Figueroa Street, Wilson Room, 8th floor. The seminar is primarily intended to aid workers who have recently filed a … Read More »

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