The New York Court of Appeals ruled against insurers in six separate cases Nov. 15 by upholding a law requiring private insurers to deposit payments for some workers’ compensation benefits into state trust funds.

A Newark, Ohio, man who operated his business for more than a decade without proper workers’ compensation insurance, was sentenced to 90 days in jail, which was suspended, and ordered to pay $205,000 in restitution.

A Lansing, Mich.-based insurance company, after first rejecting a claim, agreed to pay a man who was injured in the Joplin tornado while trying to save three men in a group home.

A former insurance agency owner from Berks County, Pa., was accused of stealing more than $255,000 in insurance premiums from his clients.

The president of a Des Moines, Iowa, staffing company pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of wire fraud in connection with the defrauding of workers’ compensation insurers.

The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) today proposed its lowest workers’ compensation rate increase in five years.

The number of questionable property-casualty insurance claims filed in the first half of the year increased 4.5% over the prior year, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau.

The Texas Supreme Court reversed a Houston appeals court ruling, which advocates say strengthens the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act for employers.

Job loss resulting from the recession caused workers’ compensation coverage to fall in 2009, the biggest decrease in two decades, according to a new report.

The Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) scheduled a hearing in Richmond Oct. 27 on proposed adjustments to premiums levels charged for workers’ compensation insurance.