A Willingboro, N.J., woman pleaded guilty to stealing more than $9,000 in disability benefits paid by The Hartford Insurance Co. by impersonating a doctor’s office employee and forging a doctor’s signature.

Virginia regulators approved decreases to a handful of workers’ compensation voluntary loss costs, including those for industrial, surface coal mine and underground coal mine classifications.

A bipartisan bill that would provide broader workers’ compensation coverage to previously ineligible business entities in Pennsylvania is scheduled for a hearing before the state’s House Labor and Industry Committee March 23.

A South Florida man faces a maximum of three years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of filing a false tax return amounting to $15 million.

February’s composite rate for U.S. property-casualty insurance coverages showed a 5% decline, according to MarketScout’s monthly analysis.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined an opportunity to resolve a vexing issue involving workers’ compensation payments to illegal workers, where judges in eight states, including Pennsylvania and Virginia, have disagreed.

A New York senator introduced a bill to “enact comprehensive reforms to reduce fraud, abuse and the associated costs in the New York no-fault system.”

New Jersey achieved its twofold mission of “promoting the growth and financial stability” of insurance companies and “protecting consumers” in 2010, according to state oficials.

A Bayville, N.J., man was sentenced to three years of probation for fraudulently obtaining more than $16,000 in disability insurance benefits from the company for which he drove a truck, according to New Jersey officials.

A piece of President Barack Obama‘s State of the Union Address may offer hope to the property-casualty insurance industry, struggling with a soft market and limited construction projects.