Workers Compensation Laws News

Summary Box: Workers' comp bureau gets back into stocks
Akron Beacon Journal - DECISION: The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation said it will place 20 percent of its $16 billion portfolio in stocks. BACKGROUND: The bureau moved almost all its holdings to bonds last year as a scandal over unorthodox investments rocked the

Calvin Say: No veto session
Pacific Business News - The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii said a bill to extend jobless benefits would impose undue costs on businesses, and it also opposed a bill to require employers to pay health costs for workers' comp recipients who do not return to work after a

True BWC reform avoided
Toledo Blade - Bob Taft and his fellow GOP legislative leaders have done little more than nibble around the edges of workers' comp reform. Now their message is a reassuring "everything's OK," even though the independent consultant has offered a number of sensible

Ohio workers' comp beefs up enforcement against fraud by firms
Toledo Blade, OH - Jul 13, 2006... years of cracking down on workers who feign injury and then illegally return to jobs, work, officials at the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation say they now ...

Appellate court allows workman's comp for 'horseplay'
9NEWS.com, CO - Jul 15, 2006... work itself. Panera Bread argued through its attorney, Ted Krumreich, that Medina should be denied workers' compensation. "The reason ...