China’s senior safety inspector has called on people and the media to expose workplace accidents in a bid to use public pressure to ferret out the corruption and official misdeeds aggravating the country’s high rate of work deaths. Li Yizhong, …
January 24, 2008 – Newtown, PA. Alternative risk broker and consultant Self-Funded Alternatives has developed an educational seminar on self-insuring workers’ compensation exposures. The seminar has been approved for CE credits in several states. The class explains the self-insurance process …
The main management consultant and contractor on Boston’s $15 billion Central Artery/Tunnel Project (Big Dig) has agreed to pay more than $407 million to resolve civil and criminal liabilities in connection with the partial ceiling collapse and other defects in …
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released a comprehensive plan for what the country must do to have a more effective and unified response and recovery in disaster situations. DHS said that the new plan, called the National Response …
New Hampshire Insurance Commissioner Roger Sevigny announced that Patriot Health Insurance Co. which was placed in rehabilitation on Dec.12, 2007, will be liquidated in a proceeding supervised by the Merrimack County Superior Court. During the rehabilitation, MVP Health Plans of …
Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) has hired Michael Page as director of safety and loss prevention, the company announced. Page previously was director of loss prevention services for Workforce Safety and Insurance in North Dakota and corporate health and safety …
Arkansas officials have asked for more time to implement post-Sept. 11 rules for new driver’s licenses. States face a May 11 deadline to comply with the REAL ID regulations, but Arkansas has requested a waiver. “Due to the delay in …
A LeClaire, Iowa couple who were about to lose their house were convicted of burning the home and filing an insurance claim to recover their losses. Lawrence and Patricia Atwood were found guilty of second-degree arson and insurance fraud in …
Federal grand jurors have indicted two Sioux Falls, S.D. men on charges of burning down their car stereo installation business to collect the insurance money. One of them, Chad Michael Blair, 31, earlier was charged with an unrelated scheme to …
Following up on its Stoneridge ruling on Tuesday in which it limited investor lawsuits, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a bid by former Enron investors to recover as much as $40 billion from investment banks associated with that failed energy …