The increased cost and more frequent use of medical care provided to injured workers in Wisconsin drove up the average medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in recent years, according to a new study by the Cambridge, Mass.-based Workers Compensation …
Houston-based Dean & Draper Insurance Agency LP, one of the largest independent insurance agencies in Texas, announced it recently received the honor of being named one of the Best Companies to Work for in Texas 2011. The list honors the …
A Johns Hopkins-led safety checklist program that virtually eliminated bloodstream infections in hospital intensive-care units throughout Michigan appears to have also reduced deaths by 10 percent, a new study suggests. Although prior research showed a major reduction in central-line related …
A federal judge in Florida struck down President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare overhaul as unconstitutional Monday in the biggest legal challenge yet to federal authority to enact the law. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled that the reform law’s so-called …
Utah Senate Bill 35 is going after construction companies, requiring them to pay workers’ compensation and contribute to unemployment insurance and withholding taxes as long as their employees own less than 20 percent of the company. Employees who own 20 …
New Mexico’s Legislature is considering a bill that would impose stricter monitoring and license renewal standards on older drivers. In addition to a vision exam, Senate Bill 125 would subject drivers 75 years and older to tests of their reflexes, …
Washington’s Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) has approved an increase to the state’s workers’ compensation premium rates by an average 12 percent or 6.5 cents per hour for 2011. The new rates already took effect on Jan. 1 on …
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley wants more severe criminal penalties for businesses that go without workers’ compensation insurance for their employees. A bill filed earlier this month by Coakley’s office would make failure to carry worker’s compensation coverage equal to …
A woman who lost about 200 farm animals in an upstate New York barn fire blames the disaster on a propane heater she had set up to protect newborn and pregnant sheep and goats from subzero cold. Robin Dillenbeck, sitting …
The Jacksonville, Florida-based Main Street America Group has promoted David Medvidofsky to vice president and head of its audit unit. Previously, Medvidofsky was an assistant vice president of corporate strategy who was responsible for Main Street’s long-term corporate planning, enterprise …
