Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Workers’ Comp Carrier Guarantee Insurance Declared Insolvent by Florida Regulators
Dec 4 2017 // Florida insurance regulators have placed workers’ compensation carrier Guarantee Insurance Co. in receivership. According to documents from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR), the company was materially...
Average Cost of Workers’ Comp in Washington Dropping in 2018
Dec 1 2017 // The price of workers’ compensation insurance will go down for many businesses in Washington next year. The state Department of Labor & Industries announced that the average amount employers and workers pay for...
Texas Company Agrees to Pay $545.1K Penalty Following Worker Fatality
Nov 30 2017 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Marshall Pottery Inc. in Marshall, Texas, have reached a settlement agreement including a penalty of $545,160, after the death...
New York Logging Company Owner Sentenced to Prison for $83K Theft
Nov 30 2017 // The former owner of an upstate New York logging company who stole more than $80,000 in workers’ compensation benefits has been sentenced to up to three years in prison. Fifty-six-year-old David Sigl, of Auburn, N.Y.,...
Safety National Awards 3 Safety First Grants
Nov 29 2017 // St. Louis, Missouri-based insurer, Safety National, has awarded its annual Safety First Grant to three policyholders for their creative risk control solutions. The first-place grant, in the amount of $10,000, was awarded...
Former Washington Insurance Agent Jailed in $233K Workers’ Comp Scam
Nov 29 2017 // A Lake Stevens, Wash. man who ran an insurance agency while claiming he was too disabled to work must serve jail time. The Washington state Department of Labor and Industries says 53-year-old James Kooy was sentenced...
Another Insurance Fraud Reminder
Nov 29 2017 // Two recent stories in Insurance Journal caught my eye and gave me this topic. Florida Puts Worker’s Comp Carrier Guarantee Insurance In Receivership Florida Keys Insurance Agent Accused of Defrauding Citizens...
Patriot National to Reorganize for Acquiring Lenders; Subsidiaries to File Chapter 11
Nov 29 2017 // Patriot National Inc., which provides technology, outsourcing and underwriting services to the insurance industry, has announced a plan of reorganization as part of a restructuring support agreement (RSA) with its lenders,...
Workers’ Compensation Still Under Pressure from Drug Repackagers, Compounding Pharmacies
Nov 27 2017 // Though the number of physician dispensed prescriptions has declined considerably from just a few years ago, the workers’ compensation industry continues to battle a market seeking to maintain high prices by changing...
Wisconsin Corn Milling Plant Fined over $1.8M After Fatal Grain Dust Explosion
Nov 22 2017 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed $1,837,861 in fines against Didion Milling Inc. in Cambria, Wisconsin, following a May 31, 2017, explosion that killed...
California Workers’ Comp Department Suspends 9 Medical Providers for Fraud
Nov 22 2017 // The Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended nine more medical providers from participating in California’s workers’ compensation system, bringing the total number of providers suspended this year...
Small Businesses Want More Self-Service Workers’ Comp Tools: Survey
Nov 22 2017 // Nearly a quarter (23 percent) of America’s small business owners believe workers’ compensation carriers could improve their customer service if they offered more online or self-service tools. Better...
Florida Puts Workers’ Comp Carrier Guarantee Insurance In Receivership
Nov 21 2017 // Florida insurance regulators have placed workers’ compensation carrier Guarantee Insurance Co. in receivership due to inadequate reserves. According to documents from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR),...
Father And Son in California Sentenced in $400K Workers’ Comp Scheme
Nov 20 2017 // Jaime Rosario Del Real, 61, and son Israel Del Real, 37, have both pleaded guilty to four felony counts for their role in a $400,000 insurance fraud scheme denying workers’ compensation insurance and medical care for...
Wisconsin Medical Payments per Workers’ Comp Claim Trending Higher
Nov 20 2017 // A new study by Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) found that Wisconsin’s medical payments per workers’ compensation claim were higher than typical for 2015 injuries...
Pinnacol in Colorado to Drop Workers’ Comp Rates 7.4% in 2018
Nov 20 2017 // The Pinnacol Assurance board has approved a 2018 decrease in workers’ compensation rates that will average 7.4 percent for the insurer’s 57,000-plus Colorado policyholders. The decrease will become effective...
Key Metrics of New York Workers’ Comp System Tracked in New WCRI Study
Nov 20 2017 // The Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) released a tool for policymakers and system stakeholders to track New York workers’ compensation system performance. Originally established to monitor the system...
Louisiana Business, Industry Group Names LUBA Workers’ Comp Company of the Year
Nov 17 2017 // LUBA Workers’ Comp, a regional casualty insurance company, was named Company of the Year in the 100 employees or less category of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry’s 2017 Free Enterprise...
California Companies Ordered to Stop Selling Workers’ Comp Policies
Nov 16 2017 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has issued an order requiring a central valley company and its affiliates to stop selling workers’ compensation and liability policies because it is not properly licensed...
Texas Division of Workers’ Comp: Employees Stepped Up to Help After Hurricane
Nov 15 2017 // When Hurricane Harvey devastated the Houston area two months ago, Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation employees around the state responded rapidly. DWC increased staffing on the customer...
