Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
With Growth of the Gig Economy, States Rethink How Workers Get Benefits
Feb 23 2017 // As more and more Americans hold nontraditional jobs that don’t have benefits attached — think freelance graphic designers or Uber drivers — cities and states are exploring ways to ensure those workers still have...
The Path to Let Rideshare Companies into Alaska Not So Smooth
Feb 22 2017 // The drive to allow rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft to operate in Alaska has hit speed bumps. The bill, from Sen. Mia Costello, R-Anchorage, faces opposition from taxi companies worried the entrance of rideshare...
Chicago Bears Seeking to Limit Players’ Workers’ Comp Benefits
Feb 22 2017 // Should injured pro athletes be allowed to earn workers’ compensation benefits until they are 67 years old, like other workers, even if their athletic careers normally would have ended more than 30 years earlier? That...
How Technology Is Changing Workers’ Compensation
Feb 22 2017 // New technologies are improving workers’ compensation programs in everything from communications and training to health care delivery and claims, according to experts. Tom Ryan, market research leader for...
Florida Launches Online Workers’ Comp Insurer Database for Employers
Feb 21 2017 // The Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation has formed an online insurance company database to assist Florida business owners with obtaining workers’ compensation coverage that protects employees from the...
Texas Offers Grace Period for Workers’ Comp Nonsubscribers
Feb 20 2017 // The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is offering a temporary grace period to those employers who have not met workers’ compensation reporting requirements in the past — allowing them to...
California DIR Suspends 7 Workers’ Comp Medical Providers for Fraud
Feb 17 2017 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations and its Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended seven medical providers from participating in the state’s workers’ comp system. The providers...
How Tattoo Artists Are Like Dentists
Feb 17 2017 // Getting a tattoo may hurt, but giving one is no picnic, either. That’s the finding of what its authors say is the first study ever to directly measure the physical stresses that lead to aches and pains in tattoo...
Woodruff-Sawyer in California Names Cartwright Practice Leader
Feb 17 2017 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named Darren Cartwright claims auditing and consulting practice leader. Cartwright will be responsible for the direction of the claims group, which provides claims...
Report: California’s Central Coast Accounting for More of State’s Comp Claims
Feb 15 2017 // California’s Central Coast has been accounting for more of the state’s workers’ compensation claims recently, a new report issued today shows. The California Workers’ Compensation Institute has...
Safety National Adds Workers’ Compensation, Captive Services Products
Feb 9 2017 // Safety National Casualty Corp. has added two new offerings to its suite of products: large guaranteed cost workers’ compensation and captive services. Safety National’s large guaranteed cost workers’...
Texas Offers Grace Period for Workers’ Comp Reporting
Feb 7 2017 // The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is offering a temporary grace period to those employers who have not met workers’ compensation reporting requirements in the past — allowing them to report...
Vermont to See Decrease in Costs for Workers’ Compensation Insurance
Feb 7 2017 // Vermont Governor Phil Scott has announced that workers’ compensation insurance will cost less for most Vermont employers when new rates approved by the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation (DFR) become...
Wells Fargo Market Outlook Offers Favorable News for Cyber Security
Feb 6 2017 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Wells Fargo Insurance released its 2017 Insurance Market Outlook and Employee Benefits Outlook report in late January, which shows this year’s property/casualty insurance market will again...
Former Washington Corrections Officer Jailed over $100k Workers’ Comp Scam
Feb 6 2017 // A former Washington state corrections officer accused of holding three jobs while claiming he was too disabled to work will serve seven days behind bars along with home detention. John J. Gruden, 44, late last month...
People
Feb 6 2017 // Brentwood Services Administrators Inc. has selected Theresa Vinson as a new senior claim representative in the Raleigh, N.C., office, according to Jeff Pettus, president and CEO of BSA. In her position as senior claim...
As Super Bowl Approaches a Former NBA Player Reflects on Cumulative Injury
Feb 2 2017 // Most of us who sit down with our beverages and snacks to watch one of the biggest events in pro sports on Sunday won’t have things like workers’ compensation and cumulative injury on our minds. Just Brady vs....
Labor Department’s Wells Fargo Whistleblower Site Taken Down
Jan 30 2017 // Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren on Friday accused the U.S. Labor Department of dismantling a website designed to help Wells Fargo workers file whistleblower retaliation and other complaints against the bank, and asked...
Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Named Vice-Chair of Two National Task Forces
Jan 26 2017 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has been named vice-chairman of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Workers’ Compensation and Examination Oversight Task Forces. The mission of...
Former Washington Corrections Officer Jailed In $100K Workers’ Comp Scam
Jan 26 2017 // A former Washington state corrections officer accused of holding three jobs while claiming he was too disabled to work will serve seven days behind bars along with home detention. John J. Gruden, 44, pleaded guilty to...
