Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Missouri Insurance Department Expects Lower Workers’ Comp Insurance Rates
Sep 6 2016 // Missouri insurance regulators say employers in that state should see lower workers’ compensation insurance rates for the third straight year in 2017. The Missouri Department of Insurance says the National Council on...
Demotech on Workers’ Comp: Premiums Up 2.3% in First Half of 2016
Sep 6 2016 // Demotech’s review of second quarter 2016 data, as recently reported by insurers to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, shows that workers’ compensation insurers reported a 2.3 percent increase...
California Saw $600M in Workers’ Comp Liens Filed by Convicted Providers
Sep 6 2016 // The California Department of Industrial Relations announced in late August that $600 million in liens were filed against injured employees’ claims for workers’ compensation benefits by convicted or criminally...
Florida Woman Caught Faking Injury in Attempt to Collect Workers’ Comp Payments
Sep 6 2016 // The Department of Financial Services’ Division of Investigative and Forensic Services (DIFS) announced the arrest of a Fort Lauderdale woman after she attempted to fraudulently collect workers’ compensation...
OSHA Fights Georgia Poultry Plant Over Right to Inspect Facility
Sep 2 2016 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is pushing back against a local judge in Georgia’s recommendation to deny the agency a warrant to inspect the Mar-Jac poultry plant in Gainesville for worker-safety...
Opposing Sides File Briefs in Challenge to Oklahoma’s Work Comp Opt-Out
Aug 30 2016 // The constitutionality of Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation alternative, the Oklahoma Option, which was established in the 2013 overhaul of the state’s workers’ comp system, is currently being...
Hospital Surgery Rates for Workers’ Compensation Vary Widely
Aug 30 2016 // Hospital rates for outpatient surgery paid by workers’ compensation vary significantly across states with states with fixed fee schedules having lower surgery costs for injured workers. Workers compensation costs for...
Experienced Workers’ Compensation Brokers Augie Christian and Jessica Lovinggood Join Breckenridge Insurance Services as Vice Presidents
Aug 30 2016 // Atlanta, GA, August 30, 2016 — Breckenridge Insurance Services welcomed two experienced wholesale insurance brokers to the organization recently. Augie Christian, CPCU, CIC and Jessica Lovinggood, CIC are new vice...
Tennessee OSHA Head Says Spike in State Worker Deaths ‘Alarming’
Aug 30 2016 // The head of the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration says a spike in on-the-job fatalities last month is “alarming.” TOSHA administrator Steve Hawkins tells WPLN-FM four of the 10 deaths in...
Florida Woman Caught Faking Injury in Attempt to Collect Workers’ Comp Payments
Aug 26 2016 // The Department of Financial Services’ Division of Investigative and Forensic Services (DIFS) announced the arrest of a Fort Lauderdale woman after she attempted to fraudulently collect workers’ compensation...
Missouri Insurance Department Expects Lower Workers’ Comp Insurance Rates
Aug 25 2016 // Missouri insurance regulators say employers in that state should see lower workers’ compensation insurance rates for the third straight year in 2017. The Missouri Department of Insurance says the National Council on...
Endurance Global Risk Solutions Adds Workers’ Comp Product
Aug 24 2016 // Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, has launched a new workers’ compensation insurance product for its Global Risk Solutions...
3 Charged with Workers’ Comp, Insurance Fraud in Oklahoma
Aug 24 2016 // Three individuals in Oklahoma have been charged by the state’s attorney general with insurance fraud related to workers’ compensation, auto insurance and certificates of insurance. The office of Oklahoma...
Work Comp: Extraterritoriality and Reci-What? Isn’t the Worker Covered Wherever He Goes?
Aug 23 2016 // Beyond knowing where employees regularly work, agents must know where employees might work during the policy period – even temporarily. Workers’ compensation coverage gaps or the complete loss of protection are...
Washington RV Salesman Charged on $81K Workers’ Comp Scam
Aug 22 2016 // A Tacoma, Wash.-area man faces a felony theft charge after he was caught working while receiving more than $81,000 in workers’ compensation disability payments. Bobby R. Johnson, 47, was charged with first-degree...
California Saw $600M in Workers’ Comp Liens Filed by Convicted Providers
Aug 22 2016 // The California Department of Industrial Relations announced that $600 million in liens were filed against injured employees’ claims for workers’ compensation benefits by convicted or criminally indicted parties...
Tennessee’s Hudgens Tapped to Head Southern Workers’ Comp Group
Aug 22 2016 // The administrator of Tennessee’s Bureau of Workers’ Compensation has been named president of the Southern Association of Workers’ Compensation Administrators. Abbie Hudgens has been administrator of the...
Connecticut High Court Rejects Workers’ Injury Suit Against Contractor
Aug 22 2016 // Two workers injured in a power plant explosion that killed six other people in 2010 cannot sue a contractor for negligence, the state Connecticut Supreme Court recently ruled. Justices issued a 6-1 decision saying O&G...
North Dakota Lawmaker: Where’s the Reserve in Workers’ Comp Opt-Out Plans?
Aug 22 2016 // A state representative from North Dakota, who serves on the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Committee at the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL), says he’s concerned about reserves for paying...
Business-Backed Group Pushes for Workers’ Comp Alternative in Illinois
Aug 22 2016 // An Illinois think tank has published a report expressing support for a workers’ compensation opt-out system in that state, saying that it would give employers the ability to lower costs and allow for a more flexible...
