Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Florida Construction Company Owner Nabbed in Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
May 22 2016 // The owner of a construction company in Naples, Fla., was arrested this month for an alleged workers’ comp scheme, according to an announcement from Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater. Raimundo...
Whistleblower Lawsuit Leads to $190.5K Penalty for Illinois Employer
May 20 2016 // Federal safety officials say an Illinois company has been ordered to pay $190,547 in back wages and damages to a safety manager in a whistleblower case stemming from a Lansing, Ill., facility. The U.S. Department of...
Morrison Tapped to Head Ohio’s Workers’ Comp Fund
May 19 2016 // Gov. John Kasich has appointed the chief legal officer to Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers as the agency’s new leader. Sarah Morrison takes over as administrator and CEO of the Ohio Bureau of...
California Workers’ Comp Reforms May Have Decreased Medical Payments
May 19 2016 // Elements of California’s workers’ compensation reform law passed in 2012 may have contributed to the state’s 2013 and 2014 decreases in medical payments per workers’ comp claim, according to a study...
Fitch Expecting P/C Commercial Insurance Business to Deteriorate
May 19 2016 // Underwriting performance for the commercial lines sector of the U.S. property/casualty (P/C) insurance industry is likely to deteriorate in 2016, according to a new report from Fitch Ratings. The expected decline would...
Alliant Names Umbright Workers’ Comp Claims Advocate in California
May 18 2016 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has named Jennifer Umbright to its Sacramento, Calif. office of as a workers’ compensation claims advocate within the company’s Alliant Americas division. Umbright will advise a...
Top 5 Workers Compensation Claims and Their Causes
May 18 2016 // Strains and sprains are the most common worker injury while worker injuries are most frequently the result of materials handling incidents, according to a review of more than 1.5 million workers compensation claims by The...
Minnesota Workers’ Compensation: A No-Fault System
May 18 2016 // Workers’ compensation is a no-fault system in Minnesota: the employee does not need to prove negligence on the part of the employer to establish liability and the employer cannot use negligence on the part of the...
Workers’ Compensation in Missouri: In the Middle of the Rate Pack
May 17 2016 // Missouri comes in at 21 for the highest workers’ compensation premium rates of the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, just under Minnesota, according to the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial...
Zenith to Provide Workers’ Comp for California Mutual Water Companies
May 16 2016 // Zenith Insurance Co. will serve as the workers’ compensation reinsurer and service provider for the California water system and water-related entities program recently formed by Alteris Insurance Services, Inc. and...
Ross Campesi Sr., Founder of Louisiana Workers’ Comp Insurer Passes
May 13 2016 // Ross Campesi Sr., founder of LCTA Workers’ Comp, died May 7 in his home. Campesi was 90 years old. “Ross’s passing is obviously a huge personal loss … he was the love of my life,” Melissa Campesi,...
Workers at Ohio Auto Glass Plant Warn of Unsafe Conditions
May 11 2016 // Workers alleging unsafe working conditions at an automotive glass manufacturing plant in southwestern Ohio have filed a complaint with the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The complaint filed this...
NYS Insurance Fund Adds QR Code to Workers’ Comp Certificates
May 9 2016 // The New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF) is adding a new feature to its certificates of insurance. NYSIF said all NYSIF workers’ compensation certificates now include a QR (quick response) code, which can be scanned...
Workers’ Compensation Market Improved, Grew Premium in 2015: NCCI
May 6 2016 // The workers’ compensation market is healthy and profitable. This year’s “State of the Line” report, published by the National Council of Compensation Insurance (NCCI), indicates that the...
Some Insurers Have More to Gain from Underwriting Technology Than Others
May 6 2016 // Personal Lines Insurers Personal lines insurers are most likely to benefit from wide uses of automation in underwriting, a new report has found. “They are more likely to have a homogenous book of business and a...
Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Overhaul Takes Another Hit
May 5 2016 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court dealt another blow to the state’s 2013 workers’ comp overhaul by finding unconstitutional a provision of the Oklahoma Administrative Workers’ Compensation Act pertaining to the...
LCTA in Louisiana and Prime Occupational Medicine Form Partnership
May 4 2016 // Baton Rouge, La.-based LCTA Workers’ Comp and Prime Occupational Medicine announced a partnership the firms say will not only provide greater health care resources to the employees of LCTA policyholders, but will...
Los Angeles Medical Worker Nabbed for Workers’ Comp Fraud
May 4 2016 // Johana Magnolia Paredes, 45, of Bellflower, Calif. was arrested by California Department of Insurance detectives on two felony counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud after allegedly misrepresenting her...
Florida Business Owner Arrested for $300K Workers’ Comp Scheme
May 4 2016 // An owner of a construction company in Orlando, Florida. is being charged with workers’ compensation premium fraud and engaging in an organized scheme to defraud, according to a statement from the Florida Department...
New York Prison Guard Accused of Workers’ Comp Fraud
May 3 2016 // New York’s inspector general says a state prison guard has been charged with fraud and grand larceny, accused of stealing more than $38,000 in sick leave and workers’ compensation benefits by falsifying medical...
