Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Massachusetts Workers’ Comp Rates to Rise 1.5%
May 2 2016 // Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration announced on April 20 that the state’s workers’ compensation rates will rise an average 1.5 percent beginning July 1. It’s the first state-approved...
Workers’ Comp Market Share: South Central States
May 2 2016 // The workers’ compensation insurance markets in South Central states are relatively stable and are experiencing a drop in rates across the board. However, reforms made in Oklahoma in 2013 continue to be challenged in...
Employers Pay as 32% of Opioids Prescriptions Are Abused: Report
May 2 2016 // Nearly one out of every three (32 percent) opioid prescriptions, which are subsidized by America’s employers, is being abused, according to a report by a healthcare data and technology company. San Francisco-based...
Report: Healthy but Challenging Workers’ Compensation Market
May 2 2016 // The workers’ compensation market is healthy and robust. It’s both competitive and profitable. That’s good news for business owners, the insurance industry and injured workers. Beneath the positive news,...
Workers’ Compensation: Combinability of Insureds
May 2 2016 // Consolidating separate legal entities’ loss experience to develop a common experience modification factor has the potential to cause confusion for the client and sometimes the agent. Clients may view such mixing of...
Florida Braces for Rate Hikes, Litigation Due to Workers’ Compensation Fee Ruling
Apr 29 2016 // The Florida Supreme Court’s ruling that the state’s current attorney fee limits are unconstitutional will have serious ramifications on the workers’ compensation market in the state, according to Florida...
How Model for Preventing Workers’ Chronic Pain Claims Was Born
Apr 29 2016 // In response to rising chronic pain claims, Travelers announced the development of a new patent-pending predictive model designed to identify claims and workers most at risk. The company, which developed the Early Severity...
Florida Supreme Court Finds Attorney Fee Schedule Unconstitutional; Passes on Other Key Workers’ Comp Case
Apr 28 2016 // The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s mandatory attorneys’ fee schedule for workers’ compensation cases is unconstitutional under both Florida’s and the U.S. constitution as a...
Updated: Florida Supreme Court Declines Jurisdiction in Challenge to Workers’ Comp System
Apr 28 2016 // The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that it does not have jurisdiction in a case brought by an injured nurse that challenged the constitutionality of the entire Florida Workers’ Compensation system. In the case of...
CDI: Trucking Company Owners Cheated Workers’ Comp Carrier out of Millions
Apr 28 2016 // A pair of California trucking company owners were arrested for cheating their worker’s compensation insurer out of millions of dollars. Alvin Shin Chen, 54, and Fiona Xilin Chen, 46, both of La Cañada Flintridge,...
Texas Roofer Fined $80K for Repeated Workplace Hazards
Apr 28 2016 // Federal safety regulators have levied $80,280 in penalties against Quick Roofing LLC for repeatedly exposing workers to falls, ladder hazards and eye injuries. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) said...
Worker Falls into Vat; World’s Largest Sauerkraut Cannery Fined $143.5K
Apr 26 2016 // A Wisconsin food cannery faces $143,550 in federal penalties after a 35-year-old worker fell more than 17 feet into an empty sauerkraut vat and broke multiple bones. It marks the fourth time since 2011 that the U.S....
Swine Flu, Avian Flu, Ebola, the Zika Virus and Workers’ Compensation
Apr 25 2016 // Two tests must be satisfied before an illness or disease can be considered occupational and thus compensable under workers’ compensation: The illness or disease must be “occupational,” meaning that it...
OSHA Fines Storage Tank Company $95K for Missouri Workplace Hazards
Apr 22 2016 // A federal agency has found that a storage tank manufacturer is continuing to expose workers in Missouri to hazardous levels of a chemical than can cause lung cancer and other health problems. The Occupational Safety and...
Employers Pay As 32% of Opioid Prescriptions Are Abused: Report
Apr 21 2016 // Nearly one out of every three (32 percent) opioid prescriptions, which are subsidized by America’s employers, is being abused, according to a report by a healthcare data and technology company. San Francisco-based...
OSHA: 3 in South Central States Killed when Riding Mowers Overturn
Apr 21 2016 // In the past month, three landscape company employees have died in Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas when riding mowers or tractors overturned into water or a stream bed — equaling the total in the previous six years, a...
Massachusetts Workers’ Comp Rates to Rise an Average of 1.5%
Apr 20 2016 // Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration announced Wednesday that the state’s workers’ compensation rates will rise an average 1.5 percent beginning July 1. Officials said this nominal increase...
MarketScout Expands Workers’ Compensation Division with Atlanta Hire
Apr 20 2016 // MarketScout, the national electronic insurance exchange and specialty MGA headquartered in Dallas, has expanded its Workers’ Compensation division by adding three insurance professionals in San Francisco, Las Vegas...
California Workers’ Comp Committee Votes for Lower Mid-Year Filing
Apr 18 2016 // The governing committee of the California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau voted unanimously in early April to authorize the WCIRB to submit a mid-year pure premium rate reduction filing to the...
Maryland’s Chesapeake to Phase in NCCI Rates in 2020
Apr 18 2016 // Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance Company, Maryland’s largest writer of workers’ compensation insurance, announced its plan to phase in the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s (NCCI) rating...
