Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines

All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.

El Paso Stamping Plant Cited for Amputations, Other Hazards

Sep 16 2015 // Stampcoat Inc. doing business as El Paso Tool & Die in El Paso, Texas, has been cited by federal safety officials for amputations and other serious workplace hazards. The federal Occupational Safety and Health...

Missouri Workers’ Comp Insurance Rates Expected to Drop

Sep 14 2015 // Missouri businesses could see another drop in workers’ compensation insurance premiums next year. Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon said during a visit to an Affton carpenters’ training center that early figures from...

California Siblings Sentenced For Workers’ Comp Fraud

Sep 14 2015 // A California brother and sister who owned a landscaping service won’t contest charges that they duped several workers’ compensation carriers out of more than $200,000. Michael George Mello Jr., 37, and his...

California Employers Warned about High Heat as Temperatures Soar

Sep 11 2015 // Cal/OSHA is warning all employers throughout the entire state to consider protecting their outdoor workers from heat illness. The National Weather Service has issued high heat advisories and excessive heat warnings for...

Texas Oil Wells Services Company Cited for Rig Fatalities

Sep 10 2015 // Federal safety officials have cited a Texas oil well services company in the deaths of three workers killed while working to install a blowout preventer, which seals, controls and monitors a rig. The Occupational Safety...

TDI Posts Summary of Bills Affecting Property/Casualty Insurers

Sep 9 2015 // The Texas Department of Insurance has produced a summary of various bills passed by the Texas Legislature this year that impact property/casualty insurance companies. Many but not all of the following were effective Sept....

Construction Contractors in Texas Fined $88K for Safety Violations

Sep 8 2015 // Federal safety officials have cited two contractors at a construction site in Austin, Texas, for safety violations. Hensel Phelps Construction Co. and CVI Development LLC were cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s...

Court Backs Workers’ Comp Ruling for Assaulted Nebraska Nurse

Sep 8 2015 // The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld a workers’ compensation ruling requiring a Kearney hospital to pay the salary of a former nurse who says she’s unable to work because of psychological injuries she received...

Alper Services Adds 5 in Chicago

Sep 8 2015 // Alper Services LLC, based in Chicago, has hired five new employees to join the AuditRate, Financial Services, Claims Management Services, Employee Benefits and Personal Lines departments. Andrew Bertucci joins Alper...

Uber Settles with Alaska over Unpaid Workers’ Comp

Sep 8 2015 // The ridesharing service Uber has agreed to pay Alaska more than $77,900 in connection to unpaid workers’ compensation insurance for its drivers. In the Aug. 25 settlement, the company admitted no wrongdoing, but...

Uber Headache if More Drivers Want Full-Time Status

Sep 7 2015 // Thousands of new full-time workers would spring into existence if Uber is forced to stop treating some of its drivers like contract workers, and the benefits that come with that employee status may entice part-time...

Nebraska Flooring Company Fined $244K for Workplace Dangers

Sep 4 2015 // Federal safety officials have placed a Norfolk, Neb., flooring manufacturer into a severe violator program for workplace safety hazards and attempting to hide those hazards from safety inspectors. U.S. Department of Labor...

Workers’ Comp Loss Costs Fall Again in Oklahoma

Sep 4 2015 // Workers’ compensation rates in Oklahoma are expected to drop in 2016, the Oklahoma Insurance Department announced. The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) filed an overall loss cost decrease of 14.8...

OSHA Fines Wisconsin Scrap Yard $42K after Worker Death

Sep 3 2015 // A federal safety agency is proposing $42,000 in fines against a Waukesha, Wis., scrap yard where an employee was killed when he was struck by a forklift truck. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited...

South Carolina Orders Rate Revision for State Workers’ Comp Plan

Sep 1 2015 // South Carolina Insurance Director Raymond Farmer approved an overall revision of +1.9 percent to the state’s voluntary workers’ compensation policy loss costs and a decrease of .3 percent in the assigned risk...

Cause of Deadly New Mexico Scaffold Collapse Sought

Aug 24 2015 // Six of the remaining seven construction workers injured in the collapse of a six-story scaffold outside a New Mexico medical center were released from hospitals last week as investigators began work on trying to determine...

NCCI Proposes Decrease to Florida Workers’ Comp Rates

Aug 21 2015 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation said today that it has received the 2016 Florida workers’ compensation rate filing by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI), which proposes a statewide...

Uber Headache if More Drivers Want Full-Time Status

Aug 19 2015 // Thousands of new full-time workers would spring into existence if Uber is forced to stop treating some of its drivers like contract workers, and the benefits that come with that employee status may entice part-time...

NCCI Seeks Workers’ Comp Loss Costs Increase in Virginia

Aug 19 2015 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI ) recently delivered a workers’ compensation loss cost filing to the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC). Based on its review of the most recently...

California WCIRB Report Shows Medical Bill Transactions Fell in 2014

Aug 18 2015 // The California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau on Tuesday issued its California Workers’ Compensation Aggregate Medical Payment Trends report showing medical bill transactions fell by $100 million...