Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aon Sees Healthcare Workers’ Compensation Claims Dropping
Jan 19 2015 // Workers’ compensation costs and claims frequency in the healthcare sector are going down, according to a report that studied 1,1150 facilities in 11 states. Aon Risk Solutions’ Health Care Workers’...
Florida Court Upholds Workers’ Compensation ‘Exclusive Remedy’
Jan 16 2015 // Florida’s insurers are breathing easier after the state’s high court ruled that the workers’ compensation law bars injured workers from seeking additional benefits in civil court. The Florida Supreme...
Top 10 Causes of Workplace Injuries
Jan 16 2015 // Overexertion and falls account for more than $25 billion in workers’ compensation costs in the U.S. Being hurt by an object or equipment ranks third in workplace injury causes and claims costs in the Liberty Mutual...
Report Calls for More Study of N.H. Workers’ Comp Costs
Jan 12 2015 // A governor’s commission aimed at addressing New Hampshire’s high workers’ compensation costs recommended no significant changes to state laws in a new report and instead suggested gathering more data and...
Florida Touts Workers’ Comp Market Competition But Warns on Court Rulings
Jan 12 2015 // Florida’s workers’ compensation market remains competitive and well-capitalized, with loss ratios that are among the lowest among larger states, according to a report from the state’s insurance...
Donelon: Louisiana Workers’ Comp Rates to Drop in 2015
Jan 12 2015 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced that rates for workers’ compensation insurance will decrease in Louisiana effective May 1. Donelon recently approved a 2.4 percent decrease in workers’...
Former California Highway Patrolman Convicted of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jan 12 2015 // A former California Highway Patrol officer has been convicted in a case involving workers’ compensation insurance fraud. A Sacramento County jury in December convicted Tony Yao on felony charges of failure to...
New Workers’ Comp Reimbursement Rules Take Effect in Michigan
Jan 12 2015 // Changes in how doctors are paid for treating some injured employees covered by workers’ compensation are expected to address the long-term use of pain relievers and help cut medical costs for Michigan job providers,...
Labor Woes for a Rebounding Construction Market
Jan 12 2015 // With construction activity picking up steam all across the nation, insurers are expressing concern over how the construction sector will meet the growing demand for qualified labor. Insurers are concerned not only with the...
Top 10 Casualty Insurance Trends for 2015
Jan 12 2015 // While casualty insurance rates are stable and new capacity continues to enter the market, certain classes of business continue to be difficult to place, according to Marsh’s U.S. Casualty Practice. Following are 10...
Texas Lowers Workers’ Comp Maintenance Tax Rate
Jan 9 2015 // The maintenance tax rate is being reduced to 1.533 percent of gross premiums collected by Texas workers’ compensation insurance carriers from Jan. 1, 2014, through Dec. 31, 2014, Texas Workers’ Compensation...
BTIS Expands Workers’ Compensation Program Nationwide
Jan 9 2015 // Builders & Tradesmen’s Insurance Services, Inc. (BTIS) has expanded its Victory Workers’ Comp program into all U.S. states except for Alaska, North Dakota, Ohio, Washington, and Wyoming. The program offers...
Pennsylvania Store Manager Robbed at Gunpoint Wins Workers’ Comp
Jan 8 2015 // Is being robbed at gunpoint in a Pennsylvania state liquor store an “abnormal working condition” or not? Since 2008, Gregory Kochanowicz has claimed it is, and now that the Commonwealth Court agrees, he’s...
Workers’ Comp Insurers Unfazed by TRIA Failure For Now But Expect Quick Fix
Jan 4 2015 // The expectation that the new Congress that convenes this week will act quickly to reauthorize the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) is keeping workers’ compensation insurers in particular from altering their...
Delaware Regulator Schedules Workers’ Comp Rate Hearing
Jan 2 2015 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart announced that the state’s Department of Insurance has scheduled a public hearing for Jan. 12 and 13 to receive public comment on the proposed decrease in both the...
Pill Mill Law Shifts Prescriptions From Opioids to Weaker Meds: WCRI
Dec 31 2014 // A law banning physicians from dispensing certain strong opioids discouraged the doctors from prescribing those drugs at all, according to a new study, which also found that the doctors dispensed weaker nonsteroidal...
New OSHA Reporting Rules on Workplace Deaths, Hospitalizations in Effect Jan. 1
Dec 31 2014 // Effective January 1, 2015, all employers under the jurisdiction of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will be required to report all work-related fatalities within eight hours and all in-patient...
New Workers’ Comp Reimbursement Rules Take Effect In Michigan
Dec 30 2014 // Changes in how doctors are paid for treating some injured employees covered by workers’ compensation are expected to address the long-term use of pain relievers and help cut medical costs for Michigan job providers,...
Report Calls for More Study of N.H. Workers’ Comp Costs
Dec 23 2014 // A governor’s commission aimed at addressing New Hampshire’s high workers’ compensation costs recommended no significant changes to state laws in a new report and instead suggested gathering more data and...
10 Companies OK’d to Self-Insure for Workers’ Comp in Texas
Dec 23 2014 // The Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) approved one new Certificate of Authority to self-insure workers’ compensation claims and renewed nine such certificates. The companies receiving the certificates...
