Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Great American Insurance Group Rolls Out Workers’ Comp Option in Oklahoma
Apr 29 2014 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group has launched an Oklahoma Option Employers Indemnity policy. The new coverage, offered through its Employer’s Comp Associates (ECA) Division, is available to any...
Ohio Watchdog Report Shows Vast Improvements at Workers’ Comp Bureau
Apr 28 2014 // Ohio’s watchdog released his much-anticipated investigative report on the investment scandal that engulfed the state in 2005, concluding the worker’s compensation insurance organization where it started has...
Springfield Insurance Co. in California Downgraded by A.M. Best
Apr 25 2014 // A.M. Best has downgraded the financial strength rating of Calif.-based Springfield Insurance Co., a carrier focused on workers’ compensation. The financial strength downgrade was to B- (Fair) from B (Fair) and the...
Managed Care Open Enrollment for Ohio Employers to Begin
Apr 25 2014 // Ohio employers will have an opportunity to select a new managed care organization (MCO) to manage health-care services for workers injured on the job beginning April 28. The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC)...
MEMIC Adds to Underwriting Teams in Virginia, Maryland and Florida
Apr 24 2014 // The MEMIC Group has appointed three underwriters for its territories in Virginia, Maryland and Florida. Timothy Cook, Michael Diamond and Scott Meinke joined the group’s underwriting team as senior production...
Safety National Introduces Oklahoma Alternative Workers’ Comp Policy
Apr 24 2014 // Safety National Casualty Corp. has introduced Oklahoma Elect, an employers’ excess indemnity policy that provides excess coverage over an occupational injury benefit plan, as well as excess employers’ liability...
California Water District Seeking Alternatives in Face of Insurance Loss
Apr 23 2014 // The Central Basin Municipal Water District said Wednesday it is looking at “alternatives” in the face of being tossed out of the state’s largest insurance pool for water districts. Central Baisn also said...
Ohio Woman Must Repay $32K in Workers’ Comp Benefits
Apr 23 2014 // An Ohio woman was ordered to repay more than $32,000 in connection with working while collecting workplace injury benefits. Laura Brown pleaded guilty April 9 in Franklin County Court of Common Pleas to workers’...
Ohio Employers to Share $1.2B Workers’ Comp Premium Credit
Apr 23 2014 // Ohio private employers and local governments will soon receive a credit on their workers’ compensation bills totaling $1.2 billion, the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) announced. The credit approved...
Workers’ Comp Commissioner Says Claims on Decline in Texas
Apr 23 2014 // Declining workplace injuries and fewer claims for workers’ compensation benefits are leading to lower costs for employers, Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Rod Bordelon told lawmakers in testimony...
Medical Payments per Claim for Injured Workers in Louisiana Rising
Apr 22 2014 // Payments per claim for the medical care of injured workers in Louisiana were higher and growing faster than in most states, according to a 16-state study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The WCRI...
California Water Authority Mum Over Possible Loss of Insurance
Apr 21 2014 // The battle over a California water district’s insurance coverage has been a bit chilly the last few days. The Central Basin Municipal Water District hasn’t done much to head off threats by the Association of...
Maine Man Found Guilty of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 21 2014 // An Aroostook County jury in Maine has convicted a northern Maine man of theft of more than $10,000 in workers’ compensation benefits. Prosecutors said last Friday that 63-year-old Stephen Tucker Sr. received more...
N.J. Roofing Co. Exec Admits to Misleading Its Workers’ Comp Carrier
Apr 17 2014 // Authorities said the president of a roofing company in New Jersey pleaded guilty to providing false and misleading information to the company’s workers’ compensation carrier in order to avoid paying hundreds of...
Dovetail Insurance Expands Workers Comp Product to Five Additional States
Apr 16 2014 // Dovetail Insurance, a supplier of cloud-based insurance product delivery services, has expanded its NetComp workers’ compensation insurance to independent agents in Virginia, and will also be adding Pennsylvania,...
North Dakota Work Comp Agency Sues Aon eSolutions over Failed Project
Apr 16 2014 // North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency has sued a Chicago company over a failed $17 million computer system overhaul. Workforce Safety and Insurance hired Aon eSolutions in 2007 for a software system...
Nebraska Store Manager Who Was Shot to Get Workers’ Comp Benefits
Apr 14 2014 // An Omaha, Neb., clothing store manager shot up to nine times in an act of revenge for reporting an earlier robbery is entitled to compensation for drug and alcohol rehab and treatment of post-traumatic stress syndrome...
SeaWorld Loses Bid to Nix OSHA Limit on Contact with Killer Whales
Apr 14 2014 // SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. lost its bid to overturn U.S. limits on trainers’ contact with killer whales imposed after one of the animals drowned an amusement park employee during a 2010 show. The Occupational Safety...
N.Y. Aims to Improve Patient Handling, Protect Hospital Staffs From Injuries
Apr 11 2014 // New York is directing health officials and hospitals to identify best practices for safely handling patients in an effort to reduce rough lifting and better protect staff from back injuries. State legislation proposed by...
Oklahoma’s Workers’ Comp Administrative Redesign Takes Effect
Apr 10 2014 // The transition of Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation system from a court-based system to an administrative one became effective Feb. 1, 2014, a change that proponents believe will lower costs and help make the...
