Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ohio Woman Must Repay $32K in Workers’ Comp Benefits
May 5 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’...
Changes in Indiana Workers’ Comp System Aimed at Slowing Rise in Medical Costs per Claim
May 5 2014 // New Fee Schedule for Hospitals Goes Into Effect July 1 Like other states with no restrictions on pricing in the workers’ compensation system, medical costs per claim are high and are rising in Indiana, according to a...
North Dakota Workers’ Comp Agency Sues Aon eSolutions
May 5 2014 // North Dakota’s workers’ compensation agency has sued a Chicago company over a failed $17 million computer system overhaul. The Workforce Safety and Insurance agency filed its lawsuit in state court against Aon...
10 Challenges Ahead for Workers’ Compensation
May 5 2014 // Today’s challenges are also tomorrow’s opportunities depending on the viewpoint. Those same opportunities could also remain tomorrow’s challenges. This special report highlights 10 current workers’...
California Water District Heads to Private Market in Face of Insurance Loss
May 2 2014 // It’s beginning look more and more like the Central Basin Municipal Water District in Southern California is going to be taking matters into its own hands in the face of being tossed out of the state’s largest...
Cal/OSHA Issues First High Heat Advisory Of 2014
May 1 2014 // Cal/OSHA is advising all employers to protect their outdoor workers from the risks associated with heat illness with temperatures expected to be 15 to 25 degrees above normal in both Northern and Southern...
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...
