Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mid-2015 Target For Alaska Workers’ Comp Changes
May 27 2014 // A new method of paying medical fees for injured workers under Alaska’s workers’ compensation program won’t be in place until mid-2015, and it will take more time for insurance companies to judge any...
Wisconsin Office Building Closure Delaying Some Workers’ Comp Checks
May 27 2014 // Some workers who have been injured on the job are seeing delays in their workers’ compensation payments, due to a fire that closed a major state office building earlier this month in Madison, Wis. The Wisconsin State...
Louisiana Senators Side with Saints Owner in Workers’ Comp Dispute
May 27 2014 // Senators on the labor committee have narrowly sided with New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson over the NFL players in a dispute about how workers’ compensation claims for professional athletes should be...
OSHA Reviewing Alabama Car Parts Plant Use of Chemical
May 23 2014 // Federal regulators are investigating complaints about safety problems at an automotive parts plant in Selma. The Selma Times-Journal reported the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is reviewing operations at...
Report Faults U.S. Oversight of Chemical Plants
May 23 2014 // The government has no way of fully knowing which U.S. chemical facilities stock ammonium nitrate, the substance that exploded last year at a Texas fertilizer plant and killed 14 people, congressional investigators say....
Report: N.Y. Private Sector Occupational Injuries Cost Economy $10.9B in 2010-12
May 22 2014 // Private sector occupational injuries in New York cost the state economy $10.9 billion between 2010 and 2012, according to a report released this month from the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen. The report, titled...
Data Show Rising Workers’ Comp Medical Costs in New Hampshire
May 22 2014 // In the world of workers’ compensation, the fees charged by the health care community are significantly more expensive on average in New Hampshire than in other states, according to the New Hampshire insurance...
Private Employer Workers’ Comp Rates to Fall Again in Ohio
May 22 2014 // Ohio private employers will again benefit from lower overall workers’ compensation base-rates with a 6.3 percent reduction that will take effect July 1, the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC)...
New Mexico Court: Insurer to Pay for Injured Worker’s Medical MJ
May 21 2014 // The New Mexico Court of Appeals has ruled that a worker’s employer and its insurer must pay for medical marijuana for treating the employee’s chronic pain from a job-related back injury. The court on Monday...
Lawmakers Tour Refurbed Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Building
May 21 2014 // Several state House members toured the newly renovated headquarters of the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission. About a half dozen Republican members on Tuesday visited the renovated third-floor of the Denver...
R.I. Approves WC Advisory Loss Costs Increase of 2.5% for Industrial Classes
May 19 2014 // Rhode Island’s Department of Business Regulation, Insurance Division, on May 15 approved a +2.5 percent overall increase in advisory loss costs for workers’ compensation for industrial classes and an overall...
Saints-Backed Bill Draws Warning Flag From Players Association
May 19 2014 // The NFL Players Association is asking player agents to warn clients that signing with the New Orleans Saints could subject them to unfavorable workers’ compensation benefits. In an email Friday, NFLPA chief DeMaurice...
Court: Ohio Overcharged Employers Workers’ Comp For Years
May 19 2014 // The director of the state insurance fund for injured workers said Friday that he’s disappointed with an unusually pointed appeals court decision that says the fund overcharged employers by hundreds of millions of...
Delaware Lawmakers Eye Proposals to Lower Workers’ Comp Medical Costs
May 19 2014 // Delaware lawmakers are expected to act quickly on recommendations from a state task force aimed at lowering workers’ compensation insurance rates. The task force presented lawmakers a report on May 15 proposing that...
‘Balance’ for Workers’ Comp
May 19 2014 // The workers’ compensation market is returning to a state of “balance.” That’s according to this year’s state of the industry address at NCCI’s annual symposium where analysts reported...
Changes in Indiana Workers’ Comp Aimed at Slowing Rise in Medical Costs
May 13 2014 // As in 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 recent study by the Workers’ Compensation...
Virginia to Raise Penalties for Employers Without Workers’ Comp Coverage
May 13 2014 // Employers in Virginia who fail to provide workers’ compensation insurance for their employees will be assessed, beginning July, a civil penalty of up to $250 per day for each day of noncompliance, subject to a...
Investigation Finds Inspections Lacking for Rail Tanker Cleaning
May 12 2014 // Federal inspectors responsible for workplace safety appear not to know which firms and how many firms handle the dangerous task of cleaning the inside of railroad tankers that carry petrochemicals, a Houston Chronicle...
California Injured Workers Medical Costs Moderated Before Reforms
May 12 2014 // A study issued by the Workers Compensation Research Institute shows medical costs for injured workers in California moderated before sweeping reforms were implemented. WCRI looked at the potential impact of recent reform...
Players Association Lambasts New Orleans Saints-Backed Workers’ Comp Bill
May 12 2014 // The NFL Players Association is launching a campaign aimed at defeating the New Orleans Saints’ bid to change state law pertaining to workers’ compensation claims by players. NFLPA executive director DeMaurice...
