Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Suit by Teacher Shot by 6-Year-Old Student Asks If Workers’ Compensation Is Enough
Oct 27 2023 // A heated debate has emerged about the once-unimaginable shooting of a teacher by her 6-year-old student: How should the school district take care of the teacher? Should she only get workers’ compensation for her...
Kentucky Approves 18th-straight Decrease in Workers’ Comp Loss Costs
Oct 26 2023 // Kentucky’s Insurance Commissioner has approved a 6.4% decrease in average workers’ compensation loss costs for the state, making it the 18th consecutive drop in costs for most Kentucky employers. “The...
Asbestos Wrongful Death Claim Allowed Against Employer as Workers’ Comp Exception
Oct 24 2023 // A Connecticut appeals court has revived a wrongful death claim that tests a narrow exception to the state law that makes workers’ compensation the exclusive remedy for most workplace deaths and injuries. Harold...
Markets/Coverages: Atlas General Announces Workers’ Comp Program With Sompo
Oct 19 2023 // National multi-line program administrator Atlas General Insurance Services, an RPS Company, announced the addition of a new workers’ compensation insurance program with Sompo International. This new platform includes...
OSHA Investigations Uncover 36 Violations at Tulsa Manufacturing Facility
Oct 17 2023 // A Tulsa, Oklahoma manufacturing facility exposed employees to struck-by hazards and identified 36 violations, including 25 serious safety violations of U.S. Department of Labor regulations, three federal workplace safety...
IAIABC Recognizes Eight Individuals for Outstanding Contributions to Workers’ Compensation Industry
Oct 17 2023 // The International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions (IAIABC) recognized eight individuals for their service to the agency and the workers’ compensation industry at the agency’s 109th...
Former Washington NFL Player Denied Workers’ Compensation for Hip
Oct 17 2023 // Stuart Anderson, who played linebacker for the National Football League’s Washington Redskins (now known as the Washington Commanders) in the mid-1980s, has lost his bid to collect workers’ compensation medical...
Report Examines 10-Year California Workers Comp Payment Trends
Oct 16 2023 // Average paid losses on California workers’ compensation lost-time claims fell immediately after legislative reforms of SB 863 took effect a decade ago, but then gradually increased up until the pandemic hit,...
Injured Worker Refuses Suitable Job Because He Opposed Vaccination
Oct 16 2023 // It was reasonable for an injured employee who is returning to work to refuse a job that accommodated his disability because he had personal and religious objections to getting a COVID-19 vaccine. The Virginia...
Medical Costs for Injured Workers in Delaware Fell During Pandemic: WCRI Study
Oct 13 2023 // Changes in the availability of medical services during the pandemic was one of the drivers of Delaware workers’ compensation claims costs in 2020 and 2021. A new study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute...
Delaware Workers’ Compensation Rates to Fall 7% and 11% in December
Oct 12 2023 // Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro announced that Delaware’s workers’ compensation rates will decrease for the seventh year in a row, effective December 1, 2023. The voluntary market is expected to...
California Business Owner and Office Manager Charged for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Oct 11 2023 // Bobby Levell Gilbert, Jr., 66 of Santa Ana, California, and owner of B & J Tree Service, has been charged with 96 felony counts for alleged wage theft, denial of workers’ compensation benefits to employees,...
OSHA Fines Pennsylvania Candy Factory for Not Evacuating Before Fatal Explosion
Oct 10 2023 // A Pennsylvania chocolate factory was fined more than $44,000 by the federal workplace safety agency on Thursday for failing to evacuate before a natural gas explosion that killed seven people. R.M. Palmer Co. did not heed...
Are Florida Workers’ Comp Rates Getting Too Low? Roofers, Insurer Urge Freeze
Oct 6 2023 // Workers’ compensation rates have shrunk to such a low level in Florida, at least for some classifications, that they are causing problems and could be masking issues that will lead to higher premiums in coming years,...
New Jersey Insurance Agent, Contractor Arrested on Workers’ Compensation Fraud Charges
Oct 6 2023 // A New Jersey insurance agent and the owner of painting company were arrested this week on allegations of insurance fraud. Morris County Prosecutor Robert J. Carroll and Morris County Chief of Detectives Robert McNally...
California Workers’ Comp Written Premium in 2022 Was Near Pre-Pandemic Level
Oct 4 2023 // Written premium in 2022 was 14% higher than 2021 and almost at the pre-pandemic level – an increase was driven by higher employee wage levels and the economic Recovery, according to a new report out on Wednesday from the...
Subcontractors Working Too Close to High Voltage Power Lines Draws OSHA Action
Oct 4 2023 // The U.S. Department of Labor has entered into a settlement agreement with a New Jersey building contractor who allowed its subcontractors’ employees to work in close proximity to high-voltage power lines at a...
Injured Worker Compensated in Rhode Island Barred From Suing in Massachusetts
Oct 3 2023 // An injured worker who collects workers’ compensation in Rhode Island cannot sue his employer in Massachusetts, according to a ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Both states bar any other recovery once an...
Understanding the Impact of Recessions on Workers’ Compensation
Oct 2 2023 // Workers and employers in the U.S. have endured 17 recessions during NCCI’s 100 years of operation. Recessions produce far-reaching consequences on the economy, and the extent of those impacts depends on the severity,...
New York Ups Workers’ Compensation Benefits; Targets Wage Theft
Oct 2 2023 // New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed three bills into law that affect workers, including one raising the minimum disability benefit under workers’ compensation, over three years. The workers’ comp legislation...
