Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oklahoma Superior Court Referee Hears Workers’ Comp Case
Nov 15 2013 // Oklahoma’s new workers’ compensation law violates the state Constitution in several ways and should be struck down, an attorney for two state lawmakers and a firefighter’s organization told a state...
New York’s Broome County Forms Task Force to Fight Workers’ Comp Fraud
Nov 14 2013 // Officials from New York State’s Broome County unveiled a new initiative to crack down on workers’ compensation fraud. Broome County Executive Debbie Preston said Wednesday her county has created an informal...
WCRI: Workers’ Compensation Costs Per Claim Moderating in Pennsylvania
Nov 14 2013 // The costs per workers’ compensation claim in Pennsylvania are moderating, following years of steady growth in previous years, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The...
Workers’ Comp Rate Cut Recommended for Louisiana
Nov 12 2013 // A national group is recommending that the state of Louisiana cut workers’ compensation rates by 5 percent because of fewer workplace claims among other factors. The Times-Picayune reports the National Council on...
Texas Approves 10 Companies to Self-Insure for Workers’ Comp
Nov 12 2013 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) approved ten renewals of the Certificates of Authority for companies to self-insure their workers’ compensation claims for a...
Kentucky Regulator Files Rehabilitation Plan for Schools’ Insurance Trust
Nov 11 2013 // The Kentucky Department of Insurance (DOI) has proposed taking over the management of the troubled funds used for school board workers’ compensation and property and liability claims. DOI Commissioner Sharon P. Clark...
Florida Outpatient Costs for Injured Workers Rising Rapidly: WCRI
Nov 11 2013 // The average cost per claim of outpatient hospital care for injured workers in the Florida workers’ compensation system continued to grow rapidly and was a main driver of growth in medical payments per claim in the...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Data Shows 5K-Plus Worker Amputations Since 2005
Nov 8 2013 // Data provided by the state shows that more than 5,000 workers in Ohio have suffered amputation injuries since 2005. The statistics from the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation were analyzed by The Dayton Daily News....
Florida Approves NCCI’s Revised Filing for 0.7% Workers’ Comp Rate Increase
Nov 5 2013 // Florida’s Office of Insurance Regulation recently issued a final order approving the rate increase of 0.7 percent for workers’ compensation rates in Florida. The approval was issued after the National Council...
Fallin Appoints 2 to New Workers’ Comp Panel
Nov 4 2013 // Gov. Mary Fallin has named a longtime Oklahoma City attorney and a deputy insurance commissioner to fill the final two spots on the newly created Workers’ Compensation Commission. Fallin appointed attorney Robert...
Multi-million Dollar Workers’ Comp Fraud Probe Leads to West Virginia Bank
Nov 4 2013 // A federal investigation into a multi-million-dollar workers’ compensation scheme extended to the Bank of Mingo in West Virginia, where authorities seized computer drives and documents. FBI Special Agent James...
Illinois Workers’ Compensation Medical Care Costs Declining: WCRI
Nov 4 2013 // The costs of medical care to treat injured workers in Illinois are declining, the result of regulatory change enacted in 2011, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The report,...
Manufacturer Faces Nearly $148K in Fines for Amputation Hazards in Ohio
Nov 1 2013 // Napoleon Spring Works Inc., a manufacturer of garage door hardware, has been cited $147,600 in proposed penalties by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for 16 safety...
Maryland’s Chesapeake Employers: Business as Usual for Policyholders, Agents
Nov 1 2013 // Maryland’s largest writer of workers’ compensation insurance and the insurer of last resort adopted a new name and a new corporate structure in October. The 99-year-old Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund...
FBI: California Senator Tied up in Workers’ Comp Fraud
Oct 31 2013 // An FBI investigation shows that state Sen. Ronald Calderon accepted bribes from a hospital executive in Southern California who ran an alleged workers’ compensation scheme, the Al Jazeera America news outlet is...
United Ethanol Cited After Worker Dies in Wisconsin Corn Bin
Oct 31 2013 // United Ethanol LLC has been cited for 15 health and safety violations by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration after a worker died inside a grain storage bin on April 19 at the...
OSHA Fines Trucking Company $113K After Worker Fatality in Arkansas
Oct 31 2013 // Sherman Brothers Trucking Inc., doing business as Team Transport Inc., has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for 11 safety and health violations and fined...
DWC OKs Carve-Out Covering 22K Southern California Workers
Oct 29 2013 // The Division of Workers’ Compensation announced a carve-out agreement between seven Southern California United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) local unions, Vons and Super A Foods. The agreement covers an...
Study Tracks Latest Changes in N.Y. Workers’ Comp System After 2007 Reforms
Oct 28 2013 // The ongoing effects of workers’ compensation reforms enacted in New York in 2007 are monitored by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) in a new study that focuses on objectives that are being achieved,...
Illinois Workers’ Compensation Medical Care Costs Declining: WCRI
Oct 28 2013 // The costs of medical care to treat injured workers in Illinois are declining, the result of regulatory change enacted in 2011, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The report,...
