Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Boston Insurance Brokerage Appoints VP of Workers Compensation
Aug 6 2013 // Boston Insurance Brokerage Inc. appointed Keith Driscoll as vice president of workers compensation. In his new role, he will further develop the firm’s portfolio of regional and national accounts.Keith...
West Virginia University Initiative Cuts Workers’ Comp Costs
Aug 6 2013 // West Virginia University has reduced its workers’ compensation costs by about $600,000 and is looking for more ways to save money. WVU Office of Risk Management head Mike Ganso tells The Dominion Post that the effort...
Court: No Workers’ Comp For Oregon Dock Urinator
Aug 5 2013 // A federal appeals court says an Oregon longshoreman who got drunk on the job, urinated while standing on a dock and then fell 6 feet onto concrete should not get workers’ compensation benefits for his injuries. Gary...
Prices Up Again in Q2 But Market Hardening May Be Moderating: Council
Aug 5 2013 // Commercial property/casualty pricing continued to gently creep upwards in the second quarter, however signs of some moderating of increases also surfaced. The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers’ quarterly...
Texas Business Indicted on Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Aug 2 2013 // A Travis County, Texas grand jury has indicted Mark Edward Helm and McClanahan Drywall Inc., of Emory, Texas, on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. Helm was an officer of McClanahan Drywall Inc. and...
P/C Industry Faces Challenges If Terrorism Coverage Not Renewed: Fitch
Aug 1 2013 // If Congress fails to renew or makes significant changes to the federal government’s terrorism risk insurance program, some insurers will be forced to significantly alter their underwriting portfolios to reduce...
American Claims Management Wins El Camino Hospital Contract
Aug 1 2013 // San Diego, CA, 08/01/13 – American Claims Management Inc. (ACM), a national third party administrator (TPA), has been selected as the workers’ compensation TPA for El Camino Hospital in Northern California. As a...
Oregon Threatens To Decertify Workers’ Comp Group
Jul 31 2013 // Oregon insurance regulators said that they’ve taken the first steps toward decertifying a workers’ compensation self-insurance trust and will shut it down next week if the employers can’t come up with...
Sullivan to Join Texas Division of Workers’ Comp as Deputy Commissioner
Jul 29 2013 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) announced that Kerry D. Sullivan will join the agency as Deputy Commissioner for Hearings, effective Sept. 3, 2013. Prior to joining the...
OSHA Investigates After Lightning Hits 9 Colorado Farm Workers
Jul 26 2013 // Federal authorities are investigating safety procedures at a northern Colorado farm after nine workers were struck by lightning. Two of the workers in the organic fields in Wellington were critically injured when the...
Prices Up Again in Q2 But Market Hardening May Be Moderating: The Council
Jul 24 2013 // Commercial property/casualty pricing continued to gently creep upwards in the second quarter, however signs of some moderating of increases also surfaced. The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers’ quarterly...
West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Loss Cost Rate Falls for 9th Straight Year
Jul 23 2013 // Workers’ compensation loss costs are going down in West Virginia for the ninth consecutive year since the market was privatized. The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCC), which files rates on behalf of...
OSHA Cites Ford’s Buffalo, N.Y., Plant Over Asbestos
Jul 22 2013 // Federal safety officials have cited Ford Motor Co.’s Buffalo-area plant for alleged asbestos violations. The Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed fines of $41,800. OSHA...
OSHA Again Probes Georgia Auto Parts Plant After Worker’s Death
Jul 22 2013 // Federal authorities are questioning working conditions at a Georgia auto parts plant for the eighth time in four years, this time in connection with a worker’s death. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
Missouri Governor Signs Bill Replenishing Disabled Workers Fund
Jul 22 2013 // Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has signed legislation raising charges on businesses to replenish an insolvent state fund that provides benefits to disabled workers. The new law will temporarily double the surcharge that...
Tennessee Seminars to Review Workers’ Compensation Law Changes
Jul 19 2013 // The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development is holding a series of 14 seminars across the state to explain the Workers’ Compensation Reform Act of 2013. The new law removes injured workers’...
N.Y. Approves NYCIRB’s Revised Workers’ Comp Loss Cost Filing
Jul 16 2013 // The New York Department of Financial Services on Monday approved a revised loss cost filing from the New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board (NYCIRB) with an effective date of Oct. 1, 2013. As a result, policyholders...
South Dakota Court Denies Workers’ Comp Coverage for Slain Woman’s Estate
Jul 16 2013 // The South Dakota Supreme Court says a Sioux Falls company does not have to pay workers’ compensation insurance benefits to the estate of an employee who was shot and killed by her estranged husband in the...
Obama Administration Under Fire for Delay on Chemical Plant Safety
Jul 16 2013 // The Obama administration’s lack of action to impose recommended changes to make refineries, chemical factories and sugar plants safer is set to get a public rebuke from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board. The independent...
R.I. to Keep Assessment Rate for Workers’ Comp Insurers at 6.75%
Jul 15 2013 // The Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training said it is keeping the assessment rate for workers’ compensation insurers unchanged at 6.75 percent for the coming year. The department said this assessment rate has...
