Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
R.I. Officials Ask Court Not to Delay WC Fine Against Former Nightclub Owners
May 17 2013 // Rhode Island labor officials have asked the state Supreme Court not to review the $1 million fine levied against the former owners of the Station nightclub. Michael and Jeffrey Derderian are appealing the fine, levied for...
Missouri Senate Backs Bill to Bolster Second Injury Fund
May 17 2013 // More than a thousand disabled workers could finally begin receiving payments for their job-related injuries if the Missouri House gives final approval to legislation intended to replenish an insolvent state fund. SB 1,...
Missouri Bill Would Create Workers’ Comp Database
May 17 2013 // The Missouri Legislature has voted to create an online database allowing businesses to check whether job applicants have a history of filing workers’ compensation claims. The House gave the bill final approval on a...
Workers’ Comp Sees Encouraging Signs in 2012 Results: NCCI
May 16 2013 // The workers’ compensation market is seeing encouraging signs. Premiums grew for the second consecutive year, the combined ratio declined and claim frequency continued to improve at a pace slightly greater than its...
Delaware Workers’ Comp Task Force Issues Report, Recommendations
May 15 2013 // Delaware’s state task force charged with examining Delaware’s workers compensation insurance rates published a report and 18 recommendations to address double-digit rate increases in recent years. The task...
Workers’ Comp Refund Plan Would Return $113M to Ohio Schools, Cities
May 15 2013 // Local governments and schools in Ohio could see almost $113 million in rebates from the state insurance fund for injured workers under a proposal from the governor. Gov. John Kasich’s office released a breakdown of...
Michigan Pair Charged with Embezzling $2.6M from Work Comp Firm
May 14 2013 // Michigan’s attorney general has charged the former CEO and a bookkeeper with embezzling millions from a workers’ compensation insurance-related organization. Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette announced...
Oklahoma’s Midlands MGA Joins Trusted Choice
May 14 2013 // Oklahoma-based managing general agent, Midlands, is the newest member of the Trusted Choice consumer branding program for independent insurance agents and brokers, the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America...
Tennessee Governor Signs Workers’ Compensation Bill
May 9 2013 // Tennessee’s workers’ compensation system is going to undergo its most significant changes in decades including the creation of a new administrative court system to handle workers’ compensation...
Oklahoma Governor Signs Workers’ Compensation Overhaul
May 8 2013 // Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin on May 6 signed a measure to overhaul the state’s workers’ compensation system, one that was backed by Republican lawmakers, the state’s top insurance regulator and insurance...
Idaho Sues Former Lawmaker Over Workers’ Comp
May 8 2013 // The Idaho Industrial Commission has filed a lawsuit against a former state lawmaker from northern Idaho over unpaid workers’ compensation insurance. The lawsuit filed in 1st District Court against accuses former...
Missouri House OKs Bill Focused on Injured Worker Fund
May 7 2013 // Missouri House members advanced legislation that seeks to replenish an insolvent fund for disabled workers while also preventing people who experience job-related illnesses from filing civil lawsuits. Both elements are...
Bill Limits California Workers’ Comp For Pro Athletes
May 6 2013 // Professional athletes who spent most of their careers with teams in other states would no longer be able to file workers’ compensation claims in California under a bill that has passed the state Assembly. Supporters...
Workers’ Comp Reform Advances in Oklahoma
May 6 2013 // Reform of the workers’ compensation system has been a priority for the Independent Insurance Agents of Oklahoma during the state’s 2013 legislative session and the group is pleased that a measure it has been...
Montana State Fund Lowers Rates for 2014
May 3 2013 // Montana State Fund’s board of directors announced a six percent rate decrease for 2014. The decrease is effective July 1 this year. Since 2007 State Fund has lowered average rates to Montana businesses by 34.5...
Liberty Mutual Q1 Profit Falls 31% to $318M Amid Investment Losses
May 3 2013 // Boston-based Liberty Mutual reported Thursday its net income fell 30.7 percent to $318 million for its 2013 first quarter, compared to $459 million income reported during the prior year first quarter. The company’s...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Fund Plans to Return $1 Billion to Employers
May 2 2013 // Ohio’s governor and the state workers’ compensation fund want to return $1 billion in dividends to Ohio businesses, bolster workplace safety initiatives, and modernize the way employers pay into the fund. A...
Oklahoma Senate Sends Workers’ Comp Bill to Governor
May 2 2013 // The Oklahoma Senate has approved a Republican-backed plan to overhaul the state’s workers’ compensation system and to cut more than $100 million annually from injured worker benefits, sending the proposal to...
Florida Approves Cap on Physician-Dispensed Drugs for Workers’ Compensation
May 2 2013 // After years of struggling to rein in the cost of physician-dispensed drugs, Florida workers’ compensation insurers finally reached a compromise with physicians and drug companies that is projected to reduce costs by...
OSHA Eyes Workplace Safety for Temporary Workers
May 1 2013 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has launched an initiative to further protect temporary employees from workplace hazards. An OSHA memorandum directs field inspectors to...
