Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feds Probing Indiana’s Workplace Safety Agency
Apr 15 2013 // The federal government’s workplace safety agency is investigating its Indiana counterpart – a department that documents indicate is trying to boost its inspections without hiring new staffers. The Indianapolis...
Tennessee House Approves Workers’ Comp Claims Panels Along Party Lines
Apr 15 2013 // After defeating several attempts by Democrats to dial back the proposal, the Tennessee House last Thursday approved Republican Gov. Bill Haslam’s bill to change the way the state considers injured workers’...
Delaware Workers Compensation Panel Continues Work
Apr 15 2013 // A state panel looking at soaring workers compensation rates in Delaware is considering whether injured workers should be paid total disability benefits for 90 days even if they can perform light duty in the workplace. The...
Florida Workers’ Compensation Ruling Could Cost $65 Million, Says NCCI
Apr 11 2013 // A Florida court’s ruling that the state’s 104-week limit on injured workers’ temporary benefits is unconstitutional could increase costs by $65 million, says the workers’ compensation...
Oklahoma Panel Advances Workers’ Comp Overhaul
Apr 11 2013 // By a party-line vote, an Oklahoma House committee approved the latest version of a plan to overhaul the state’s workers’ compensation system after more than an hour of questioning and sometimes angry...
As Gun Sales Soar, Insurance Sales Follow Suit
Apr 11 2013 // Proposed federal and state gun legislation is having an unintended effect on growth in the gun insurance market across the country. Experts in this segment say new policy submissions dealing with all aspects of guns,...
Cuomo: Workers’ Comp Reform to Bring $800M Savings to N.Y. Employers
Apr 10 2013 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said this week that employers in the state are poised to save some $800 million annually, thanks to reforms in the state workers’ compensation system that were included in the recently...
New Workers’ Compensation Formula Lowers Premiums for Most Employers
Apr 9 2013 // A reworking of a key piece of the workers’ compensation rating formula isn’t changing rates overall but is changing premiums for most insureds, according to experts. Tony DiDonato, director and senior actuary...
Closing N.Y.’s Reopened Case Fund May Leave Workers’ Comp Insurers Under-Reserved
Apr 8 2013 // An industry executive warned recently that a set of proposed changes in New York could leave workers’ comp insurers under-reserved. Julia Stenberg, an assistant vice president and actuary at CNA insurance companies,...
Insurance Agent Charged with Workers’ Comp Fraud in Oklahoma
Apr 8 2013 // A Norman, Okla., insurance agent has been charged with fraudulently obtaining workers’ compensation insurance policies for roofing companies. Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s office on April 5 filed...
How Obamacare Could Affect P/C Insurance
Apr 8 2013 // Key changes in federal health care reform remain months away, but property/casualty actuaries are already trying to determine what impact they will have on their business, particularly workers’ compensation and...
Conn. Issues Stop Work Orders to 27 Construction Firms for Misclassifying Workers
Apr 4 2013 // Connecticut authorities recently issued “stop work” orders to 27 firms working at construction project sites in Stamford for misclassifying workers during the period of Jan. 9 to March 14. Connecticut...
Study: California Law to Impact Medical Care For Injured Workers
Apr 3 2013 // The 2012 workers’ compensation regulatory changes in California are expected to affect both the prices and utilization of medical care to injured workers by most types of providers, according to a study by the...
Tennessee Senate Approves Governor’s Workers’ Compensation Claims Change
Apr 3 2013 // Legislation that seeks to change the way injured workers’ claims are considered passed the Senate despite opponents who say it would reduce benefits and remove impartiality from the judgment process. The measure,...
State Fund 2012 Annual Report Shows Net Income Increase
Apr 2 2013 // California’s State Compensation Fund’s annual report for 2012 was released online Tuesday, and it reflects an increase in net income for California’s largest workers’ comp insurer. The report comes...
North Dakota Wants Another Look at Worker’s Comp
Apr 2 2013 // Tim Lambertson has fought a long legal battle to keep from seeing the doctor. The North Dakota former truck driver, who was sidelined from work by an injury sustained while unloading potatoes, would welcome medical...
Washington Couple Must Pay $224,000 For Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 1 2013 // A Washington couple received jail time and will have to reimburse the state more than $200,000 after they reportedly both filed fraudulent workers’ compensation claims in 2009. Jaime Beroth, 63, and her husband...
BrickStreet Auditor, 4 Coal Contractors Plead Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 1 2013 // A workers’ compensation auditor and four coal company contractors in West Virginia have pleaded guilty to federal charges in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme. Federal prosecutors said that Arville Sargent pleaded...
Pennsylvania’s Overall Workers’ Comp Rates to Drop 4.01%
Mar 29 2013 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Mike Consedine announced Thursday that a workers’ compensation rate reduction will go into effect next week for employers. The overall decrease of 4.01 percent is effective April...
Ohio Woman Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud, Owes $88K
Mar 28 2013 // An Ohio woman was sentenced on multiple counts after agents with the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) captured video of her running her own clothing store while receiving workers’ comp benefits for a...
