Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Tennessee Aims to Change How Workers’ Compensation Disputes Are Settled
Mar 20 2013 // Tennessee lawmakers have advanced a workers’ compensation reform bill that could change how injured workers’ claims disputes are handled. Governor Bill Haslam has been looking to reform the state’s...
Ohio Investigations Result in 9 Work Comp Fraud Convictions in February
Mar 18 2013 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) announced nine individuals were convicted of, or pleaded guilty to, charges related to defrauding Ohio’s workers’ compensation system in February. The court...
New Rule Allows Injured Michigan Workers to be Paid Electronically
Mar 18 2013 // Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) Director Steve Arwood announced that injured Michigan workers receiving workers’ compensation payments may now receive weekly payments...
Ohio Metal Stamping Plant Hit with 21 OSHA Citations
Mar 15 2013 // The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration says it has issued 21 health and safety citations against a northern Ohio metal stamping company that produces automotive parts after a complaint that a...
Oklahoma Senate Votes to Privatize CompSource Agency
Mar 14 2013 // The Oklahoma Senate has approved legislation to privatize the state’s nonprofit workers’ compensation agency. The Senate passed the measure by a vote of 36-11. It heads to the House, where a similar bill is...
Insurance Weighs in on Working from Home
Mar 13 2013 // Working from home has become a hot topic following Yahoo Inc. CEO Marissa Mayer’s announced plans in late February to bring telecommuters back into the office, and the issue is being taken up by some insurance firms,...
Ohio Physician Ordered to Repay $16K-Plus for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Mar 12 2013 // A Dayton, Ohio, physician who was banned from treating injured workers in 2009 pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud after he was caught using the information of another physician in order to receive...
Passing of Torch at CWCI
Mar 11 2013 // Workers’ compensation wonk Alex Swedlow will become the fourth president of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute following the announced retirement of J. Michael Nolan as president of the...
Oregon Report: Workers’ Comp Increases Coming
Mar 11 2013 // More data is power, but then again knowledge goes only so far – especially in workers’ compensation. A report out in late February shows continued workers’ comp rate decreases on average countrywide through...
California Bill Battles Workers’ Comp Claims from Athletes
Mar 11 2013 // A California legislator has introduced a bill that would address a “loophole” in which pro athletes, mostly National Football League players, are getting workers’ compensation benefits despite having...
North Carolina Auditor Hits Lax Workers’ Comp Enforcement
Mar 11 2013 // The North Carolina agency that rules on compensation for workplace injuries does a poor job of making sure companies carry insurance as they are required to do under law, according to the state’s government...
Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Bill Passes Senate, House Wants to Make It ‘Stronger’
Mar 11 2013 // House Speaker T.W. Shannon says a Senate bill to overhaul Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation system could undergo changes in the House. On Feb. 27, senators voted 34-12 for the Republican-backed bill, mostly...
Bill Changes Arizona Pro Athletes Workers Comp
Mar 8 2013 // A House committee has approved a bill already passed by the Senate that would bar pro athletes in Arizona from filing for workers’ compensation in other states. Republican Sen. John McComish says professional teams...
Ex-Southern California Firefighter Sentenced For Fake Workers’ Comp
Mar 8 2013 // Prosecutors say a Los Angeles city firefighter has been sentenced to probation for filing workers’ compensation claims at the same time he was competing in mixed martial arts fighting. The district attorney’s...
Connecticut Lawmakers Create Fund for Newtown Workers
Mar 8 2013 // Connecticut lawmakers created a special charitable fund on Wednesday to help cover the mental health costs of first responders, educators and other workers traumatized by the Newtown school massacre. Both chambers of the...
Eastern Insurance Holdings Opens Gulf South Regional Office
Mar 7 2013 // Eastern Insurance Holdings Inc. has opened a Gulf South regional office in support of subsidiary Eastern Alliance Insurance Group (EAIG), a domestic casualty insurance group specializing in workers’ compensation...
Florida Judge: 104-Week Limit on Temporary Disability Benefits Unconstitutional
Mar 7 2013 // A Florida district court judge’s ruling that declared unconstitutional a 104-week limitation on injured workers’ temporary benefits has left insurers and employers scrambling to come up with a legislative...
OSHA Orders Norfolk Southern to Pay 3 Workers
Mar 5 2013 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ordered Norfolk, Va.-based Norfolk Southern Corp. to pay more than $1 million to three workers who were fired after they reported on-the-job injuries. The order stems...
Passing of Torch at California Workers’ Compensation Institute
Mar 4 2013 // Workers’ compensation wonk Alex Swedlow will become the fourth president of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute in 50 years following the announced retirement on Monday of J. Michael Nolan as...
Oklahoma Speaker Eyes Ways to Make Workers’ Comp Bill ‘Stronger’
Mar 4 2013 // House Speaker T.W. Shannon says a Senate bill to overhaul Oklahoma’s workers’ compensation system could undergo changes in the House. The Senate voted 34-12 for the Republican-backed bill on Feb. 27, mostly...
