Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Brokers, Agents React to State Fund New Deal
Sep 5 2012 // Reaction to a decision by State Compensation Insurance Fund to restructure its broker distribution model has ranged from guardedly optimistic to visceral the day following the announcment. Under the new deal announced on...
Agents, Brokers to Deal with State Fund Wholesalers
Sep 5 2012 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund will now require most of the roughly 5,000 brokers and agents the entity deals with to go through one of two wholesalers. An estimated 3,500 agents and brokers will be...
California State Fund Restructures Broker Distribution
Sep 4 2012 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has changed its broker distribution model, requiring most of the roughly 5,000 brokers and agents the entity deals with to go through one of two wholesalers. The change,...
Lawmakers Greenlight Workers’ Comp Overhaul
Sep 1 2012 // The state Legislature approved a reform bill for California’s $17-billion workers’ compensation insurance system, one that promises to hike benefits for injured workers and cut costs for employers, the L.A....
Assembly Passes Workers’ Compensation Changes
Aug 31 2012 // The state Assembly approved a series of changes to California’s workers’ compensation system Friday, voting on a 170-page bill that arose in the final days of the legislative session. The changes were sought by...
Workers’ Comp Bill Amended, Brown Pleads for Support
Aug 31 2012 // As Legislators rushed to amend and pass a bill that would reform California’s workers’ compensation system before the Friday’s midnight deadline, several late amendments were made that may give the bill a...
Massachusetts Strikes Down 18.8% Workers’ Comp Rate Hike Proposal
Aug 31 2012 // Massachusetts Division of Insurance announced Thursday that it has rejected a request to raise the state’s workers’ compensation rates by 18.8 percent. Massachusetts regulators’ decision to strike down...
OSHA Cites Louisiana Gas Plant after Blast Left 1 Hurt
Aug 31 2012 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Plains Gas Solutions LLC in Eunice, La. following a February explosion and fire that left a worker severely burned. Proposed...
Families Sue over Kansas Grain Elevator Blast
Aug 31 2012 // Family members of four people killed in a grain elevator explosion last year in northeast Kansas are suing employees of Bartlett Grain Co., including its current president Bob Knief, less than five months after federal...
Poll: Confidence for Calif. Workers’ Comp Reform Dropping
Aug 29 2012 // Confidence in the state government to reform California’s unwieldy workers’ compensation system is falling as Legislators struggle to get buy-in on a bill to increase benefits for injured workers and address...
Kentucky Annual Workers’ Comp Loss Costs Fall for 7th Consecutive Year
Aug 29 2012 // Kentucky regulators said an annual filing most carriers will use to develop rates for workers’ comp coverage shows the seventh consecutive overall decrease in loss costs. The 2012 filing, approved by Kentucky’s...
Workers’ Comp Reform Bill Running Low on Time
Aug 28 2012 // The numbers continue to change and time is running out on a workers’ compensation reform bill that has California legislators scrambling to come up with a compromise that promises to both increase permanent...
Michigan Workers’ Compensation Rates to Drop Again
Aug 28 2012 // Michigan’s regulators say the state’s workers’ compensation premium rates are dropping for the second year in a row. Michigan Department of Licensing & Regulatory Affairs (LARA) Director Steven H....
Study: Workers’ Comp Reform Bill Increases Costs $300M
Aug 27 2012 // A workers’ compensation reform bill was officially introduced on Monday, and the same day the California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau issued a study saying the bill could produce a savings of...
Workers’ Comp Poll Wants Your Opinion on California
Aug 27 2012 // Negotiating parties have finally come to terms on wording for a bill to reform California’s workers’ compensation system. The bill, Senate Bill 863, was introduced late last week. It resulted from a meeting...
Oklahoma Lawmaker Wants More Money in Workers’ Comp Case
Aug 27 2012 // An Oklahoma lawmaker who was awarded more than $61,000 in workers’ compensation for injuries suffered in a collision as he drove to the state Capitol has appealed for more money, while the state House and its...
North Carolina Forms Workers’ Comp Scofflaw Task Force
Aug 27 2012 // North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue last week created a panel to find ways to crack down on businesses that are skirting North Carolina law on workers’ compensation insurance or taxes and gaining a competitive...
Now There’s an App for Workers’ Comp Claims
Aug 27 2012 // There’s an app for just about everything. And although a new workers’ compensation application from the University of Alabama at Birmingham may not be a must-add to every smart phone, its developers say it will...
Insurers Seek 6.1% Increase in Florida Workers’ Compensation Rates
Aug 24 2012 // Florida employers may see their workers’ compensation rates increase as the National Council on Compensation Insurance announced it is seeking a statewide average 6.1 percent rate hike on behalf of insurers. If...
Maryland Court: Former NFL Punter Eligible for Workers’ Comp
Aug 24 2012 // Maryland’s highest court has ruled former Washington Redskins punter Tom Tupa is eligible for workers compensation for an injury while warming up for a preseason game in 2005 at FedEx Field. The Maryland Court of...
