Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
OSHA Hit for Taking Too Long to Adopt Workplace Safety Rules
May 7 2012 // The nation’s premier worker safety agency takes nearly eight years on average to adopt new safety regulations, government auditors said in a report. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration takes far too...
Maine Workers’ Comp Reform Bill Signed Into Law
May 7 2012 // A new Maine bill that brings wide-ranging changes to the state’s workers’ compensation system was signed into law last month. The bill, signed into law by Maine Gov. Paul LePage, is called An Act to Review and...
Business Moves – West
May 7 2012 // SIAA Hampton, N.H.-based Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance has signed nine new members in the Western United States. The new members include: Farling Insurance Agency of Litchfield Park, Ariz. Baldrica & Company of...
Florida Workers’ Comp Exemption Changes Dropped
May 7 2012 // In vetoing a bill on tax credits for his state’s hurricane fund, Florida Gov. Rick Scott also axed several other proposals aimed at streamlining the process that employers use to claim an exemption from buying...
Current Market Not Yet a ‘Classic’ Hard Market: P/C Executives
May 7 2012 // The current property/casualty market is not a “classic” hard market, yet anyway. While prices are clearly rising in certain lines including property and workers’ compensation, other conditions of a...
Current Market Not Yet a ‘Classic’ Hard Market: P/C Executives
May 7 2012 // The current property/casualty market is not a “classic” hard market, not yet anyway. While prices are clearly rising in certain lines including property and workers’ compensation, other conditions of a...
Southeast Agencies, Carriers Now Hiring
May 7 2012 // Here is some of the positive insurance employment news for the Southeast: Allstate In February, Allstate Insurance announced it was looking to appoint 124 new agency owners in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and South...
OSHA Proposes $137K Fine For Wisconsin Company
May 4 2012 // A River Falls, Wis. company is facing $137,000 in potential fines following a trench collapse last year that killed a 19-year-old worker. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration Five issued five citations this...
South Dakota Company in Trouble With OSHA
May 3 2012 // Federal safety regulators have labeled a southeast South Dakota company a “severe violator” after a worker died and two others were seriously injured. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is...
Menard Guards Wrongly Paid Workers’ Compensation
May 3 2012 // In a little-noted appearance before the Illinois House Appropriations-Public Safety Committee, the director of the Department of Corrections said millions of dollars in workers’ compensation payments to Menard prison...
Missouri Governor Signals Compromise On Workers’ Comp
May 3 2012 // About six weeks after he vetoed legislation that would have changed the state’s workers’ compensation system, Missouri’s Democratic governor is signaling that he would be open to compromise with...
OSHA Investigating Death At South Dakota Steel Business
May 2 2012 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is looking into the death of a worker at a Rapid City, S.D. steel business. Twenty-six-year-old Adam Klynsma was killed at TrueNorth Steel on Friday. Pennington County...
Mississippi Lawmakers Pass Workers’ Compensation Changes Backed by Employers
May 2 2012 // Mississippi legislators offered sharply different views of a bill they passed Monday to change the way compensation is awarded to workers injured on the job, or to survivors of those killed at work. If Republican Gov. Phil...
Bill Aims to Fix Problems with Medicare Set-Asides for Workers’ Compensation
May 1 2012 // The insurance industry is among the business and legal interests applauding legislation to resolve delays and inconsistencies in Medicare’s approval process for set-aside funds for injured workers’...
Missouri House Passes Whistleblower, Work Comp Bills
Apr 30 2012 // The Missouri House passed two pieces of business legislation aimed at overcoming vetoes by Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon earlier this year. Both measures now go to the Senate, which approved similar measures earlier in the...
58 Massachusetts Workers Were Killed on Job in 2011: Report
Apr 30 2012 // A new report says 58 Massachusetts workers were killed on the job in 2011, at an average of 1.1 worker death each week. The report, titled “Dying for Work in Massachusetts,” was published last week by the...
Troubled Illinois Work Injury-Claim System Hit in Audit
Apr 27 2012 // Illinois’ troubled system for compensating injured state workers hands out money too readily, sometimes without medical evidence to back up a claim and occasionally paying benefits the hurt employee didn’t even...
Oklahoma House Defeats Alternative Workers’ Comp Measure
Apr 27 2012 // The Oklahoma House has defeated workers’ compensation legislation that would have allowed large employers to opt-out of the state’s workers’ compensation system. In a bipartisan vote on April 25, House...
Montana High Court Hears Hutterite Labor Case
Apr 27 2012 // The Montana Supreme Court did not immediately rule after hearing competing arguments from a Hutterite colony and the state on whether Montana’s requirement that employers carry workers’ compensation insurance...
TDI-DWC Approves 7 to Self-Insure for Workers’ Compensation
Apr 25 2012 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) approved seven renewals of the Certificates of Authority for companies to self-insure their workers’ compensation claims for a...
