Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Report: Donations to Okla. Political Organization May be Illegal
Aug 5 2008 // An organization controlled by Oklahoma attorneys who specialize in workers’ compensation cases has raised almost $1 million for political purposes mostly from injured workers who sometimes do not know they have...
Two New York Contractors Face Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Aug 5 2008 // A New York contractor and the sub-contractor he hired are both facing charges of workers’ compensation fraud following their arrests by New York State Police. Police arrested Phillip Gish, 70, of East Aurora, N.Y. on...
Wyo. Supreme Court Upholds Workers’ Comp for Widow
Aug 4 2008 // The Wyoming Supreme Court has upheld workers’ compensation death benefits for the widow of a man who was paralyzed by a workplace injury and who died years later of pneumonia. David Fisher was paralyzed by an...
It Figures
Aug 4 2008 // $235 Million Ohio businesses that aren’t paying insurance bills to cover injured workers can expect a visit from the state. The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation said July 16 that it is creating a compliance...
Stunning Workers’ Comp for Cops in Tennessee
Aug 4 2008 // Police in Brownsville, Tenn. will soon be armed with electric stun devices. Mayor Webb Banks said officials realize the weapons are controversial, but if police tell people they have them, officials believe officers...
How to Become the Local Employer of Choice
Aug 4 2008 // Workers’ Comp Expert Advises Employers on Surviving Today’s Demographics About two-thirds of companies do no planning for workforce issues at all. Quickly rising and about to strike, the tidal wave of...
Selective Insurance Touts Q2 Workers’ Comp Improvement, Mass. Expansion
Aug 1 2008 // Selective Insurance reported that new premiums declined for the second quarter while workers’ compensation results improved and its recent expansion into the commercial markets in Massachusetts and Tennessee is going...
OSHA Had Cited Wisconsin Mill 3 Times Before Fatal Explosion
Aug 1 2008 // The Wisconsin paper mill where an explosion killed three workers earlier this week received three citations for safety violations in the past 10 years, including one that was serious, according to a federal Web site. The...
North Dakota Workers Comp Agency Changes Benefit Appeals Process
Aug 1 2008 // North Dakota’s workers compensation agency plans to resume using independent judges to review disputes over benefits for workers who are hurt on the job, its director says. Two attorneys who represent injured workers...
Virginia Plans Hearing on Workers’ Compensation Premiums
Aug 1 2008 // The Virginia State Corporation Commission is setting an October 28 hearing to consider adjustments in premiums charged for workers’ compensation insurance. The National Council on Compensation Insurance has requested...
OSHA Issues 3rd Largest Fine Ever Against Texas-Based Imperial Sugar
Jul 29 2008 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on July 25 announced it has proposed penalties totaling $8,777,500 against Houston-based Imperial Sugar Co. and its two affiliates alleging violations at their...
Workers’ Compensation History: The Great Tradeoff!
Jul 29 2008 // Eighteenth century pirates and a nineteenth century German “Iron” Chancellor preceded the United States in the creation of a social system for the protection of injured workers. The modern workers’...
Federal Investigations Continue in Mississippi Jobsite Cave-ins
Jul 29 2008 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration in Mississippi is continuing investigations into two separate jobsite cave-ins in March that led to the deaths of four workers. Both cave-ins require up to six months to...
Feds to Give Report on Blast at Georgia Sugar Refinery
Jul 28 2008 // Imperial Sugar CEO John Sheptor said there may be “significant” penalties proposed when federal workplace safety regulators release their findings after investigating a dust explosion that killed 13 workers at...
Nev. Court Rules Workers’ Comp OK in Some Suicide Cases
Jul 28 2008 // In a precedent-setting case, the Nevada Supreme Court held last Thursday that worker comp benefits can go to families of people who kill themselves if an industrial accident broke down their “rational mental...
New York Law Aids Livery Drivers’ Access to Workers’ Compensation
Jul 28 2008 // New York livery drivers will now have better access to workers’ benefits. Gov. David A. Paterson announced Friday that he has signed a law to aid the drivers in New York City, and in Westchester and Nassau...
West Virginia Fire Station Closed after Workers’ Comp Canceled
Jul 28 2008 // Summit Park Volunteer Fire Department in Harrison County, West Virginia has agreed to stop responding to emergency calls temporarily while the state Fire Marshal’s Office looks into complaints involving its...
Democrats Press Labor Department on OSHA Rule on Chemical Exposure
Jul 25 2008 // Leading lawmakers this week accused the Bush administration of acting in secret to make it harder to limit worker exposure to carcinogens and other dangerous chemicals in the workplace. The Labor Department is trying...
California Car Washes Fined for Workers’ Comp Violations
Jul 25 2008 // Officials with the California’s Division of Labor Standards Enforcement issued 47 citations totaling $356,200 in fines to car wash businesses in Los Angeles and Orange counties as part of an ongoing effort to address...
York Insurance Services Group, Inc. invests in Gregory B. Bragg & Associates, Inc.
Jul 25 2008 // York Insurance Services Group, Inc. invests in Gregory B. Bragg & Associates, Inc. creating leading public entity insurance services provider in U.S. PARSIPPANY, N.J., (July 25, 2008) – York Insurance Services...
