Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
One80 Acquires Workers’ Compensation Wholesaler PMC in Massachusetts
Jan 12 2022 // Specialty insurance broker One80 Intermediaries reported it has acquired PMC Insurance Group, a workers’ compensation wholesale broker and program manager based in Bedford, Mass. Terms of the deal were not...
Supreme Court Conservatives Question OSHA Business Vaccine Rule
Jan 10 2022 // Fully vaccinated and mostly masked, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared skeptical Friday of the Biden administration’s authority to impose a vaccine-or-testing requirement on the nation’s...
OSHA, Mexican Consulate Renew Alliance Protecting Workers in Kansas, Missouri
Jan 6 2022 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Consulate General of Mexico in Kansas City have renewed an alliance – first signed in 2013 – to continue their collaborative...
Flurry of Briefs Filed Supporting, Opposing OSHA COVID-19 ETS in U.S. Supreme Court
Jan 6 2022 // With the January 7, 2022, oral argument over the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Vaccine or Test Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) in the U.S. Supreme Court fast-approaching, many amici curiae...
People Moves: Alliant Names Fraser Senior VP; California Workers’ Comp Institute Makes Widener-Brightwell General Counsel
Jan 3 2022 // Alliant Insurance Services named James Fraser senior vice president in its employee benefits team in Denver, Colorado. Fraser will provide employee benefits solutions for a diverse base of regional and national...
Massachusetts Care Facility Employers Fail to Comply With OSHA Subpoena
Dec 29 2021 // An October 21, 2021, decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ordered UHS of Fuller Inc. and UHS of Delaware Inc. to pay the U.S. Department of Labor $30, 515.63 in attorneys’ fees after...
Louisiana Workers’ Comp Rates to Decrease 10.5% in 2022
Dec 29 2021 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has approved a 10.5% reduction in workers’ compensation rates for 2022. The decrease is set to take effect May 1, 2022. Louisiana has seen workers’ compensation...
Minimum Wage, OT And Workers’ Comp Premium Changes in Washington Starting in 2022
Dec 28 2021 // Changes in Washington’s minimum wage, overtime for white-collar professionals, overtime for agricultural workers, and workers’ compensation premiums are set to take effect Jan. 1, 2022. The Washington State...
Report: California Workers’ Comp Quarterly Written Premium Lowest Since 2012
Dec 21 2021 // Written premium for 2020 was $1.9 billion, or 12%, below 2019, and was at its lowest since 2012, a new report out from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau shows. WCIRB’s quarterly experience...
OSHA Sets Dates for Vaccine Mandate Penalties
Dec 19 2021 // The Occupational Health and Safety Administration said Saturday that it would not issue citations tied to its coronavirus vaccination mandate before Jan. 10, so that companies have time to adjust to and implement the...
OSHA Slams Dollar General for Repeat Safety Violations at Stores
Dec 17 2021 // Dollar General, which began in Alabama and now has stores nationwide, has been fined $321,000 for repeated safety violations at a Mobile, Alabama store, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
North Carolina Workers’ Comp Attorney Disbarred After Keeping Settlement Money, Tax Issues
Dec 16 2021 // A North Carolina workers’ compensation claimants’ attorney has agreed to close his practice after he was disbarred for settling a claim against his client’s wishes, then billing her for expenses. Lindler...
Workers’ Comp Bureau of California Issues COVID-19 Analysis
Dec 16 2021 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California in collaboration with several other workers’ comp rating bureaus released the COVID-19’s Impact on Workers Compensation report. To better...
Report: California Public Self-Insured Workers’ Comp Indemnity Claim Cost up
Dec 14 2021 // An analysis shows that in the midst of the pandemic, the total number of job injury claims reported by California public self-insured employers edged down slightly last year, but a growing number of lost-time claims and...
Why OSHA Is Investigating Amazon Worker Deaths at Illinois Building Hit by Tornado
Dec 14 2021 // EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — The U.S. workplace safety watchdog is investigating the circumstances around the collapse during Friday night’s storm of an Amazon.com Inc building in Illinois in which six workers died, an...
California Farm Labor Contractor Arraigned in Alleged $1.8M Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
Dec 10 2021 // Alfredo Casas, 62, of Stockton, California, has been arraigned on 15 felony counts of insurance fraud, grand theft and tax evasion. Casas allegedly underreported payroll for his farm labor contracting business by over $1...
Stonetrust Workers’ Compensation Expands to Kansas
Dec 10 2021 // Stonetrust Workers’ Compensation is now writing workers’ compensation coverage in Kansas effective January 1, 2022. Stonetrust is headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and is now operating in ten states...
Stonetrust Workers’ Comp Expands into Alabama
Dec 10 2021 // Stonetrust Workers’ Compensation Insurance announced that it is expanding into the Alabama market, starting Jan. 1. Stonetrust is headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and operates in 10 states, including...
Salesperson Injured Leaving Employer Happy Hour Could Receive Workers’ Comp
Dec 6 2021 // A traveling salesperson injured in a car accident after an employer-sponsored happy hour had to drive past the highway exit to his home on the way to the event, sparking debate over whether he was still considered...
Report: California Workers’ Comp Covid Claim Volume Trending Down After Summer Surge
Dec 6 2021 // The summer surge of COVID-19 claims that hit the California workers’ compensation system in July and August appears to have run its course, according to the California Workers’ Compensation Institute. A CWCI...
