Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Average Weekly Wage Increase Bumps California Workers’ Comp Benefits for 2025
Oct 16 2024 // California’s State Average Weekly Wage rose nearly 3.8% in the year ending March 31, resulting in an increase in California workers’ compensation temporary total disability and permanent total disability rates...
Delaware Workers’ Compensation Rates to Drop 8.4% and 9.2%
Oct 15 2024 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro announced that workers’ compensation insurance rates will decrease for the eighth year in a row, effective December 1. The voluntary market is expected to decrease...
Viewpoint: Landmark Workers’ Comp Subrogation Decision in Nevada
Oct 15 2024 // In one of the most pro-subrogation decisions in a generation, the Nevada Supreme Court has overnight turned Nevada into one of the most favorable states for workers’ compensation subrogation. With the stroke of a...
Enhancing Workers’ Compensation and GL Underwriting with Underwriter Link
Oct 15 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Selectsys. In the complex world of Workers’ Compensation and General Liability (GL) insurance, underwriters face the challenge of managing diverse carrier systems while...
WCIRB: California Workers’ Comp Written Premium in 2023 Was up Slightly
Oct 9 2024 // California workers’ compensation written premium in 2023 was slightly above 2022, while written premium for the first six months of 2024 is 2% lower than the first six months of 2023, a new report shows. The...
Cal/OSHA Cites Farm Labor Contractor for Serious Heat-Related Safety Violations
Oct 9 2024 // Cal/OSHA cited a farm labor contractor in Dixon for reportedly failing to protect its employees from heat illness. The inspection was opened in June after reports the employer allegedly fired farmworkers who left their...
Report Examines Migraine Drugs as a Potential Cost Driver in California Workers’ Comp
Oct 8 2024 // Migraine drugs represent a small percentage of prescriptions dispensed to injured workers in California, but they make up a larger share of workers’ compensation drug payments, a new report shows. Fewer than 1% of...
Long COVID Claims Still Impact California’s Workers Comp System, Report Shows
Oct 7 2024 // The impact and surge of long-term COVID on the California workers’ compensation system since 2020 has been prevalent, including long-term impacts on disability and long-term patterns of medical cost and treatment on...
NCCI Unveils New, More Precise Workers’ Comp Medical Price Index
Oct 7 2024 // In recent years, workers’ compensation insurers have struggled to accurately gauge the precise trends in medical costs, and have had to rely on indexes that weren’t quite on-point: The U.S. Consumer Price Index...
WCIRB Summarizes 2024 California Workers’ Comp Legislation
Oct 4 2024 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau is giving its take on bills passed and passed on by California Legislature this year. The Legislature recessed for the year and Gov. Gavin Newsom had until Sept. 30...
Employer, Workers’ Comp Insurer, Survivor Join Baltimore Bridge Collapse Litigation
Oct 2 2024 // The road construction firm that employed six workers who were killed and another who was seriously injured in the collapse of Baltimore’s Key Bridge, along with its workers’ compensation carrier, have filed...
Delaware’s Workers’ Compensation Claims Cost Grew 3% a Year: WCRI
Oct 1 2024 // The average cost of workers’ compensation claims in Delaware, for cases with more than seven days of lost work, went up by 3% per year between 2019 and 2022, according to a new study from the Workers Compensation...
Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Costs to Drop Again in 2025
Oct 1 2024 // Connecticut workers’ compensation insurers are recommending an overall 6.1% reduction in loss costs in the voluntary market and a 6.2% overall reduction in the assigned risk market for next year. If the...
OSHA Cites Company for Multiple Safety Violations Following Cargo Hold Fire in Ohio
Sep 30 2024 // Federal safety inspectors found a crew working aboard the Cuyahoga, a commercial iron ore vessel moored at the Port of Ashtabula, narrowly avoided disaster after a large fire erupted as they welded off paint in a cargo...
Cal/OSHA Cautioning Employers to Protect Workers From Wildfire Smoke
Sep 25 2024 // Cal/OSHA is urging employers to protect workers from unhealthy air due to wildfire smoke. The Line Fire is impacting air quality in areas around San Bernardino and Riverside counties. Employers are required to monitor air...
Washington Metal Fabricator Faces Felony in $340K Workers’ Comp Scam
Sep 19 2024 // A Washington man who claimed he was too injured to work while operating a metal fabrication shop faces a felony charge in an alleged $340,000 workers’ compensation scam. Travis Lee Johnson, 52, of Spokane Valley,...
OSHA Orders Building Materials Supplier to Reinstate Whistleblower Truck Driver
Sep 19 2024 // A federal whistleblower investigation has found a Virginia subsidiary of one of the world’s largest building materials manufacturers fired a truck driver in September 2023 illegally after the employee raised safety...
Oregon Workers’ Comp Pure Premium Rate to Drop 3.2%
Sep 13 2024 // Oregon employers will pay on average less for workers’ compensation coverage in 2025. The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services the decline in workers’ comp rate, which marks 12 years of average...
Pinnacol’s EverPeak Workers’ Comp Coverage Expands Into South Carolina
Sep 12 2024 // EverPeak Insurance, a workers’ compensation insurer that specializes in hard-to-place industries and small businesses, has recently expanded into South Carolina. Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Vlad...
SAIF in Oregon Declares $60M Dividend for Workers’ Comp Policyholders
Sep 11 2024 // The board of SAIF, a not-for-profit workers’ compensation insurer in Oregon, declared a $60 million dividend for their current policyholders. The funds will start being dispersed starting in October, with 51,288...
