Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Key Metrics of New York Workers’ Comp System Tracked in New WCRI Study
Oct 31 2017 // The Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) released a new tool for policymakers and system stakeholders to track the performance of the New York workers’ compensation system. “Originally established to...
California Workers’ Comp Report Shows Prevalence of Opioids in Set-Asides
Oct 30 2017 // A new report shows that nearly 70 percent of federally mandated and approved California Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside settlements for injured workers require funding for decades of opioid use, often at...
Top Technology Investments of Workers’ Compensation Carriers: Novarica
Oct 30 2017 // Workers’ compensation insurers are looking to technology to deliver operating efficiencies, underwriting insights and product development as they navigate a fragmented market with high sensitivity to state...
California Workers’ Comp Division Holding Regulations Hearing on Medical Provider Suspension
Oct 27 2017 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation on Friday issued a notice of public hearing on proposed regulations to implement the provider suspension process required under Assembly Bill 1244. AB 1244, which went...
Louisiana Ramps Up Effort to Prevent Employers from Misclassifying Workers
Oct 27 2017 // Several state and federal government entities partnering on a Louisiana task force to target employers who misclassify workers plan increased activity in 2018, according to the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC). The...
California Commissioner Adopts $1.94 Workers’ Comp Pure Premium
Oct 26 2017 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has adopted an advisory pure premium rate that lowers the benchmark to $1.94 per $100 of payroll for workers’ compensation insurance. The advisory rate is effective Jan....
Indiana Sees First in a Decade Decline in Medical Payments per Workers’ Comp Claim: WCRI
Oct 26 2017 // Medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in Indiana decreased from 2014 to 2015 for the first time in more than a decade, according to a recent study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The...
Texas Workers’ Comp Prosecution Unit Reports Fraud Indictments
Oct 26 2017 // A Massachusetts company and three individuals have been indicted in Texas for organized crime activity related to workers’ compensation fraud, the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’...
How Employers Can Help Make Workers’ Compensation Work
Oct 26 2017 // Nurse care management and a solid return-to-work program are two ways employers can proactively manage workers’ compensation costs. Panelists at the 2017 Risk Management Summit in Las Vegas, Nev., emphasized the role...
2017 California Workers’ Comp Rating Bureau Geo Study Released
Oct 24 2017 // The California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau has released its 2017 Geo Study. The study uses data from diverse datasets to highlight regional differences in California workers’ comp claim...
Unlicensed Contractor Arrested by Florida Disaster Fraud Strike Team
Oct 24 2017 // An unlicensed contractor from Fort Myers, Fla., has been arrested after he was found to be conducting subpar roof repairs and operating without insurance in the wake of Hurricane Irma. Chief Financial Officer Jimmy...
Parisotto Named Administrative Director of California Worker’s Comp Division
Oct 19 2017 // George Parisotto has been named administrative director of the California Division of Workers’ Compensation. His appointment was made official by California Gov. Jerry Brown Jr. on Thursday. Parisotto has filled the...
California Workers’ Comp Institute Recaps Year in Legislation
Oct 19 2017 // The California Workers’ Compensation Institute this week released a report on a list of bills that will affect the workers’ comp system. The bills were recently signed into law at the end of the Legislative...
Delaware Announces Workers’ Compensation Rate Decrease
Oct 19 2017 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro has announced that there will be a decrease in workers’ compensation insurance rates, effective December 1, 2017. “This insurance rate decrease has a direct...
Minnesota’s SFM Mutual Insurance Joins Board of Global Insurance Accelerator
Oct 18 2017 // The Des Moines, Iowa-based Global Insurance Accelerator (GIA) announced that SFM Mutual Insurance Company (SFM), a workers’ compensation specialty provider headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota, will join the GIA...
Experts: Forget Government, Companies Must Step up to Combat Cyber Threats
Oct 17 2017 // Don’t rely on the U.S. government to protect your business from cyber threats. That was the consensus among experts speaking about cyber programs at a risk management conference on Tuesday. “The U.S. government...
Windham Group Receives 1st Case in Mass. Alternate Opioid Treatment Pathway
Oct 17 2017 // Windham Group, a workers’ compensation case management company, has received the first case in Massachusetts’ Alternate Opioid Treatment Pathway (OATP) program. The state’s Department of Industrial...
Florida Workers’ Comp Rate Hearing Scheduled for Oct. 18
Oct 17 2017 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) will conduct a public hearing to discuss the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s (NCCI) proposed overall statewide average workers’ compensation premium...
Kansas Workers’ Comp Rates to Decrease in 2018
Oct 16 2017 // Kansas Commissioner of Insurance Ken Selzer announced that workers’ compensation insurance rates on average will drop in his state in 2018. The National Council on Compensations Insurance Inc. (NCCI) filing for the...
Vegas Risk Management Summit Tackled Commercial Auto, Workers’ Comp And More
Oct 16 2017 // One factor driving continuously dismal commercial auto insurance losses is a spate of “nuclear cases” that are plaguing the industry with multi-million lawsuits. The amount of money and resources being put into...
