Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mass. Behavioral Health Facility Faces $207K in Fines for OSHA Violations
Aug 16 2017 // A Massachusetts behavioral health facility faces $207,690 in proposed penalties from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for violations found while conducting a...
California Division of Workers’ Comp Suspends 5 Medical Providers for Fraud
Aug 15 2017 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended five more medical providers from participating in the state’s workers’ comp system, bringing the total number of suspended providers to...
California Department of Workers’ Comp Dismissing 292K-Plus Unresolved Liens
Aug 14 2017 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation is dismissing more than 292,000 unresolved liens. The liens belong to claimants who did not properly file the required supplemental lien form and 4903.05(c)...
California Workers’ Comp Committee Votes for Higher Pure Premium Filing
Aug 9 2017 // The governing committee of the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau today voted to authorize the WCIRB to submit a Jan. 1, 2018 Advisory Pure Premium Rate Filing to the California Insurance Commissioner with...
Normandy Insurance Company Now Writing Workers’ Comp in Pennsylvania
Aug 7 2017 // Normandy Insurance Company, a Deerfield Beach, Fla.-based workers’ compensation carrier, is now offering coverage plans to small, mid-size and large businesses in Pennsylvania. This marks the third major expansion by...
Declarations
Aug 7 2017 // Egregious Fallony “The Fallons’ alleged theft from injured workers is particularly egregious. By stealing from injured workers who depend on the funds for future care, the Fallons may have left many victims...
Chevron Spending $20M to Protect Workers in Wake of California Fire
Aug 7 2017 // Chevron Corp. and state regulators have reached a settlement related to a 2012 fire at its Richmond, Calif. refinery that will require the company to spend about $20 million on safety improvements, officials announced this...
Beacon Mutual’s New CEO Spero: ‘We’re Within an Hour of Every Policyholder’
Aug 4 2017 // The board of directors of Beacon Mutual Insurance Company, a Warwick, R.I.-based workers’ compensation carrier, has elected Brian Spero as president and CEO of the company, effective in July. Beacon’s board...
Several States See Drop in Opioid-Related Workers’ Compensation Claims: WCRI
Aug 4 2017 // As states institute opioid policies to address the opioid epidemic, a new study has found considerable decreases in the prevalence of longer-term dispensing of opioids to injured workers in a number of states studied. The...
Workers’ Comp Lien Proceedings in California Scheduled for Drobots
Aug 3 2017 // The Division of Workers’ Compensation has scheduled lien consolidation proceedings in August for suspended providers Michael D. Drobot, Michael R. Drobot and Philip A. Sobol. Combined, the three have roughly 13,000...
Commercial Lines Insurance Renewal Rates Continued Rising in July: IVANS
Aug 2 2017 // In July 2017, premium renewal rate change for the majority of standard commercial lines products remain in positive territory. Workers’ compensation was the one product that trended negatively, dipping below -1.00...
Best of 2017 (so far)
Aug 2 2017 // It’s hard to believe, but 2017 is already more than half way through. There is much to write about these days from insuretech and blockchain to the political drivers of insurance, including the pending expiration...
California Workers’ Comp Drug Formulary Would Reduce Costs, Study Shows
Aug 1 2017 // Roughly one-in-three prescription drugs currently dispensed to injured workers in California will be no longer require authorization prior to dispensing under the state’s proposed workers’ compensation...
Former Postal Worker Sentenced in Texas for Federal Workers’ Comp Fraud
Aug 1 2017 // A U.S. district judge in Texas has sentenced a former postal employee to 21 months in federal prison for participating in a scheme to defraud the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Worker’s Compensation...
Wisconsin’s United Heartland Names 3 Top Territory Agencies
Jul 27 2017 // New Berlin, Wis.-based workers’ compensation insurance company, United Heartland, has announced its top territory insurance agencies for 2016. United Heartland’s three 2016 Agency of the Territory winners: TIS...
Former Texas Workers’ Comp Commissioner Bordelon Joins Granite Public Affairs
Jul 27 2017 // Former Texas Public Insurance Counsel and former Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Rod Bordelon has joined Austin-based Granite Public Affairs where he will lead the firm’s insurance and regulatory affairs...
Chevron Spending $20M to Protect Workers in Wake of California Fire
Jul 26 2017 // Chevron Corp. and state regulators have reached a settlement related to a 2012 fire at its Richmond refinery that will require the company to spend about $20 million on safety improvements, officials announced this...
Team Work Ready Execs Sentenced in Federal Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
Jul 25 2017 // Two officials with Team Work Ready (TWR), with chiropractic and physical therapy clinics in Texas and Louisiana, have been sentenced for defrauding the federal Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs and United...
Southern California Agent Charged for Targeting Injured Workers’ Benefit Funds
Jul 24 2017 // Tom Fallon, 63, of Long Beach, Calif., is being arraigned today in Superior Court in Long Beach on multiple felony charges including theft by embezzlement and money laundering. Fallon’s daughter, Christina Fallon,...
Pennsylvania Court Rules Section of State Workers’ Comp Act Unconstitutional
Jul 24 2017 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court in June 2017 found a section of the state Workers’ Compensation Act (the Act) unconstitutional in a move that challenges the way Pennsylvania has assessed workplace injuries for the...
