Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Grandstaff Joins Florida-Based SUNZ as CFO, Executive Vice President
Mar 27 2017 // SUNZ Holdings of Bradenton, Fla., has appointed Michael W. Grandstaff to the position of chief financial officer and executive vice president of SUNZ Holdings, and chief financial officer of SUNZ Insurance Co. Grandstaff...
Amended Iowa Workers’ Comp Overhaul Advanced to Senate
Mar 24 2017 // Republicans in the Iowa House passed a bill to overhaul how workers in the state are compensated for on-the-job injuries, though they backed off some key proposals amid internal concern over the extent of the changes. The...
Congress Nullifies Obama Workplace Injury Reporting Rule
Mar 24 2017 // The U.S. Senate (50-48) joined the House (231-191) in passing a resolution blocking a federal workplace injury and accident reporting rule put in place by the Obama Administration last December. The Department of Labor...
BLS Report Finds New Jersey Fatal Work Injuries Increased in 2015
Mar 23 2017 // The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported in March that fatal work injuries totaled 97 in New Jersey for the year 2015, a 10 percent increase from the previous year, according to Chief Regional Economist Martin...
Chubb Introduces Online Workers’ Comp Policy System for Small Business Agents
Mar 23 2017 // Chubb has introduced a new online system for independent agents that will quote and issue a comprehensive workers’ compensation policy for small businesses. Chubb’s workers’ compensation policy for small...
California Workers’ Comp Report Looks at Spinal Fusion Claims
Mar 22 2017 // A study on the use of spinal fusion surgeries in California workers’ compensation shows that in 60 percent of spinal fusion claims the initial report of injury was for a sprain or strain, a majority of the fusions...
Pinnacol Issues $50M in Workers’ Comp Dividends to Colorado Employers
Mar 22 2017 // Colorado workers’ compensation insurer Pinnacol Assurance is distributing $50 million in dividend checks this month to its policyholders. More than 53,000 employers throughout the state — roughly 94.2 percent of...
BSA in Tennessee Promotes Wall To Medical Only-Claims Rep
Mar 22 2017 // Brentwood Services Administrators Inc. (BSA), headquartered in Brentwood, Tenn., promoted Courtney Wall in February 2017 to the position of medical only-claims representative in the Brentwood office, according to Jeff...
California Workers Comp Medical Review Volume Hit a Record in 2016
Mar 21 2017 // The California workers’ compensation independent medical review process used to resolve medical disputes found that in 2016 IMR physicians once again upheld about 90 percent of utilization review physician’s...
CDI Issues Directive on New Workers’ Comp Law Pertaining to Excluded Employees
Mar 21 2017 // The California Department of Insurance has notified the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of its concern that some insurers may be in violation of Assembly Bill 2883. This law, which went into effect on...
Los Angeles Prosecutors Refile Charges in $150M Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Mar 20 2017 // Los Angeles County prosecutors have refiled criminal charges against a dozen people accused of taking part in an alleged $150 million workers’ compensation insurance fraud, the Los Angeles County District...
Convicted Ohio Burglar Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud
Mar 20 2017 // A Cincinnati man serving time in an Indiana prison for burglary got a short break from prison March 9, but only to plead guilty to workers’ compensation fraud in an Ohio courtroom, the Ohio Bureau of Workers’...
Credible Workers’ Comp System Is More Important Now Than Ever: WCRI Conference
Mar 20 2017 // After decades of managing costs for employers, it’s time for workers’ compensation professionals and public policymakers to turn their attention to the needs of injured workers and think of themselves as...
CEOs of California Sewing Firms Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Mar 17 2017 // Sisters who are CEOs of sewing companies that are subcontracted by True Religion jeans have been sentenced for conspiring with their accountant to hide tens of millions in payroll to avoid paying for workers’...
Mississippi Gov. Nominates Rep. Formby to State Workers Comp Commission
Mar 17 2017 // Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is nominating a longtime Republican lawmaker to the three-member Workers Compensation Commission. Rep. Mark Formby of Picayune has served in the House since 1993 and helped push a 2012 law that...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau Proposes $1B Employer Rebate
Mar 16 2017 // Ohio’s fund for injured workers wants to return more than $1 billion of its investment earnings to the state’s 200,000 private and public employers. The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation proposed the...
Owner of Hotel Cleaning Firm in California Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud
Mar 15 2017 // Hyok Kwon, owner of Good Neighbor Services, a janitorial company that provided services to some of San Diego’s most exclusive hotels and resorts, has pleaded yesterday to seven felonies, including premium and...
Brentwood Services Administrators in Tennessee Promotes Perkins
Mar 14 2017 // Brentwood Services Administrators Inc. (BSA), headquartered in Brentwood, Tenn., has promoted Shelby Perkins to medical only-claims representative in the Tennessee Claims Department in the Brentwood office, according...
Workers’ Comp Insurance Costs in Arkansas Going Down
Mar 13 2017 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has approved a decrease in workers’ compensation cost of 8.4 percent in overall loss in the voluntary market and a 10.6 percent rate decrease in overall average assigned...
Pennsylvania Airport Worker Loses Leg, Firm Ordered to Pay Workers’ Comp
Mar 10 2017 // An appeals court says an aviation company was wrong to reject a workers’ compensation claim from a woman who lost her leg on the job. Starr Aviation had said Modesty Colquitt wasn’t entitled to compensation...
