Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Texas Re-Certifies 7 Companies to Self-Insure for Workers’ Comp Claims
Mar 7 2017 // The Texas Department of Insurance’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) re-certified seven employers to self-insure workers’ compensation claims. Together, the companies employ about 30,000 people in...
Texas Ex-Postal Employee Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
Mar 7 2017 // McArthur Baker, 69, a former U.S. Postal Service employee, has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme to defraud the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Workers’ Compensation...
Wisconsin Shipyards Company Working with OSHA After Worker Severely Burned
Mar 6 2017 // Fraser Shipyards Inc. says it’s working with a U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigation after a worker was burned last month. The incident occurred Feb. 6 while the worker was servicing a...
Why Workers’ Compensation Is Especially Needed Now: Report from WCRI Conference
Mar 6 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 more as...
Report Finds New York Construction Fatalities, Regulatory Violations Rising
Mar 6 2017 // The New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) found in its latest construction fatality report that construction worker deaths are rising in New York, and many construction employers across the state...
Vermont to See Decrease in Costs for Workers’ Compensation Insurance
Mar 6 2017 // Vermont Gov. Phil Scott has announced that workers’ compensation insurance will cost less for most Vermont employers when new rates approved by the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation (DFR) become effective on...
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Mar 6 2017 // Bruce Carnegie-Brown will become the chairman of Lloyd’s following a meeting of the Council of Lloyd’s where his appointment as successor to John Nelson was approved unanimously. His appointment also was...
California DIR Suspends 7 Workers’ Comp Medical Providers for Fraud
Mar 6 2017 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations and its Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended seven medical providers from participating in the state’s workers’ comp system. The providers...
Who Self-Insures for Workers’ Compensation in California?
Mar 6 2017 // Workers’ compensation liability is one of the main commercial lines in the U.S. property/casualty market. In order to manage this loss exposure, employers have two choices: they can either buy market insurance or...
California’s Central Coast Accounting for More of State’s Comp Claims, Report Shows
Mar 6 2017 // California’s Central Coast has been accounting for more of the state’s workers’ compensation claims recently, a report issued in late February shows. The California Workers’ Compensation Institute...
Florida Launches Online Workers’ Comp Insurer Database for Employers
Mar 6 2017 // The Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation has formed an online insurance company database to assist Florida business owners with obtaining workers’ compensation coverage. According to a statement from the...
2017 Florida Insurance Legislation to Watch
Mar 3 2017 // The Florida insurance market has been a hotbed of controversy over the last year, and many are looking at the Florida State Legislature to alleviate some of the concerns coming from consumers, businesses and the industry...
Iowa Workers’ Comp Bill Limits Job Injury Claims, Unions Say
Mar 2 2017 // Dozens of public workers gathered on March 1 at the Iowa Capitol in opposition to a bill that would reduce compensation for getting injured on the job, just weeks after legislators voted to severely limit their collective...
Workers’ Compensation Could Pay If Obamacare Replacement Falls Short
Mar 2 2017 // The workers’ compensation system could end up feeling some pain if changes to health care and other social insurance programs by Congress and the Trump Administration mean some Americans lose benefits, workers’...
Commentary: Challenge to NCCI Rating Process Could be Significant for Florida
Mar 2 2017 // A Florida court’s review of workers’ compensation rating procedures by the National Council of Compensation Insurance (NCCI) could have a substantial impact on the State. The case, Fee v. Florida Office of...
Worker’s Comp Lien Filing Rules Filed with California Secretary of State
Feb 28 2017 // The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board has adopted its final rules of practice and procedure implementing Senate Bill 1160, which passed last year. The Office of Administrative Law has filed the WCAB’s new...
Q&A: MEMIC Safety Expert on Growth of Ergonomics, Workers’ Comp
Feb 28 2017 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Karl Siegfried, Senior Vice President of Loss Control & Safety Services at Portland, Maine-headquartered MEMIC Group recently spoke with Insurance Journal about the safety management team...
Utah Senate, House Pass Bill to Let Workers’ Comp Fund Become A Mutual
Feb 28 2017 // Both the Utah Senate and House have passed a bill to repeal the statue creating the state’s Workers’ Compensation Fund. Following a court battle and several pieces of legislation, the fund has nearly separated...
Ohio Man Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud
Feb 27 2017 // A Marion, Ohio, man who was injured on the job as an emergency medical technician in 2010 recently pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud after investigators discovered him working as a high school bowling...
Oregon Workers’ Comp Provider Sees Big Hike in Slip, Fall Injuries in January
Feb 23 2017 // As a result of the heavy snow and ice statewide in January, more Oregon workers suffered slips, trips and falls than in any recent January, according to SAIF data. SAIF is Oregon’s not-for-profit, state-chartered...
