Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Tech Update: WTW, Riskonnect Launch Risk Diagnostic Tool for Workers’ Comp
May 13 2024 // Insurance broker WTW has formed a partnership with Riskonnect to pilot an analytical delivery tool that connects claims and exposure data through its new offering WTW Risk IQ API (application programming interface). The...
OSHA Cites Boston Employer in Window Washer’s Fatal 29-Story Fall
May 10 2024 // Federal workplace safety investigators are alleging that an East Boston window cleaning company’s failure to inspect and replace damaged or defective equipment contributed to an employee’s fatal 29-story fall...
Report: California Workers’ Comp Written Premium Increased 2% in 2023
May 9 2024 // Written premium in calendar year 2023 was 2% higher than the prior year, driven by continued economic expansion, but partially offset by continued rate decreases, a new report shows. The Workers’ Compensation...
Florida Saw Jump in Workers’ Comp Cost per Claim in 2022-23, WCRI Report Shows
May 6 2024 // Call it the effects of wage creep during the pandemic, along with a little bit of creep in the duration of benefits. Employers and insurers in Florida saw a 7% increase in total cost per workers’ compensation claim...
New California Law Expands Work Comp Role in Curbing Workplace Violence
May 6 2024 // New legislation aimed at reducing workplace violence in California vastly increases employers’ responsibilities and hands workers’ compensation insurers an unprecedented oversight role that is likely to trigger...
NCCI’s Chief Actuary Discusses Workers’ Comp Profits, Safety and Future
May 6 2024 // The workers’ compensation system overall is healthy and strong. The sector has seen long-term frequency declines for multiple decades with moderate severity of claims costs for at least the past decade. That’s...
Pennsylvania High Court to Decide If Workers’ Compensation Covers CBD Oil
May 3 2024 // A veteran Pennsylvania workers’ compensation attorney will soon have a chance to argue before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that his own use of cannabinoid oil (CBD oil) is covered by workers’...
California Business Owner Ordered to Pay $687K in Restitution for Workers’ Comp Fraud
May 3 2024 // A California business owner convicted of felony workers’ compensation insurance fraud was ordered to pay $687,560 in restitution to the victims. An investigation by the California Department of Insurance determined...
Newark Wants Cargo Ship Firefighters’ Deaths Handled Under Workers’ Compensation
May 2 2024 // The city of Newark is asking a federal court to dismiss negligence and wrongful death claims against it by the families of two firefighters who died last July while battling a fire on a cargo ship, The city maintains that...
16 Nabbed in Florida Sting Operation for Failing to Get Workers’ Comp Coverage
May 1 2024 // A sting operation in Manatee County, Florida, has led to the arrest of 16 men who were working without a contractor’s license and without securing workers’ compensation insurance on their employees. The sting...
New York Court Officer Wins 9/11 Workers’ Compensation Benefits on Appeal
May 1 2024 // On the morning of September 11, 2001, Robert Liotta was at his job as a senior court officer at 100 Centre Street in New York City when not far away terrorists attacked the World Trade Center. Right away, he began...
OSHA Cites Hanover Foods for 70 Alleged Safety Violations
May 1 2024 // Pennsylvania-based food manufacturer Hanover Foods Corp. has been found in violation of dozens of safety and health hazards at its Centre Hall facility, according to federal officials. The federal Occupational Safety and...
Price or Safety? Priorities Change for Small Businesses After a Workers Comp Claim
Apr 26 2024 // Previous workers’ compensation claims can present an opportunity for agents serving small-business clients. The Hanover’s “2024 Small Business Risk Report: A Focus on Workers’ Compensation,”...
Workers’ Comp Rating Bureau of California OKs Higher Pure Premium Rate Filing
Apr 26 2024 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California submitted its Sept. 1, 2024, pure premium rate filing to the California Department of Insurance, proposing advisory rates on average 0.9% above the...
‘It’s in the Mail’ Is Not Good Enough to Protest Workers’ Compensation Claim
Apr 25 2024 // A Connecticut employer lost its right to contest a workers’ compensation claim because although it mailed its notice to the workers’ compensation law judge within the 28 day statutory period, the judge did not...
Workers’ Comp Apportion Evals Must be Well-Reasoned, WV Supreme Court Says
Apr 24 2024 // West Virginia law, like statutes in a number of states, allows employers to try and apportion contributions to a worker’s injury, including how much a pre-existing condition may have played a role. The...
Workers’ Comp Rating Bureau of California Governing Committee Oks Higher Pure Premium Rate Filing
Apr 17 2024 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California’s governing committee voted on Wednesday to authorize the WCIRB to submit a Sept. 1, 2024 Pure Premium Rate Filing to the California Insurance...
California Chiropractor Sentenced to 54 Years for $150M Workers’ Comp Scheme
Apr 16 2024 // A former chiropractor was sentenced to 54 years in state prison and ordered to pay more than $23 million in fines for his role in orchestrating a massive workers’ compensation fraud scheme totaling $150...
Kansas Governor Signs Law to Increase Benefits to Injured Workers
Apr 15 2024 // TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will increase what have been among the lowest benefits in the U.S. for workers who are injured or killed on the job under bipartisan legislation that Gov. Laura Kelly signed into law...
Oregon OSHA Fines Bend Contractor $103K for Repeated Fall Protection Violations
Apr 15 2024 // The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division fined a Bend construction company $103,438 for repeatedly violating a requirement to provide protective systems to safeguard workers from fall hazards. The division cited...
