Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
TDI Posts Summary of Bills Affecting Property/Casualty Insurers
Sep 9 2015 // The Texas Department of Insurance has produced a summary of various bills passed by the Texas Legislature this year that impact property/casualty insurance companies. Many but not all of the following were effective Sept....
Construction Contractors in Texas Fined $88K for Safety Violations
Sep 8 2015 // Federal safety officials have cited two contractors at a construction site in Austin, Texas, for safety violations. Hensel Phelps Construction Co. and CVI Development LLC were cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s...
Court Backs Workers’ Comp Ruling for Assaulted Nebraska Nurse
Sep 8 2015 // The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld a workers’ compensation ruling requiring a Kearney hospital to pay the salary of a former nurse who says she’s unable to work because of psychological injuries she received...
Alper Services Adds 5 in Chicago
Sep 8 2015 // Alper Services LLC, based in Chicago, has hired five new employees to join the AuditRate, Financial Services, Claims Management Services, Employee Benefits and Personal Lines departments. Andrew Bertucci joins Alper...
Uber Settles with Alaska over Unpaid Workers’ Comp
Sep 8 2015 // The ridesharing service Uber has agreed to pay Alaska more than $77,900 in connection to unpaid workers’ compensation insurance for its drivers. In the Aug. 25 settlement, the company admitted no wrongdoing, but...
Uber Headache if More Drivers Want Full-Time Status
Sep 7 2015 // Thousands of new full-time workers would spring into existence if Uber is forced to stop treating some of its drivers like contract workers, and the benefits that come with that employee status may entice part-time...
Nebraska Flooring Company Fined $244K for Workplace Dangers
Sep 4 2015 // Federal safety officials have placed a Norfolk, Neb., flooring manufacturer into a severe violator program for workplace safety hazards and attempting to hide those hazards from safety inspectors. U.S. Department of Labor...
Workers’ Comp Loss Costs Fall Again in Oklahoma
Sep 4 2015 // Workers’ compensation rates in Oklahoma are expected to drop in 2016, the Oklahoma Insurance Department announced. The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) filed an overall loss cost decrease of 14.8...
OSHA Fines Wisconsin Scrap Yard $42K after Worker Death
Sep 3 2015 // A federal safety agency is proposing $42,000 in fines against a Waukesha, Wis., scrap yard where an employee was killed when he was struck by a forklift truck. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited...
South Carolina Orders Rate Revision for State Workers’ Comp Plan
Sep 1 2015 // South Carolina Insurance Director Raymond Farmer approved an overall revision of +1.9 percent to the state’s voluntary workers’ compensation policy loss costs and a decrease of .3 percent in the assigned risk...
Cause of Deadly New Mexico Scaffold Collapse Sought
Aug 24 2015 // Six of the remaining seven construction workers injured in the collapse of a six-story scaffold outside a New Mexico medical center were released from hospitals last week as investigators began work on trying to determine...
NCCI Proposes Decrease to Florida Workers’ Comp Rates
Aug 21 2015 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation said today that it has received the 2016 Florida workers’ compensation rate filing by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI), which proposes a statewide...
Uber Headache if More Drivers Want Full-Time Status
Aug 19 2015 // Thousands of new full-time workers would spring into existence if Uber is forced to stop treating some of its drivers like contract workers, and the benefits that come with that employee status may entice part-time...
NCCI Seeks Workers’ Comp Loss Costs Increase in Virginia
Aug 19 2015 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI ) recently delivered a workers’ compensation loss cost filing to the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC). Based on its review of the most recently...
California WCIRB Report Shows Medical Bill Transactions Fell in 2014
Aug 18 2015 // The California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau on Tuesday issued its California Workers’ Compensation Aggregate Medical Payment Trends report showing medical bill transactions fell by $100 million...
Illinois Woman Convicted on Multiple Counts of Insurance Fraud
Aug 18 2015 // Illinois Department of Insurance (DOI) Acting Director Anne Melissa Dowling announced an investigation by the department’s Workers’ Compensation Fraud Unit (WCFU) has resulted in the conviction of an Algonquin...
NCCI Files for Workers’ Comp Rate Increase in Iowa
Aug 18 2015 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. has filed a workers’ compensation rate proposal in Iowa that would increase voluntary and assigned risk rates by 2.7 percent from the current rates that became...
Safety Violations at Ohio Chicken Plant Lead to $861K in Fines
Aug 17 2015 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined the owners of a northeast Ohio chicken processing plant $861,000 for what the agency says are safety violations that expose workers to the risk of amputation,...
West Virginia to See Decrease in Workers’ Comp Premiums
Aug 17 2015 // Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin says employers in the state will see an estimated $43 million reduction in workers’ compensation premiums in the coming year. Tomblin says employers have saved more than $323 million since the...
South Carolina Approves Rate Changes to State Workers’ Comp Plan
Aug 17 2015 // South Carolina Insurance Director Raymond Farmer approved an overall revision of +1.9 percent to the state’s voluntary workers’ compensation policy loss costs and a decrease of .3 percent in the assigned risk...
