Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Poll Says Small Businesses Foster Sedentary Work Environment
Feb 10 2015 // Workplace wellness doesn’t seem to be all that high on the list for small businesses, where getting employees active and moving seems to be taking a back seat to other priorities. A poll designed to find out how much...
Feds: Ohio Workplace Fatalities on the Rise
Feb 9 2015 // Workplace fatalities have been rising in Ohio, and federal officials cite lack of attention to safe work practices and training and the existence of younger and newer manufacturing and construction workforces. There had...
Insurer: Oklahoma Jazz Museum’s Workers’ Comp Debt Is Paid
Feb 9 2015 // A major insurer who had the financially shaky Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame on the hook for around $11,200 a couple weeks ago after the museum failed to pay its workers’ compensation premium on time now says the...
North Carolina Governor Faces Backlash Over Workers’ Comp Fraud Claim
Feb 9 2015 // Gov. Pat McCrory is taking heat after saying in his annual State of the State address last week that nearly half of workers’ compensation claims paid to state employees are the result of abuse or fraud. “We all...
Main Street America Expands Workers’ Compensation Program in Georgia, North Carolina
Feb 6 2015 // The Main Street America Group has introduced an expanded workers’ compensation program through its independent insurance agents in Georgia and North Carolina. According to Dan Gaynor, vice president and head of...
How Large Firm Risk Managers Rate Commercial Lines Carriers, Brokers
Feb 6 2015 // While commercial insurers have traditionally relied upon insurance brokers to manage customer relationships, large company risk managers are looking for both parties to work together to meet their needs, according to a new...
Ashley Furniture Wisconsin Plant Fined $1.76M for Worker Injuries
Feb 4 2015 // The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is fining Ashley Furniture Industries Inc. $1.76 million for worker injuries at its Arcadia, Wis., plant, the agency said. OSHA said the plant saw more than 1,000...
California State Fund Files April 1 Rating Plan
Feb 3 2015 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has filed for a 9 percent increase in collectible premium that will apply to new and renewal workers’ compensation policies effective on or after April 1. Although...
New Mexico Bill Would Reduce Benefits If Workers Are High
Feb 3 2015 // A New Mexico lawmaker has introduced a bill to reduce workers’ compensation in cases when an employee’s death or injury results from being drunk or high on the job. Republican Rep. Dennis Roch of Logan said...
OSHA Fines 4 Companies After Omega Fish Plant Explosion in Mississippi
Feb 2 2015 // Fines totaling $187,620 have been proposed against four companies related to a deadly explosion at Omega Protein last year. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration says in a news release that two temporary...
Delaware OKs Decreases in WC Voluntary Loss Cost, Residual Market Rate
Jan 28 2015 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart today announced the approval of the Delaware Compensation Rating Bureau’s (DCRB) workers’ compensation amended rate filing, resulting in overall average...
Kansas Businesses Support State Takeover of OSHA Enforcement
Jan 27 2015 // A proposal that the state take over enforcement of workplace safety rules from the federal government seems unlikely to pass this year but still has some support in the Kansas House. Republicans on the Senate Commerce...
Claim Concepts & Solutions – CC&S is pleased to announce the formation of its sister company Recovery Concepts & Solutions, LLC – RC&S, providing Expert Subrogation & Tort Recovery
Jan 27 2015 // CC&S is a premier national auditing group providing specialized audits to the risk industry including, best practices, reserve adequacy, inventory evaluations, claim file audits and inventory reduction concepts and...
Workers’ Comp Upheld for Maine Man Who Died on Treadmill
Jan 26 2015 // Maine’s highest court on Jan. 22 upheld workers’ compensation benefits for the widow of a Salvation Army portfolio manager who died from a heart attack on a treadmill while monitoring the financial markets on...
Florida Supreme Court Upholds Workers’ Comp ‘Exclusive Remedy’
Jan 26 2015 // Florida’s insurers are breathing easier after the state’s high court ruled that the state’s workers’ compensation law bars injured workers from seeking additional benefits in civil court. The...
Penn. Store Manager Robbed at Gunpoint Wins Workers’ Comp
Jan 26 2015 // Is being robbed at gunpoint in a Pennsylvania state liquor store an “abnormal working condition” or not? Since 2008, Gregory Kochanowicz has claimed it is, and now that the Commonwealth Court agrees, he’s...
Ohio BWC Proposes Private Employer Workers’ Comp Rate Reduction
Jan 25 2015 // Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) is proposing to reduce overall premium rate levels for private employers beginning July 1, 2015. The 10.8 percent reduction would result in a decrease in projected annual...
Study Finds Workplace Trust a Predictor of Comp Outcomes in Arkansas
Jan 25 2015 // A new study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) identified new predictors of worker outcomes that can help public officials, payors, and health care providers in Arkansas improve the treatment and...
Maine Expresses Opposition to OSHA’s SHARP Program Changes
Jan 23 2015 // Maine’s Commissioner of Labor Jeanne Paquette said in a statement Wednesday that the state’s Department of Labor is opposed to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) changes to the...
Study Finds New Predictors of Workers’ Comp Outcomes in Iowa
Jan 23 2015 // A new study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) identified new predictors of worker outcomes that can help public officials, payors, and health care providers in Iowa improve the treatment and...
