Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Oklahoma AG Files Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges Against 2
Jan 23 2015 // Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has filed workers’ compensation fraud charges in two separate cases. Pruitt’s office announced the charges against 30-year-old Nicholas Hurt and 48-year-old James Cramer....
Did New Mexico Court Open ‘Pandora’s Bong’ With Nod to Pot for Worker?
Jan 22 2015 // A can of worms has been opened, the horse is out of the barn and the industry is gazing into Pandora’s Box. There is no shortage of idioms for workers’ compensation experts who are concerned over a decision...
SASSI Introduces Workers’ Comp Coverage for Beauty Shops
Jan 21 2015 // The Salon and Spa Specialty Insurance agency (SASSI), is now offering workers’ compensation insurance coverage for salons, day spas, electrologists, beauty schools and barber shops. Available through RTW, Inc., the...
Work Comp Death Benefits Awarded to Husband of Oklahoma Beheading Victim
Jan 20 2015 // The husband of a woman who was beheaded last year at an Oklahoma food-processing plant has been awarded $100,000 in death benefits plus $418 a week for the rest of his life. The Oklahoman newspaper reports the benefits...
Pacific Compensation Names O’Dell Corporate Development Director in California
Jan 20 2015 // Pacific Compensation Insurance Co. has named Ronnie O’Dell corporate development director. O’Dell will focus on expanding PacificComp’s presence in the California workers’ compensation marketplace....
WCIRB: Continued Increase in California Claim Frequency
Jan 20 2015 // Workers’ compensation indemnity claim frequency in California has continued to rise unlike in most other states, according to the California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. The WCIRB recently...
