Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Costliest State for Workers’ Comp, Report Shows
Oct 20 2014 // A state-by-state ranking of workers’ compensation premiums, one that states reportedly use as a motivational call to improve their systems, seems to call for even more reform of California’s recently reformed...
DCRB Seeks Decrease in Del. WC Voluntary Loss Costs, Residual Market Rates
Oct 17 2014 // The Delaware Department of Insurance said it has received the Delaware Compensation Rating Bureau’s (DCRB) filing proposing a decrease in both the workers’ compensation voluntary market loss costs and the...
Florida Regulators Consider NCCI Request for 3.3% Rate Decrease
Oct 15 2014 // Florida’s workers’ compensation insurers rating agency says its request for a 3.3 decrease in rates reflects a stable market, although it cautioned that pending court cases could severely impact the...
California’s Industrial Director Challenges Workers’ Comp Report
Oct 13 2014 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations Director it taking a bit of umbrage with a study released last week that showed the state was ranked as the costliest for workers’ compensation. Despite major...
New Workers’ Comp Arbitrators Assigned in Illinois
Oct 13 2014 // The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission has made new arbitrator assignments. Effective Nov. 1, Arbitrator Stephen Friedman will take over the Chicago call formerly handled by Arbitrator Kelmanson, and...
Connecticut Construction Company Faces OSHA Fines
Oct 10 2014 // Federal workplace safety regulators say a Manchester, Connecticut-based construction company faces fines of more than $100,000 for a series of violations of workplace safety and health standards. The Occupational Safety...
Is Ebola Compensable Under Workers’ Compensation?
Oct 10 2014 // Two tests must be satisfied before an illness or disease can be considered occupational and thus compensable under workers’ compensation. First, the illness or disease must be “occupational,” meaning that...
How States Rank, High to Low, in Workers’ Compensation Premiums
Oct 9 2014 // A list of state rankings for workers’ compensation premiums shows a slight drop in premiums in the last two years, and that a number of states are close in terms of how much employers are paying. The list put out by...
California Costliest State for Workers’ Comp, Report Shows
Oct 9 2014 // A state-by-state ranking of workers’ compensation premiums, one that states reportedly use as a motivational call to improve their systems, seems to call for more reform of California’s recently reformed...
Labor Advocates Question Florida Immigrant Workers’ Comp Arrests
Oct 9 2014 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater touted the arrests of more than 100 immigrant agriculture workers last July as an effort to crack down on the costly problem of workers’ compensation fraud. But it quickly...
Iowa Gov. Says He Didn’t Know Work Comp Commissioner’s Sexual Orientation
Oct 8 2014 // Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and top aides have denied discriminating against a gay former state official, saying they weren’t aware of his sexual orientation when the governor asked him to resign and cut his...
Study: Formulary Could Save California Workers’ Comp $124M-$420M
Oct 7 2014 // Adopting a state-mandated workers’ compensation prescription drug formulary similar to systems in place in Texas and Washington could reduce California workers’ comp pharmacy payments by between $124 million...
BusinessFirst Now Offering Workers’ Comp in South Carolina
Oct 7 2014 // BusinessFirst Insurance Co., a Florida-based workers’ compensation insurer, is continuing to expand in the southeast by offering coverage to South Carolina employers. The Lakeland, Florida-based BusinessFirst, was...
AmTrust Buys Workers’ Compensation Unit from Florida Blue Cross
Oct 6 2014 // AmTrust Financial Services has closed its purchase of a workers’ compensation insurer—a subsidiary of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Florida (Florida Blue)—right according to plan. AmTrust isn’t disclosing...
Conn. Auditors: WCC Improperly Charged Assessment
Oct 6 2014 // A recent report from Connecticut state auditors said the state’s Workers’ Compensation Commission (WCC) improperly charged $450,000 to workers’ comp insurers and self-insured employers last fiscal year to...
Marijuana and Workers’ Compensation on Industry’s Watch List
Oct 3 2014 // Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of articles on the the marijuana insurance industry. Upcoming stories will include reports on potential changes to federal laws, and regional reports on how medical...
NCCI Proposes Workers’ Comp Loss Cost Decrease in Connecticut
Oct 3 2014 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) recently proposed an overall average change in voluntary loss cost level of -0.6 percent in Connecticut. Key components for the proposed change include -0.4 percent for...
Florida Workers’ Compensation Insurers Seek Bigger Rate Cut
Oct 2 2014 // Florida’s workers’ compensation insurers, already on record recommending an average 2.5 percent cut in rates, now say that a 3.3 percent cut is justified. The modification in the industry’s rate filing by...
Institutional Officer Nabbed In $60,000 in California Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Oct 1 2014 // James Levice Davis Junious, 33, was arrested for allegedly collecting more than $60,000 in workers’ compensation benefits he was not entitled to receive. Junious was charged with five felony counts including...
Marijuana Insurance Industry: How High Can It Go?
Oct 1 2014 // Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of articles on the the marijuana insurance industry to appear on InsuranceJournal.com. Upcoming stories will include reports on how medical marijuana could affect the...
