Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
N.H. Workers’ Comp Commission Holds Its 1st Meeting
Sep 29 2014 // New Hampshire Insurance Commissioner Roger Sevigny last Friday chaired the first meeting of the Commission to Recommend Reforms to Reduce Workers’ Compensation Medical Costs. The commission was created by Gov. Maggie...
9.1% Drop in Local Government Workers’ Comp Rates Proposed by Ohio BWC
Sep 25 2014 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) proposed to its board of directors an average rate reduction of 9.1 percent for Ohio’s 3,800 cities, counties, townships, villages, schools and special districts...
Maryland Officer Charged in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Sep 25 2014 // A Montgomery County, Maryland, police officer has been charged with perjury and workers’ compensation fraud. Gilbert Payne was charged Tuesday in Baltimore City Circuit Court. The 40-year-old Payne didn’t...
Texas Construction Company Owners Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Sep 25 2014 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that a Travis County district court sentenced Anthony Stokes and Mario Williams of Little Elm, Texas, for workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. Stokes and Williams were...
Texas-Based Cut Stone Manufacturer Fined $234.9K for Safety Violations
Sep 22 2014 // Cut limestone manufacturer Mezger Enterprises Ltd., based in Lampasas, Texas, has been cited for 27 safety and health violations, including two willful, by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and...
Workers’ Compensation Premiums Increased By 5.1% in First Half of 2014
Sep 22 2014 // Demotech’s review of second quarter 2014 data, as recently reported by insurers to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, shows that workers’ compensation insurers reported a 5.1 percent increase...
E&O Insights: How Well Do You Know Your Workers’ Compensation Risk?
Sep 22 2014 // The workers’ compensation class of business results in upwards of 10 percent of all errors and omissions (E&O) claims every year. While this may not seem like a lot, it is a class agents must be sensitive to for...
OSHA Revises Severe Injury Reporting Rule
Sep 22 2014 // The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a final rule requiring employers to notify OSHA when an employee is killed on the job or suffers a work-related hospitalization, amputation or loss...
N.H. Gov. Creates Workers’ Comp Commission
Sep 22 2014 // N.H. Gov. Maggie Hassan New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan on Sept. 4 issued an executive order creating a new commission to recommend ways to reduce the state’s workers’ compensation medical costs. The executive...
California Workers’ Comp Kaleidoscope Through Conference-Goers’ Eyes
Sep 22 2014 // Rick Hudson was sitting at his booth at the California Workers’ Compensation & Risk Conference held earlier this month scanning emails on his smartphone during a slow period when he was asked what the most...
S. Dakota Director: No Work Comp Premiums for True Independent Contractors
Sep 22 2014 // Merle Scheiber, director of South Dakota’s Insurance Division, issued a reminder to workers’ compensation insurers that bona fide independent contractors are not required to carry workers’ comp insurance...
Workers’ Comp Loss Costs Declining Again in Oklahoma
Sep 22 2014 // For the second straight year, workers’ compensation loss costs used by insurers to determine rates for employers will show an overall decrease in Oklahoma. The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) has...
Texas Sets Workers’ Comp Weekly Benefit Rates for Coming Year
Sep 19 2014 // The Texas Department of Insurance – Division of Workers’ Compensation announced that the workers’ compensation state average weekly wage for dates of injury from Oct. 1, 2014 through Sept. 30, 2015 has...
Oklahoma Plating Company Fined $341.5K for Workplace Safety Violations
Sep 19 2014 // Pride Plating Inc. in Grove, Okla., was cited on Sept. 4 by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for exposing workers to cancer-causing health hazards from hexavalent chromium....
Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges Filed on Utah Man
Sep 19 2014 // A Utah man who suffered a knee injury while working at the Montana State Prison is charged with defrauding the state worker’s compensation fund by collecting total disability benefits while running a construction...
Ryan to Head Research for Marsh’s Workers’ Compensation Center
Sep 19 2014 // Tom Ryan has been named market research leader at Marsh’s Workers’ Compensation Center of Excellence. Tom Ryan Ryan been with Marsh Risk Consulting for the past 20 years. Most recently, he was the Northeast...
Texas Man Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Sep 18 2014 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that a Travis County district court sentenced Rodney Williams of Seabrook, Texas, for workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The court sentenced Williams to deferred...
ICW Group Names McAdam Western Regional Director
Sep 17 2014 // San Diego, Calif.-based ICW Group has added Stacey McAdam to a director-level position on its workers’ compensation executive team. McAdam will oversee business development, underwriting and agent outreach...
EMPLOYERS Launches Work-Related Injury Hotline for Florida Small Business Clients
Sep 16 2014 // Small business insurer EMPLOYERS has launched Coventry/NT24, a 24-hour hotline staffed by registered nurses who provide medical guidance over the phone for work-related injuries or illnesses. The service is available to...
California Workers’ Comp Kaleidoscope Through Conference-goers Eyes
Sep 12 2014 // Rick Hudson was sitting at his booth at the California Workers’ Compensation & Risk Conference on Thursday scanning emails on his smartphone during a slow period when he was asked what the most significant change...
