Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Delaware Approves 14% Hike in Workers’ Comp Voluntary Market Loss Costs
Feb 21 2014 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart announced today that she has approved the re-submission of the Delaware Compensation Rating Bureau (DCRB) workers’ compensation rate filing regarding the residual...
How ACA Healthcare Law Could Affect P/C Insurance Costs and Claims
Feb 21 2014 // The property/casualty insurance industry is likely to face cost shifting by hospitals, physicians and other medical providers due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to an insurance industry...
Maine Approves 7.7% Decrease in Workers’ Comp Loss Costs
Feb 21 2014 // Maine Gov. Paul R. LePage and Insurance Superintendent Eric Cioppa announced Thursday that the Bureau of Insurance has approved the National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc.’s (NCCI) 2014 loss cost for Maine,...
Texas Likely to Become an ‘NCCI State’ for Workers’ Comp; Question Is – When?
Feb 20 2014 // Texas will be privatizing many functions in its workers’ compensation system if a staff petition to adopt the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) Basic Manual, with Texas exceptions, and the national...
Conn. Lawmakers Propose Workers’ Comp Expansion for PTSD Coverage
Feb 20 2014 // Some Connecticut lawmakers have resurrected a proposal from last year to expand the state’s workers’ compensation law to cover employees who’ve suffered an emotional or mental impairment after witnessing...
Patriot National, Stonewood Partner on Healthcare Program in Midwest
Feb 18 2014 // Patriot National Insurance Group Inc., a workers’ compensation insurer based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has a new partnership with Stonewood National Insurance Co. for a healthcare industry program in the...
Cannon Named Medical Director at Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Commission
Feb 17 2014 // A former hospital chief of staff has been named medical director of the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission. Dr. Jay Cannon of Oklahoma City will be working with administrative law judges on independent medical...
Missouri Bill Would Create Online Database for Workers’ Comp Claims
Feb 17 2014 // An online database of workers’ compensation claims would be created under legislation passed by the Missouri Senate. Under the measure, businesses could provide a potential employee’s name and Social Security...
Missouri-Based Safety National Reports Management Changes
Feb 13 2014 // Excess workers’ compensation insurance provider, Safety National Casualty Corp., based in St. Louis, Mo., announced the following management appointments to take effect on March 1. Tom Grove, assistant vice president...
Patriot National, Stonewood Partner on Healthcare Program
Feb 13 2014 // Patriot National Insurance Group Inc., a workers’ compensation insurer based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has a new partnership with Stonewood National Insurance Co. for a healthcare industry program in the...
Louisiana Manufacturer Cited for Health Violations; $91K Penalty Proposed
Feb 13 2014 // A flavoring manufacturer in Oakdale, La., has been cited by the U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration after a fire last year severely burned a worker. OSHA cited Carol Callahan, doing...
Southern California’s Construction Sector Continues to Heat
Feb 12 2014 // Southern California’s construction sector continues to gain momentum, making good on positive outlooks issued late last year, and agents and brokers who deal in this segment can’t be any happier – especially...
Texas Lowers Workers’ Compensation Maintenance Tax Rate
Feb 12 2014 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced that the Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has lowered the maintenance tax rate to 1.543 percent of gross premiums collected by workers’ compensation insurance...
Mass. AG Office Says 7.7% Workers’ Comp Rate Hike Unnecessary
Feb 11 2014 // At a recent public hearing, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley’s office expressed its opposition to the workers’ compensation average rate increase proposal and argued that the rate should be lowered...
Firm in Deadly West Virginia Cellphone Towers Collapse Previously Cited
Feb 10 2014 // The company that employed two of the three people killed in the collapse of a pair of cellphone towers in Clarksburg was sanctioned after a fatal accident in 2009 in Missouri, according to Occupational Health and Safety...
Guarantee Insurance Co. Entering Texas Workers’ Comp Market
Feb 10 2014 // Guarantee Insurance Co., a monoline workers’ compensation insurance subsidiary of Florida-based Patriot National Insurance Group Inc., is expanding into Texas. Patriot National said the addition of Texas increases...
Mass. Man Charged With Fraudulently Collecting $28K in Comp Benefits
Feb 10 2014 // A Quincy, Mass., man has been indicted on charges he fraudulently collected more than $28,000 in workers’ compensation benefits while working under a false identity, authorities announced. Paulo DaSilva, 53, is...
Small Increase in Nevada Workers’ Comp Loss Costs in 2014
Feb 10 2014 // Many Nevada employers will see a small increase in the premiums they pay for workers’ compensation insurance this year. The average premium increase in the voluntary market will be about 3.2 percent. Nevada employers...
N.J. Casino Dealer Wins Workers’ Comp Dispute by a Foot
Feb 10 2014 // New Jersey’s appellate court recently affirmed a ruling that an employee who got injured in a traffic accident while driving out of her employer’s premises is entitled to worker’s comp benefits. Documents...
Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Comp Cracks Down on Pain Pills
Feb 10 2014 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation said it has stepped up monitoring of the millions of doses of pain pills prescribed to injured workers every year as the agency tries to control costs and fight rampant...
