Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Multi-million Dollar Workers’ Comp Fraud Probe Leads to West Virginia Bank
Nov 4 2013 // A federal investigation into a multi-million-dollar workers’ compensation scheme extended to the Bank of Mingo in West Virginia, where authorities seized computer drives and documents. FBI Special Agent James...
Illinois Workers’ Compensation Medical Care Costs Declining: WCRI
Nov 4 2013 // The costs of medical care to treat injured workers in Illinois are declining, the result of regulatory change enacted in 2011, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The report,...
Manufacturer Faces Nearly $148K in Fines for Amputation Hazards in Ohio
Nov 1 2013 // Napoleon Spring Works Inc., a manufacturer of garage door hardware, has been cited $147,600 in proposed penalties by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for 16 safety...
Maryland’s Chesapeake Employers: Business as Usual for Policyholders, Agents
Nov 1 2013 // Maryland’s largest writer of workers’ compensation insurance and the insurer of last resort adopted a new name and a new corporate structure in October. The 99-year-old Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund...
FBI: California Senator Tied up in Workers’ Comp Fraud
Oct 31 2013 // An FBI investigation shows that state Sen. Ronald Calderon accepted bribes from a hospital executive in Southern California who ran an alleged workers’ compensation scheme, the Al Jazeera America news outlet is...
United Ethanol Cited After Worker Dies in Wisconsin Corn Bin
Oct 31 2013 // United Ethanol LLC has been cited for 15 health and safety violations by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration after a worker died inside a grain storage bin on April 19 at the...
OSHA Fines Trucking Company $113K After Worker Fatality in Arkansas
Oct 31 2013 // Sherman Brothers Trucking Inc., doing business as Team Transport Inc., has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for 11 safety and health violations and fined...
DWC OKs Carve-Out Covering 22K Southern California Workers
Oct 29 2013 // The Division of Workers’ Compensation announced a carve-out agreement between seven Southern California United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) local unions, Vons and Super A Foods. The agreement covers an...
Study Tracks Latest Changes in N.Y. Workers’ Comp System After 2007 Reforms
Oct 28 2013 // The ongoing effects of workers’ compensation reforms enacted in New York in 2007 are monitored by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) in a new study that focuses on objectives that are being achieved,...
Illinois Workers’ Compensation Medical Care Costs Declining: WCRI
Oct 28 2013 // The costs of medical care to treat injured workers in Illinois are declining, the result of regulatory change enacted in 2011, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). The report,...
Ohio Public Employers to See Lower Workers’ Comp Rates
Oct 25 2013 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation board of directors has approved an average rate reduction of 1.6 percent for public employer taxing districts. The BWC said the change will result in Ohio’s 3,900...
$32M In California To Fight Workers’ Comp Fraud
Oct 24 2013 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones awarded $32 million in grants to district attorneys across 36 counties in the state to combat workers’ compensation fraud. The grants, funded through employer assessments,...
Florida Regulators Disapprove NCCI’s 1% WC Rate Increase Proposal
Oct 23 2013 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty today issued an order notifying the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) that its 1-percent proposed annual rate filing increase in Florida’s workers’...
Florida Court Reverses Itself: 104-Week Limit on Temporary Benefits Constitutional
Oct 23 2013 // A Florida district court has overturned an earlier ruling that found a 104-week limit on an injured worker’s temporary benefits unconstitutional. The court ruled instead that the limit represents a legal deadline to...
California Construction Firm Owner, Family Sentenced for WC Fraud
Oct 22 2013 // The owner of a Northern California construction company and his family members in were convicted of committing workers’ compensation insurance premium fraud. Jeffrey Thranow, 59, owner of Costa Bella Builders was...
Complaints Mounting Over Pennsylvania’s Online Workers’ Comp System
Oct 22 2013 // Complaints are mounting over Pennsylvania’s new, online system for filing appeals in workers’ compensation cases, with critics saying it often cannot upload documents and sometimes makes paperwork disappear. A...
All Risks Offering WC for Non-Emergency Medical Transportation Risks
Oct 21 2013 // All Risks’ Workers Compensation Division has launched it’s third specialty class, non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT), with an exclusive A.M. Best “A” rated market. This WC unit has direct...
West Fertilizer Plant Cited, Fined by OSHA
Oct 21 2013 // Further Investigation Delayed by Government Shutdown The partial government shutdown has delayed the federal investigation of the April 17 fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, and efforts to improve chemical safety,...
Insurer Auditor, Others Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Oct 21 2013 // A former workers’ compensation auditor in West Virginia has been sentenced to six years in federal prison for taking bribes in exchange for allowing coal company contractors to underreport their payroll. Prosecutors...
Florida Enters Era of Workers’ Compensation Market Stability
Oct 21 2013 // Florida’s workers’ compensation system has reached a rare state of rate stability, according to insurers and officials. The agency, the National Council on Compensation Insurance, filed for a one percent...
