Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Fast-Growing Craft Brewers Slow to Adopt Workplace Safety
Jul 15 2013 // Welder Mark Moynihan crawled down a narrow tube into a space the size of a car interior to seal the crack in the fermentation tank at Calhoun’s Bar-B-Q & Brewery in Knoxville, Tennessee. The space was...
Missouri Governor Signs Bill Replenishing Disabled Workers Fund
Jul 12 2013 // Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has signed legislation raising charges on businesses to replenish an insolvent state fund that provides benefits to disabled workers The new law will temporarily double the surcharge that businesses...
California Department of Insurance Settles with Zurich over Workers’ Comp
Jul 11 2013 // The California Department of Insurance announced a settlement with Zurich American Insurance Co. and Zurich American Insurance Co. of Illinois over what CDI alleged was improper use of workers’ compensation insurance...
Another Company Accused in Colorado Contamination
Jul 11 2013 // A third company has been accused of safety violations in connection with efforts to clean up a natural gas liquids spill involving a pipeline near Parachute, Colo. Documents obtained Tuesday by the Grand Junction Daily...
DIR: California’s Alternative Security Program Frees $7.7 Billion
Jul 10 2013 // Christine Baker, director of the Department of Industrial Relations, on Wednesday approved the implementation of the 2013/14 Alternative Security Program, which Baker said frees up $7.7 billion in capital that provides...
Rhode Island Approves 7.4% Workers’ Comp Loss Cost Increase
Jul 10 2013 // The Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation approved this month a 7.4 percent overall voluntary loss cost increase for new and renewal workers’ compensation policies. The change will take effect in August. The...
NCCI Taps Lumbermen’s Underwriting Alliance Exec as Chief Actuary
Jul 9 2013 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI), the workers’ compensation rating organization, appointed Katherine Antonello to the position of chief actuary. Antonello succeeds Dennis Mealy, who is retiring...
Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. Promotes Horton, Tucker
Jul 8 2013 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. (LWCC) announced two new promotions: Jody Horton is now the special risk business unit manager, and David Tucker is the agency relations manager. Horton most recently served as...
Governor Vetoes Missouri Workers’ Comp Database Bill
Jul 8 2013 // Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon pointed to privacy concerns in vetoing a proposed online database that businesses could use to check a prospective employee’s workers’ compensation claims. Nixon said in a message...
Lien Fees Working Out in California Workers’ Comp
Jul 2 2013 // Jason Molnar makes a living deep in the trenches of workers’ compensation battles in California, so you’d think when there was a no show from an opponent at an official lien hearing that he’d be relieved...
Haslam Names Hudgens to Head Tennessee’s New Injured Workers’ Division
Jul 2 2013 // Republican Gov. Bill Haslam has named Abbie Hudgens as the head of the state’s new Workers’ Compensation Division. Hudgens, who had already been focusing on injured workers issues within the state Department of...
Toledo to Hire Extra Firefighters with Work Comp Rebate
Jun 28 2013 // Toledo is using an unexpectedly big rebate from the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation to increase the size of its fire department. Ohio businesses and public employers have started getting one-time rebate checks...
Report: Louisiana Plant Explosion Released Toxic Chemicals
Jun 28 2013 // The deadly June 13 explosion and fire at the Williams Olefins chemical plant in Geismar, La., released more than 62,000 pounds of toxic chemicals during the accident that killed two workers and injured 114 others,...
Ohio Man Ordered to Pay Nearly $29K for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jun 26 2013 // An Ohio man was sentenced for working while receiving disability payments from the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) for a prior workplace injury. Joshua Schlosser was ordered to repay nearly $29,000 he...
State Fund Selects New Chief Medical Officer
Jun 25 2013 // State Compensation Insurance Fund named Dr. Dinesh Govindarao as its new chief medical officer. The move is effective July 8. As chief medical officer, Govindarao will represent State Fund as an advocate for California...
Delaware Legislature Adopts Workers’ Compensation Reform Bill
Jun 24 2013 // Delaware lawmakers last week passed workers’ comp reform legislation (HB 175) that seeks to curb rising workers’ compensation costs. The bill has been sent to Gov. Jack Markell, who is expected to sign it. The...
North Dakota’s Workers’ Comp Agency to Send Employers Refunds
Jun 24 2013 // North Dakota’s workers’ compensation program will send employers nearly $160 million in payments as a distribution of surplus reserves. The Forum reports that Workforce Safety and Insurance will distribute the...
Alaska Workers’ Comp Board Seeks Ways To Reduce Costs
Jun 24 2013 // The Alaska Workers Compensation Board sought public input on rising costs in the last week. Board members held public meetings in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Kenai and Juneau seeking comment on ways to stem rising costs. The...
Tennessee Conference Focuses on Workers’ Compensation Changes
Jun 21 2013 // Changes to the state’s workers’ compensation system is the focus of the Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference this week. The three-day conference began on Wednesday at the Nashville...
Hospitals Paid More For Surgeries On Injured Workers: Report
Jun 21 2013 // A 16-state study shows that in half of the study states hospital outpatient payments for shoulder surgeries in workers’ compensation were at least $2,000 higher than those in group health. The study from the...
