Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Understanding Foreign Voluntary Workers’ Comp Policies
Jun 20 2013 // In spite of videoconferencing, social media and other new technologies, many businesses depend on their key executives and top sales people to travel overseas to meet with clients in person, to negotiate with foreign...
PMC Insurance Names Regional VPs for Restructured Sales Organization
Jun 18 2013 // PMC Insurance Group, a Needham, Mass.-based national workers compensation wholesale broker, has announced the restructuring of its sales organization into four regions to enhance their national footprint and carrier...
N.J. to Offer Lifetime Benefits to Spouses of Police, Fire Personnel Killed on Duty
Jun 17 2013 // In New Jersey, a measure that would provide workers’ compensation benefits to spouses of certain deceased fire and police personnel for the entire period of survivorship was signed into law last Thursday. The newly...
Report: California Workers’ Comp Insurers’ Return on Worth Up
Jun 17 2013 // California workers’ compensation insurers’ average return on net worth increased for the second year in a row in 2011, according to the latest National Association of Insurance Commissioners report on insurer...
$1B Rebate to Ohio Employers Approved
Jun 17 2013 // The directors of Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers unanimously approved Gov. John Kasich’s proposal to send rebate checks ranging from $5 to more than $3 million to businesses, local governments and...
Database Provides Statistics on Maryland’s Workers’ Comp, Injury Attorneys
Jun 13 2013 // Injury lawyers in Maryland now have what may be the legal profession’s equivalent of a rap sheet. Byron B. Warnken has created a website that collects data from the state’s circuit courts and compiles it into...
North Carolinian on ‘Price Is Right’ Pleads to Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jun 10 2013 // A U.S. Postal Service employee from eastern North Carolina who was seen spinning the Big Wheel on TV’s “The Price Is Right” even though she had said she could not deliver the mail has pleaded guilty to...
New Position to Target Workers’ Comp Fraud in Rhode Island
Jun 6 2013 // Officials in Rhode Island are creating a new position to prosecute fraud in the state’s unemployment and workers’ compensation program. The state’s Department of Labor and Training announced the new...
Montana Man Pleads Guilty In Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Jun 6 2013 // A 76-year-old Havre, Mont. man has pleaded guilty to mail fraud in a case for failing to report that he owned a profitable business while receiving more than $277,000 in federal worker’s compensation benefits from...
Michigan Pair Plead Guilty to Embezzling from Workers’ Comp TPA
Jun 6 2013 // Michigan’s attorney general announced that the former CEO and a bookkeeper of a non-profit workers’ compensation insurance-related organization have pleaded guilty to embezzling millions. Michigan Attorney...
Actor Jim Carrey’s Biz Has WC Coverage, NYS Workers’ Comp Board Says
Jun 5 2013 // Actor Jim Carrey was reportedly accused of failing to buy workers’ compensation insurance for his New York-based art studio business — but it appears it is just a case of a clerical error.Jim Carrey (file...
Wisconsin Bus Driver Who Chased Passenger Gets Workers’ Comp
Jun 5 2013 // A Wisconsin appeals court says a Milwaukee bus driver who chased down a passenger who used a racial slur and spat on him is entitled to workers’ compensation. Bus driver Isaac Bracey hurt himself soon after getting...
OSHA Fines Idaho Company Over Natural Gas Explosion
Jun 5 2013 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined a Lewiston, Idaho construction company for its role in a natural gas explosion in downtown Lewiston last November. The Lewiston Tribune reported OSHA cited M.L....
Why Clients Might Need Foreign Voluntary Workers’ Comp
Jun 3 2013 // In spite of videoconferencing, social media and other new technologies, many businesses depend on their key executives and top sales people to travel overseas to meet with clients in person, to negotiate with foreign...
Injured Workers Opioid Use on Rise in California, Washington
Jun 3 2013 // Editor’s Note: This is part of a larger report on opioid use by injured workers. This particular part covers the U.S. Western Region. A national story appeared in the last issue of Insurance Journal. That article can...
Delaware Workers’ Comp Panel Releases Report
Jun 3 2013 // A state panel examining soaring workers compensation rates in Delaware is recommending that the state implement a two-year inflation freeze on medical providers’ fee schedules. The recommendation is included in a...
Oklahoma, Texas Take Aim at Overuse of Opioids in Workers’ Comp
Jun 3 2013 // In Texas and Oklahoma the battle against opioid abuse among injured workers is ongoing. Oklahoma in 2012 enacted legislation adopting the Work Loss Data Institute’s Official Disability Guidelines (ODG) as the...
Ohio Sees 12% Decrease in Narcotics Prescribed to Injured Workers
Jun 3 2013 // There are close to 40,000 drug overdose deaths each year in the United States, and the number continues to rise, according to the latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control, which show more than half of...
Report: California Workers’ Comp Insurers Return on Worth Up
May 31 2013 // California workers’ compensation insurers’ average return on net worth increased for the second year in a row in 2011, according to the latest National Association of Insurance Commissioners report on insurer...
Workers’ Comp Panel Approves $1 Billion Rebate to Ohio Employers
May 31 2013 // Directors of Ohio’s insurance fund for injured workers have unanimously approved Gov. John Kasich’s (KAY’-sihks) proposal to send $1 billion in cash rebates to businesses, local governments and...
