Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Workers’ Comp Independent Medical Reviews Trending up, Report Shows
Jun 27 2025 // The number of Independent Medical Review decision letters issued in response to California workers’ compensation medical disputes is trending up in the last few years after declining steadily from 2018 through 2022,...
Markets/Coverages: Descartes Expands US Parametric Flood Cover for Businesses; EverPeak Takes Workers Comp Product to 11 New States
Jun 26 2025 // Descartes Expands US Parametric Flood Cover for Businesses Parametric insurance company Descartes Underwriting has a new flood insurance product it said delivers better protection for US businesses, investors, and...
Study Shows Oregon Ranked 14th in US for Workers’ Comp Rates
Jun 23 2025 // Oregon’s workers’ compensation rates were among the lowest in the nation last year, according to an analysis released from the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services. The rates reflect statewide...
Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission Votes to Reduce MITF Assessment
Jun 20 2025 // The Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission announced that it voted this spring to reduce the Multiple Injury Trust Fund assessment on workers’ compensation coverage providers from 7% to 6.29%. This is the...
Former Connecticut Trooper Accused of Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Jun 20 2025 // A former Connecticut state police trooper has been arrested and charged with collecting workers’ compensation benefits totaling $8,341.00 during his employment with the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services...
Inflation Impacting Workers’ Comp Medical Costs: WCRI
Jun 16 2025 // A new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) illustrates how rising inflation has impacted the system in recent years. The 2025 edition of the WCRI Medical Price Index for Workers’ Compensation,...
Oregon OSHA Fines Contractor for Repeatedly Violating Excavation Safety Rules
Jun 16 2025 // The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division fined Hillsboro-based Renner Trucking and Excavating Inc. $80,804 for repeatedly violating rules intended to protect workers from trenches caving in. Oregon OSHA issued a...
D.A. Says Former California Police Officer on Workers’ Comp Went to Festival, Skied
Jun 16 2025 // A former Westminster, California, police officer and her stepfather were charged in a large-scale workers’ compensation fraud case after an investigation revealed the officer collected more than $600,000 in...
Connecticut Closes Costly Workers’ Comp Loophole Opened by Court
Jun 16 2025 // Connecticut lawmakers last month moved to plug what could have been a very costly loophole in workers’ compensation benefits that was created by a state Supreme Court decision in March. The lawmakers effectively...
Massachusetts Denies 7.1% Workers’ Comp Rate Hike After 2024 ‘Excessive’ Cut
Jun 16 2025 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Michael Caljouw has rejected an industry proposal to raise workers’ compensation rates by 7.1%. As a result, existing rates, which reflect a 14.6% decrease ordered last July, will...
Manufacturer Fined $500K for Violating OSHA Rule Leading to Ohio Worker’s Death
Jun 12 2025 // Fabcon, a Delaware corporation with a manufacturing facility in Ohio, was sentenced to pay a $500,000 fine, the statutory maximum, after pleading guilty to willfully violating an Occupational Safety and Health...
Adidas Settles With OSHA Over Safety Violations
Jun 11 2025 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and sports apparel and footwear company Adidas America have reached a settlement for $235,000 in penalties to resolve fall hazard and unsafe ladder violations. The...
Emerge Apps Launches Mod Performance Suite: A New Era of Work Comp Selling
Jun 11 2025 // Introducing LightDutyWorks, the turnkey return-to-work solution to help agents not just diagnose mod problems, but fix them. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – June 11, 2025 — Emerge Apps announced the launch of the Mod...
Minnesota’s The Builders Group Goes Live on Insurity’s Workers Comp Suite
Jun 5 2025 // Insurity, a provider of cloud-based software for property and casualty insurance carriers, brokers, and MGAs, today announced that The Builders Group (TBG) has successfully gone live on Insurity Workers’ Comp...
Chased by Golf Cart at Work: Horseplay or Assault? For Workers’ Comp, It Matters.
Jun 5 2025 // Workers’ compensation benefits are not available to a worker injured when he was chased and hit by a golf cart driven by a co-worker who claimed he was just horsing around. The Virginia Court of Appeals ruled that...
Oregon OSHA Fines Contractor for Repeatedly Violating Excavation Safety Rules
Jun 2 2025 // The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division fined Hillsboro-based Renner Trucking and Excavating Inc. $80,804 for repeatedly violating rules intended to protect workers from trenches caving in. Oregon OSHA issued a...
Workers’ Comp Premiums Fall 3% in 2024; Combined Ratio Holds at 86: NCCI
Jun 2 2025 // Workers’ compensation remained a healthy and profitable line in 2024, but claims severity grew with an increase of 6% for medical claim severity and 6% for indemnity claim severity. That’s according to the...
Report: California Workers’ Comp Combined Ratio Highest in 14 Years
Jun 2 2025 // Written premiums in California stabilized in 2022 through 2024 after the large swings during the pandemic, while the combined ratio rose to the highest level in 14 years, a new report shows. The Workers’ Compensation...
OSHA Settles With New Jersey Bakery Where Finger Amputations Occurred
May 29 2025 // The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has reached a settlement agreement with a New Jersey commercial bakery where an employee suffered partial finger amputations in 2023. The company,...
Inflation Impacting Workers Comp Medical Costs: WCRI
May 28 2025 // A new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) illustrates how rising inflation has impacted the system in recent years. The 2025 edition of the WCRI Medical Price Index for Workers’ Compensation,...
