Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Reworked Workers’ Comp Proposal Surfaces
Aug 23 2012 // What appears to be a cut down and reworked version of a workers’ compensation proposal has been put into bill form and is being circulated around the state capital. The “tentative draft SB 863” proposal...
Poll: Little Faith for Lasting Workers’ Comp Reforms in Calif.
Aug 22 2012 // People overwhelmingly believe workers’ compensation premiums will rise if no reforms come out of a bill currently in the works in state Legislature to increase benefits for injured workers and reduce waste in the...
North Carolina Does Poor Job Tracking Workers’ Comp, Tax Scofflaws: Newspaper
Aug 22 2012 // North Carolina state agencies do a poor job communicating with each other to identify employers who are possibly breaking the law because they don’t have workers’ compensation insurance or fail to pay...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Losses, Expenses Reach Over $12B
Aug 21 2012 // A report issued on Tuesday by the California Workers’ Compensation Institute shows workers’ comp insurers’ loss and expense payments rose to nearly $12.5 billion in 2011, an increase of over $1...
Markel FirstComp Unveils New Name, New Agent Portal
Aug 21 2012 // Markel and FirstComp have announced a new brand – Markel FirstComp – and a new independent agent portal. Founded in 1997, FirstComp was the small business workers’ compensation insurance arm of Aspen Holdings. It...
You Tell Us: Can California’s Workers’ Comp System Be Fixed?
Aug 21 2012 // How do you contain upwardly spiraling costs, battle growing use and prescription of opioids, fight fraud, de-incentivize bad actors, all while sailing directly into political headwinds flowing from all the compass...
Ore. Workers’ Compensation Claims Down In Decade
Aug 21 2012 // Despite a 30 percent increase in Oregon’s workforce, the state’s workers’ compensation claims are down sharply since the system was overhauled two decades ago. Workers’ Compensation Division...
Report: OSHA Fines Maine Company in Worker’s Death
Aug 21 2012 // A news report says an Augusta, Maine, construction company has been cited for violations and fined in the death of an employee after a house collapsed. Morning Sentinel reports that the Occupational Safety and Health...
N.J. Judge: No Workers’ Comp Benefits for Thrift Store Volunteer
Aug 21 2012 // A New Jersey workers’ compensation judge recently ruled that a thrift store volunteer cannot be considered as an employee for the purpose of determining compensability. A 50 percent store discount for volunteers...
West Virginia Workers’ Comp Rates Going Down 9%
Aug 20 2012 // West Virginia employers’ rates for workers’ compensation are heading down again after regulators approved a statewide average 9.1 percent decrease in loss cost rates. Insurance Commissioner Michael D. Riley...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Deal Gains Support of Government
Aug 17 2012 // A workers’ compensation proposal for California is getting the backing of the Department of Industrial Relations as well as seeming endorsement from the governor’s office, although with only two weeks left in...
Agency Outlines Ways California Firms Can Control WC Insurance Costs
Aug 17 2012 // Insurance agency Barney & Barney has outlined a series of steps to help California’s small- to mid-sized employers control the rising cost of workers comp insurance following Wednesday’s decision by the...
Workers’ Comp Reform Could Impact WCIRB’s 12.6% Pure Premium
Aug 16 2012 // The Workers’ Compensation Rating Bureau’s Governing Committee has unanimously voted to authorize the WCIRB to make a Jan.1, 2013 filing recommending an average advisory pure premium rate that is 12.6 percent...
Tennessee Discrimination Suit Proceeds Under ‘Cat’s Paw’ Liability Theory
Aug 15 2012 // A Tennessee civil court is allowing a man to pursue a racial discrimination lawsuit after being reprimanded for his role in a questionable workers’ compensation claim filed by another worker. The United States Court...
Lawyers Throw Workers’ Comp Deal on the Rocks
Aug 14 2012 // A highly sheltered workers’ comp reform proposal being quietly passed around California’s capitol has the potential to make some noise when and if it ever gets introduced. The general consensus among those...
S.J. Louis Construction of Texas Cited for Safety Violations
Aug 14 2012 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited S.J. Louis Construction of Texas Ltd. with one serious and one repeat safety violation for exposing workers to trenching and...
Florida Gov. Scott Reappoints 7 Workers’ Compensation Judges
Aug 13 2012 // Florida Governor Rick Scott has reappointed seven judges on the state’s court that handles workers’ compensation claims. Judge W. James Condry II, 54, of Orlando, has been a judge of Compensation Claims for the...
New Commissioner Joins Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Commission
Aug 9 2012 // The Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Commission announced this month that Stephen Morelli has joined the group as its newest commissioner.Stephen MorelliThe commission has 16 commissioners in total, one of whom...
Workers’ Comp Deal in the Works for California
Aug 9 2012 // In a hush-hush environment over the last several months it appears that those who seek workers’ compensation reform have been given hope, despite the looming close to California’s legislative session. And that...
QBE Launches Packaged Protection for Business Owners
Aug 9 2012 // QBE is now offering business owners protection all in one package. Owners of small- to medium-sized companies may now insure their businesses and business vehicles, and provide workers’ compensation to their...
