Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
OSHA Investigating Death At South Dakota Steel Business
May 2 2012 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is looking into the death of a worker at a Rapid City, S.D. steel business. Twenty-six-year-old Adam Klynsma was killed at TrueNorth Steel on Friday. Pennington County...
Mississippi Lawmakers Pass Workers’ Compensation Changes Backed by Employers
May 2 2012 // Mississippi legislators offered sharply different views of a bill they passed Monday to change the way compensation is awarded to workers injured on the job, or to survivors of those killed at work. If Republican Gov. Phil...
Bill Aims to Fix Problems with Medicare Set-Asides for Workers’ Compensation
May 1 2012 // The insurance industry is among the business and legal interests applauding legislation to resolve delays and inconsistencies in Medicare’s approval process for set-aside funds for injured workers’...
Missouri House Passes Whistleblower, Work Comp Bills
Apr 30 2012 // The Missouri House passed two pieces of business legislation aimed at overcoming vetoes by Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon earlier this year. Both measures now go to the Senate, which approved similar measures earlier in the...
58 Massachusetts Workers Were Killed on Job in 2011: Report
Apr 30 2012 // A new report says 58 Massachusetts workers were killed on the job in 2011, at an average of 1.1 worker death each week. The report, titled “Dying for Work in Massachusetts,” was published last week by the...
Troubled Illinois Work Injury-Claim System Hit in Audit
Apr 27 2012 // Illinois’ troubled system for compensating injured state workers hands out money too readily, sometimes without medical evidence to back up a claim and occasionally paying benefits the hurt employee didn’t even...
Oklahoma House Defeats Alternative Workers’ Comp Measure
Apr 27 2012 // The Oklahoma House has defeated workers’ compensation legislation that would have allowed large employers to opt-out of the state’s workers’ compensation system. In a bipartisan vote on April 25, House...
Montana High Court Hears Hutterite Labor Case
Apr 27 2012 // The Montana Supreme Court did not immediately rule after hearing competing arguments from a Hutterite colony and the state on whether Montana’s requirement that employers carry workers’ compensation insurance...
TDI-DWC Approves 7 to Self-Insure for Workers’ Compensation
Apr 25 2012 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) approved seven renewals of the Certificates of Authority for companies to self-insure their workers’ compensation claims for a...
Maine Workers’ Comp Reform Bill Signed Into Law
Apr 24 2012 // A new Maine bill that brings wide-ranging changes to the state’s workers’ compensation system was signed into law last week. The bill, signed into law by Maine Gov. Paul LePage, is called An Act to Review and...
OSHA Fines Wisconsin Company $71K for Safety Violations
Apr 24 2012 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced it has cited Duraframe Dipnet with 20 safety violations — including three repeat — at the net manufacturer’s Viola,...
OSHA Settles New Orleans Whistleblower Case
Apr 24 2012 // Federal official have settled a whistleblower case against a New Orleans, La.-based riverboat company. The U.S. Department of Labor announced it has entered into a settlement agreement with St. James Stevedoring Partners...
Florida Governor Vetoes Cat Fund Tax-Credit Plan
Apr 24 2012 // Florida Governor Rick Scott has chastised state lawmakers for failing to fully consider a controversial plan to use state premium tax credits to help shore-up the state’s homeowners’ reinsurance fund before...
Current Market Not Yet a ‘Classic’ Hard Market: P/C Executives
Apr 23 2012 // The current property/casualty market is not a “classic” hard market, yet anyway. While prices are clearly rising in certain lines including property and workers’ compensation, other conditions of a...
North Carolina Employers Face Jail Time Over Uncovered Workers’ Claims
Apr 23 2012 // North Carolina officials are requiring insurers to expedite the payment of workers’ compensation patients medical and wage-loss benefits or risk being sentenced to jail. The North Carolina Industrial Commission has...
OSHA Hit for Taking Too Long to Adopt Workplace Safety Rules
Apr 23 2012 // The nation’s premier worker safety agency takes nearly eight years on average to adopt new safety regulations, government auditors said in a report. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration takes far too...
Oklahoma Senate Approves Workers’ Comp Alternative
Apr 20 2012 // Oklahoma companies would be allowed to opt out of the state’s traditional workers’ compensation system and instead self-insure or have alternative coverage under new guidelines outlined in a bill approved on...
Mississippi Lawmakers Still Weighing Workers’ Compensation Changes
Apr 19 2012 // Mississippi senators are considering making more changes to a workers’ compensation bill that sparked controversy in the Legislature this year. Supporters said the bill removes an existing bias toward workers, while...
Nebraska to Increase Workers’ Comp Payout for Burials
Apr 18 2012 // Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has approved a bill that will let the dependents of workers killed on the job collect a larger payout for burial expenses. LB 378 by Grand Island Sen. Mike Gloor will increase the workers’...
Southeast Insurance Employment: Agency, Carrier Plans Brighten Picture
Apr 18 2012 // Those interested in new or better positions in insurance might want to grab their suntan lotion and head to the Southeast. They might also want to brush up on their Spanish. The unemployment rate remains higher in key...
