Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Houston Business to Pay $300K For Workers’ Comp Insurance Fraud
Nov 15 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announced that a Travis County district court judge convicted Sehgal & Sons Enterprises (Ultra Business Services Inc.) of first-degree...
OSHA Cites Massachusetts Roofing Company for Fifth Time
Nov 15 2022 // A Quincy, Massachusetts roofing contractor exposed workers on the roofs of a garage and house in Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood to potentially fatal falls from heights, federal workplace safety inspectors...
OSHA Proposes $145K Fine Against Caterpillar After Worker Death in Ohio
Nov 14 2022 // The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed fines of $145,027 against Caterpillar Inc. for not installing a guardrail or travel restraint at a foundry outside Peoria where a worker fell into molten...
2 Contractors Face $690K OSHA Fines Over Mezzanine Collapse, Asbestos at Boston Plant
Nov 14 2022 // Two Massachusetts contractors are facing a combined $690,000 in penalties for alleged safety errors that led to worker injuries during a demolition and asbestos abatement project at a former South Boston power plant. On...
California Workers’ Comp Bureau Study Shows Higher L.A. Claims Frequency
Nov 10 2022 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California released its 2022 WCIRB Geo Study, which underscores regional differences in claim characteristics across California. Key findings include: Even after...
New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Rates to Drop 6.1% for 2023
Nov 9 2022 // New Jersey workers’ compensation and employer liability insurance rates will be cut an average 6.1% beginning January 1, 2023. The reduction is more than the 4.7% decrease that industry’s rating bureau had...
4 Workers Injured by Gas Release at Los Angeles Airport
Nov 8 2022 // Four workers were injured, including one critically, by a release of carbon dioxide in a Los Angeles International Airport utility room, authorities said. One man was initially in grave condition but was upgraded to...
Florida Approves 8.4% Decrease in Workers’ Comp Rates Without Asking for More
Nov 8 2022 // The Florida insurance commissioner has approved a decrease in overall workers’ compensation rates for 2023, and he did not demand a sharper decrease from actuaries. The National Council on Compensation Insurance in...
Massachusetts AG Finds More Drug Overcharges in Workers’ Compensation
Nov 8 2022 // Pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts, Inc. has agreed to pay $3.2 million after allegedly failing to follow prescription pricing procedures intended to keep costs down and prevent overcharges in the state’s...
Florida Workers’ Comp Agency Sets Workshop for Rules on Exempt Officers
Nov 7 2022 // The Florida Division of Workers Compensation will hold a workshop Nov. 16 on proposed changes to rules that govern when and how corporate officers can exempt themselves from workers’ compensation coverage. Current...
Oklahoma Work Comp Rates to Decrease 8.2% in 2023
Nov 7 2022 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready announced that businesses should see another rate decrease in workers’ compensation insurance beginning on January 1, 2023. The Oklahoma Insurance Department has approved...
More Violations: OSHA Fines Dollar General $2.7M for Workplace Safety Problems
Nov 3 2022 // A month after federal regulators hit Dollar General stores with $1.6 million in fines for safety violations, the retailer now faces an additional $2.7 million in penalties for similar problems in Alabama, Florida and...
California Father And Son Charged for $12M Workers’ Comp Fraud
Nov 2 2022 // Edgardo Cabrales Sr., 61, and his son, Edgar Cabrales Jr., 36, both of San Jose, California, were charged with five felony counts each of insurance fraud after a California Department of Insurance investigation found they...
New York’s Workers’ Compensation Fund Now Covers Out-Of-State Workers
Oct 31 2022 // The New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF), the state’s largest workers’ compensation insurer, announced that it will extend coverage to out-of-state employees for the first time. Under the initiative, any New...
Federal Court Finds Pennsylvania Poultry Farm in Contempt Over OSHA Penalties
Oct 28 2022 // A federal court has found Birdsboro Kosher Farms Corp. in contempt for failing to pay $162,359 in penalties after an inspection by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration found numerous safety hazards. The U.S....
Cities Must Bargain Over Termination of Injured Workers: New York High Court
Oct 27 2022 // New York labor law requires a municipality to negotiate when terminating employees who are not at work for over a year because of an on-the-job injury, the New York Court of Appeals has ruled. The state’s high court...
Connecticut Approves 3% Cut in Workers’ Compensation Costs for 2023
Oct 24 2022 // Connecticut businesses will see another rate decrease in workers’ compensation insurance beginning on January 1, 2023. The Connecticut Insurance Department has officially approved an average decrease of 3% to...
Study Traces COVID-19 Impact on New York Workers’ Compensation Claims
Oct 21 2022 // During the height of the pandemic, New York workers’ compensation indemnity payments increased while medical payments decreased. That’s according to a new report from the Workers Compensation Research Institute...
Federal Judge Dismisses FedEx From Indiana Shooting Lawsuit, Citing Work Comp Act
Oct 20 2022 // A federal judge has dismissed FedEx from a lawsuit filed by relatives of five of the eight people who were fatally shot last year at an Indianapolis warehouse by a former employee of the shipping giant. U.S. District Judge...
Idaho’s Workers’ Comp Rates Decreasing 11.5% for 2023
Oct 18 2022 // The Idaho Department of Insurance accepted a 11.5% reduction in rates, effective January 1, 2023. This follows the National Council on Compensation Insurance submission of its annual rate recommendation to the Idaho...
