Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Delaware Workers’ Compensation Rates to Drop by Double Digits: Navarro
Oct 18 2022 // Delaware workers’ compensation insurance rates will decrease for the sixth year in a row, effective December 1, 2022. Both the voluntary market and the residual market will see rate decreases in the double...
School Executives Arrested in California Workers’ Comp Scheme
Oct 17 2022 // An investigation by the California Department of Insurance resulted in the arrest of Rene Carlos Aguero, 71, and Gustavo Adolfo Lopez, 56, for allegedly submitting fraudulent vocational training vouchers for workers’...
Report: More than Half of California COVID-19 Workers’ Comp Claims in Healthcare
Oct 13 2022 // More than a half of all reported COVID-19 indemnity claims in California continue to arise from workers in the healthcare sector, according to a new report from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. The...
Texas Department of Work Comp Adopts MQRP Rule Changes
Oct 12 2022 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has adopted amendments to 28 Texas Administrative Code §180.62, concerning the Medical Quality Review Panel (MQRP). DWC proposed this rule...
Ohio Contractor Faces $1 Million in Fines for OSHA Violations
Oct 10 2022 // A Millersburg, Ohio, contractor with a long history of disregarding workplace safety standards now faces more than $1 million in penalties after an inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and...
Indiana Approves Decrease in Workers’ Comp Rates for 2023
Oct 5 2022 // Indiana Department of Insurance Commissioner Amy L. Beard recently approved a decrease of 10.3% on average for Workers‘ Compensation rates recommended by the Indiana Compensation Rating Bureau (ICRB), effective...
School Executives Arrested in California Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
Oct 5 2022 // An investigation by the California Department of Insurance resulted in the arrest last week of Rene Carlos Aguero, 71, and Gustavo Adolfo Lopez, 56, for allegedly submitting fraudulent vocational training vouchers for...
Workers’ Compensation Premiums Increase 10% for First Six Months of 2022
Oct 3 2022 // A comparison of workers’ compensation direct premium written indicated an overall increase of approximately 10.1% for the first six months of 2022 compared to the first six months of 2021. Twenty of the Top 25...
New Report on California Workers’ Comp Medical Payment Trends
Oct 3 2022 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California released an updated California Workers’ Compensation Aggregate Medical Payment Trends report for 2021. The latest annual report compares medical...
Washington Proposes 4.8% Workers’ Comp Increase for 2023
Oct 3 2022 // The Washington Department of Labor & Industries is proposing a 4.8% increase in the average price employers and workers pay for workers’ compensation insurance in 2023. Employers and workers would jointly pay an...
California Workers’ Comp Independent Medical Review Volume Fell in First Half of 2022
Oct 3 2022 // After hitting a record low in 2021, the number of independent medical reviews used to resolve California workers’ comp medical disputes continued to decline in the first half of 2022 according to the California...
California Workers’ Comp Written Premium up 27% in First Half of 2022
Sep 30 2022 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California released its Quarterly Experience Report, which reflects an increase in written premium due to economic recovery from the pandemic. The report is an...
178 Medical Providers Suspended from California’s Workers’ Comp System
Sep 30 2022 // The California Department of Industrial Relations’ Division of Workers’ Compensation and DIR’s Anti-Fraud Unit suspended 178 medical providers during the first eight months of 2022. Providers are...
Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Costs to Fall in 2023
Sep 30 2022 // Connecticut workers’ compensation costs to employers are on their way down, again. The industry’s National Council on Compensation Insurance’s (NCCI) has proposed an overall average change of -3.0% to the...
New York Bus Driver Pleads Guilty to $30K Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Sep 28 2022 // A New York bus driver faces sentencing for fraudulently collecting more than $30,000 in workers’ compensation wage indemnity benefits by falsely claiming that she was unable to work as a result of a disability,...
OSHA Seeks $1.2M Fine From Demolition Firm in Fatal Boston Garage Collapse
Sep 28 2022 // A heavy equipment operator doing demolition on the eighth floor of the Government Center garage in downtown Boston died on March 26, 2022, when the partially demolished floor collapsed, and the 11,000-pound excavator and...
Connecticut Lab Faces $907K in OSHA Fines Over Claims of Workers’ Chemical Exposure
Sep 27 2022 // For several months, employees at a Manchester, Connecticut environmental laboratory complained to management about faulty ventilation systems and about symptoms related to exposure to ethylene chloride, a highly hazardous...
New Report on California Workers’ Comp Medical Payment Trends
Sep 22 2022 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California released an updated California Workers’ Compensation Aggregate Medical Payment Trends report for 2021. The latest annual report compares medical...
