Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
People Moves: Air Force, OSHA Veteran Stager Joins MEMIC Loss Control Team
Oct 2 2025 // Eric Stager The MEMIC Group, headquartered in Portland, Maine, hired Eric Stager to serve as a safety management consultant on its loss control team. He will work with policyholders throughout the Northeast. Stager served...
South Carolina Workers’ Comp Director Cannon Retiring as McRee Takes the Helm
Sep 25 2025 // South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission Executive Director Gary Cannon is retiring next month after 16 years on the job. The commission has named Kristen McRee, the director of administrative services at the...
Oregon Workers’ Comp Pure Premium Rate Dropping
Sep 22 2025 // Oregon employers on average would pay 87 cents per $100 of payroll for workers’ compensation costs in 2026, down from 91 cents this year, under a new proposal. The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services...
Georgia Man Charged Again in Selling Fake Workers’ Comp Insurance Certificates
Sep 17 2025 // A Georgia man has been arrested for at least the second time in four years, charged with posing as an insurance agent and selling fake workers’ compensation policies. Fernando Jose Cuellar Membreno, 54, was arrested...
Workers’ Comp Rate Increase Proposed in Washington
Sep 17 2025 // The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries is proposing a 4.9% increase in the average hourly rate employers and workers pay for workers’ compensation insurance in 2026. L&I says the increase would...
Pinnacol’s EverPeak Acquires Method Insurance, a Workers’ Comp MGA
Sep 11 2025 // Pinnacol Assurance subsidiary EverPeak Insurance has acquired Method Insurance, a workers’ compensation managing general agent based in Nashville. The move is in response to brokers who require a seamless solution...
Oregon Workers’ Comp Pure Premium Rate Dropping
Sep 9 2025 // Oregon employers on average would pay 87 cents per $100 of payroll for workers’ compensation costs in 2026, down from 91 cents this year, under a new proposal. The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services...
NCCI Calls for 6.9% Average Decrease in Florida Workers’ Comp Rates
Sep 8 2025 // Starting in January, workers’ compensation insurance rates for Florida businesses could drop by an average of 7%. The National Council on Compensation Insurance last week recommended an average rate decrease of 6.9%...
AM Best Upgrades Stonetrust Workers’ Compensation to “A” Rating
Aug 25 2025 // AM Best upgraded Baton Rouge based regional workers’ compensation insurer, Stonetrust Commercial Insurance Company’s Financial Strength and Credit Ratings from A – (Excellent) to A (Excellent). Stonetrust...
Florida Payroll Ops Head Pleads Guilty in Scheme to Avoid Taxes, Workers’ Comp
Aug 25 2025 // The manager of an off-the-books construction-worker payroll operation in Naples, Florida, pleaded guilty last week to a scheme that prosecutors said defrauded the U.S. government of $4 million and swindled insurers out of...
People Moves: Chieppo Joins Mechanic Group; Foster Named Chair of NY Workers’ Comp Board
Aug 18 2025 // The Mechanic Group Appoints Chieppo Practice Leader Candace Chieppo The Mechanic Group, a division of Specialty Program Group LLC (SPG) headquartered in Pearl River, New York, appointed Candace Chieppo as practice leader....
Son Cashed Mom’s Workers’ Compensation Checks After She Died
Aug 15 2025 // A Port Jervis, New York man recently entered a guilty plea to charges he collected more than $42,000 in workers’ compensation benefits issued to his deceased mother. New York State Inspector General Lucy Lang...
Philadelphia Police Officer Wins Delayed Workers’ Compensation Claim for PTSD
Aug 15 2025 // A Philadelphia police officer who was severely beaten by a robbery suspect in 2017 has won his right to add a psychological injury to his already settled workers’ compensation claim for physical injuries suffered in...
Owner Sentenced, Fined $1.2M for Workers’ Comp Scheme Uncovered After Tragedy
Aug 14 2025 // A large-scale workers’ compensation fraud and tax evasion scheme that came to light when an employee was killed while removing a sign from a brewery has resulted in the sentencing of a construction firm...
Men Collecting Workers’ Comp Caught Coaching Soccer, Flipping Cheesesteaks
Aug 13 2025 // New York state officials recently reported on two workers’ compensation fraud investigations involving Long Island residents who received thousands in benefits while engaging in off-the-books work — including one...
‘Data-Driven’ Workers’ Compensation Writer Pie Insurance Enters Connecticut
Aug 13 2025 // Pie Insurance announced it is now offering its “data-driven” workers’ compensation insurance in Connecticut, targeting the state’s more than 365,000 small businesses. “Connecticut’s...
Viewpoint: A Workers’ Comp Hard Market Is Coming to California
Aug 11 2025 // Word on the street is that California employers should start expecting higher workers’ compensation rates. California employers have enjoyed a soft workers’ comp market for the last decade, but all indications...
Idaho Man Pleads Guilty to Felony Workers’ Comp Fraud
Aug 7 2025 // An Idaho man pleaded guilty to one count of felony insurance fraud in connection with a workers’ compensation claim following an investigation led by the DOI’s Fraud Investigation Unit that showed he illegally...
New Hampshire Approves 6.1% Workers’ Comp Rate Cut for 2026
Aug 6 2025 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department (NHID) has approved an average 6.1% reduction in voluntary workers’ compensation loss costs effective January 1, 2026. The assigned risk pool for risks not insured in the...
Does Care by Advanced Practitioners Result in Different Workers Comp Outcomes?
Aug 6 2025 // A newly released decade-long study by the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) indicates that claims initiated by nurse practitioners and physician assistants didn’t lead to negative outcomes and...
