Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Survey: Small Business Customers Depend on Agents’ Expertise
May 19 2008 // Agent expertise in workers’ compensation insurance is a critical factor in small businesses’ choice of carriers, according to a recent national survey conducted by EMPLOYERS, which specializes in insurance for...
South Central Workers’ Comp Markets Show Signs of Improvement
May 19 2008 // Arkansas Workers’ comp premium rates in Arkansas will continue on the declining path they have followed since the state passed workers’ compensation legislative reform in 1993, when a 12.8 percent rate decrease...
Montana State Fund Says Workers’ Comp Rates to Drop Next Year
May 19 2008 // The Montana State Fund is cutting workers’ compensation insurance rates by an average of 3 percent next year, the agency’s board said. This is the second year in a row the State Fund, a semiprivate branch of...
Defense Base Act: Doing Business Outside the Box
May 19 2008 // Dealing with wartime issues and associated complications is a major factor in doing business in far-flung hotspots. As the need for and presence of U.S. government foreign-based support personnel increases, so does the...
California Discussing Sale of State Workers’ Compensation Insurer
May 19 2008 // Rumors that California is considering selling the State Compensation Insurance Fund to help close the state budget gap are true, but government officials said the idea has amounted to no more than discussion at this...
California May Boost Payouts to Workers Injured on the Job
May 19 2008 // Californians permanently injured on the job would get an average 16 percent increase in disability payments under new rules proposed by the state Division of Workers’ Compensation. The formula being proposed is based...
Survey: Small Business Customers Depend on Agents’ Expertise
May 19 2008 // Agent expertise in workers’ compensation insurance is a critical factor in small businesses’ choice of carriers, according to a recent national survey conducted by Employers, which specializes in insurance for...
Injury Hotspots From Coast to Coast
May 19 2008 // Workplaces are getting safer each year; but that doesn’t mean the cost of workers’ comp coverage will decline Ongoing efforts to curb workplace injuries have made substantial progress in most parts of the...
Planning Ahead Can Help Reduce Telecommuting Workers’ Comp Exposures
May 19 2008 // A thorough telecommuting policy can help employers avoid losses and increase productivity. More and more companies are offering their employees various levels of telecommuting benefits to retain existing staff and attract...
Survey: Small Businesses Don’t Understand Dollars Spent on Workers’ Comp
May 19 2008 // Too many small business decision-makers appear to be spending money on workers’ compensation insurance coverage without understanding how workers’ compensation insurance works, what they get for their premium...
Declarations
May 19 2008 // Design, Not Default “If you talk to a lot of people in insurance companies, they’ll tell you that their career in insurance started by default, not by design. It helps to be able to find people earlier and...
Suhr Risk Services: Driven to Excel
May 19 2008 // Strategic client reduction helps the company to provide a concierge-level of service When a company loses more than half of its clients, that could portend a demise in business. But that’s not always the case,...
Colorado Supreme Court: Employer Must Pay Suspended Workers’ Comp
May 16 2008 // The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that an employer must pay temporary disability benefits to an employee although the employee had been suspended. According to Sigala vs. Atencio’s Market, Eva Sigala was injured...
House Panel Hits Defense Department, Insurers Over War Zone Insurance Costs
May 16 2008 // A House committee looking into defense contractors has alleged that the Department of Defense (DoD) has been lax in its management such that insurance companies providing workers’ compensation for civilian employees...
California May Boost Payouts to Workers Injured on the Job
May 15 2008 // Californians permanently injured on the job would get an average 16 percent increase in disability payments under new rules proposed by the state Division of Workers’ Compensation. The formula is based on new data...
California Forecasts Stability in Workers’ Comp Insurance Market
May 13 2008 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced that, for the first time in six years, an interim pure premium rate advisory will not be issued by his office because of market strength. In the past, the insurance...
Rise in Construction Accidents Prompts Review of Federal Agency, OSHA
May 13 2008 // The leader of a House of Representatives committee said it plans to review a federal agency in charge of ensuring workplace safety this summer after recent construction deaths in Las Vegas and other major cities. Rep. Lynn...
Workers’ Comp Costs-Per-Claim in High Louisiana, Research Group Says
May 12 2008 // Workers’ compensation costs per claim in Louisiana were 28 percent higher than the median of 14 study states for a similar set of 2003/2006 claims, according to a new study by the Cambridge, Mass.-based Workers...
Report: Florida Workers’ Comp Reforms of 2003 Impacted Costs Per Claim
May 12 2008 // Workers’ compensation costs per claim in Florida appear to have decreased in 2004 in the wake of reforms enacted in 2003, but the decrease did not continue in 2005, according to a new study by the Workers...
Ohio Employers Ask for Another Review of Workers’ Comp Rates
May 12 2008 // A group of Ohio employers who say their businesses are being crushed by injured-worker insurance rates that the state modified last year has asked the state’s watchdog to take another look at the program. The newly...
