Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Florida Law Officers Want Change to Workers’ Comp PTSD Law
Oct 18 2021 // Three years after first responders in Florida won a hard-fought victory to make mental stress a compensable condition, officers now hope lawmakers can tweak the law to correct some problems. The Florida Police Chiefs...
Benefits of Vaccine Mandates Outweigh Workers’ Comp Costs of Vaccine Injuries
Oct 18 2021 // Vaccinations have served to significantly reduce the spread of COVID-19 in populations with high take-up rates, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC). In the past months, many businesses and...
Workers’ Compensation Reserve Redundancy Reaches $14 Billion, Reports NCCI
Oct 18 2021 // Workers’ compensation insurers continue to stow away more money than necessary in reserves, even as reported loss ratios continue to climb, according to a report released by the National Council on Compensation...
Workers’ Compensation Insurers Find That as Opioid Cost Slows, Marijuana Grows
Oct 15 2021 // Workers’ compensation insurers have slashed spending on opioids, reducing the risk of addiction and delayed recovery, but now they are under increasing pressure to reimburse injured workers for a new kind of...
OSHA Submits Language for Company Vaccine Mandate to White House
Oct 14 2021 // The U.S. Labor Department on Tuesday submitted to the White House the initial text of President Joe Biden’s plan to require private-sector workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or get tested regularly. The...
Idaho’s Workers’ Comp Rates Decreasing 7% for 2022
Oct 13 2021 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance recently submitted its annual rate recommendation. NCCI’s recommendation is based on claims volume, claims utilization, workforce, and wages, as well as any changes in...
AIA Expands to Florida Workers’ Comp Market
Oct 11 2021 // While some property and casualty insurers have pulled out of the troubled Florida market, Associated Insurance Administrators sees strong potential in the workers’ compensation and commercial specialty sectors. AIA,...
Insurate, Workers’ Compensation Insurtech, Secures $4.5M Investment
Oct 6 2021 // Omaha-based Insurate, a data science-based provider of workers’ compensation, announced a $4.5 million seed round led by HSCM Ventures, the venture capital arm of Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd. Joining the...
Workers’ Compensation Reserve Redundancy Reaches $14 Billion, Reports NCCI
Oct 4 2021 // Workers’ compensation insurers continue to stow away more money than necessary in reserves, even as reported loss ratios continue to climb, according to a report released by the National Council on Compensation...
Beyond the Headlines: Workplace Violence and Workers’ Compensation Claims
Oct 4 2021 // Whenever a legal dispute arises as to insurance coverage, the court will evaluate policy language to determine if a specific cause of loss constitutes a covered event under the terms of that policy. When workers’...
Workers’ Compensation Premiums Flat for First Six Months of 2021
Oct 4 2021 // A comparison of workers’ compensation direct premium written indicated an overall decrease of approximately 0.3% for the first six months of 2021 compared to the first six months of 2020. Fifteen of the Top 25...
OSHA Fines Tampa Smelter $320,000 for Lead Exposure
Oct 1 2021 // The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined a Tampa battery recycling center and smelter almost $320,000 for exposing workers to unsafe levels of lead, cadmium and arsenic, despite being warned about...
Florida Appeals Court Finds Workers’ Comp Judge Used Flawed Logic
Sep 30 2021 // If doctors offer differing opinions on a work injury, a judge must appoint a third physician to help settle the matter, according to Florida’s workers’ compensation rules. And an administrative law judge must...
Connecticut Considers Drop in 2022 Workers’ Comp Rates, Seeks Public Comment
Sep 30 2021 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Andrew N. Mais issued a department notice on September 24 announcing a 30 day period of public comment on the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s (NCCI) voluntary loss cost...
Workers’ Compensation Underwriting Results Again Beat Other Lines in 2020
Sep 30 2021 // Workers’ compensation underwriters have been consistently generating better underwriting profits than other property/casualty lines of business, and did so again in 2020 amid the pandemic. According to an AM Best...
Arrowhead Expands Workers’ Comp Program in 5 Southeastern States
Sep 29 2021 // Arrowhead General Insurance Agency, Inc. (Arrowhead) has announced the expansion of its Workers’ Compensation Program into five new southeastern states: Tennessee, Georgia, North and South Carolina and Alabama, with...
Workers’ Comp Pays More Than Group Health to Treat Similar Injuries: NCCI Study
Sep 29 2021 // Workers’ compensation pays more than group health to treat comparable injuries, according to a research brief issued by the National Council on Compensation Insurance. Although the workers’ compensation benefit...
California Workers’ Comp Written Premium for 2020 Was $1.9B Below 2019
Sep 28 2021 // Written premium for 2020 was $1.9 billion, or 12%, below that for 2019 and was the lowest since 2012, according to a new report out from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. Written premium for the...
Omaha National Raises $45M, Will Transition to Being Direct Workers’ Compensation Writer
Sep 28 2021 // Technology-enabled workers’ compensation and payroll services provider Omaha National Group, Inc. announced a $45 million Series B round led by Accomplice. The company said it plans to use the funds to support its...
Connecticut Woman Charged with Workers’ Compensation Fraud, Larceny
Sep 27 2021 // A Wallingford, Connecticut, woman was arrested and charged with illegally collecting workers’ compensation benefits while being employed as a teacher for the City of Bristol Board of Education. Ann Marie Barros was...
