Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Federal Judge Dismisses Amazon N.Y. Warehouse Workers’ COVID-19 Lawsuit
Nov 3 2020 // A federal judge dismissed New York warehouse workers’ lawsuit against Amazon, ruling that their allegations about the company’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic should have been brought to the Occupational...
Oregon Contractor Fined for Multiple Job Safety Violations
Nov 2 2020 // Oregon OSHA has fined a general contractor in Roseburg more than $38,000 for multiple serious job safety violations, including repeatedly failing to follow the minimum requirements to protect workers from fall hazards that...
Ex-Police Chief in Washington Turned Pinup Model Charged with Workers’ Comp Fraud
Nov 2 2020 // A Snohomish County, Wash., woman faces two charges of making false or misleading statements to collect more than $67,000 in workers’ compensation benefits from the Washington State Department of Labor &...
Workers’ Comp Should See Profit This Year But Maybe Not in 2021: Fitch
Nov 2 2020 // Despite the economic challenges from the coronavirus pandemic, the workers’ compensation insurance market is likely to report strong profitability in 2020 thanks to savings from lower claims frequency due that are...
Ohio to Return $5B From Injured Workers Fund to Employers
Oct 30 2020 // Ohio employers will receive a record $5 billion in repayments from the state insurance fund for injured workers to help with the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Mike DeWine and the fund’s...
Delaware Workers’ Comp Rates Drop for Fourth Year in a Row
Oct 29 2020 // Delaware workers’ compensation insurance rates will decrease for the fourth year in a row, effective December 1, 2020. This comes as the voluntary market is seeing yet another double-digit decrease in loss costs,...
Insurers Again Battled Many California Bills, but a Fight Last Year Was Biggest Recent Victory
Oct 28 2020 // The election is nearly here, and while it’s been quite a year all around, things could have been worse for the insurance industry. When the year started, insurance industry lobbyists were facing a big battle, and not...
California Claims Adjuster and Chiropractor Arrested in $1.6M Operation
Oct 28 2020 // Claims adjuster, Agop Sarafian, 65, of La Crescenta, Calif., and chiropractor, Shahe Topjian, D.C. 65, of Granada Hills, Calif., were arrested on felony insurance fraud charges after allegedly conspiring to defraud...
California Closes Record for 2021 Pure Premium Workers’ Comp Filing
Oct 27 2020 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has issued a notice closing the record for the Jan. 1, 2021 workers’ compensation pure premium rate filing. The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of...
How Auto Workers Are Keeping Factories Running and Masks On
Oct 27 2020 // When the coronavirus pandemic slammed the United States in March, the Detroit Three automakers shut their plants and brought their North American vehicle production to an unprecedented cold stop. Now, four months after a...
Workers’ Compensation Should See Profit This Year But Maybe Not in 2021: Fitch
Oct 27 2020 // Despite the economic challenges from the coronavirus pandemic, the workers’ compensation insurance market is likely to report strong profitability in 2020 thanks to savings from lower claims frequency due that are...
W.R. Berkley Says Rate Increases Averaging 14.5% Contributed to Solid 3Q Results
Oct 26 2020 // W.R. Berkley Corp.’s 2020 third-quarter financial results landed on the strong side despite a dip in net income and more COVID-19 losses, a result the company credits to rate hikes and underwriting discipline. The...
Oregon Contractor Fined for Multiple Job Safety Violations
Oct 26 2020 // Oregon OSHA has fined a general contractor in Roseburg more than $38,000 for multiple serious job safety violations, including repeatedly failing to follow the minimum requirements to protect workers from fall hazards that...
Amazon Injuries Could Spark Higher Workers’ Comp Rates for Fulfillment Centers
Oct 26 2020 // Injuries in Amazon.com Inc. warehouses could damage more than just the company’s reputation. They could start to hurt the e-commerce giant’s bottom line, as well. Washington state’s workplace safety...
Report: Few Virus Cases in Working Age Californians Result in Comp Claims
Oct 23 2020 // Only one-in-14 COVID-19 cases involving working-age Californians from May through September of 2020 has been claimed as a job injury, while only 1-in-25 COVID-19 deaths among working age individuals has been claimed to be...
California Trucking Firm Owners Charged in Alleged $450K Workers’ Comp Fraud
Oct 22 2020 // Trucking company owners Hardip Singh, 44, and Amandeep Kaur, 36, were charged this week with multiple counts of insurance fraud after allegedly misclassifying employees as independent contractors in a scheme to underreport...
California Electrician Sentenced for Defrauding Workers’ Comp Providers, Employers
Oct 22 2020 // Michael Ray Williams, 37, of Daly City, Calif., was sentenced to 60 days in county jail and three years formal probation after pleading no contest to two felony counts of insurance fraud after illegally working for...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau Issuing $1.3B in Second Dividend for 2020
Oct 21 2020 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation will be sending more than $1.3 billion to Ohio employers over the next week to ease COVID-19’s impact on the state’s business community and economy. All told,...
Omaha National Expands Workers’ Comp Coverage into Connecticut, Georgia
Oct 21 2020 // Omaha National, a workers compensation insurance provider serving small and midsize employers, has expanded its coverage into Connecticut and Georgia. Connecticut and Georgia will be the 11th and 12th states in which Omaha...
Target to Enhance Safety at 200 Northeast U.S. Stores in Department of Labor Settlement
Oct 21 2020 // The U.S. Department of Labor has executed a region wide corporate settlement agreement with Target Corp. to correct exit access and storage hazards and enhance worker safety at about 200 of the retailer’s stores in...
