Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Workers’ Comp Written Premium Falling, Report Shows
Sep 16 2019 // The Workers’ Compensation Bureau of California on Monday its latest quarterly report on insurer experience as of June 30. The WCIRB report shows written premium for 2018 is 4% below that for 2017 and 6% below that...
PMA Companies Insurance Group Names Mitchell Claims AVP in Southeast
Sep 16 2019 // PMA Companies Insurance Group has named Sabrina Mitchell as Claims assistant vice president, Southeast Region. Mitchell will be responsible for leading PMA’s Southeast Region insurance claims operations and will...
New Texas Workers’ Comp Laws Highlighted by Insurance Department
Sep 16 2019 // Texas insurance regulators issued a bulletin in late August highlighting and summarizing selected bills passed and signed into law this year that impact the business of workers’ compensation insurance in the...
Louisiana Commissioner Candidate, Temple, Says State Is in Insurance ‘Crisis’
Sep 16 2019 // When Louisiana voters go the polls this fall, in the race for insurance commissioner they’ll have a choice between Louisiana businessman and longtime insurance industry executive, Tim Temple, and current...
Conference: California Workers’ Comp Should Embrace Innovation
Sep 16 2019 // The workers’ compensation market apparently needs to do some catching up where it concerns technology. “Historically we’ve been really slow to adapt to technology and innovation,” said Shaun...
Louisiana Commissioner Candidate, Temple: State Is in Insurance ‘Crisis’
Sep 13 2019 // When Louisiana voters go the polls this fall, in the race for insurance commissioner they’ll have a choice between Louisiana businessman and longtime insurance industry executive, Tim Temple, and current...
Hawaii Employers Mutual Declares $3.5M Dividend for Workers’ Comp Policyholders
Sep 12 2019 // The board of Hawai`i Employers’ Mutual Insurance Company Inc. has declared a $3.5 million dividend payable to qualifying policyholders. HEMIC says that with this dividend it will have returned over $38 million...
Michigan Pipeline Company to Shut Down, Pay $509K for Trenching Safety Violations
Sep 11 2019 // Under an agreement with federal safety officials, a Grand Rapids, Michigan, pipeline company will close down and pay just over $509,000 for exposing workers to serious trenching and excavation hazards. The U.S. Department...
NCCI Proposes 5.4% Decrease in Florida Workers’ Comp Rates
Sep 11 2019 // Florida businesses will see another workers’ comp rate decrease next year if the latest filing by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) is approved by Florida regulators. Carrier results continue to...
Oregon Workers’ Compensation Costs to Drop in 2020
Sep 10 2019 // Oregon businesses will another drop in workers’ compensation costs in 2020. Employers in the state next year will pay an average of $1.02 per $100 of payroll for workers’ comp, down from $1.11 in 2019, under a...
Service American Names Risk Transfer Insurance Agency as New Program Partner
Sep 10 2019 // Austin, Texas-based Service American Indemnity Co. (SAIC), national provider of program services, has added Risk Transfer Insurance Agency as the newest partner to support its continued national growth in workers’...
New York Department of Transportation Employee Arrested for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Sep 10 2019 // A New York State Department of Transportation employee has been arrested on charges that he defrauded the workers’ compensation system and stole more than $11,000 in insurance benefits to which he was not...
Unlicensed Labor Broker Indicted in New York for $1M Insurance Fraud Scheme
Sep 9 2019 // Unlicensed labor broker Salvador Almonte Jr. and insurance broker Steven Asvazadourian have been indicted in New York for an insurance fraud scheme in which they underreported the size of Almonte’s companies and lied...
Fire Sprinkler Contractors Insurance Program Webinar to be Held Tuesday, September 10
Sep 9 2019 // Atlanta, GA, September 9, 2019 — Bob Leonhart and Cricket Thomas, CRIS, both executive vice presidents and program directors at Blue River Underwriters, will host an informative webinar on the Fire Sprinkler Elite...
Conference: California Workers’ Comp Should Embrace Innovation
Sep 6 2019 // The workers’ compensation market apparently needs to do some catching up where it concerns technology. “Historically we’ve been really slow to adapt to technology and innovation,” said Shaun...
OSHA Cites New York Frozen Foods Packager for Exposing Employees to Hazards
Sep 6 2019 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Arbre Group Holding – doing business as Holli-Pac Inc. – for willful and serious violations of workplace safety and...
Kentucky-Based ClearPath Mutual Appoints Fallahay, Korsan as VPs
Sep 5 2019 // The Board of Directors of ClearPath Mutual Insurance Co. has appointed Kevin Fallahay as the company’s vice president of Claims, and Robert Korsan as the vice president of Underwriting. Fallahay previously held the...
Employers Moving into Hawaii with Its Workers’ Comp
Sep 4 2019 // Employers Inc. is now offering workers’ compensation insurance policies in Hawaii. The expansion has Employers providing workers’ comp to small businesses nationally, excluding four monopolistic...
Report: California Workers’ Comp Medical Payment Trends Fell in 2018
Sep 4 2019 // Medical payments in California’s workers’ compensation system continued to decline in 2018 as the medical payments per claim decreased, according to a report from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance...
5 New Insurance Companies OK’d to Do Business in Arkansas
Sep 4 2019 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has approved five new insurance companies to operate in the state, bringing to 103 the number of new insurance companies approved since January 2015, according to the Arkansas...
