Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
‘Dr. Taxes’ in Georgia Charged With Taking Workers’ Comp Premiums From Clients
Sep 10 2024 // A businessman in south Georgia who called his business a tax preparation site for immigrants is now facing multiple charges that he swindled clients out of thousands of dollars in workers’ compensation insurance...
New Hampshire Approves 5.6% Workers’ Compensation Loss Cost Decrease for 2025
Sep 6 2024 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department (NHID) reports that it has approved a workers’ compensation rate proposal that will reduce voluntary loss costs by 5.6% on average. The new lower rates will apply to voluntary...
NCCI Calls For Tiny Workers’ Comp Rate Decrease for Florida After New Doctor Fees
Sep 4 2024 // Annual workers’ compensation rate cuts in the double digits have become routine in almost every U.S. state in recent years. That trend may have now come to an end in Florida, where the National Council on...
Vocational School Owner Arraigned in $1M Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Aug 30 2024 // Los Angeles area vocational school owner, Guillermo Frias, 65, of Paramount, and the school’s accounting manager, Yesid Colon, 54, of Baldwin Park, were arraigned following a California Department of Insurance...
Cal/OSHA Cites Nine Employers for Silica Safety Violations
Aug 29 2024 // California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health cited nine employers in Sun Valley following efforts to address the growing number of silicosis cases among stone workers in California. The safety violations...
New Jersey Raises Workers’ Compensation Attorney Fee Cap to 25%
Aug 26 2024 // New Jersey has raised the cap on fees for attorneys handling workers’ compensation cases from 20% to 25% of settlements. The primary sponsors of S2822/A3986 were Senator Joseph Lagana and Assemblymen Anthony Verrelli...
FCBI, a Florida Workers’ Comp Fund, Acquires MidSouth Mutual in Tennessee
Aug 26 2024 // FCBI, a self-insurance fund founded 45 years ago to provide workers’ compensation plans to Florida citrus growers, is expanding well beyond the Sunshine State with the acquisition of MidSouth Mutual Insurance Co. in...
Cyber Risk: West Virginia OIC Plans to Dispose of Older Workers’ Comp Files
Aug 22 2024 // The West Virginia insurance commissioner’s office has adopted a new policy: It will soon begin destroying workers’ compensation claim files that are 10 years old or older. “Given increasing cybersecurity...
Washington State Meter Reader Pleads Guilty in Workers’ Comp Scam
Aug 22 2024 // A 56-year-old former Washington State meter reader who claimed she was so traumatized from a workplace dog attack that she fainted at the sight of dogs has pleaded guilty in a workers’ compensation fraud...
Mississippi Poultry Plant Settles With OSHA After Teen’s 2023 Death
Aug 20 2024 // HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi poultry processing plant has agreed to a settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor that requires it to pay $164,814 in fines and put in place enhanced safety measures following...
West Virginia Governor Touts 20th-Straight Workers’ Comp Loss Cost Decrease
Aug 13 2024 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance is recommending a 9.1% decrease in workers’ compensation loss cost projections for the West Virginia voluntary market. If approved by regulators, it would mark the 20th...
Employer’s Clinic May Not be Protected by Workers’ Comp Remedy, SC Court Says
Aug 13 2024 // The South Carolina Court of Appeals has signaled that employers who offer on-site health clinics may not be immune from tort claims from injured or sickened workers. It’s the latest twist to a question that has...
OSHA Says Alleged Fall Hazards Could Cost Adidas in New York Nearly $400K
Aug 13 2024 // Federal workplace safety officials say that Adidas America Inc. – maker of one of the world’s best-selling sneakers – faces almost $400,000 in penalties for allegedly continuing to ignore federal...
Student-on-Employee Workers’ Compensation Assault Claims Drop: Gallagher Bassett
Aug 9 2024 // The number of workers’ compensation claims for student-on-school-employee assault dropped significantly during the 2023-24 school year, according to data from Gallagher Bassett. This change comes after two years of...
OSHA Cites Construction Company in Deadly Idaho Airport Hangar Collapse
Aug 2 2024 // Federal safety investigators cited a construction company in the deadly collapse of an Idaho airport hangar, saying it exercised a “blatant disregard” for federal safety standards. The Occupational Safety and...
Report: 1Q 2024 California Workers’ Comp Written Premium 3% Lower Than Year Ago
Jul 31 2024 // Written premium for the first quarter of 2024 was 3% lower than the first quarter of 2023, while written premium in 2023 was slightly above 2022, according to the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of...
Outlooks Revised to Positive for Louisiana Workers’ Comp Insurer Stonetrust
Jul 31 2024 // AM Best revised the outlooks to positive from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings of “a-” (Excellent) of Stonetrust Commercial Insurance...
Court Must Decide If Child Victims Act Revives Old Workers’ Compensation Claims
Jul 31 2024 // Did New York lawmakers intend the Child Victims Act (CVA) that revived old claims of sexual abuse to apply to claims by employees that would previously have been handled by the workers’ compensation...
Minnesota Adds Stricter Guidelines for Rehabilitation Services in Work Comp Claims
Jul 30 2024 // Injured Minnesota employees who seek services from the Department of Labor and Industry’s Vocational Rehabilitation unit (VRU) while their disputed workers’ compensation claim goes through the litigation...
California Workers’ Comp Report Shows ‘Relatively Stable’ System Post-Pandemic
Jul 30 2024 // The California workers’ compensation system has been relatively stable in the post-pandemic era, as premium levels rose by 1% in 2023 and are forecast to increase modestly in 2024—while decreases in average insurer...
