Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Texas Countertop Maker Faces $318.6K in Fines for Workplace Hazards
Jul 31 2018 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Tyler, Texas-based Berry Marble Company Inc. – doing business as U.S. Granite – for exposing employees to machine...
Kansas Grain Bin Operator Contests Citations, $507K in Penalties for Worker Deaths
Jul 31 2018 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Gavilon Grain LLC – operator of a grain bin based in Wichita, Kansas – after two workers were fatally engulfed in a...
LWC’s Office of Workers’ Comp Administration Adds Lee as Fraud Manager
Jul 30 2018 // Darrick Lee, a licensed attorney in both Louisiana and Texas, has been appointed fraud manager in the Office of Workers’ Compensation Administration (OWCA) at the Louisiana Workforce Commission. Lee has 13 years of...
Hartford’s Q2 Results Reflect Big Commercial Lines Gain
Jul 27 2018 // The Hartford reported improved results for the second quarter compared to the same quarter last year, particularly in its commercial lines and group benefits businesses. Overall net income was $582 million in second...
California Workers’ Comp Changes Helping System, Division Chief Says
Jul 27 2018 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv California’s workers’ compensation system has undergone numerous changes since the implementation of the sweeping reforms that started in 2013 with Senate Bill 863. In the last...
Texas Contractor Ordered to Pay $250K After Worker Fatality at Dallas Site
Jul 26 2018 // A Texas construction contractor has been ordered to pay $250,000 in criminal and civil penalties an employee suffered a fatal fall at an apartment complex in Dallas, federal safety officials said. U.S. District Court Judge...
9 California Restaurants Cited for Failing to Provide Workers’ Comp
Jul 26 2018 // A joint enforcement strike force issued more than $200,000 in administrative fines to nine Contra Costa County, Calif. restaurants for failing to provide workers’ compensation insurance. Investigators from the Contra...
Study Examines California Worker’s Comp Prescription Drug Outcomes Under New Formulary
Jul 20 2018 // A new analysis offers a preliminary look at Utilization Review and Independent Medical Review outcomes involving pharmaceutical requests for California injured workers since the state implemented a workers’...
Missouri Employers Mutual’s Walleck Named to NCCI Underwriting Committee
Jul 19 2018 // Roger Walleck, vice president of Underwriting at Missouri Employers Mutual, has been elected to serve on the national underwriting committee for the workers’ compensation rate making organization, National Council on...
Paragon Opens New Office in California, Adds Etzler as Director of Workers’ Comp
Jul 18 2018 // Paragon Insurance Holdings LLC is expanding in San Diego, Calif. with the opening of a new office in downtown and the hiring of Robert Etzler. He will serve as senior vice president and director of workers’...
Business Council Touts Workers’ Comp Savings in New York
Jul 17 2018 // The Business Council of New York State Inc. has touted the newly approved 11.7 percent reduction in loss cost rates, which are the basis for setting workers’ compensation premiums for 2019, as being significant...
Workers’ Comp ‘Disruptor’ Launching in California for Injured Farm Employees
Jul 16 2018 // An insurtech startup says it will disrupt California’s workers’ compensation system with “technology-enabled triage and care coordination” for California Farm Management. ChronWell, a mobile...
Florida Man Gets 5 Years’ Probation for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jul 16 2018 // A Trinity, Fla., man has been sentenced to five years’ probation, with the first six months to be served on home detention, for making a false statement connected to his workers’ compensation benefits,...
Texas Extends Cut-Off Date for Use of Negotiated Experience Modifiers in Workers’ Comp
Jul 16 2018 // The Texas Department of Insurance has approved a request to extend the use of negotiated experience modifiers in the state’s workers’ compensation system for another year. Without the change, under the NCCI...
3 New P/C Insurers OK’d to Do Business in Arkansas
Jul 16 2018 // Three new property/casualty insurance companies have been approved to do business in Arkansas, the state insurance department reported. All three are based in Florida. Counting the recently accepted companies, 10 new...
Oklahoma High Court: Workers’ Comp Carriers, Self Insurers Eligible for Rebates
Jul 16 2018 // If a recent ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court remains unchanged, the state’s tax authority may end up having to pay millions of dollars in rebates to workers’ compensation carriers and companies that...
Digital Workers’ Comp Agency Pie Insurance Enters 3 More States
Jul 16 2018 // Digital agency Pie Insurance has begun selling its low-cost small business workers’ compensation insurance policies online in Colorado, Louisiana and Texas. That brings the total states for Pie to seven; in March it...
OSHA Warns Pennsylvania About Safety Hazards During Tornado Recovery
Jul 16 2018 // Following a tornado that caused millions of dollars of property damage in the Wilkes-Barre, Penn., area, the U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is urging all involved in...
Texas Mutual Announces 2 Workers’ Comp Fraud Convictions
Jul 13 2018 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. recently announced that Marcos Ricoy of Harlingen, Texas and Enrique Colon of Deer Park, Texas, pleaded no contest to a felony charge of engaging in organized criminal activity involving...
The MEMIC Group Promotes Pitts to Associate Underwriter in New Hampshire
Jul 13 2018 // To support continued growth within the New Hampshire market, Portland, Maine-headquartered workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group has promoted Douglass Pitts to associate underwriter. Before joining The...
