Meat Packing Plant Owners Defend Operations During Pandemic July 27, 2020 By Michael Hirtzer and Isis Almeida As part of an investigation into the spread of coronavirus at U.S. meat plants, Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory...
Workers’ Compensation Rates Won’t Be Adjusted for Coronavirus Experience This Year July 27, 2020 By Jim Sams The workers’ compensation line is unlikely to generate a profit this year and may not recover in 2021, an insurance...
Liberty Mutual Loses Bid to Charge Employer for Claims Paid from Exempt Workers July 22, 2020 By Jim Sams A workers’ compensation insurer cannot charge an employer an extra $1.7 million in premiums for the risk presented by employees...
Workers Turn Into Sleuths to Track Sicknesses Where Employers Keep Covid Data Secret July 22, 2020 By Joseph Pisani and Alexandra Olson Jana Jumpp spends eight hours a day updating a spreadsheet — not for work, but a recent hobby: figuring out...
Robots Gain as Pandemic Lockdowns, Safety Issues Cause Factories to Automate July 21, 2020 By Rajesh Kumar Singh While a resurgence in coronavirus cases in Texas has brought many businesses to a screeching halt, eight robots have kept...
Risk of Airborne Coronavirus Adds to Challenge of Making Workspaces Safe July 20, 2020 By Caroline Humer U.S. companies are raising new questions about how they can make workplaces safe after the world’s top public health agency...
Next Showdown in Congress: Protecting Workers vs. Protecting Employers in Pandemic July 14, 2020 By Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News and Melissa Bailey, Kaiser Health News Congressional leaders are squaring off over the next pandemic relief bill in a debate over whom Congress should step up...
P/C Insurance Survey: 55% Back Worker Presumption; 54% See Interrupt Cases Failing July 13, 2020 A slight majority (54%) of property /casualty insurance industry professionals think insurers will succeed in defeating legal and political attempts...
Essential Workers With COVID-19 Face Workers’ Compensation Uncertainty July 13, 2020 By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Lauded for their service and hailed as everyday heroes, essential workers who get the coronavirus on the job have no...
101 Ways Coronavirus Crisis Has Changed P/C Insurance Pros’ View of Their Job. Or Not. July 7, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson Has the coronavirus experience changed how property/casualty insurance professionals view their jobs? Yes and no. The biggest change is that...