Judge Orders Restoration of Health Program for West Virginia Coal Miners May 16, 2025 By John Raby A judge on Tuesday ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for coal miners in West Virginia and rescinded...
Sedgwick Experts Outline Key Workers’ Comp Claims Trends May 16, 2025 At last week's RIMS RISKWORLD conference in Chicago, experts from risk and claims administration partner Sedgwick outlined a few key...
Workers’ Comp Premiums Fall 3% in 2024; Combined Ratio Holds at 86: NCCI May 15, 2025 By Andrea Wells Workers’ compensation remained a healthy and profitable line in 2024 but claims severity grew with an increase of 6% for...
Four Hondurans Indicted in Florida on $89M Workers’ Comp, Tax Avoidance Charges May 13, 2025 A grand jury in Orlando last week indicted four Honduran nationals for allegedly operating an off-the-books cash payroll scheme for...
Delta Plane Catches Fire at Orlando Airport in Latest Incident for Airline April 23, 2025 By Staff and Wire Reports ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Delta Air Lines airplane caught fire on Monday before it was supposed to take off...
Don’t Forget Tariff Impacts on Workers’ Compensation: Berkley April 22, 2025 The chief executive of W.R. Berkley Corp. said his company is very focused on the impacts of tariffs on loss...
Coal Country Voices Say Closure of MSHA Offices Endangers Mine Safety April 17, 2025 By John Raby and Leah Willingham Retired coal miner Stanley “Goose” Stewart questions whether it’s safe for anyone to work in the industry right now. The...
Walmart Employee Kills Co-Worker in Georgia, Driver in Florida Injures Store Worker April 14, 2025 COVINGTON, Ga. (AP) — A Walmart employee shot and killed a co-worker inside a Georgia store and critically wounded another...
Alabama Lawmakers Set Minimum PBM Payments to Independent Pharmacies April 10, 2025 MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday voted to put new regulations on pharmacy benefit managers in an effort...
Tennessee Safety Agency Says Plastics Workers Were Given Time to Evacuate April 7, 2025 By Travis Loller and Jonathan Mattise NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Workers at an East Tennessee plastics company who died in flooding from last year’s Hurricane Helene...