State Police Shortage Stalls Vermont Program to Protect Highway Workers September 12, 2025 By SHAUN ROBINSON /VTDigger Kellen Cloud’s line of work has always been dangerous. For the better part of the past two decades, Cloud has...
Pinnacol’s EverPeak Acquires Method Insurance, a Workers’ Comp MGA September 11, 2025 Pinnacol Assurance subsidiary EverPeak Insurance has acquired Method Insurance, a workers’ compensation managing general agent based in Nashville. The move...
US Commercial Lines Prices Increase 3.8%, Falling From Up 6% in Previous Quarters September 10, 2025 U.S. commercial insurance rates increased 3.8% in the second quarter of 2025, according to the latest WTW Commercial Lines Insurance...
Oregon Workers’ Comp Pure Premium Rate Dropping September 9, 2025 Oregon employers on average would pay 87 cents per $100 of payroll for workers’ compensation costs in 2026, down from...
SAIF in Oregon Declares $50 Million Dividend September 5, 2025 SAIF’s board of directors has declared a $50 million dividend for more than 50,000 workers’ compensation policyholders. In October, 50,757...
Disputed Ballots Could Swing Union Vote Outcome at EV Battery Plant in Kentucky September 2, 2025 By Bruce Schreiner An election to determine whether workers unionize an electric vehicle battery manufacturing complex in Kentucky was in limbo due to...
Son Cashed Mom’s Workers’ Compensation Checks After She Died August 15, 2025 A Port Jervis, New York man recently entered a guilty plea to charges he collected more than $42,000 in workers’...
Philadelphia Police Officer Wins Delayed Workers’ Compensation Claim for PTSD August 15, 2025 By Andrew G. Simpson A Philadelphia police officer who was severely beaten by a robbery suspect in 2017 has won his right to add...
How Responders Rescued Steel Plant Workers; Search for Cause of Blast Underway August 14, 2025 By Peter Smith, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Michael Casey and Marc Levy Moments after an explosion erupted at a U.S. Steel plant outside Pittsburgh, company firefighters, local responders and employees raced in...
Owner Sentenced, Fined $1.2M for Workers’ Comp Scheme Uncovered After Tragedy August 14, 2025 A large-scale workers’ compensation fraud and tax evasion scheme that came to light when an employee was killed while removing...