Chased by Golf Cart at Work: Horseplay or Assault? For Workers’ Comp, It Matters. June 5, 2025 Workers’ compensation benefits are not available to a worker injured when he was chased and hit by a golf cart...
TN Metal-Treating Firm Failed to Learn From Previous Incidents, Safety Board Says June 4, 2025 By William Rabb A French-owned metal-treating company in Tennessee failed to utilize safety management and failed to implement lessons learned from previous incidents...
New York City Employee Killed in Sewage-Boat Explosion on Hudson River May 26, 2025 An explosion on a boat carrying raw sewage that was docked on the Hudson River in New York City killed...
D.A. Says Former California Police Officer on Workers’ Comp Went to Festival, Skied May 22, 2025 A former Westminster, California, police officer and her stepfather were charged in a large-scale workers’ compensation fraud case after an...
California Security Company Owner Sentenced in $3.4M Workers’ Comp Fraud Case May 22, 2025 The owner of a San Jose-based security company was sentenced after a California Department of Insurance investigation reportedly uncovered a...
Massachusetts Denies 7.1% Workers’ Comp Rate Hike After 2024 ‘Excessive’ Cut May 20, 2025 By Andrew G. Simpson Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Michael Caljouw has rejected an industry proposal to raise workers’ compensation rates by 7.1%. As a result,...
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Raby A judge on Tuesday ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for coal miners in West Virginia and rescinded...
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...
Report: Oregon Workers’ Comp Claims Fell in 2023 From Previous Two Years May 8, 2025 Oregon workers’ compensation claims fell in 2023 from the previous two years, a report from the Oregon Department of Consumer...