With Growth of the Gig Economy, States Rethink How Workers Get Benefits February 23, 2017 By Sophie Quinton As more and more Americans hold nontraditional jobs that don’t have benefits attached — think freelance graphic designers or Uber...
California DIR Suspends 7 Workers’ Comp Medical Providers for Fraud February 17, 2017 California’s Department of Industrial Relations and its Division of Workers’ Compensation has suspended seven medical providers from participating in the...
Texas Mutual Insurance, VFIS of Texas, Distribute $228K in Grants to First Responders February 17, 2017 Workers’ compensation insurance provider, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., and VFIS of Texas have distributed $228,000 in grant money to 90...
Workers Hospitalized for Carbon Monoxide Exposure at Kansas Plant February 16, 2017 About 20 employees from a manufacturing plant in Kansas’ Reno County were sent to the hospital on Feb. 13 after...
Report: California’s Central Coast Accounting for More of State’s Comp Claims February 15, 2017 California’s Central Coast has been accounting for more of the state’s workers’ compensation claims recently, a new report issued today...
Michigan Beverage Plant Ammonia Leak Hospitalizes Worker February 15, 2017 An ammonia leak at a Detroit, Mich.-area beverage plant has left one worker hospitalized. A contractor struck an ammonia line...
State, Federal Officials Investigating Louisiana Blast that Killed 3 February 13, 2017 Authorities have identified the three workers who died in an explosion at the Packaging Corporation of America plant in DeRidder,...
Phillips 66: Worker Unaccounted for After Louisiana Pipeline Explosion February 13, 2017 A Phillips 66 employee remains unaccounted for after an explosion sparked a fire at a pipeline station it operates west...
Order Issued to Protect Workers in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Projects February 3, 2017 The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality has issued a consent administrative order against the city of Pine Bluff and its...
Missouri Utility to Appeal Worker’s $10.7M Lawsuit Award February 2, 2017 By Jim Suhr A Missouri-based utility said it will appeal a state judge’s award of more than $10 million to a man who...