California Construction Firm Owner, Family Sentenced for WC Fraud October 22, 2013 The owner of a Northern California construction company and his family members in were convicted of committing workers’ compensation insurance...
Complaints Mounting Over Pennsylvania’s Online Workers’ Comp System October 22, 2013 Complaints are mounting over Pennsylvania’s new, online system for filing appeals in workers’ compensation cases, with critics saying it often...
Report: Louisiana Could Have More Than 2M Jobs in 2015 October 18, 2013 Growth in the Lake Charles and Baton Rouge, La., areas is expected to help boost employment in Louisiana to an...
States Going After Employers Who Misclassify Workers as Independent Contractors October 18, 2013 By Jim Efstathiou Jr. When construction slowed during the recession, some companies hired workers and wrongly designated them as independent contractors to avoid paying...
Multimillion Dollar Workers’ Compensation Fraud Probe Leads to West Virginia Bank October 17, 2013 By Bruce Schreiner A federal investigation into a multi-million-dollar workers’ compensation scheme extended to the Bank of Mingo in southern West Virginia, where...
Burnett Named Chief of Oklahoma Workers’ Comp Fraud Unit October 16, 2013 Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has named longtime prosecutor George Burnett as the new chief of the Workers’ Compensation, Insurance,...
Interesting but Quiet Year for California Lawmakers on Workers’ Comp October 15, 2013 By Don Jergler After the behemoth workers’ compensation reform law passed in 2012, state lawmakers this year enacted only a handful of measures...
AIG Sued by Small Businesses Over Workers’ Compensation Reporting October 10, 2013 By Don Jergler and Young Ha Class action lawsuits in federal courts on both coasts have been initiated on behalf of small businesses in California, New...
New California Law Limits Workers’ Comp For Pro Athletes October 10, 2013 By Don Thompson and Laura Olson Professional athletes who spend most of their careers with teams in other states will be prohibited from filing workers’ compensation...
New York Second in Nation for Questionable Workers’ Compensation Claims October 4, 2013 New York State is second in the nation, only behind California, for questionable workers’ compensation insurance claims. The Empire State...